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Slow Bullets

By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: Susan Duerden
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A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur - and for humanity - peace is not to be.

On the brink of the ceasefire, Scur is captured by a renegade war criminal and left for dead in the ruins of a bunker. She revives aboard a prisoner transport vessel. Something has gone terribly wrong with the ship.

Passengers - combatants from both sides of the war - are waking up from hibernation far too soon. Their memories, embedded in bullets, are the only links to a world that is no longer recognizable. And Scur will be reacquainted with her old enemy but with much higher stakes than just her own life.

©2015 Alastair Reynolds (P)2015 Tantor Adventure Hard Science Fiction Military Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Technothrillers Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Technology War
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"A fine example of the true science fictionist's art." (Michael Bishop, author of A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire)
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It's hard to judge the story as it's all pretty much ruined by the narrator's weird intonations and delivery.

Weird narration.

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The narration sounds like Alexa reading a text, the intonation and stress on some words is just so off kilter I had to give up after half a chapter.

Had to give up

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I like Reynolds, as my bookshelves attest. He is wide of the mark on this one though. A very 'Meh' storyline. I struggled to finish which has only happened a couple of times before. The narrator was also a bit breathy for me. Heigh ho. It was free. Hope the author is back on form next time.

Not his best work.

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Absolutely terrible way of narrating... I made it thru only because once again the the story/idea from Reynolds was interesting and 1.30x speed hide some of the worst flavours of the narrator's style... sorry to be brutal but will never listen anything narrated by this particular narrator

Only made it thru by 1.30x

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Story was so-so but further degraded by what sounds like an "Alexa" doing the narration.
Even the narrator did not seem to "get into" the book.
The story was humourless with un-engaging shallow characters.
It may have been lifted by a better audio performance but not by much.

Maybe OK with a better narrator

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