Scorpio
Frontlines: Evolution, Book 1
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Scorpio
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Narrated by:
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Arielle DeLisle
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By:
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Marko Kloos
About this listen
On a distant Earth colony, an orphaned survivor of an alien invasion discovers that the greatest world-ending dangers aren’t behind her.
It’s been eight years since an alien invasion drove a small surviving group of settlers to seek refuge in an underground shelter. Cut off from the rest of humanity, the ragtag band has maintained a narrowly functioning colony due to communal effort and salvage runs. Alex Archer has her own duties as a dog handler. While this off-world colony may be harsh, Ash, Alex’s black shepherd raised to sense threats, makes living in it a little nicer.
But the tenuous hide-and-seek with the monstrous species known as the Lankies is about to come to an end for Alex and her close-knit crew of soldiers, techs, and friends. When a salvage operation goes catastrophically wrong, the Lankies home in on the humans.
With hopes of a rescue long faded, all Alex has left is will—and the fear that there’s so much more to lose.
©2023 Marko Kloos (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Critic Reviews
"Kloos has created a believable universe and a fast-moving story of resilience, rescue, and reintegration that reads like a combination of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War (2004) and Andy Weir’s The Martian (2014).”—Booklist
“Kloos is well on his way to becoming one of the genre’s best assets.”—io9
“There is nobody who does [military science fiction] better than Marko Kloos.”—George R. R. Martin
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- DavidJ
- 09-01-2024
Very good, but not what I expected.
Marko Kloos always finds a balance between the action and intensity of military science-fiction and the human cost of war. In Scorpio he has moved the balance point: the book is more about the human cost of war than the action and intensity. This may not make Scorpio as immediately appealing to his fans, but the writing is very good and listeners will be rewarded if they give the book a chance. Arielle DeLisle’s performance is particularly good and I hope to listen to many more books performed by her.
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