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Shakedowners

Shakedowers Series, Book 1

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Shakedowners

By: Justin Woolley
Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
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About this listen

Some starship captains explore strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations. Some lead missions of discovery through wormholes to the other side of the galaxy. Then there's Captain Iridius B. Franklin, someone who spent too long seeking out strange new bars and new alien cocktails.

After graduating bottom of his class at Space Command Academy, Iridius Franklin hasn't had the glamorous career he envisioned - instead he hauls cargo ships full of mining waste, alien land whale dung, and artificially intelligent toy dogs across the stars.

Iridius does have talent, though - he is exceptionally good at breaking starships. So, when not hauling freight, he is captain of a shakedown crew, a skeleton crew used to test newly constructed ships for faults before the real crew takes over.

While on a routine shakedown mission aboard the FSC Gallaway, soon to be pride of the Federation Fleet, Earth is attacked by an unknown alien life-form. With the galaxy in chaos, Captain Iridius B. Franklin finds himself, unqualified, understaffed, and completely unprepared, in command of the most advanced starship in the galaxy.

Now, he just needs to not break it.

©2021 Justin Woolley (P)2022 Tantor Adventure Fiction Humorous Science Fiction Space Opera Interstellar Comedy

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there were times when he was confused between rimmer or or lister but added interest.

Great fun and well worked

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humourous character based storytelling with a heavy dollop and big nods to the big sci-fi characters and stories that inspired, fun

tongue in cheek irreverence

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excellent story of the possibilities of what our future might be like with the onset of AI. One word, dangerous!!

episodes of comedy mixed in with sheer grit

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Entertaining and funny . On similar lines to the tv series The Orville. Best book I’ve read for a while.

Very enjoyable

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good story. only downside is now have to pay to start sequel. oh well, here we go again. well worth a listen

the narration was brilliant

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