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  • Written by: RR Haywood
  • Narrated by: Colin Morgan
  • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (358 ratings)

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The Worldship Humility

Written by: RR Haywood
Narrated by: Colin Morgan
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Publisher's Summary

About the audiobook:

The Worldship Humility is the start of The Code trilogy, written exclusively for audio by sci-fi author R. R. Haywood. Narrator Colin Morgan brings the colourful characters and treacherous escapades of The Worldship Humility to life, a gripping space adventure which will appeal to fans of Ready Player One, Bladerunner and Haywood’s previous best-selling works, Extracted and The Undead.

Summary:

It’s been 120 years since the 50 or so worldships containing the few million survivors set off after planet Earth was destroyed by a meteor.

On the Worldship Humility, Sam, an Airlock Operative, is bored. Living in space should be full of adventure, except it isn’t, and he fills his time hacking 3-D movie posters.

Petty thief Yasmine Dufont is also from the WS Humility, but she is not bored. Growing up in the Elfors, the lawless lower levels of the ship, has seen her surrounded by violence and squalor since birth, and now she wants out. She wants to escape to the luxury of the Ab-Spa on top of WS Abstinence, where they eat real food instead of rats and synth cubes.

Meanwhile, the sleek-hulled, unmanned Gagarin has come back from punching out ahead of the fleet in the ever-continuing search for a new home. Nearly all hope is lost that a new planet will ever be found, until the Gagarin returns with a code of information that suggests a habitable planet has been found. This news should be shared with the whole fleet, but a few rogue captains want to keep the information to themselves and colonise the new planet.

When Yasmine inadvertently steals the code, she and Sam become caught up in a dangerous game of murder, corruption, political wrangling and...porridge, with sex-addicted Detective Zhang Woo hot on their heels, his own life at risk if he fails to get the code back.

About the author:

R. R. Haywood is the author of Amazon UK’s number one horror series The Undead, which propelled him into the top 20 best-selling Amazon authors in the UK. Haywood is a Washington Post best-selling author and both the Undead series and the Extracted trilogy are Audible best sellers.

About the narrator:

Colin's television credits include Humans, The Living and the Dead, The Fall and Merlin. His film credits include Benjamin, The Happy Prince, Legend and Testament of Youth. Theatre credits include Translations (The National Theatre); Gloria (Hampstead Theatre); Mojo (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Tempest (Shakespeare's Globe); Our Private Life (Royal Court); A Prayer for My Daughter and All About My Mother (The Old Vic).

©2019 RR Haywood (P)2019 Audible, Ltd

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great characters, entertaining story

I really enjoyed this book. The characters were likeable, the story kept me engaged, and there was some good humour as well.

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amazing... lovely...! i am in love with yaasi😉

amazing... lovely...! i am in love with yaasi😉. could not stop listening to, until the end. cant wait for the next book.

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Excellent

Loved this book. Made me laugh out loud many times. Thought the narrator Colin Morgan was terrific with different voices & accents.

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Excellent book, even better narration!

Definitely not the book I expected, but in a good way. entertaining and we'll written and tied together with some of the best narration I have ever heard.

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Book full of sex, but I thought this was space

Just far too much sexy sex romance going on. I was hoping this would be more sci-fi than it ended up being, not that I mind going in to relationships in sci-fi, this book just far too often meandered in to sex and each character (like seriously all of them) have some sexual issue to explore. Instead of the topic of sex being an interesting side avenue to go down, it ended up taking center stage and really for me anyway took away any impact it could have had.

That being said I still want to go in to the next book because the overarching plot and world that has been created I find fascinating.

Narrator is great, at least had me laughing during the sexual scenes.

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Amazing!! Read it. Wow

I did not expect to enjoy this book at all. It’s been sitting in my library for a long time. I could kick myself! I was hooked straight away. Well written and full of action, humour with a great story line. I definitely recommend this book, even if it doesn’t fall in to a favourite genre.

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It was pleasant but felt incomplete

Overall it was enjoyable, but the end is quite disappointing. This is one of those books that finishes after a major climax and provides no closure to many significant plot points.

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Long time sci-fi reader/listener, one of the best!

I can't think of anything negative at all to say. Excellent story with an excellent narrator. Very much looking forward to the next book. I will now have to also see what else this author has done.

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Hands down the best narration I've heard!

Geeat story, but even better reader. Quick and consistent through many characters. I'll be looking for the second book in this series - as apparently this one ends in a cliffhanger - and other titles read by this narrator as well!

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awesome throughout

You will enjoy every minute of this book and the performance. Brilliantly written and had me hooked from the get go.

I can't wait for the next book.

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