Darren McMillan
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Lost in Time
- By: A.G. Riddle
- Narrated by: John Skelley
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 523
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 489
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 489
Dr. Sam Anderson is one of the most celebrated scientists in history. Ten years ago, he invented a device that changed the world forever. Now his life is about to be ripped apart—and his own creation may be to blame. One fateful morning, Sam discovers that his girlfriend has been murdered and that his daughter is accused of the crime. Sam believes she"s innocent, but he can"t prove it. There"s only one thing he can do to save his daughter: confess to the crime. And so he does. But in the future, murderers aren"t sent to prison. They"re sent to the past.
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1 out of 5 stars
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School essay in purgatory
- By George the dog on 04-11-22
- Lost in Time
- By: A.G. Riddle
- Narrated by: John Skelley
Brilliant from start to finish
Reviewed: 07-11-24
Narration was fantastic, the story even more, really enjoy this didn"t want it to end, however it finished well, wrapping the story up nicely. Will look out for more from A.G. Riddle, this is the first title I"ve listened too by them.
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Superhuman: Semper Fi
- Superhuman Series, Book 3
- By: Evan Currie
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Superhuman terror incidents are on the rise, riots are breaking out everywhere like a plague spreading across the face of the world, and the unknown enemy still stalks the world. However, Pierson and Hale are determined to bring down the monster that caused this turmoil, no matter what it takes. With violence exploding on all sides, when given a clear shot at the source of the chaos, they determine to take their chance. Hale will throw every bit of power he has at the very source that granted him his strength, backed by a world thrown into chaos looking for someone, anyone, to blame.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Quality story
- By Chris on 17-04-24
- Superhuman: Semper Fi
- Superhuman Series, Book 3
- By: Evan Currie
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
One of my best listens
Reviewed: 19-10-23
I really hope Evan will revisit the series in the future, but as a trilogy it ends very nicely, with potential left open for future books, so you can be happy that you"ll not be left frustrated by an unclosed ending.
This is excactly the series I needed in my life, Superhero"s with a touch of Alien sci-fi, I can happily say this is one of my all time favourite series and will now have me listening into more of Evan"s book series.
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Metal Swarm
- The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 6
- By: Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
For years, the alien Klikiss robots have pretended to be humanity"s friends, but their seeming "help" allowed them to plant an insidious Trojan Horse throughout the Earth Defense Forces. Now, in the aftermath of a devastating war, swarms of ancient black robots built by the lost insectoid Klikiss race continue their depredations on helpless worlds with stolen and heavily armed Earth battleships.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Plot just doesn"t make sense
- By Darren McMillan on 18-08-23
- Metal Swarm
- The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 6
- By: Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrated by: David Colacci
Plot just doesn"t make sense
Reviewed: 18-08-23
We went from first seeing the Faeros as protectors who stopped some ships from being radiated in a solar flare, to then helping turn the tide of the war against the Hydrogues as the good guys. Now we"re expected to just accept they"re evil and ruthless and suddenly want to kill everyone.
Sorry but the story for me has went down hill since the Hydrogue war concluded, you should have just ended the series then.
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Uncompromising Honor
- Honor Harrington, Book 14
- By: David Weber
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 30 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 194
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 195
The Solarian League"s navy counts its superdreadnoughts by the thousands. Not even its own government knows how enormous its economy truly is. And for hundreds of years, the League has borne the banner of human civilization, been the ideal to which humanity aspires in its diaspora across the galaxy. But the bureaucrats known as the "Mandarins," who rule today"s League, are not the men and women who founded it so long ago. They are corrupt, venal, accountable to no one...and they"ve decided the upstart Star Kingdom of Manticore must be destroyed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too much waffle
- By Yevgeny on 29-11-18
- Uncompromising Honor
- Honor Harrington, Book 14
- By: David Weber
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
6 year wait for this?
Reviewed: 20-04-23
Narrator performance was top notch as usual, sadly the book is 95% filler, 5% interesting content.
Felt the author just gave up after a 6 year break. Gone was the edge of your seat reading and excitement of previous books. There was even one scene that would have been a great chapter in its own, instead the author opted for a 3rd party report on what happened, then chapters of discussion from all involved parties around it.
Sorry Mr Weber, but you let the legacy end on a sour note for me.
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The Hot Gate
- Troy Rising, Book Three
- By: John Ringo
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 121
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 122
The fight to free the Earth from alien domination began in Live Free or Die, and continued in Citadel. Now Tyler Vernon and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station Troy face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny. And the very survival of the Earth and its people is not all that is at stake. The galaxy itself must choose to live free or die - and if the tyrants win this battle, darkness will fall across the galaxy for millennia to come.
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2 out of 5 stars
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confused
- By Stephen on 20-05-12
- The Hot Gate
- Troy Rising, Book Three
- By: John Ringo
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
Story begins at chapter 27
Reviewed: 07-06-22
16hr audio book which doesn"t actually start until chapter 27, when something which isn"t the cultural differences between North and South America isn"t being discussed.
Mark Boyett does an amazing job as usual. For the end of a trilogy though this is a big disappointment. The ending doesn’t really close off the story, it’s left to your imagination as to what could happen next for the human race, and not in a good way. Wasting the first 26 chapters on the authors views of cultural differences, which plays no part in the rest of the book is a complete waste of people’s time.
A real shame as it was a great series of books until the last.
I"ve never written a negative review to date, but felt compelled to do so for this one.
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The Lost Starship
- By: Vaughn Heppner
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 459
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 426
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Story4 out of 5 stars 424
Ten thousand years ago, a single alien super-ship survived a desperate battle. The vessel"s dying crew set the AI on automatic to defend the smashed rubble of their planet. Legend has it the faithful ship continues to patrol the empty battlefield, obeying its last order throughout the lonely centuries.In the here and now, Earth needs a miracle. Out of the Beyond invade the New Men, stronger, faster and smarter than the old. Their superior warships and advanced technology destroy every fleet sent to stop them.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A disappointing tale
- By Amazon Customer on 11-02-15
- The Lost Starship
- By: Vaughn Heppner
- Narrated by: David Stifel
Drawn out and a tad boring at times
Reviewed: 30-07-21
It takes a lot for me not to enjoy a sci-fi book, but this truly felt like the entire book could have been condensed into a few hours instead or the almost 14 hours it took, to find a spaceship and return it to earth.
For all that actually happened in the first book, I"ll just read the future titles book summaries to get the idea of the rest of what happens.
Sadly all the filler was simply uninteresting.
Narrator was good, no issue there, just a dull story.
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The Terran Menace
- By: J.R. Robertson
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Ben Hutchins buried his anger to survive. Stranded on a ravaged Earth after a devastating alien annihilation, the haunted young man has nothing except his late father’s cutting-edge exo-suit and a veteran soldier for company. But when he uncovers the truth about his armored prototype, he unwittingly paints a target on his back for those who seek humanity’s destruction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!
- By Suzy GM on 26-09-24
- The Terran Menace
- By: J.R. Robertson
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Gripping, thrilling story with slowly revealing li
Reviewed: 23-02-21
My first book by J R Robertson, I think he"ll go on to become one of my favourite authors. The Terran Menace, is one of those gripping stories you can"t put down and are desperate to find out what will happen next. Paul Heitsch does an amazing job on narration, the reason I picked up the book in the first place was because I knew he"d do a great job bringing it to life.
Looking forward to more Mr Robertson!
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Orders of Battle
- Frontlines, Book 7
- By: Marko Kloos
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 154
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 152
It’s been four years since Earth threw its full military prowess against the Lanky incursion. Humanity has been yanked back from the abyss of extinction. The solar system is at peace. For now. The future for Major Andrew Grayson of the Commonwealth Defense Corps and his wife, Halley? Flying desk duty on the front. No more nightmares of monstrous things. No more traumas to the mind and body. But when an offer comes down from above, Andrew has to make a choice: continue pushing papers into retirement, or jump right back into the fight? What’s a podhead to do?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love the book and universe created by Marko but...
- By Tim Powell on 04-02-22
- Orders of Battle
- Frontlines, Book 7
- By: Marko Kloos
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
Brilliant as usual but too short
Reviewed: 21-02-21
Brilliant as usual, but felt like we barely touched the surface on the main plotline, too much filler and not enough progress. I suspect the next book will conclude the end of this one"s storyline, but with the amount of filler it would have been better wrapped into one book, specially with the gap in publishing between both.
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Shattered Galaxy
- The Complete After the Galaxy Series Box Set
- By: Scott Bartlett
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 27 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Story4 out of 5 stars 282
Raised fatherless in a galactic Brinktown, Joe Pikeman only ever wanted to escape. The Galactic Guard offered that escape, with the promise of regular meals to boot. Now Joe is a full Guardsman, with his own ship and a snide partner bot who hates humans almost as much as he hates other bots. To the pirates he hunts, Joe is known as the Butcher. His bloody reputation has landed him in the center of a sweeping conspiracy that threatens to stamp out the galaxy’s last surviving human settlements.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mark Boyet"s delivery of scify audiobooks is top
- By Amazon Customer on 13-12-20
- Shattered Galaxy
- The Complete After the Galaxy Series Box Set
- By: Scott Bartlett
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
Incredible, gripping fast paced story
Reviewed: 11-02-21
Story and narration was top notch, really great trilogy which ends superbly leaving scope for more to follow. I really do hope there is more to follow
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Starship Pandora
- A Star Force Drama
- By: B. V. Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello, Jamie Jackson, Tim Gerard Reynolds, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Story4 out of 5 stars 160
The alien race known as the Ancients vanished before Earth"s last ice age - but not before building interconnected rings that form a highway system across the galaxy. Humanity has used these rings for years but has never figured out how to build its own, or even how to alter the connection pattern. Now, the Imperial starship Pandora is on a mission to discover and explore new interstellar connection points. While on Venus, an unexpected guest arrives - Marvin, a rogue robot who puts his strange mind to work on reconnecting the rings into a new pattern. Everything goes haywire.
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2 out of 5 stars
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milking the originals
- By Julien Laurent on 28-12-18
- Starship Pandora
- A Star Force Drama
- By: B. V. Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello, Jamie Jackson, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Eddy Lee, Natalie Gold, Josh Hurley, Graeme Malcolm, Mark Boyett, Jeena Yi, Marc Vietor, Gabriel Vaughan, Kevin T. Collins, Lauren Fortgang, Natasha Soudek
lots of fun, multiple narators made a big impact
Reviewed: 17-06-19
really enjoyed this, the narration and sound effects were fantastic, going to listen to all the starforce books now
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