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Thrive Space Colony Adventures
- Publisher's Pack, Books 1-2
- Narrated by: Veronica Giguere
- Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
An ex-cop who cannot die. A moon full of settlers who cannot thrive.
Mahina's terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them.
The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young.
Sass fought a rebellion against the city once. She won concessions to give the settlers a chance at health. She paid with 20 years in prison.
Now she’s out, a reformed character. She assembles an oddball crew doing odd jobs. She intends to mind her own business–how to make a profit on the skyship Thrive.
But her fellow settlers are still failing.
While her business model careens toward circus acts, Sass dares to defy the city again, to solve Mahina’s failure to thrive.
Pick up Thrive because you love upbeat character-driven SF with fun technology. Suggested for fans of Firefly, Lindsay Buroker's Star Kingdom, or Nathan Lowell’s Golden Age of the Solar Clipper books.
This Publisher's Pack includes Skyship Thrive and Spaceship Thrive.
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- Norma Miles
- 21-08-22
"Just to be the best you."
I had previously.Read book one of the Thrive Space Colony stories and had quite enjoyed it so was delighted to receive a complimentary copy from the rights holder at my request via Free Audiobook Codes. The stories follow Sass, now Captain of the Stardrive ship Thrive, her partner Abel,,nd the crew. Sass is a lot older, if not wiser, than she appears having been part of an experimental nanite injection programme years before designed to help the ten selected cops to better withstand the hostile conditions of the new planet to which they were heading. Four of their number had died almost instantly but she, and one other, had survived to find themselves almost immortal. She stopped being a cop many years before the story takes place.
The hasty evacuation of the Earth's population had resulted in settlers arriving at their new homes before they had been made ready, so were unable to properly cope with the not yet terraformed worlds. They did not thrive. Nor were they welcomed by the original adventurers already established and more comfortable in their artificially constructed habitats. Sass and those on board Thrive were looking for ways to improve the lives of the latter Settlers.
An interesting and, for these days, slightly unusual science fiction book as it revolves more around society and personality than simple space battles against aliens. The first book introduces the reader to the story characters and one of these new home planets, including the unusual week (a diagram of which, together with a ground plan of the Skyship Thrive is apparently available on the author's website), before finally launching into the adventure itself. It should have worked well but, for this reader, felt a bit clunky. As I said in my earlier review of book one, this was, in part, because the narrator, Veronica Giguere, although reading well, had a voice which seemed determined to send me to sleep and I found that I frequently had to rewind to recover sections missed. This definitely distracted from my enjoyment overall. This time around i could better appreciate the quality of her performance but still had to struggle to concentrate at times.
Basically an enjoyable adventure duo, peopled with interesting characters engaged in worthwhile enterprises and with a fair amount of fight action along the way - though fighting is certainly not the only type of thrills and spills encountered. If you are a science fiction fan, this double pack is well worth reading.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-07-23
very good sci fi book
if the author reads these review. please be aware that the way you have named the titles makes it difficult to search for the next book. I almost gave up at book 2.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book. very enjoyable characters. I perhaps would like a little more action.
but the characters are very enjoyable and the world is exciting.
hope the author does more
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Ostfeld
- 24-08-22
Another true science-fiction.
Took time but got really good !
The author Ginger Booth must have one hell of an amazing imagination and an awesome memory for keeping it all just right without missing a beat for such a complicated science fiction story.
This are the first two out of 8 books series and are really long but the story itself is amazing without a doubt !
Veronica Giguere narration for each one of the characters, packages it all into a perfect audiobook.
Waiting for the rest to come out, hopefully soon but because of the length it’s understandable why it takes so long.
Absolutely
recommended !
Oded Ostfeld.
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