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SADEs
- The Silver Ships
- Narrated by: Susanna Burney
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
Dangerous forces are at work across galactic space that the Omnians are attempting to stabilize, but their resources are severely strained.
The SADEs, self-aware digital entities, express to Alex Racine and Renée de Guirnon their desire to know the method of their creation. Alex and Renée, the Omnian co-leaders, want to obtain the knowledge for the SADEs, who are humans’ closest allies.
Alex, Renée, and Julien, a friend and a SADE, board the giant city-ship, Freedom, which sails for Méridien, the home world of the far-reaching human colonies of the Confederation. They have a long overdue appointment with House Brixton, the Méridien group responsible for creating the SADEs. However, Shannon Brixton, the House Leader, is expected to zealously guard the secrets of the SADEs’ origination.
While at Méridien, Alex receives an urgent message requesting help in alliance space, where a small group of Omnians and Earthers battle the Colony, a race of insectoids, which is subsuming planets.
To complicate matters, a rogue battleship fleet left the federacy, bypassed the human colonies, and is searching among the alliance worlds for a habitable planet. If an unoccupied world isn’t found, they’re prepared to evict the inhabitants by force.
In the wake of Alex’s exit from Omnia for alliance space, Hector is left in charge of the Omnians’ second fleet. The SADE temporarily carries the mantle of protector of human colonies and allied worlds.
For the Omnians, life and its challenges couldn’t be more precarious, or could they?
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- Craig Leventhal (Rosedale House)
- 16-02-23
Amazing series but very poor narrator!
Shame that one of the best instalments of the series is read by the monotone Poole! Grover Gardner is in another universe in terms of his range and the interest he generates all in his delivery.
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- Borut B.
- 11-10-21
book is great, in line with the rest of the series
however the narrator is sub par, reading the book with very little emotion or anything
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- CJSILV
- 27-01-21
You have to listen to it
A great book loved the story great narration 5 stars I highly recommend listening to this book 👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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- Anonymous User
- 26-02-22
It's alright at the start, gets better over time.
The first couple of chapters (first 5 or 6) are basically unneeded - All you need to know is a lot of talk, Nata being a asshat and I still don't like her character, and talks happen and eventually a promise of 90-years later reveal of how SADEs are created and prepared for sentience (hint hint, it's old people).
But, instead of returning to Alliance elements, we have to go through some boring moments, orders of who is in charge and where, etc. etc. before we finally return to Jess Cinders and the gang dealing with those space centipedes as always.
Jess becomes a lot less enjoyable when he gets into contact with Alex, everyone seem to also BLAME Alex for not just rolling over and accepting Jess as ground force leader, etc.
It's a bit stupid and it's drama for the sake of drama... now if Jess had initially misunderstood something between Alex and that Luchia-commodore lady, then it'd have had made more sense.
But, nope, we get dumdum moments, sour-puss Jess, etc.
Also what in the hell is wrong with people in these books with regards to implants!? You literally have insta-connection with others, you can save and review old visual footage of what you've seen, you can do just about whatever you want in terms of internal applications, etc. etc.
He seems fine with those whatever-treatments that extrends lifespan from the Jatouche (Tellamite Treatment or whatnot), which is basically genetic manipulation), where as Nanites and Implants is controllable TECH that dun have random genetic problems that could potentially occur.
It was the same with the New Terrans earlier on in the prior books
The Narrator is functional, hence a 3/5 on Performance. Not a super fan, but she is understandable, clean-voiced and she doesn't sound overly monotone-voiced or 'bored'. There's some word-pronounciation changes, and I don't really care for them especially when there's over 10 prior books in the series to take reference from in terms of alien names, words, titles, etc.
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- mr s a b harris
- 12-05-24
Great story as per usual poor narration though
As always a great story, but made hard work by an almost monotonous narrator. She has a clear voice but boring as help
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