Exodus

Empires at War, Book 1

By: Doug Dandridge

Narrated by: Finn Sterling

Humanity's worst nightmare has again come out of the Dark. Can a human race in turmoil survive?

When the human race faces extermination at the hands of an expanding species the last survivors travel 1,000 years to reestablish the race 10,000 years away. It is now a thousand years after the birth of the New Terran Empire. The race has aggressively expanded during that time, with a fleet that has never lost a war against an alien species. But the signs are there, the old enemy is back, and the Fleet will face its greatest challenge in a foe 50 times their size.

Science fiction in the tradition of Anderson and Weber, where the physics of normal and hyperspace dictate the strategy and tactics. Enormous fleets battle across the immensity of space with advanced technologies. Can the proud human Fleet hold off the tide of an advancing enemy, rallying allies and deploying new tech? Or will the conquerors achieve what they could not 2,000 years before, and end the existence of the upstarts.

©2012 Douglas K. Dandridge (P)2014 Douglas K. Dandridge

A Good Solid Story & Reading

A lot of plot lines left open. I will definitely get the next book in the series.

Too jammed up.

Any additional comments?

Exodus is the name of the only surviving ship to exit Sol system after the conquering aliens laid waste to Earth and Human kind. They travel in subspace for millennia to form an Empire and outgrow the old aliens’ technology base. Will it be enough?
This was a 10 hour audio book and the storyline was so crammed it felt rushed. It would slow down for some things then speed up for the sole purpose of telling a thousand year story in ten hours. The innovation bit was really over done here. There was enough stupendous tech developments dropped in this one book to keep a forty book series going. I could have liked this if it had been paced better but it wasn’t which resulted in 3 out of 5 from me.

I enjoyed

I enjoyed this novel quite a bit. I look forward to reading the next book.

War is Losing & living to fight again

Would you listen to Exodus again? Why?

Not likely since book one is history of the empire before the war. But I enjoyed thinking that this might happen in the future.

good story

strange beeping noise after every chapter. all in all a pretty good listen worth the credit.