Fear the Sky
The Fear Saga, Book 1
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Fear the Sky
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R.C. Bray
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Stephen Moss
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"Real science in Science Fiction. This is a must read for fans of SF."
—John S. Gertsch, Amazon Reviewer
Perfect for fans of Peter F. Hamilton, Iain M. Banks, and Orson Scott Card, Fear the Sky is a hard-hitting sci-fi thriller that will have you looking at the stars in a different way.
In eleven years time, a million members of an alien race will arrive at Earth. Years before they enter orbit, their approach will be announced by the flare of a thousand flames in the sky, their ships' huge engines burning hard to slow them from the vast speeds needed to cross interstellar space. These foreboding lights will shine in our night sky like new stars, getting ever brighter until they outshine even the sun, casting ominous shadows and banishing the night until they suddenly blink out. Their technology is vastly superior to ours, and they know they cannot possibly lose the coming conflict. But they, like us, have found no answer to the destructive force of the atom, and they have no intention of facing the onslaught of our primitive nuclear arsenal, or the devastation it would wreak on the planet they crave. So they have flung out an advanced party in front of them, hidden within one of the countless asteroids randomly roaming the void. They do not want us, they want our planet. Their Agents are arriving.
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Editor reviews
Fear the Sky is Book 1 in the hugely popular The Fear Saga series written by Stephen Moss and narrated in this unabridged epic fantasy audiobook by Audie award-winning nominee R. C. Bray. Listeners are engrossed as the battle for earth begins. A million-strong alien army burn through space towards Earth in their unimaginable war crafts. The nations of Earth join forces. All people must unite their weapons and manpower to fight as one in the largest war Earth has ever seen. There is nowhere to hide. Everyone must turn to face the advancing aliens and save the human race from destruction. Available now from Audible.
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One of the other things that attracted me to this story was the fact that it was a decent length at 20+ hours and thus something I could really get my teeth into. In addition, it formed the first part of a saga of three books I believe which really meant that this was a story of epic proportions which ticked all the boxes for me.
I found the story gripping and very well told and the prose style of Moss efficient and straightforward and he kept the narrative moving along at a nice pace holding my interest at all times. This is not an easy thing to do with a book of this length and I would agree with another reviewer who stated that unlike many multi-part stories out there that this novel doesn't have lots of padding to fill out the first act. In many ways I actually forgot when reading Fear The Sky that this formed only the first part of the saga as so much was packed into the narrative and the pace was fast and fluid with none of the long dull chapters so often seen in such works.
Fear The Sky is a good story and one that is well told and keeps the reader interested. it has plenty of excitement and action and the book leaves us with an epilogue that makes the reader crave more right away. Audible appear to have the second and third part showing on their site along with the same narrator which is excellent but not available for purchase. I'm guessing at the time of writing this review that the process of recording these epics is in progress as the print versions are already available. It would be useful if Audible could indicate a rough release date for the pending stories or allow users to check mark some option that automatically sends an e-mail alert to interested parties when new instalments become available on Audible. having read the reviews of the second part of this saga, it would seem that this story arc by no means flags and indeed many say that it is even better than the first and that's a pretty tall order given how much I enjoyed this first part. I have to say that I am very impressed with Stephen Moss's work and if this were to be converted to the small screen then the only way to do it justice is to commission an entire 3 season series comprising at least 12 episodes each of an hour long. Anything less would truncate the story too much as so often happens with book to TV or movie translations.
My only relatively minor gripes I have with this is how wrong some of the military details are. I am not sure if the author deliberately changed the names and other details of some of the things in this book or not. However, if this is lack of research then it's pretty poor given the very easily accessible facts that could be looked up in minutes on the Internet. I tend to think that names etc should be genuine ones in order to make the story more realistic. The strange thing is that either by accident or design the author has actually correctly used the name Dauntless to describe the Royal Navy's current state of the art air defence destroyer. There is indeed an HMS Dauntless which is the latest air defence destroyer class in service with the Royal Navy but it is actually a Type 45 and not Type 47 and it displaces around 8500 tons and not the excessive 50,000 stated. The author refers to the F-35 Joint Strike Bomber but it's in fact the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. In another odd departure from the military facts, one of the key protagonists, one very nasty female alien agent that has infiltrated the U.S navy apparently cannot serve aboard U.S Navy ballistic submarines as this is one of the last services to be men only. The character regretted this and made do but women have been serving aboard U.S ballistic submarines for several years now so this critical oversight in the authors research may have actually harmed his story given the incorrect assertion he wrote into the story.
Another thing that caught my attention was how the female agent in question was in officer school at the U.S Navy but seemed to hold the rank of Lieutenant when graduated. My somewhat limited understanding of the progression of naval officers is that they start as Ensigns and that it takes some time to move up the ranks. The same seemed to be the case with another alien agent called John Hunt who seemed to bypass the Ensign rank altogether when he also finished officer school so it does seem strange that these agents appeared to leave their respective officer training schools at more intermediate ranks than what I had expected. Of course, I am not a military person so I may be making my own assertions as to how officer training is done.
As mentioned, the oddity here is that certain facts are correct and evidentially researched so I am at a loss as to why the author got some of his military facts right and yet so much wrong.
The other minor aspect was tiny elements of the narration. Overall the narration was excellent with confident delivery and it allowed the flow of the narrative to shine. However, as with other competent narrators I've heard there are some strange errors which really ought not to be there. If not corrected by the narrator then such errors really should be dealt with by the producer. As another reviewer mentioned, the pronunciation of the name Madeline was spoken as if pronounced Mada-Line. This is not an uncommon or hard to say name so I do wonder why this was repeatedly done. The narrator mentions many times the "HATF VI" missiles and actually says "V I" rather than is intended the number 6 given the roman numerals used in the missiles nomenclature. This is another strange thing to get wrong or be allowed to slip past in my view. There were one or two other pronunciation errors here and there but nothing too serious Having said all that, I did not find any of these minor niggles a detractor from the excellent and enthralling story that is Fear The Sky.
If you like a decent length multi-part sci-fi epic that is also easily accessible and doesn't get into territory too weird or abstract to comprehend then this is a must read. Enjoyable, exciting and gripping Fear The Sky is an entertaining page turner and not to be missed.
Entertaining Page Turner
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Unfortunately they are not available and by all accounts may never be, if they can't reach an agreement with the publisher.
Fear for the 2nd instalment
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I recommend it.
Loved it
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Trashy, but I did enjoy
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