Cast Under an Alien Sun
Destiny's Crucible, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Davis
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By:
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Olan Thorensen
About this listen
What if you were thrown into a foreign society, never to see home again? What would you do, and could you survive?
Joe Colsco boarded a flight from San Francisco to Chicago to attend a national chemistry meeting. He would never set foot on Earth again.
On planet Anyar, Joe is found unconscious on a beach of a large island inhabited by humans where the level of technology is similar to Earth circa 1700. He awakes amid strangers speaking an unintelligible language and struggles to accept losing his previous life and finding a place in a society with different customs, needing a way to support himself and not knowing a single soul. His worry about finding a place is assuaged when he finds ways to apply his knowledge of chemistry - as long as he is circumspect in introducing new knowledge not too far in advance of the planet's technology and being labelled a demon.
As he adjusts, Joe finds that he has be dropped into a developing clash between the people who cared for him, and for whom he develops an affinity, and a military power from elsewhere on the planet - a power with designs on conquest. Unaware, Joseph Colsco has been poured into a crucible where time and trials will transform him in ways he could never have imagined.
Cast Under an Alien Sun is a story that's science fiction in premise, adventure in execution - a cross-genre adventure with elements of science fiction, history, hard science, epic fantasy, time travel, romance, alien contact, and space colonization.
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- Janice
- 11-07-2017
Fantastic
Good detail and development. A very interesting story. I want more of this story please!
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- Manwell
- 09-10-2017
Good story
Good story with average narration. I enjoyed it enough to buy the second in the series!
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- Hayden
- 22-04-2024
A Lot of Fun
Looks. It's never gonna be a literary great, but the chance to flesh out the childhood fantasy of going back in time with all your knowledge is a ball. Enjoyed so far. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
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- Mike1C
- 20-04-2018
Cringeworthy beginning but improved as it went along.
A protagonist called “Joe”. I mean cummon’!.. I was on the verge of returning the book because the beginning was so badly written, but I persevered and thank god, it improved. The idea at the book’s heart is really appealing and finally it connected with that story; one of finding yourself in the past, knowing what you know now, and how you’d deal with the issues and responsibilities that knowledge created. It’s surprising good yarn that travels quite well and raises a few thought provoking issues. I just wish the author could go back in time and read-write the first few chapters!
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- Jlobb
- 18-02-2018
Fantastic Story
Highly recommend this book. Characters and the story draw you in. I'm already downloading book two!
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- Anonymous User
- 08-01-2018
Good book, I will read the next one.
Overall the writting was excellent and the story interesting. The author did an outstanding job of describing a world and characters that made sense.
However, the performence was excessively emotional in places. The story a little too expansive and detailed in sections and some parts felt like they were put in during editing rather than part of the core story.
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- A C Bennett
- 12-07-2018
Fantastic start
Great start to a tried and true formula. Mr Davis narrative was excellent and I look forward to the next audio in this series.
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- Tim
- 10-11-2017
Great idea
The main plot hook maintains the interest and I’m loving the series all the way so far.
There are many other ideas that perhaps I would have introduced in Joseph’s place but a couple he did I wouldn’t have thought of, in such is my enjoyment.
Looking forward to flight and naval additions
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- Dean
- 20-07-2019
Fantastic and cringe at the same time
I read/listened to the five books. The story, plot, and research underpinning this series is great and had the potential to get almost full marks across the board. Enjoyable and worth it. However there were some very cringe worthy and cheesy sections that let it down. I can forgive the few inconsistencies with time distance etc.. no big deal. But OMG the romance and relational interludes were like reading or watching a pathetic tv soap like, ‘Bold and Beautiful’ script unfold in front of you. I predicted easily what was going to happen in the first half of the first book the way the author was going to head with the romance through the whole series. It was like he couldn’t help but introduce his own fantasies into the story. If only the author left this ‘Bold and Beautiful’ crap out it would have got higher marks from me. Also each book followed a same same formula with plot development l, but I didn’t mind that. It was the cringe worthy romance crap that was annoying especially in book four. Overall it was enjoyable.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-05-2020
Loved it, very happy I stumbled onto this.
In my wish list for a long time, I was a bit hesitant to get it and I shouldn't have been. I think I'm going to binge listen this series now.
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