Titan War
Pax Solis, Book 1
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Titan War
Narrated by:
Tom Taylorson
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Narrated by:
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Tom Taylorson
Summary
When Lieutenant Alex "Flex" Callahan encounters mysterious alien probes near Luna Station, no one believes his warnings—until it's too late.
Human activity has awakened an alien presence deep in our Solar System. Now, humanity faces extinction as this ancient and forgotten foe launches a devastating invasion. Their goal? To reclaim Earth as their ancestral home.
Flying his Firebird fighter from the carrier ECS Vanguard, Flex leads the desperate fight against overwhelming odds. With superior technology and savage combat skills, the enemy steamrolls through humanity's defenses, conquering colonies from Europa to Mars. Earth's last hope lies with its fighter pilots and their nerves of steel.
Packed with intense space combat, advanced technology, and military action, Titan War delivers a punch-to-the-gut story of humanity's fight for survival. When defeat means extinction, there's only one choice: victory at any cost.
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It’s definitely different though!
Think Independence Day meets Top Gun meets Halo meets Jurassic Park, that may sound like a confused mess but it works beautifully. I can definitely feel the influence of all those IPs at work here.
Im not familiar with the narrator but he’s fantastic, he absolutely nailed his performance throughout. Will be on the lookout for other works he’s narrated down the line for sure.
Can’t wait for the next book in the series, I want to see where this story takes me
A really promising new sci-fi series
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Awesome Story
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Story-wise, Pax Solis is fairly derivative, like most science-fiction these days, and brazenly mixes core influences from Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5, with elements of other science fiction movies thrown in. We see large carriers, like Battlestars, capable of launching and retrieving fighters. We see a telepathic element to the military, shamelessly modelled on Babylon 5's infamous psi core, instead being called Psitronic Core. The members of this dark group even wear gloves like their B5 forebears.
We see other well trodden themes here, such as a father son friction element for good measure. None of these aspects make this a bad story, only less original than it could've been perhaps. In fairness, human drama follows a limited number of templates.
I will say that by a few chapters in, I predicted the outcome, though the journey to get there did surprise me a little, which I did like.
As I'm a nit-picker, I will say that our protagonist's difficulties being questioned disbelievingly at the start of the story was rather silly. Even with our current technology levels, cockpit voice and flight data recorders reveal what went on. By the time of this story, external sensor logs and a myriad of other corroborating data would've left Callahan’s personal testimony in no doubt. Seemed to me like a crowbarred plot point to sew doubt and add unneeded drama to what ought to have been a cut and dry action report.
The old cliche| of hot tempered, show-off pilots is also here in abundance. One might think that by this era, pilots would be rather more mature and professional than the sometimes group of adolescent jocks seen.
There are ground forces featured here in the form of marines. Alas, they are pretty much a copy and paste template for the Colonial marines from the movie Aliens—even making reference to a pulse rifle!
I have noted that Larson tends to make some basic errors that seem to go unnoticed during the proofing phase. For example, it seems the writers forget that Callahan has been promoted up to full commander, and yet he is referred to as a lieutenant subsequent to this promotion. Even the second book in this series repeats this error in its synopsis.
I think, if recalling correctly, that each fighter's AI core cannot be removed, yet plot convenience sees this hard rule discarded later.
There are a couple of Larson-esque type errors, one of which was that the door to Callahan’s quarters hisses open and closed, implying a powered sliding door, and in the final pages of the story, Amy ;pushes' open the door to his quarters. Of course, none of these niggles will impact readers enjoyment of this story. For me, the most interesting character was Yarl, the implacable alien. On that front, hats off to a terrific job of narration from a new name to me; Tom Taylorson, who voiced this character superbly. Further, he did overall excellent voices, only slightly falling down, as many American narrators do, with a classic British accent, making it sound a little over the top at times. Otherwise, I really enjoyed his narration and he already ranks in my top five narrators.
There are repeated phrases that become unnecessary, such as, an I paraphrase, 'his scales gleamed under the harsh light', or ,'her bald head gleamed,' or 'the harsh lighting of the detention centre', or 'G-forces pushed me back into my seat.' Yes, I know, all pretty nit-picky stuff, but the repeated variations on the same phrase did grate a little on me after a while.
All in all, Pax Solis was a nice change of pace and tone from Larson's Undying Mercenaries series, but this opening book of the series did feel rather dragged out at times. There's more to like than dislike here, and I'm hoping that this new series will mature into something truly special.
An overall great effort to launch us into a new series.
Battlestar Galactica Meets Babylon 5
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