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The Silver Ships

The Silver Ships, Book 1

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The Silver Ships

By: Scott Jucha
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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Unlike most captains, Alex Racine can't detect an anomaly, log it, and ignore it. His curiosity drives him to push his ship to its limits, swinging around a massive planet to gain the velocity he needs to intercept the object.

What he captures in the dark isn't an asteroid. It's a crippled starship. Survivors of a lost colony ship are in stasis, and a self-aware digital entity is only hours from ending its existence. There's the unmistakable evidence of damage from a powerful weapon that his people have never seen. It's a first contact no one planned for, with a civilization as human as Alex's own and a threat from anything but.

The adversary has consumed entire worlds for six decades without leaving a single survivor to warn others. It does not respond to hails, does not negotiate, and does not stop its advance. Now two long-separated branches of humankind divided by a vast technological gulf must come together to have a fighting chance to survive.

A thought-provoking sci-fi adventure grounded in hard science and a hard-won alliance. It's a gripping story about humankind pushed toward extinction and what people are capable of doing when everything is at stake.

The first battle is proof of what's attainable, but the war has only begun.

©2015 Scott Jucha (P)2015 Podium Audio Adventure Fantasy Fiction First Contact Science Fiction Space Opera
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Really enjoyed this novel, looking forward to hearing the next book. Narrated really well and enjoyed his story telling.

A gem of a story

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Great book can't wait to listen to the next one great narration and story I highly recommend listening to this book

Great book

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Not bad......narrator was poor. Some characterisation between protagonists would have been nice, however, dull monotone delivery is all you get.

Hmmm

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I loved it, this is one off 23 books in a series get it now, so enjoy it I have. Very refreshing, new approach to it, very well written and narrated, I read all the books, then I got an audable book, of this first novel, I will get all 24, from now on.

Brilliant new space journey, epic

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Has a feel of the old style sci-fi, the better ones. It has the feel of an introduction to the real story; the action is only just starting sort of thing. Definitely worth the listen, and I'm going to start on the next in the series now.

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