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Homefront: An Expeditionary Force Audio Drama Special
- Expeditionary Force, Book 7.5
- Narrated by: Zachary Quinto, R.C. Bray, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Picardo, Lisa Renee Pitts, P. J. Ochlan, Peter Berkrot, full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
A full-cast performance of a thrilling new episode in the New York Times best-selling Expeditionary Force series.
After the latest mission of the starship Flying Dutchman, Earth is safe not just for a year, but for hundreds of years. The ship’s weary crew wonders what they will do with their lives in peacetime, but the enemy has other plans, and there is danger on the Homefront.
Starring Zachary Quinto, R.C. Bray, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Picardo, and everyone's favorite AI, Skippy the Magnificent, alongside a full cast. Includes plenty of pew-pew-pew, original sound composition, and maybe some singing by R.C. Bray.
Produced by Odd Origin Media and Dagaz Media
Executive Producer Greg Lawrence
Story by Craig Alanson
Script by Craig Alanson and Jack Bowman
Talent Director William Dufris
Sound Director Fred Greenhalgh
Associate Producer Casey Turner
Dialogue edited by Jack Bowman
Sound design by Jamie Mahaffey/The Mix Room and O'Shea Creative Media
Music by Jeroen Grommen
Check out exclusive bonus content at homefrontaudio.com.
Full cast includes: Zachary Quinto, R.C. Bray, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Picardo, Peter Berkrot, Kym Dakin, Bill Dufris, Corey Gagne, Nimo Gandhi, Emily Grotz, Dalton S. Kimball, Austin Ku, Daniel Logan, John Dalton Logan, PJ Ochlan, Lisa Renee Pitts, Christopher Price, Michael Rafkin, Lisa Stathoplos, Casey Turner, Jennywren Walker, Marjolaine Whittlesey, Ashanti Williams, Jonathan Woodward, and Collin Young.
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- Simon
- 18-06-19
Hit by the Awesomemess (Sic)!
Hard to know where to start with this. It has some good moments, as it started I really thought it might be something a bit special and so I settled down to enjoy it. I mean, Joe, Skippy and the Merry Band of Pirates boosted by a full quality cast could really have been something couldn't it?
Thing is, it comes across more that the team involved set out to have a good laugh rather than produce something of real quality. For such a good cast, and yes RC Bray is beyond reproach, it just comes across poorly. Some of the characters, especially Adams come across just plain wrong based on my listening to what's gone before. A lot of the acting and script really feels more caricature than character and it relies a little too much on recycling previously-used material such as embarrassing Joe about watching porn and spending time in the shower.
Unlike the high quality Audible large cast productions the sound design is very hit and miss. At times it really does add to what's going on but at others it just seems as though sounds and music are being played at random. I also would think that it needs listening to in quiet areas as sometimes the speech gets a bit muddied in all the sound effects.
So, in short, it has its moments but it's not up to the standards of other full-cast productions I've heard recently and it feels as much an opportunity missed as anything positive. For the first time with anything to do with this series, I feel I've been let down in trusting the awesomeness and this borders on an awesome mess instead.
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- Mrs. Jane Brian-boys
- 17-07-19
Awful, Awful Awful.....Skippy fans, dont bother!
Oh my word...why oh why did you agree to this Craig Alanson. This is terrible in the story, the way it is dramatised and the sound effects. It is like the cheapest worst sci fi imaginable.
The first huge difference from previous books in the series is that there is a full cast, sound affects and music. This sadly detracts from what made the original series so successful and funny with just RC Bray doing the narrating. The second major change is that the story itself is appallingly weak - Yes this is a rushed write to milk the success and make money from the previous books and boy it does it feel like it. I would give this zero stars!
To accommodate the really weak story line, Craig Allanson has, for the first time, been forced to introduce lengthy narratives between aliens (without this the story line would not any sense at all) - their voices [aliens] are done with computerised distortion to make them sound sinister, cold and dangerous. Instead, they sound like daleks from a budget Dr Who episode and their narrative is long winded, boring and representative of the worst from sci fi audio stories.
In previous skippy books i have at least smiled and or laughed out loud. with this one i had to force myself to put this story back on ...in the end i gave up without finishing it. It truly is that bad.
Craig Alanson what were you thinking when you released this? I fear this has devalued your appeal as an author and i will hesitate to buy your next offering until i am confident that it is not a pile of dung like this effort!
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- rotating upside down
- 24-07-19
I love the rest of the books but this is a shmabe
I like that they tried something different however I don't think it worked. Over the top acting, effects and music makes it really hard to listen to. Love the rest of the books and can't wait for book 8.
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- Dustyfox
- 21-06-19
mmmmmmmmm... not to the same standards!
Craig Alanson writes a lot of great stuff...RC Bray is a God when it comes to making great writing come to life in a audio book. If you have listened to all the others in the series, then you will end up getting this one as well - cool cleared that up.
Feel a bit let down after listening to it.
The attitude of the special forces troops in previous books is representative of how they are in real life (focused and professional). However in this book in this book they come across as complete bunch of idiots and Rambo wannabes.
Joe is made out to be some kind of deviant (repeated joke from another book but not delivered correctly).
A lot of the characters don't really fit and very different from previous books...didnt warm to them and in most cases they just seemed wrong.
There is a lot to be said for the power of our own imagination and RC Bray is awesome at sparking that into life but in this book he was screwed from the start.
Sound effects was wrong, music playing non-stop when there shouldn't have been any...not much flowed. Just sounded cheap. It wasn't a drama, it wasn't a play, it wasn't a audiobook...i don't think it knew what it wanted to be?
Craig Alansons books are at a very high standard, this one has let the team down. Just wondering how much of his writing got changed to make it work into a drama/play?
This book was pants...returning it.
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- Roger
- 19-06-19
Different.......
Its very different to the books. Struggled to get through the first hour due to there being a lot going on and the audio quality suffering as a result. Music, sound effects and dialogue at times clashing. Had it not been integral the Expeditionary Force series i may well have given up. It got better in parts but some passages had me pulling the headphones off due to extremely loud sound effects.
All in all the story is good. Smythe would not last 5 mins iin the SAS with that accent and im not sure he was well supported with his STAR team. Skippy was ........Skippy Joe was Joe. RC Bray was Mag MF'in nificent as always. Margaret Adams was not as I had immagined her to sound but Nagatha was almost spot on.
As an experiment it kind of works in the end. It was better than i expected it to be, but you have to concentrate and i was rewinding a lot to catch missed dialogue.
Looking forward to a return to normal in book 8 Armageddon and just one voice and having second thoughts about a TV series being a good idea.
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- Vince Rogers
- 23-07-19
whats the music for
i dont know what this is about why is there so much music when there is no need for it
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- Anonymous User
- 26-08-19
The narration is terrible
In the previous audiobooks there was one narrator reading the book giving everyone a voice and personality that over nearly 10 books I got to love. Now with whatever the hell this book is there is an endless amount of narrators who have brought there own voices to the party making it extremely difficult to know who is who having associated R C Brays voices with the characters for so long. This isn’t always bad however this far into a series such a radical change was a bad idea. Furthermore for some reason someone had the bright idea to insert background noice alarms and explosions making it hard to keep focused on what’s happening, which for me is already difficult considering I’m deaf. Going back the new voices the sound quality of the book is very low, at first I thought my settings were messed up but then I realised it was the book. This is particularly a problem for skippy who now has this robot voice (which on a tangent doesn’t make any sense because it is made very clear over the course of the books that he wants to be viewed as ‘just one of the crew’ and that he alters his appearance and voice to achieve this. Anyway back to the point) that is very electrical and made harder to understand by the narrator doing this bad robot impression on top of the dubbed voice. All in all this book is like listening to a low budget movie with your eyes closed. PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK OR AT LEAST DO A NORMAL VERSION MADE THE SAME WAY AS THE PREVIOUS BOOKS.
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- Trent N.
- 18-06-19
Annoying music and sound effects
Appreciate the writer and the books have been great, but the sound effects and crazy music are driving me nuts. Not to mention the god awful voice acting. Can’t finish this one, sorry.
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- Annabel
- 10-07-19
Strange
I couldn’t bring myself to enjoy this. I wasn’t sure if it was some kind of joke for most of it but it was bad, really bad. I hope they never do that again. Please.
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- andrew giles
- 28-07-19
such a shame,
I love this series, but I returned this after trying to handle the hard to listen to story.
the way they tried to portray the AI struggling was so repetitive and annoying.
I couldn't make out parts of the dialogue because of the "special effects"
please stick to the great stories in the nornal style. Make Skippy great again.
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