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Qalea Drop
- Spiral Wars, Book 7
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
The UFS Phoenix embarks on a dangerous quest for the AI Ceephay Queen who rules at the heart of the Reeh Empire. For cover, Phoenix will use the enormous war being launched by the new rulers of the croma, Croma'Dokran, into reeh space. This war is intended in part to evacuate the corbi homeworld of Rando, thus righting a great wrong of croma history by rescuing 200 million corbi from reeh tyranny.
While Lisbeth defies her parren seniors to use drysine and parren firepower in assisting the evacuation, Erik captains Phoenix, accompanied by Styx's four drysine warships, to the world of Eshir, where Styx insists the Ceephay Queen was once located. There, in the ancient, ruined city of Qalea, Trace and Styx must lead an away mission through buried layers of Reeh Empire history to uncover its long-forgotten secrets. Discovering the Ceephay Queen's present location could set them on the road to saving humanity. But Qalea's secrets have been hidden by the reeh for millennia, secrets that could rock their Empire, and they will stop at nothing to keep hidden.
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- Peter Comninos
- 18-07-21
This is one of my favourite SF series
This is one of my favourite SF series - I can't wait for the next one. The universe of the series is elaborate and fascinating with many alien species and AIs. Whenever there is a conflict between humans and friendly AIs I usually find myself rooting for the AIs - this is how well developed the AI characters are. All the characters are very well developed. The narration by John Lee Is excellent as usual.
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- M. Crovetto
- 22-01-21
Amazing when is the next one?
Loved this installment. Possibly my favorite all time space opera. Great narration. As ever. Love the characters and story development.
Well done Joel.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-02-21
Great series continues on track
Not much to say. Another installment that does not disappoint, in a series that has become one of the best sci-fi worlds I've experienced. Charachters continue to develop in interesting directions and the canon of the universe keeps on expanding, and the plot of the overrall story thickens. Impatient for the next one.
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- Darren Tyrell-Knights
- 04-01-21
another great installment
Loved every second of it, the multiple stories was a welcome surprise. Can't wait for the next one.
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- AINTD
- 07-06-23
An improvement
Better than the previous book, but still has dull story lines that it could do without and add more meat to the bones of the more central stories and characters.
Still, the main two stories are interesting enough, albeit without any real twist or turns. Voice acting - great, as always. Solid overall.
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- gareth ashley
- 14-08-23
Best book of the series so far
Really great series. Gets better with every book. Keeps you guessing and the narration is top notch. If you like the culture and P F Hamilton stuff this series is one to listen too. Never read the books but don’t feel I need to now as they have come to life in these audiobooks
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- CJSILV
- 27-01-21
You have to listen to it
A great book loved the story great narration 5 stars I highly recommend listening to this book 👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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- Peter
- 01-01-21
As good as earlier volumes
With this latest instalment, I feel Joel Shepherd has again managed to find new forms of adventure and humour to add to his fantastic sci-fi saga. It’s not perfect but it’s head and shoulders above most of the contemporary alternatives I’ve read. And puts him alongside Ann Lecke for me as a standout author of new-universe storytelling. Can’t wait for the next one!! But I do live in terror of him killing off one of the central characters he has built up...please don’t!
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- Luke Hawkins
- 24-01-21
One of the best ongoing sci fi series!
Renegade was my first audible book. A Year later and I eent through Qilea Drop in a weekend. It is ace.
Shepherd's world building is massive, rich and detailed but it never gets daunting or feels bloated. Plus his characters have amazing arcs.
In this book alone he deals with morality of AI, refugees, PTSD, immigration, far right extremism and religious fanaticism all wrapped up in an engaging mystery adventure that is not only a great sci fi story but is funny. A rare gem, please hurry with the next one!
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- Magbug
- 02-05-21
The excellence continues
Smart writing and great narration. What more could you ask for? Bring on the next volume in the series!
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