Childers

Childers Universe, Book 1

By: Richard F. Weyand

Narrated by: Lance Rasmussen

This is the first volume of the Childers Trilogy

Jan Childers grew up orphaned in the slums of decaying post-diaspora Earth. She was raped, beaten, and starved. Yet she survived.

She escaped to become a citizen of the Commonwealth of Free Planets and joined the Commonwealth Space Force.

Over the next 20 years, she turned the CSF into the most powerful and dangerous space fleet that history had ever known.

Jan Childers rose to lead that fleet in the Commonwealth's darkest hour, against freedom's most deadly enemy - Earth itself.

©2017 Richard F. Weyand (P)2018 Richard F. Weyand

It Was Ok

I started with reading the book and transitioned to the Audible version. Had a hard time staying focused while listening. I don’t see myself reading the next book in the series.

A great addition to the hard science fiction genre

This review is of the audio book version of Childers, Book 1 of this series.

I have been in need of a new good hard science fiction series and this book is a very promising start. Childers is an engaging character with a great story. I enjoyed the book from beginning to end and I hope the audio versions of the others in the series will be available soon.

First rate sci-fi.

I really enjoyed this classic poor kid from the slums makes good story. A young girl from the slums of Houston joins the Confederations space navy where she finds a home and starts rising through the ranks.

It was like reading an outline. Could not finish.

The folks who chose the sample chose well, that scene was one of maybe four (at the point where I gave up, about 2/3 of the way through) where some interesting dialogue and character representation happened. Most of the book was very, very top-line. Shallow descriptions of what the character accomplished between a lot of world/technology description that is mostly unnecessary. The sort of thing an author does so he understands the world he's created, but serves no purpose without story. The author has also vastly overestimated this reader's tolerance for the verbal sequence of commands required to use hyperspace. Once is interesting, anything beyond that is tedious. We went WAY beyond tedious.
I'm quite disappointed, it looked like a fun setup.
The narrator's performance is hard to judge, the narrative itself was so bad. He did fairly well, I think. Though I did have the thought while listening that he needed a much wider variety of character voices.