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Nether Station

By: Kevin J. Anderson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

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From New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson comes Nether Station, a thrilling mix of epic science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.

Space is vast. Space is full of wonders. Space is terrifying.

In the darkest part of the solar system lies a wormhole. Nether.

Astrophysicist Cammie Skoura has joined the first research team traveling to the Nether anomaly, eager to understand the mechanics of the wormhole and to explore its possibilities as a shortcut to Alpha Centauri.

But another race of ancient beings has already been here—an impossibly long time ago—leaving remnants of their vast complexes and gigantic temples built for horrific beings beyond comprehension.

What dangers did those elder races find in the hidden corners of spacetime?

What did they unleash?

And what remains?

Now, Cammie and the crew of Nether Station must find the answers—before the darkest part of the cosmos swallows them up …

Horror

Science Fiction

Space Exploration

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I usually like Kevin J Anderson’s writing, and this book promised to scratch that “horror in space” itch that I’ve had ever since watching ALIEN as a youth, so I’m not sure where this went wrong.

Don’t get me wrong; it’s perfectly serviceable and enjoyable as a fairly mild Lovecraftian space horror, it’s just really predictable and surprisingly unimaginative. The author moves the pieces around in a lacklustre fashion, so that literally nothing that happens is a surprise. The Lovecraftian elements seem tacked on and superficial, as if Anderson had read a Wikipedia article on the Cthulhu mythos, not really understood the themes, and borrowed a few names for his story. It’s Lovecraft-lite. Anderson can’t quite bring himself to fully embrace the bleak existential nihilism that lies at the heart of the Lovecraftian mythos, instead borrowing some of its trappings to dress up his fairly toothless outer space spookhouse.

Though the story is supposed to be relatively near-future, virtually all the tech is your standard Sci-Fi gear, including artificial gravity of the Star Trek variety, and little sense of the realities of space travel. Compare it to the ALIEN universe, where the tech feels very real, even though it includes FTL travel!

One thing the story does do rather well is its portrayal of a neurodivergent character who is very clearly on the autism spectrum and struggles with interpreting and understanding the behaviour of others. Being neurospicy myself, I think Anderson actually takes a pretty good swing at this, and does it without being patronising or preachy.

The thing that annoys me about this is that Anderson is capable of far better work, and the story idea is great. It’s just that it could have been much better if he hadn’t been afraid to take the training wheels off.

Pedestrian Lovecraftian Space Horror

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The narration is awful so I don't know if that coloured my impression but the writing is flat, dull and peurile. How this is a best selling author I'll never fathom. I got as far as chapter 19 and lost the will to listen.

Dreadful

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Not to so great story
Seemed to be a by the numbers book, saved by Scott Bricks narration

Great narration

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Unfortunately I found the narration of this audiobook book a really horrible listen. The innotation of the narrator was completely off. Absolutely everything is read like it's a world ending event which has the effect of you not caring about any event. As far as the story goes pretty much all of the characters are completely and utterly unrelatable and unlikeable so that you want to cheer for the bad guys and beg them to end them all please.

I really didn't enjoy the narration

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