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Shadow Captain

By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: Clare Corbett
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 'A swashbuckling thriller - Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly - that nevertheless combines the author's trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterisation' GUARDIAN

'A blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future' SUN

Returning to the universe of Revenger, award-winning author Alastair Reynolds delivers another thrilling tale set among the stars.

Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship. They took on pirates, faced down monsters and survived massacres . . . and now they're in charge. Captaining a fearsome ship of their own, adventures are theirs for the taking - and there's hoards to loot and treasures to find in the darkest reaches of space. But the rules are also more relaxed out on the fringes, as they're about to discover . . .

'A rollicking adventure yarn with action, abduction, fights, properly scary hazards, very grisly torture and even ghosts of a sort' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'By far the most enjoyable book Reynolds has ever written' SFX©2019 Alastair Reynolds (P)2019 Orion Publishing Group Cyberpunk Dystopian Military Science Fiction Fiction Pirate

Critic reviews

"A swashbuckling thriller - Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly - that nevertheless combines the author's trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterisation." (The Guardian)

"A blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future." (The Sun)

"A rollicking adventure yarn with action, abduction, fights, properly scary hazards, very grisly torture and even ghosts of a sort." (Daily Telegraph)
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David Weber has Hornblower in space, Alistair Reynolds gives us Pirates of the Caribbean...minus Johnny Depp.

Great believable drama set in a far distant future society. Sailing vessels traverse the system in a believable manner, and the series developes some interesting turns.

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Brilliant

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Stop at revenger its what i wish i had done, slow and laborious. It just feels like a short story with vast amounts of technical filler.

Lackluster follow up

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Another excellent book from Mr Reynolds and a great follow up to Revenger.

Tip-top narration by Ms Corbett, who leaves me in no doubt that she is a pirate in real life hehe!

Excellent!

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May be a bit of an improvement on the first installment of the trilogy still a bit of a YA feel but nonetheless, I enjoyed it

Good suspenseful story

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The story is interesting but is far too drawn out.. That said it got interesting towards the end and I’ll probably end up listening to the next one.

Got interesting towards the end

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