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    Impulse
    Impulse
    Impulse
    Audiobook9 hours

    Impulse

    Written by Dave Bara

    Narrated by Julian Elfer

    3/5

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    About this audiobook

    Lieutenant Peter Cochrane of the Quantar Royal Navy believes he has his future clearly mapped out. It begins with his new assignment as an officer on Her Majesty's Spaceship Starbound, a Lightship bound for deep space voyages of exploration. But everything changes when Peter is summoned to the office of his father, Grand Admiral Nathan Cochrane, and given devastating news: the death of a loved one. In a distant solar system, a mysterious and unprovoked attack upon Lightship Impulse resulted in the deaths of Peter's former girlfriend and many of her shipmates. Now Peter's plans are torn asunder as he is transferred to a Unified Space Navy ship under foreign command, en route to an unexpected destination, and surrounded almost entirely by strangers. To top it off, his superiors have given him secret orders that might force him to become a mutineer. The crisis at hand becomes a gateway to something much more when the ship's Historian leads Peter and his shipmates into a galaxy of the unknown -- of ancient technologies, age-old rivalries, new cultures, and unexpected romance. It's an overwhelming responsibility for Peter, and one false step could plunge humanity into an apocalyptic interstellar war..
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 3, 2015
    ISBN9781490672519
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    • 2/5
      If you haven’t read much military SF then this book is going to seem really great. If you have read several books then you know what will happen in the book. I could see every plot twist as it came along. All the women love our hero, he has loyal friends that he co-ops into his secret mission without bothering to tell them, yet he is clueless about his friends backgrounds even though they have been friends for years in the academy. There is advanced technology that is doled out to the planets by the wise Historians. And yet they are in search of the ancient artifacts that give them access to the Founders technology that they use. The book ends with winning the battle but you can see the long war ahead of them.

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    • 1/5
      childishly written
    • 1/5
      For this to be a series, Mr. Bara needed to do a much better job of character development, scene setting, pacing, basically everything. Even the science was bad (geosynchronous orbit at 300 miles?!)
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this but probably not as much as the sequel. Clearly the author was still developing his writing skills and this book is less fluent and less excisting than its successor. Stiil, I was glad to have answers to some of the basic questions about the background to his universe which had not been covered in the sequel. Good, solid space opera, and I still love the fact that FTL travel in this story is a difficult, dangerous process rather than the Star Trek/Star Wars, flick a switch, hey we're cruising in hyperspace approach. Great stuff.
    • 5/5
      This was one of those books you are happy to find. I couldn't put it down. I will be recommending this to my sci fi book group.
    • 2/5
      I was prepared to like this book much more than I did. Unfortunately, the writing and particularly the character development was somewhat amateurish. The early part of the book was quite interesting but the story bogged down when the Lightship arrived in the Lavant system and Cochrane was suddenly converted into a diplomat instead of an officer. The entire sequence with Cochrane in the palace was rather pedestrian and boring. The author failed to provide a plausible scenario for some of Cochrane's situations. For example, we are expected to believe that two very accomplished women fell in love with him almost at first sight. The author failed to describe any behavior on the part of Cochrane or any interactions with either woman that makes their infatuation seem realistic. One begins as an arranged marriage but in a couple of pages seems to have morphed into genuine, heart-breaking love. The other is partially explained very late in the book as some sort of transference from Cochrane's dead brother. Meanwhile, Cochrane seems to have no lasting feelings for his "love" who died off-sceen before the story begins.The story ends rather abruptly with the amateurish attempt to create concern that Cochrane might have been blinded. It seemed almost like the author had reached his page limit and figured he better end it somehow.This story is similar in many ways to Elizabeth Moon's excellent 5-volume Vatta series, which I recommend enthusiastically. Another fun read is David Drake's Lt. Leary/RCN series, now at 10 volumes. I had hoped that Impulse would be somewhat comparable to Moon's and Drake's efforts, but it falls far short. Still, this is apparently Bara's first book while Moon and Drake have decades of experience. Perhaps his writing will improve. I am planning to read the next book in the series but if it is not better it will be my last.
    • 4/5
      Was ready to read the next book in the series, but it is not released yet.