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A Hole in the Sky
- Arkship Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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A Hole in the Sky
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Publisher's Summary
From New York Times best-selling author Peter F. Hamilton comes his first audio original, A Hole in the Sky, Book 1 in the Arkship Trilogy.
Sixteen-year old Hazel lives in the Daedalus, a starship that is flying in search of a new world. The ship has been traveling for 500 years, searching for a world to settle in after having to abandon its last world. Everyone on board Daedalus lives a very simple existence in farming villages. The age of machines supplying their needs was lost during a mutiny 500 years ago. The captain regained control of the ship after a huge struggle. Now, with finite resources, everything in the habitat is Cycled, including humans, who essentially are suicided at 65 so they don't deplete the biosphere's resources.
Hazel encounters the Cheaters, people who refused to Cycle, who tell her the Daedalus has been damaged and its atmosphere is leaking away. When her brother has a paralyzing accident which condemns him to be Cycled since he can no longer be productive, Hazel runs off with him to join the Cheaters. While with the Cheaters, she discovers that much of what has been told to the people living on Daedalus for the last 500 years is untrue, and soon, Hazel is in a thrilling race to help repair the ship and help the people of the Daedalus.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-01-2023
If I hear "sweet captain" one more time!
It's OK. kids book. Really you could have edited out some of the curses that no one would read if it were text.
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- USA63W
- 20-08-2022
It's a road trip story
Perfect story whilst driving. It is an entertaining story without distracting you from paying attention to the road. And much better than having to listen ti the kids choice of music
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- Bryan
- 14-02-2023
First 1/4 was slow, then zoomed off to a great story
Like a lot of sci-fi, the build up was slow- the sluggish start was quickly rewarded. Nice character dev and fairly face paced.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-03-2021
High standard sci-fi
Story: The start of yet another hamilton epic saga?
With a great strong female lead character this builds a story in a ever deepening and rich setting to spin a tale of people, family and humanity vs environment.
Performance: Well read - female voice. (did struggle with 'deep voice of...' (S17*spoilers*) but balanced and played character voices well to convey emotions from the text.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-05-2021
teenagers book
Didn't realise when I bought this that the author has clearly intended this to be a teenagers adventure story. I applaud him in doing so as it's a great way of introducing teens to quality sci-fi. But compared to the authors other books it was a little simplistic.
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- Anonymous User
- 31-03-2021
Not his best, not even close
This is not the Peter Hamilton I know and love. Very different from his other work, a simple story and more teenaged romance than space opera.
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- Alexander
- 06-04-2021
My review Paul
I read all of Peter f Hamilton‘s books feeling feeling the following in the series I can’t not recommended his books especially Pandora’s Star and the following series. I enjoyed this book listen to it in two days The story is addicting with the environment pulling you in and capturing your interest twists and turns like call Peter f Hamilton books( only downside I didn’t really like the narrator weird character voices that pull me out of the story Old one was better 🤷♂️. Sorry for bad spelling I’m dyslexic I’m not spending time on reviews concluding statement good book read !
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- Mark
- 18-05-2023
Good story good narrative
Enjoyed the simple fun story and the narrator was great love her voice. Set up for a second story
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- Anonymous User
- 22-04-2021
I wish I asphyxiated
Ok so not to drag the book, I'll start with a positive that, the story had a promising potential, and other Hamilton novels have been great so I was excited for this one.
However, the reality did not live up to that.
Being a cross between 'logan's run', 'book of koli' and 'rendevue with rama' there was plenty of potential to be great, considering the amount of depth in other Hamilton novels, however this was simply written (if I hear "Jon said" one more time...) and made the novel appear to be written for a young audience. Ok I'm not completely canning it. For being YA, look at HP or hunger games-great! But at times the writing was so simple it was like a scifi goosebumps book.
The simple writing style meant that the story seemed to be more like skeleton of itself, lacking any details or back story & The characters were paper thin with little development, with wooden dialogue.
This brings me to the last point, the narrator.
She was already grinding on me from chapter 3 and had as much excitement, tone and varience as the AI she was portraying and by the halfway mark left me wishing my air had run out so I no longer had to endure the last 5 hours.
For sure I'll give another Hamilton novel a go as his others were great, and I'll probably look into part 2 of this one to see if there's an, improvement, but if it's more of the same with the same narrator I'll be cycling it happily.
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- Simon
- 28-11-2022
Story is great, narration is horrible
One of the big wins for Peter Hamilton audibles is Toby Longworth does the narration. Now this is a problem for this book. It begins in first person and the person is female …. So ok a female narrator makes sense. But the reading seems slow, and the actress’s voice doesn’t fit the voice of the character. At least not in my head. The character is smart and determined, and young and the narrator sounds insipid.
This is the least favourite of my Peter Hamilton collection simply because of the performance.
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