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Stars Beyond
- Stars Uncharted, Book 2
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
The crew of Another Road are back, closer than ever to the biggest score in the galaxy...if they can stay a step ahead of the Justice Department agents and Company men tracking them.
An engineer with a fondness for weapons. A captain with no memory. An obsessive genemodder who loves to tinker. Meet the crew of Another Road.
Josune, Roystan, and Nika have escaped the company thugs trying to kill them. They've gotten a new spaceship to replace The Road (after it was blown up underneath them). And their new ship is armed to the teeth with dangerous weapons, courtesy of Josune. All that's left to do before they head out to find the legendary lode of transurides is to restore Roystan's memory. To do that, they need to collect the genemod machine Nika has ordered.
But first, they have to shake off the Justice Department agent and the Companies tracking them.
It should be easy. They've done it before. What could possibly go wrong?
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"A vigorous sequel exploring the depths of space and human deceit...the vivid action and lovable characters keep the pages turning." (Publishers Weekly)
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- Rob Roy
- 05-01-22
Space opera at its best
Interesting characters, novel situations and camaraderie aplenty.
I read a lot of space opera and this series of two books is one of my favourites. I hope the author considers a third episode - but another plus is that the second book reaches a point which could be a satisfactory conclusion.
Emily Woo Seller has a hypnotic voice which could make listening to a shopping list a worthwhile experience. Five stars from me!
Read the first book before this one!
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- Andrew
- 01-04-20
Good continuation of the series.
Lovely light entertainment as always by AK Dunstall - never fails to impress. Can highly recommend if you have read the first book in the series.
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- C-Dweller
- 30-12-23
fun accessible sci-fi romp.
More focused on the the adventure and character aspect rather than hard sci-fi but doesn't suffer because of it. A likeable ensemble with suitably nasty baddies. Thoroughly enjoyed both books in rapid succesion (addictively listened to both over a weekend).
A nice follow-up to the ladies' Linesman trilogy.
Hoping we won't have to wait too long for more for this remarkable sister/author duo.
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- DebB
- 31-10-20
Excellent part 2 - lots of action
A good Part 2. This follows on a few months from the first book, Stars Uncharted. The blurb, which sets it up pretty well, ends with “What could possibly go wrong?”
Well, lots actually. There are several odds-defying escapes from utterly impossible situations, and the scrapes come thick and fast - at one point, after surviving being blasted in space, a space walk by a non-spacer, crash landing with one person thrown unconscious into water, savage local beasties, and then… I did find myself thinking “Oh for heavens sake, can’t something go right for once?”. But I had faith that the authors weren’t going to wipe out their entire cast, so I hung on in there. One of the baddies does chortle with “Haha, now I have you I can kill you” a bit often, when you know damn well that because he’s wasting time by chortling and gloating, something's going to happen to save the imperilled character, but at least he's consistent
There are two new characters Alastair and Cam, who have their own story arc and back history. There are parts narrated from Alastair’s point of view, more from Josune and Nika, and the odd bit from others.
Alastair needs to find Nika. A company man with not nice intentions really, really wants to find Nika. The Justice Department want her. Others want Josune, others want Alastair, someone really nasty wants Snow… Cue lots of dodging and diving. Nika and company should, of course, lay low, but she needs to fix Roystan, for which she needs a fancy genemod machine, so out into the big bad world they go.
When I reviewed the first book I said how convenient a modding machine is, people can get blasted and burnt and broken, and all they need is to pop into a machine to be as right as rain again. It's the same here - one character in particular seems to have a bad time of repeated injuries and fixes.
Whilst there’s a lot of action, there’s also introspection from the main characters, Nika maybe goes on about modding a bit much, and there will be those that criticise this for times of drag. I didn’t find that. I enjoyed the play between the main characters, enjoyed learning about Alastair, enjoyed the time out to ponder. In this, the book is typical of the authors’ other books.
The end could be “The End”, or it could lead to a part 3 - it ends with a plan for a future - quite a complicated one fraught with potential problems, so there's scope for a return…
note - the description of Alastair’s “apartment” is amazing - I want me one of those please! Oh, and Alastair needs to tell Cam he loves him, ;-)
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