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  • Forerunner

  • AI Fleet, Book 1
  • By: Isaac Hooke
  • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
  • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (216 ratings)

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Forerunner

By: Isaac Hooke
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
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Summary

A fleet of warships operated by the digitized minds of former humans. An unknown enemy lurking in the dark of space. The one man who hopes to conquer them both.

Jain was the lieutenant commander of an elite SEAL team. He was accustomed to order and discipline, which he used to give the men under his command that particular brand of killer instinct his unit was known for.

But one day that semi-comfortable, ordered life ended when he opened his eyes to find his body replaced by a starship. His mind had become its AI core.

He is somewhere in deep space. Most of his systems are badly damaged. He has no memory of how he got here, or what his mission is. Evidence points to an attack by an unknown entity.

He finds other damaged vessels in the vicinity and reactivates them. They, too, have no memory of the events leading up to their current situation.

Jain, thrust into a leadership role, soon learns that commanding a fleet of starships isn't all that different from leading a platoon of SEALs. It helps that his database is chock-full of tactics and military strategies gleaned from every space battle humanity has ever fought.

As he and his fleet explore their surroundings and slowly piece together what happened to them, they realize their attacker is not from any human system.

And that any misstep means not only the loss of his fleet, but potentially the destruction of humanity itself.

©2018 Isaac Hooke (P)2019 Podium Publishing
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Fast paced, interesting and funny

Started this at lunch time and finished it in bed that same day. I really enjoyed this audio book. The story was fast paced with no filler and the time flew by.

Looking forward to more.

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it's okay

for a sci-fi ship book it's ok, A few space battles, lots of detail about the ships.

The narrator did a good job.

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Waited for booooob

Good listening but it feels like another story I've listened to but overall good characters okay story plus it's in the membership so it's free.

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Enjoyable

I liked it but not sure if I will get the next, I’m not sure why. I think maybe it was too technical and fighting and yet I usually enjoy this kind of book.

Anyway I thought the narration was excellent and to be honest if it hadn’t been I don’t think I would have finished the book.

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Interesting

Fairly interesting story that doesn't take itself too seriously. Narrator does a good job as well.

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Fun, but the physics is wrong

I also had problems believing the interactions of the characters. There was unexplained animosity and belligerence and their adaptation to being intelligent ships was without nuance. The humour in Dennis E Taylor's Bobiverse is better.

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Not very engaging

The story simply lacked a. beginning, middle and end.

Just seem to drift on with characters that were not that engaging.

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great concept but the story needs a lot of work

its okay, the idea behind the story is very interesting but that's all there is. the nemesis has nothing but maniacally evil motivation because, well why? there's just no reason for it's behaviour at all. then you get an entirely predicable ending and a lot of metaphysical chats between charterers that aren't drawn into anything more than a surface level analysis of what it means to be human. there is potential here, but it didn't go the distance and do justice to the good foundation that was laid. C+, maybe B-

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Utterly poor.

The main characters are Artificial intelligence copies of real people.
I just couldn't get into it.
Gave up after a couple of hours.

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good story but writing needs serious help

word and expressions repeat way too much. he said, she said, glanced, etc... I'm surprised this wasn't picked up in proofreading.

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