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Space Academy Rejects
- Space Academy, Book 2
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
"Where no one has been dumb enough to have gone before."
Vance Turbo, Hero of Space, has spent most of his hard-won officer's career helping refugees. This ends when a star gets blown up and he accidentally ends up saving everyone.
Now the captain of the E.S.S Ares, he is on a goodwill mission to Contested Space. Unfortunately, his crew is made up of people who couldn't qualify for Space Academy but are now in thanks to lowered enlistment standards. Captain Turbo has also been charged by the Elder Races to find out who blew up the star or they're going to destroy humanity. Did we mention the evil Notha Emperor wants to be his best friend? All in a day's work for the galaxy's most questionably qualified explorer.
Space Academy is an all-new series from the hilarious duo of C.T. Phipps (Supervillainy Saga, Agent G) and Michael Suttkus (The Bright Falls Mysteries, Lucifer's Star) that lampoons space opera and military science fiction.
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- Luke H.
- 26-09-22
More rip roaring, madcap space adventures
Set in the same universe as the authors’ excellent “Lucifer’s Star” series but centuries earlier, it has a more optimistic tone akin to Star Trek. I loved the first book, which balanced interstellar intrigue with more standard space opera shenanigans like sun destroying super weapons. It managed to conjure a feeling of being the child of Star Trek, Star Wars, and other SF greats like Firefly without feeling derivative of that material. Combined with the authors’ trademark sense of humour and snarky dialogue, Space Academy Dropouts was one of the most entertaining listens in my audible library.
Rejects really needs to be taken after that first book—so much here depends on it, although Rejects could still be worth a listen as a stand-alone.
Rejects is, simply, an improvement on Dropouts in every way. The threat is bigger (and more hilarious), the characters’ motivations remain from book one but there’s been a definite arc in each of them. 42 remains my favourite (who doesn’t love a giant space lizard with the best put downs in five systems?!?!). While I thought Dropouts was a great fun read, Rejects builds on the setting, deepening the storyline into something not just entertaining but truly epic. There are still the nods to other classics (Babylon 5 getting a well deserved mention), and pop culture gags abound but the serious side of the story has grown even stronger. An example, somehow the main character “Vance Turbo” has actually grown up (almost) and his struggles with relationship issues, duty, and maintaining the respect of his crew really land.
Jeffrey Kafer’s narration is yet again absolutely top notch.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-08-22
Fantastic narration for a fun sequel
A great follow up to the first book. Still funny, and managed to do a good job of keeping the tone and characters alive with a, in some ways, more serious story and having to adjust to not really being the "dropouts" after the end of the first book.
But the real seller is the performance. Just as excellent as the first. Great voices, great characterisation, whole performance is just fantastic and was engrossed from the start.
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- Simon GL
- 02-06-22
One serious complaint...
So, book two. Binged it in 2 sittings. My only complaint is it's over too fast!
The story moves a pace and keeps you listening when you really should be going to bed or actually doing something. I dare say this book is funnier and more action-packed than the first. It still doesn't take itself seriously and that just makes the book better in my opinion.
JK has killed the narration, as if you'd ever expect anything less! There is a special part of this book featuring another well known spaceship captain of old, well a brilliant parody of him anyway. That with the authors writing skills and narrators skill at bringing the book to life had me rolling on the floor (my childish humour may have played a part of that).
Hopefully we won't have to wait too long for book 3, I can see from the way this was set out there are plenty of avenues to bring further books to this series.
To summarise... Buy it! If you have book one, you'll love book two!
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