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The year is 2650. Seventy-five years ago, an alien fleet attacked Earth. Without warning. Without mercy. We were not prepared. Hundreds of millions perished. Dozens of cities burned. We nearly lost everything. Then the aliens abruptly left. We rebuilt. We armed ourselves. We swore: never again. But the aliens never came back. Until now. With overwhelming force the aliens have returned, striking deep into our territory, sending Earth into a panic. Our new technology is useless. Our new ships burn like straw. All our careful preparations are wasted. Now only one man, one crew, and the oldest starship in the fleet stand between the Earth and certain destruction: ISS Constitution.
- Sales Rank: #2285 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-08-18
- Released on: 2015-08-18
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 402 minutes
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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
A Compelling Story of one Ship against an Alien Horde - Beautifully Written - Well Worth the Read
By Jas P
The Constitution is an old Legacy class ship, which has been called in to be turned into a Museum, much to the crew’s utter disgust. It is the last of the ships that defeated an enemy of aliens a long time ago in a war that nearly wiped out all of Earth and its fleet and all of the Earths colonies as well. But now the alien threat is gone, there are new ships with new ‘Smart Armour’, not the old style armour of the Constitution, which has 10metre thick armour all over her hull. Can anyone see where this is going?
The story does have the standard protagonists, the disgruntled, but Stoic Captain, the annoying but soon to be likeable Female Officer, who in this case is there to decommission the ship, and turn it into the museum, but ends up being the second in command alongside the already existing second in command, a gruff but trustworthy old friend who is loyal only to the Captain, and surprisingly doesn’t like the Female Officer. There is off course a brilliant Engineer and several other instrumental crew (command and otherwise) that make up a brilliant character list. And of course there is the dreaded Alien enemy, ‘The Swarm’ as they are known. They have previously been to Earth as mentioned, 75yrs before, and after a massive war, just left, but now they are back….and it's not really a surprise!! (I think you are reading the wrong book if it was?), but then again, if they didn’t come back, it would be a kind of pointless story – I mean where would the gripping space battles be!!
Yes we have all seen this story before, but it's what the Author does with it that counts.
And Nick Webb, as always, does an exceptional job. This is a tremendous story with astounding characters, and a clever and well written version of this genre. I really loved it. For starters, his characters are not immortal, and I have to give him major bonus points for that, I get sick of everyone always surviving every battle/engagement…
Although this is a well-worn path, Nick has given it his own flavour, and as such, his universe is captivating, beautifully detailed and with creative intelligent explanations. With his education, he is able to go into detail about the mechanics and technicalities a little more than most, giving his story a bit more of an edge I felt. The great thing is, he never gets too bogged down in detail, giving us just enough to make it interesting, but without making it tedious or getting lost in too much detail.
The action scenes and battles are gripping, strategic with compelling descriptions of the ship engagements, and I loved the weaponry used, and how it was described, the specific details he uses.
As for his characters, although I mentioned that they were a bit stereotypical, they still had depth to them, the Captain especially.
As with the his battles and star scapes, Nick does a wonderful job with his Characters, giving us in depth characters to both love and hate. And as the story progresses, and his characters develop, you find that these opinions change as well, showing his talent for writing engaging and believable people to tell his story.
It's why his books standalone from the others, the exceptional writing.
This is a terrific read, well worth the effort, as his is other works. I have already started on ‘Warrior’, the second part of this series.
34 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
Slow starting Space Opera
By Tokyo James
I began reading this in anticipation of disappointment and that's what I initially got. Frankly, the first few background chapters were so bad that I put the book aside for another SF action novel followed by a history of post-Columbus intercontinental biological cross-fertilization. Nevertheless, since I am somewhat both a mizer and a masochist, I picked it up again, and as I struggled on eventually found the tale to be pretty good space opera in the Doc. Smith tradition. The crew members of Constitution and their interactions are very much unoriginal original Star Trek. (We even have a chief engineer called Scotty. though female.) Still the battle scenes are exciting with lots of human sacrifice and the science behind the weapons isn't too bad although we all should know that given current physics and materials science spaceship armor is not likely to be very effective against near lightspeed projectles or antimatter particle weapons no matter how thick or of what composition,etc.
Melodrama, of which space opera is one variety, always rescues the protagonists from certain death and condemns minor characters to the cruelty of unjust fate. (For my generation whether in pulp or on the silver screen such tales were called cliff-hangers, or for you younger folk think Indiana Jones.) That's the case here and the mystery as with the "Cliff Hangers" of the 1930's and 1940's leaves us panting with anticipation for the next installment in the series. which it seems the author has in works. Okay, that's fine with me I enjoyed this one after we got past the clumsy background setting and in spite of the not so subtle bashing of apparently "President-for-life" Putin and resurrected Russian Imperialism and slaps at "not-so-much-in-the shadows" VP Joe. I'll buy the next book in the series and hope for improvements in the set-up and politics while expecting more of the John Wayne blood and thunder and good old fashioned let's kick some alien backside or goop or whatever. My advice to readers --- be patient for a good space-opera read and to the author --- work on integrating the necessary backgound and set-up information into the main story line. For the latter as a good example, look at how you had Grange 'fess up to why he and his deceased XO were nearly court-martialed and instead assigned to a career dead-end assignment. As Shakespeare reminds us in a "Midsummer's Night Dream" actions tell us the story better than verbose description.
30 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
I enjoyed this book and like stories where the old saves ...
By JTKST
I enjoyed this book and like stories where the old saves the new. In this case and old Captain and a very old ship which is being decommissioned. The ongoing battle with the new commander who is trying turn the ship into a museum and his wanting to have the ship ready to fight is a matter of who outsmarts who. Who knew his old obsolete ship would stand up take charge in the fight to save earth. I am really looking forward to the next book.
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