Nether Station

De: Kevin J. Anderson

Narrado por: Scott Brick

From New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson comes Nether Station, a thrilling mix of epic science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.

Space is vast. Space is full of wonders. Space is terrifying.

In the darkest part of the solar system lies a wormhole. Nether.

Astrophysicist Cammie Skoura has joined the first research team traveling to the Nether anomaly, eager to understand the mechanics of the wormhole and to explore its possibilities as a shortcut to Alpha Centauri.

But another race of ancient beings has already been here—an impossibly long time ago—leaving remnants of their vast complexes and gigantic temples built for horrific beings beyond comprehension.

What dangers did those elder races find in the hidden corners of spacetime?

What did they unleash?

And what remains?

Now, Cammie and the crew of Nether Station must find the answers—before the darkest part of the cosmos swallows them up …

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A new Saga?

I loved it. I love hard sci-fi and the physics that goes along with making stories plausible. I didn’t like the zombie creatures that resurrect. Demonic stories and movies go against my core beliefs and in this case go against plausibility.

I see some parallels to the Seven Suns saga which I loved. This book is a change from the military sci-fi that seems to dominate and has grown old to me, This book hopefully starts the beginning of another saga with fantastic civilisations and creative interpretations of how alien worlds interact. I don’t get wrapped up in character development, not my focus but I’m sure another saga will leave multiple opportunities to introduce new societies and people. I can’t say any of the remaining crew are outstanding but they’ll do.

Looking forward to book 2

Can’t wait to see how everything plays out in the next book. Scott brick again pulls an excellent performance

Idealism versus Capitalism

A fun but predictable story. A Bermuda Triangle. A motley crew of archetypes uncover its secrets soulless industrialist, corporate soldier, pure scientist, jock, flyboy. It’s hard to see this story gaining traction without adding dimension to the surviving crew. However, I’m locked in because Andersen can tell a good story, even if you’ve heard it before.

Pretty Lukewarm On This One

It is a relatively short audiobook and well over 70% of it is pretty slow character building stuff with very little action or entertainment thrown in. That final 30% was pretty good and entertaining UNTIL you get to Chapter 52 and the characters decide to do something that defies all logic and runs counter to everything we wasted 70% of the book learning about the characters. I get that it is science fiction and is not necessarily supposed to represent reality, but humans are humans and authors need to make their characters act rationally and believably. This author failed to follow that simple rule. Scott Brick is an exceptional narrator, probably one of my top-5 narrators, and he did a phenomenal job with this story.

The ability to keep the story within the realm of possibility

It reminds me of the Peter Wayland character in Prometheus, yet allows for the other characters to make significant impressions on the reader