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Fleet Elements

By: Walter Jon Williams
Narrated by: Victor Bevine
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"Space opera the way it ought to be...Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams." (George R. R. Martin)

Following The Accidental War, the second book of a brand-new series set in the Praxis - an epic mix of space opera and military science fiction, from a grand master of science fiction, Walter Jon Williams.

The Praxis, the empire of now extinct Shaa, has again fallen into civil war, with desperate and outnumbered humans battling several alien species for survival. Leading the human forces are star-crossed lovers Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula, who must find a way to overcome their own thorny personal history to defeat the aliens and assure humanity’s survival.

But even if the human fleet is victorious, the divisions fracturing the empire may be too wide to repair, as battles between politicians, the military, and fanatics who want to kill every alien threaten to further tear the empire apart. While Martinez and Sula believe they have the talent and tactics to defeat an overwhelming enemy, what will prevent their fellow humans from destroying themselves?

©2020 Walter Jon Williams (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Action & Adventure Fiction Military Science Fiction Space Opera War

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Feel like the first live actor was the best from the first books.
Another good story from WJW!

Another great books from WJW

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oh dear,

I've dated someone like zula, hot cold, murderous intent. Lady zula will never have peace until she accepts who she is. The author plays in the tragedy of the lie.

I don't understand why others are critical of the narrator, I believe he makes excellent use of tempo.

He might not have a voice for a women, but he does have accents. Somehow he made the love scene seem dirty rather than romantic.

I think the new found world started a new story arc that wasn't explored

hot then cold

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Great book, as usual. Love the military Sci fi stuff. The guy reading it, though.. Literally pronounces the same name differently in consecutive sentences, doesn't use different voices for characters speaking, it all just blurs together if you're not paying attention.

Inject some passion

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Changing narrators mid series is just wrong this guy just bores the life out of the books. Go back to the Original guy.

The Narrator needs to be fired

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David Drummond was a fantastic narrator of the “dread empires fall” and ‘the accidental war”. However, Victor Bevan’s narration is one long continuous drawl destroying any interest in the novel itself. The story, characters and emotional investment, they all suffer from the most dreadful narration, extremely disappointed indeed.

Disastrous

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it was very difficult to listen to this narrator when compared to the fantastic job David drummond did on the first 4 books. please please please bring him back for the next book in the series

Please go back to David Drummond

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too much boring detail and not enough story, sorry but I just didn't enjoy as much as other similar titles

not my thing

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