Koban, Book 1
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Patrick Freeman
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We colonized seven hundred planets. Humankind enjoyed the benefits of expansion and the end of wars. We disbanded our military.
Then the Krall found us.
The Krall have used thousands of years of combat to select the genes of the strongest and fastest warriors. They are a species determined to dominate the galaxy, through annihilation or enslavement of every opponent.
Koban is an uninhabited high gravity planet with impossibly fast savage animals, which employ organic superconducting nerves. This deadly world is where the Krall are testing humans for fighting capability. We are useful only if we can fight well. If not, they will destroy us swiftly, as they have other species. They have slaves, and we’re poor tasting meat animals, so we fight or die. The Krall will use us, if worthy, seeking physical perfection through attrition of war, one planet at a time.
Growing weary of our failures in testing, the ruthless Krall are on the verge of a decision to eliminate our species. A ship carrying bio-scientists is captured for combat testing. The choice for Captain Mirikami and the scientists is simple: Prove we can produce better, smarter fighters quickly, or humanity is doomed to rapid extermination.
But the Krall are only half the problem. We must survive Koban's gravity and superfast animals. The tiger-like rippers with skin contact telepathy are predators too fast and powerful for the Krall to face. Our solution is genetic: If you can't beat them as you are, become human rippers.
The Krall will learn another species can bypass natural selection.
©2012 Stephen W Bennett (P)2013 Stephen W BennettWhat listeners say about Koban, Book 1
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- Dean
- 04-09-2016
Great story and sound effects, but...
The story has a good steady pace to it, and i enjoyed the turn around where males almost died out and seemed to have come around to be seen as the warmer sex, but the narrator's style of talking just kills some of the story. He has weird pauses that make it seem like the end of the sentence and then just keeps going. And he constantly talks as if he is explaining something amazing and only just realized - in a way that makes it seem like he is giving too much detail - and that just the talking. I really struggle to listen to the book for long periods of time like I usually do with audiobooks because I really don't enjoy the narrator.
BUT - it is a really enjoyable story!
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- kade
- 09-12-2018
great book however
worthwhile long book but you will get sick of the word however by the the end as it is used far to often and with a very odd inflection
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- John Bowater
- 28-04-2021
Liked it
Love the story and characters. Narration good, but could improve (emphasis on wrong word in many sentences).
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