Into the Black

Odyssey One, Book 1

By: Evan Currie

Narrated by: David de Vries

This edition of Odyssey One has been completely edited and remastered to correct the typos and content issues that reviewers commented on in the original edition.

Beyond the confines of our small world, far from the glow of our star, lies a galaxy and universe much larger and more varied than anyone on Earth can possibly imagine. For the new NAC spacecraft Odyssey and her crew, the unimaginable facets of this untouched world are about to become reality.

The Odyssey’s maiden voyage is an epic adventure destined to make history. Captain Eric Weston and his crew, pushing past the boundaries of security, encounter horrors, wonders, monsters, and people, all of which will test their resolve, challenge their abilities, and put in sharp relief what is necessary to be a hero.

A first-rate military science-fiction epic that combines old-school space opera and modern storytelling, Into the Black: Odyssey One is a riveting, exhilarating adventure with vivid details, rich mythology, and relentless pacing that will leave you breathlessly awaiting book two.

©2011 Evan C. Currie (P)2019 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

A sci-fi line letter for geeky high-tech warfare afficiandos

Not breaking any literary records or writing the next classic, this is a fun action-packed romp through a ton of self-acknowledged sci-fi tropes in a near-future first contact tale that doesn't waste any time. And by putting just enough of an original spin on the required FTL tech and the one bit of physics-breaking "magic" tech, the author gives our crew of diverse but decidedly familiar characters the means to jump head first into a David-vs-Goliath struggle to uphold the most noble values any military can have. His space battles are told with a great sense of timing, leveraging the "hurry up and wait" aspect of system-scale battles to turn a tension filled chess game into fast and fierce dogfight.

Solid adventure

Liked the technical detail and action. Too many characters and too much headhopping. Too long, needed an editor to cut it down. Reads like the first novel of an incredibly skilled yet unpracticed writer.

Good story, narration a bit off

The story is well written but the narration often makes transitions within the chapters difficult to follow. In the print version, u suspect there is some mechanism (blank lines or a few characters such as asterisks or a solid line) to indicate a transition from one group of characters to another. The narrator just read across these transitions without even a pause.

Like the story but.............

Pretty good story, would more than likely get the rest of the series. But can not get past the narrator.

Inconsistencies and lots of unanswered questions

Was an interesting book once you got past the inconsistency. The Colony crew lieutenant that they rescued was in an escape pod with a RADIO emergency beacon. Later in the read the planetary admiral was unable to communicate with the Odyssey because they no longer used Radio signals. The Drasin did use radio waves to send three pulse transmission which is also interesting or may prove so in later books.
There are a large amount of secrets still being withheld. And why was there a break in the colonies that created “The Others”? Why are the Drasin all of a sudden attacking the colonies? Why is the Drasin origin so close to earth?