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Steal the Stars

The Original Full-Cast Recording

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"Bundling a successful podcast with other material, this audio program makes an attention-grabbing listen...The episodic sci-fi thriller that results is a listening feast." — AudioFile Magazine

*The original podcast recording*

This audio book includes all fourteen episodes of the Audio Verse Award-winning podcast series, plus exclusive bonus content, including the live staged reading of the prequel episode, "Deputy"; a round table discussion with the creators; and more.

Dakota “Dak” Prentiss guards the biggest secret in the world.

They call it “Moss.” It’s your standard grey alien from innumerable abduction stories. It still sits at the controls of the spaceship it crash-landed eleven years ago. A secret military base was built around the crash site to study both Moss and the dangerous technology it brought to Earth.

The day Matt Salem joins her security team, Dak’s whole world changes.

It’s love at first sight—which is a problem, since they both signed ironclad contracts vowing not to fraternize with other military personnel. If they run, they’ll be hunted for what they know. Dak and Matt have only way to be together: do the impossible. Steal Moss and sell the secret of its existence.

And they can’t afford a single mistake.

This program is performed by Ashlie Atkinson, Nat Cassidy, Hanna Cheek, Rebecca Comtois, Jorge Cordova, Sol Marina Crespo, Reyna de Courcy, Neimah Djourabchi, Autumn Dornfeld, Abe Goldfarb, Jason Howard, Daryl Lathon, Kelley Rae O'Donnell, Mac Rogers, Seth Sheldon, David Shih, Brian Silliman, Tarantino Smith, Jennifer Tsay, James Wetzel, Brittany Williams, Jordana Williams, Sean Williams, and Christopher Yustin.

Also available from Tor Books: Steal the Stars, a novel by Nat Cassidy, the official adaptation of the podcast and an NPR Book of the Year.

 Adventure Fiction First Contact Genre Fiction Military Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Romance Science Fiction

Critic reviews

<p><b>Praise for the <i>Steal the Stars </i>podcast</b><br><br><b>A SyFy Wire recommended podcast</b><br><br>"Doesn't so much raise the bar on audio drama as launch it into space." —Amal El-Mohtar, author of "Seasons of Glass and Iron"<br><br>"Sharp, superior, intense, and clever." —Una McCormack, author of <i>The Crimson Shadow<br></i><br>"Snappy, fast-paced, and ferocious." —Paul Cornell, author of <i>The Lost Child of Lychford </i>and the Shadow Police series<br><br>"Comical, clever, compassionate, and hair-raisingly tense." —Cassandra Khaw, author of <i>Hammers of Bone</i><br><br>"Thrilling and intimate." —Mary Robinette Kowal, author of <i>Shades of Milk and Honey</i><br><br>“A UFO story, a military thriller, a sexy romance, and a tech-industry satire all at once—and it's a total blast to listen to. Get ready to get obsessed.” —Dan Kois, Culture Editor, Slate.com <br><br>"Everything I love about great science fiction adventure." —Geoffrey Thorne, co-producer of <i>Leverage<br></i><br>“Compelling, lyrical, and thrilling.” —Max Gladstone, author of The Craft Sequence<br><br>"This is rad and you're gonna wanna get in on it." —Brooke Bolander, author of "Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies"</p>
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I really enjoyed this, I hadn't heard of the Mac Rogers podcast prior to listening to Steal the Stars so wasn't familiar with the story. Given that it was based around an area 51 theme I thought it could be intriguing and the sample really pulled me in.
Which isn't a surprise as the majority of the sample has the central character Dak (played by Ashlie Atkinson) delivering a scene.

Ashlie Atkinson (Dak) really is fantastic in Steal the Stars, so much character in her voice and the performance she delivers. There were sections where I lost interest, when the alien narrative took back seat to some melodrama playing out. At this point I did consider to stop listening, but I continued and soon got pulled back in again through the twist and turns of the story. It was interesting to hear the round table at the end between cast and crew as they say when the podcast went out some people did feel there was too much melodrama rather than focusing on the scifi aspects, though there were also many who really loved the melodrama. I would be in the group of the former, but can still recognise that the romance elements will appeal to others, its certainly not that they're not well done. Also if you're in it more for the scifi don't let the melodrama put you off, as the story more than makes up for it.

In a standout cast Nat Cassidy puts in a highly entertaining performance as Lloyd.

Very well produced

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