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- Expeditionary Force, Book 10
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Columbus Day
- Expeditionary Force, Book 1
- Written by: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,551
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,392
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,390
We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Easily one of the better books I've read..
- By jesse cornelious on 2018-10-31
Written by: Craig Alanson
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Deathtrap
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- Written by: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The human soldiers stranded on the planet Paradise have been recruited into an alien legion to do the dirty jobs that the high-tech species won't do. Their first mission is to kick the enemy off a backwater planet no one cares about. It's a simple assignment, except everyone has a hidden agenda, and the planet could become a deathtrap.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply great.
- By Bill on 2019-05-12
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Aftermath
- Expeditionary Force, Book 16
- Written by: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Aftermath of a stunning victory—especially an unexpected, complete, and final victory—should be high-fives all around, listening to politicians give boring congratulatory speeches, and a well-deserved rest for the Merry Band of Pirates. Yes, the galaxy is still a freakin' mess, but that is nothing new, and for a change, that can be someone else's problem. Until, you know, something really bad happens, and only the Pirates can deal with the problem... Or not.
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Convergence
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- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
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My name is Kazimir Wolfe. People call me "Kaz", except they don’t. I never use my real name; it’s too dangerous, for me and for anyone I meet. I’m on the run from the law, who think I killed my aunt, and from whoever did kill her, because they want to finish the job. So, I move around a lot, working construction or whatever job I can find. It’s a lonely life. I don’t let anyone get close...people who get close to me end up dead. Why? I’m a wizard. The world’s only wizard, as far as I know.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I wanted to like this book.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wayward Galaxy
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5 out of 5 stars
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strong start!!
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Columbus Day
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- Written by: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,551
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,392
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We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Easily one of the better books I've read..
- By jesse cornelious on 2018-10-31
Written by: Craig Alanson
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- Written by: Craig Alanson
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
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- Unabridged
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The human soldiers stranded on the planet Paradise have been recruited into an alien legion to do the dirty jobs that the high-tech species won't do. Their first mission is to kick the enemy off a backwater planet no one cares about. It's a simple assignment, except everyone has a hidden agenda, and the planet could become a deathtrap.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply great.
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The Aftermath of a stunning victory—especially an unexpected, complete, and final victory—should be high-fives all around, listening to politicians give boring congratulatory speeches, and a well-deserved rest for the Merry Band of Pirates. Yes, the galaxy is still a freakin' mess, but that is nothing new, and for a change, that can be someone else's problem. Until, you know, something really bad happens, and only the Pirates can deal with the problem... Or not.
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My name is Kazimir Wolfe. People call me "Kaz", except they don’t. I never use my real name; it’s too dangerous, for me and for anyone I meet. I’m on the run from the law, who think I killed my aunt, and from whoever did kill her, because they want to finish the job. So, I move around a lot, working construction or whatever job I can find. It’s a lonely life. I don’t let anyone get close...people who get close to me end up dead. Why? I’m a wizard. The world’s only wizard, as far as I know.
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3 out of 5 stars
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strong start!!
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2 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't get the rest of the series!
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There's a reason We Are Legion was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. The first item on his to-do list: Spending his newfound windfall. On an urge to splurge, he signs up to have his head cryogenically preserved in case of death. Then he gets himself killed crossing the street. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself.
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Didn't think I'd like it, but I loved it
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Infinite
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Excellent Excellent Excellent
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When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Bill Rustad and his friends find that they have accidentally created an inter-dimensional portal. They connect to Outland - an alternate Earth with identical geology, but where humans never evolved. The group races to establish control of the portal before the government, the military, or evildoers can take it away. Then everything changes when the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts in an explosion large enough to destroy civilization and kill half the planet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
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Publisher's Summary
The Merry Band of Pirates are in desperate trouble after the end of their last mission, and the real danger to humanity is just getting started.
Hostile aliens have discovered there is something odd going on with wormholes in the galaxy, and their investigations could lead to finding a shortcut to Earth....
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- Dylan H.
- 2020-08-29
[SPOILERS AHEAD] Craig, please take a break.....
I honestly wasn't going to pick up the new book after how disappointed I was with Valkyrie; but I hit a book drought and saw nothing but praise for Critical Mass on the audible reviews and on the subreddit, so I decided to give C.A. a chance at redemption.
The main reason I decided that I didn't like Valkyrie is because the book was almost entirely filler content with an information dump in the form of a bullet-point list at the very end, and Skippy abandoning everyone in the crew at the finale just felt so thrown together at the last minute and went against everything established thus far in the series.
Now, my almost immediate problem with Critical Mass is when Skippy just "decides" to care about his friends again and the Quachines honestly felt like bullshit. C.A has become the king of deciding that anything in his previous works does not matter which for a listener makes me feel like I shouldn't care about anything that happens because at any given moment, he can just decide that past experiences and exposition do not matter anymore. For Joe to forgive Skippy so early on due to the fact that "20% of his decision was original programming" was insulting, and it felt like it became an unfunny running joke for the rest of the book. I understand that Joe believes he doesn't have an option as they need Skippy to do anything; but that's only because C.A. wrote himself into a corner on his own. On that note....
Simms convincing the hostile AI to switch sides was so promising, it had potential to stop relying on Skippy and the dynamic seemed like it would have been interesting and could have opened some options as to where the story goes as well as entertaining interactions with the crew/Nagatha. Instead the build up of Simms pleading for it to change sides was thrown out almost as soon as it started which again made me wonder what the point of giving this AI a small "redemption arc" was, but later in the book when Bilby was introduced (I personally think "stoner" humor is very lazy so I'm not a fan of Bilby) I was left wondering why we couldn't have just kept the Maxolhx AI as Bilby just seems to be comedic relief; but so is Skippy? So what's the point of having two?
After being introduced, Bilby doesn't really do anything? I blew through the book in 2 days so maybe my brain isn't recalling anything meaningful that he did. At one point near the end Skippy was boasting about something awesome he did and Bilby chimes in to say "ugh dude that was actually me mannn" and I paused the book and wondered why he is even a character..
The book then followed the same formula of having almost no progression in the story and it took nearly 75% of the book just for the end result to be that the ships and everything was right back to the state it was in during Valkyrie and everything up to that point was just them recovering from the poorly written ending of the last book. This to me is C.A. padding his 4 hour story into a 19 hour slog. The side plot of Adams and Bishop was non existent with the author even saying that people are tired of the "will they, won't they" back and forth so it was stopping now. Half of the time I forgot about Adams until Joe would say "oh by the way Adams is on MY ship now"; okay? You've already established that nothing is going to happen in the department in this book so why are you constantly bringing it up? Again, I felt like I shouldn't be caring about their relationship or lack thereof because C.A. has told me not to care about it anymore.
With what feels like nothing happening for most of the book, again C.A. formulates some artifical drama with the gas giant near Avalon which accidentally saves the day kind of.... maybe..... because the next book might start by saying the Elder weapons plot doesn't matter anymore.
So, I'm left once again disappointed with his work, the front page of the subreddit has a post giving it a 10/10 calling it the best book in the series. I'm wondering what I'm missing? Everyone seems so impressed that he's pumping these books out quickly; but nobody is talking about how he is basically writing 7 chapters of story progression and 31 chapters of filler..
I'm sorry for the wall of text, I'm passionate about this series and I'm just extremely disappointed with the direction it's going.
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- Barry Colley
- 2020-09-11
Awesome
Great continuation of the adventures of those crazy pirates. Not that I didn't like the last couple books, I certainly did, but this book is a bit better then them. It feels fresh.
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- Paleo hound
- 2020-09-03
Loved it!
A fantastic final (?) chapter to this series. Twists and turns all over the place. Sad if this is the end - great series all around.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Craig Williams
- 2020-09-02
AMAZING as usual for this series!
AMAZING as usual for this series!
loved every minute of the story and as usual RC Bray was an amazing dirty monkey!
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- Doug Ross
- 2020-08-04
Why aren’t you reading this book!!!!
You may ask yourself why am I writing this when I titled this review Why aren’t you reading this book!!!! I don’t actually know, anyhoo
First off Id like to take this time to point out that Craig Alanson is a royal Butthead. That cliffhanger in the last book was epic, and things don’t immediately resolved in this book either......grrrrrr
Really at this point I don’t know why you have not purchased this book and started listening.
Oh and we all know this will be another homerun in the series. Go skippy the Meh
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- Elliott
- 2023-07-18
Another Masterpiece from Craig and RC
Craig is an amazingly talented Author I’ve had so many great laughs but RC Bray really makes everything come alive. Thank you
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- Jesse H.
- 2023-06-03
Best one yet!!!
I feel like this story keeps getting better! Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better….spoiler. Great ending!!!!
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- Adrian
- 2023-04-26
Keeps getting better
This series keeps getting better with every book. best book so far. Excited for the next one.
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- Jennifer Mueller
- 2023-01-17
Loved it
Fun I think it was a good new book that last book ended on a very big cliffhanger
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- Joel G.
- 2023-01-11
best one so far!
love this book. this is my favorite one of the series so far! great work.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-08-06
Money Grabber.
Full of extremely boring conversation and pointless talk or description, page fillers. Half a chapter talks about how Bishop likes vegan food and the other half was trying to get me interested in buying the author's other series. Skips over important stuff but focuses on pointless events. Same old jokes are used and not much new materials are provided. Lazy writing and total money grabber. Disappointing. Last dime I spent on this author.
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- Greg
- 2020-08-05
Well...that sucked
Its really hard to take a book plot seriously when 50% of the book is explaining why a certain path is the only way to do things....and then those explanations thrown to the wind on the next encounter. In the first/second books, this approach can be granted some measure of plausibility. By book 10....yeah, its just poor.
I had skipped the first 4-5 chapters, because yeah it was that bad.
The series has jumped the shark. We don't care who shot JR. He can neither confirm or deny that the book is good. Weapons of mass destruction have not been found.
Take a pass.....unless you have completely forgotten the rest of the series....because maybe then its ok...maybe. The writing is ok.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-08-06
I finally had enough
the story was okay. but halfway it became the same rinse and repeat rutine from the the other books. (expect Armageddon) oh no.. earth will be attacked, save them, new threat again and again. still no character development. all the women in books could be very cool, but gets annoying. (raising an eyebrow, is disappointed, we will have words, uhh huh!!, suck it up) I finally had enough. Craig Alanson writes Joe and Skippy so good that you get to love the characters. the last 3-4 books the way the crew treated Skippy became too much. Very mean spirited. in the start of the books there was a good feeling in their banter. but the last 3-4 books it made me sick, that the only family Skippy ever had was constantly treating him like a thing they could all be cruel to. Basically a slave it disgusted me and destroyed the mood of the story totally for me R. C. Bray did a wonderful job as a voice actor.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-08-08
Not worth it anymore
It's unfortunate to 2 star performance to make sure this is rated properly because RC Bray is great as always.
I had 1 credit left on audible for months and after losing my job due to Covid and being unable to put money towards something like an audio book, I made sure to hold on to that last credit for months for this Book 10 because I was so looking forward to it and wanted to make sure I got to experience it.
Book 9's cliffhanger was great. I was in a state of shock and "WTF" after what happened in Book 9. Within a couple of chapters of Book 10 I was disappointed. It completely wasted the awe and story that the series FINALLY built up to, and made it an extremely lazy way to rinse and repeat AGAIN. This series has been 80% rinse and repeat but had enough to keep me interested. Until now. Now, it's just insulting.
Book 10 is a waste and clear sign the series is over. Any books coming out now are purely for a money grab. I don't say this as an upset reader. I loved the series, I respect the writer, and love RC Bray's work, but book 10 was 100% nothing more than previous books mashed into it but at an extremely slower pace and absolutely pointless chatter. Introduction of new characters, which should have been interesting, was an absolute slap to the reader with assumption we are stupid (Billy and Bob was just pathetic - I cringed when RC Bray had to read parts).
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- Lauro
- 2020-08-04
Narrator and Skippy rules
Awesome book :) but we need more books, currently the book requires more awesomenes , and Joe to get Laid.
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- smb
- 2020-08-06
Too much situation and not enough plot
I guess when you write so many books it must be difficult to write plot vs. situation. And there's the profit motive as well. The author wants to sell more books. My husband likes this series but I think that there's only enough plot in ten books to make about two or three books. End the series already.
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- Luke
- 2020-08-05
Amazing
The last ten chapters, I couldn't stop listening. Thank Skippy this book didn't end on a cliffhanger as bad as the last one!!
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- Tony E.
- 2020-08-06
Restoration of Awesomeness
After the numbness that we were left with at the end of book 9, book 10 starts with the customary unraveling of what seemed inevitable to an unexpected exit. It all turns out okay. I have to admit, I had a hard time getting through Mavericks, Book 2. It was a drag at times and I had to force myself to get through it. I did not have that problem with this book. The difference is Joe Bishop. Joe brings an energy through the narrative that is missing in any other part of the story with which he isn't involved. I found myself once again engaged, excited, and involved.
There were some emotional parts in this story. I shed some tears of joy when we learned we could truly trust the friendship when the awesomeness was in doubt (stolen from someone else's review.) I laughed out loud several times in the last few chapters when what we've all been waiting for came around in the nature we were hoping it would. Fan service? Maybe, but it sure made up for the pain at the last book and I loved it.
This book is high energy and it starting to tie up some of the loose ends that have been built in the previous 9 books, as well as the 3 side adventures. You can see a huge finale coming up in the next few books that will be extremely satisfying.
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- James M.
- 2020-08-05
Survive the first two chapters and you'll love it
I was going to go for a refund, but I loved the previous books so much that I would give it another shot. I have in fact given it 6 shots. By the middle of chapter 2, I am completely lost. Understand that through chapter 2 the story is not composed of full scenes, but tiny snippets.
After chapter 3, the book was absolutely awesome.
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- Richard Lawrence
- 2020-08-05
Excellent start to finish...
no spoilers.... you can trust the friendship, even if you can't always trust the awesomeness.
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- P. Victor
- 2023-04-06
I'm done.
I'm done with these books.
It's always the same : Humanity is in danger, the danger is too great and there is absolutely no way of getting out of it. Bishop thinks of something while eating. Skippy says it won't work, but wait, hmm, let him do the math, actually yes it would work. Even if it makes no sense and contradicts things said before. Humanity is saved and all is good until next new absolutely terrible threat.
And of course nobody dies and there are no real consequences.
Unless you are not used to reading books or have the memory of a fish you can skip those books.
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- Suzy
- 2023-02-24
Awesomz again and again !!!
As usual, a perfect story with our loved caracters. Reading the next one quickly can’t wait
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- Rentomi
- 2022-08-04
Always the same as usual
I guess I keep coming back because I expect the story to evolve a bit. But noooo, as would skippy say. Filthy monkeys always need to go through the same thing again and again. Bohoo a completely unpossible to avoid BS is coming to exterminate all humanity, but wait what if we could do that unprobable on totally out of nowhere thing, hmmm that might work, let me do some number crunching....
Yes it works humanity is saved unless... And here we go again.
It's getting borring.
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