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Exigency

By: Michael Siemsen
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
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Nine brilliant scientists travel light-years on a one-way trip to an Earthlike planet. Their mission is to study from orbit the two species of intelligent lifeforms on the surface. The first: an isolated people embarking on civilization and building their world's first city. The second: a brutal race of massive predators, spread thick and still growing across the dominant landmass - destined to breed and eat their way to extinction within a few centuries.

After eight years of observation, disaster strikes the orbiting station, and only two crewmembers eject successfully. Drifting down through a dark, alien sky, the pair realizes their escape pod launched not toward the safety of the city but to the other side of the planet, touching down deep inside a land no human could possibly survive.

©2014 Michael Siemsen (P)2015 Podium Publishing First Contact Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Fiction Solar System

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This was an excellent book, but I only know that because I gave up on listening and bought it on Kindle......

Book was excellent, narrator was not

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once you get over the disorientation of the opening scenes its a rattling good story

an entertaining eventful alien story

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My first experience of Michael Siemsen story-telling and will definitely not be my last. Fascinating, exciting and richly detailed, I have nothing but praise for Exigency. Julia Whelan was a wonderful narrator and I could not imagine anyone more accomplished in bringing the diverse characters to life.

Extraordinary

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good storytelling including skilful internal dialogue of main character! Descriptions of aliens slightly less convincing. Lively narrator, would read another

entertaining space opera

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Loved the idea of the story.... I wish that the forward and backwards was more sectioned so it's not as confusing.
descriptions of the creatures were confusing and I couldn't picture any of them.
I wish I'd loved this more. I found myself getting distracted and realised I'd missed a chunk of the story! Maybe I'll try it again one day.

I can see this being a film

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