Elite: Tales from the Frontier
Elite: Dangerous, Book 7
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Elite: Tales from the Frontier
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Narrated by:
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Toby Longworth
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Penelope McDonald
About this listen
Written by Chris Booker, Darren Grey, Tim Gayda, Allen Farr, Lisa Wolf, Ulla Susimetsä, Marko Susimetsä, Rose Thurlbeck, Alexander Saunders, Gareth Bailey, Nicholas Hansen, Ramon Marett, Frederick Burbidge, Matthew Benson, and Christopher Jarvis under official license from the creators of, and based in the vast universe of, the seminal space trading computer game Elite: Dangerous. Read by Toby Longworth and Penelope McDonald. Music by Allen Stroud. Cover design by Heather Murphy.
Enjoy 15 scintillating tales in this eclectic collection where characters seek honor, truth, retribution, and in one case, a place to sell 300-year-old Lavian brandy.
The stories:
Crossing the Line by Chris Booker
The Comet's Trail by Darren Grey
A Question of Intelligence by Lisa Wolf
The Easy Way Out by Ramon Marett
The Maledict by Tim Gayda
Children of Zeus by Christopher Jarvis
Pinacotheca by Alexander G Saunders
Blood is Thicker by Ulla Susimetsä
Beyond Civilization by Marko Susimetsä
Cat's Cradle by Rose Thurlbeck
Nature's Way by Gaz Bailey
A Game of Death by Allen L Farr
Mission (almost) Completed by Matthew Benson
Research Purposes by Fred Burbidge
Ode to Betty Cole by Nicholas Hansen and Darren Grey
©2014, 2015, 2016 Chris Booker (P)2014, 2015, 2016 Daniel GrubbListeners also enjoyed...
a great supplement to the elite games
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Great if you like the game
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It really brings you into the world the sound effects are taken straight from the game !
Elite: Tales From the Frontier
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Production quality is amateur, with background sounds often drowning out the narrator and an intermittent half send of silence persists at random throughout the book.
Narration-wise, Toby Longworth is brilliant as you'd expect, his narration often being the only thing saving a poor story, but Penelope McDonald reads her stories like she's reading it to a child, often missing the tonal cues of the script.
Pretty average stuff, it was released before the game and draws heavily on Elite and Frontier: Elite 2, but disconnects with the Elite: Dangerous game showing as characters and ships do stuff that either can't be done or are just wrong.
Ultimately, wouldn't recommend.
Poor stories, bad production quality
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ok, but...
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So many epics!
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Tedious generic sci fi
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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
I'm a huge fan of the Elite: Dangerous game and have spent a crazy amount of hours flying around its digital universe. I decided on Elite: Tales from the Frontier audiobook with the notion that it might soothe my cravings for more Elite content and at the same time enrich the game and make me feel more connected to its lore. Unfortunately I feel, for the most part, that it failed. So many of the stories are so vaguely connected to the game itself that you could easily just swap out some of the buzz words (Ship names, factions, etc.) and it could be a tale from Doctor Who or Star Trek. Change an Asp to an X-wing and it could suddenly be a story from the Star Wars universe. It just really felt to me that quite a few of the 'tales' had just shoehorned in some Elite elements into a generic sci-fi story to make it into this book.That being said, there were a few of the tales that were very good and felt genuine to the game. One or two of these I would have really liked to have continued on longer. There were also a few funny stories that were quite entertaining.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
These are the 'tales' I enjoyed and would like to have been longer: Children of Zeus by Christopher Jarvis. Cat's Cradle by Rose Thurlbeck. A Game of Death by Allen L Farr. The Easy Way Out by Ramon Marett. The rest of the book was pretty mediocre.How did the narrator detract from the book?
Toby Longworths performance was pretty good. His range of character voices and accents were decent. I found he had a solid grasp on how the characters would react and act in the situations they found themselves in and his narration really enhanced the story.By contrast Penelope McDonald was absolutely dire. Most of her characters sounded like they had just come out of an episode of Blackadder or some other quirky voiced comedy show. I found it quite jarring how she would voice a character and felt that it was completely missing the point. It was the audio-book equivalent of terrible casting and bad, bad acting. Its hard to explain but for example if a character should sound mysterious and intelligent then Penelope would make that character sound high pitched and whiny. If a character should be aggressive and dangerous then they would sound like high pitched with a slow Tony Robinson drawl. I repeatedly felt like the characters sounded far different than I ( and probably the author themselves) imagined they should. She was utterly grating and really distracted from all the tales that she narrated.
Could you see Elite: Tales from the Frontier being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?
Well, going by Penelope McDonalds portrayals, then they'd all be played by Tony Robinson and Nicholas Lyndhurst. Even the female characters.Any additional comments?
You would probably enjoy this more if you have never played the Elite: Dangerous videogame.Mediocre effort. Only half is based on the Game.
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So so bad. I hope Toby Longworth reads Drew Wager's next Elite book.
Had to refund
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