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Gil's World

Wanderers, Book 1

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Gil's World

By: James Murdo
Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
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Three hundred million years ago, the galactic community was taken by surprise. A catastrophic war with a hostile entity threatened to destroy all life until the fight was postponed by a calamitous event known as the Great Conflation. With the majority of pre-Conflation empires in ruins and the Ascended Biologicals wiped out, the hastily formed Wanderer Enclave tasked its fleet with unearthing answers and continuing the fight.

One lone ship has found something: an innocuous world it had marked for routine decontamination that may hold vital answers.

Gil, a young woman with special abilities, battles to save the future of her commune and possibly much more.

©2018 James Murdo (P)2018 James Murdo Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction

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FOUND THE WHOLE BOOK INTERESTING YET PERPLEXING.FELT THAT I KNEW VERY LITTLE MORE OF WHAT WAS GOING ON AT THE END.NOT SURE WEATHER I SHALL CONTINUE WITH THIS SERIES OR NOT WILL PROBABLY LISTEN TOO IT AGAIN TO SEE IF I CAN MAKE MORE SENSE OF IT SECOND TIME AROUND.VERY INTERESTING OVERALL CONCEPT.

PERPLEXING

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Several days have passed since this reader finished listening to Gil's World: Wanders I. The enormity of this book in terms of time and space is, quite honestly, overwhelming, millions of years and races, both biological and machine, have evolved, spread, and many have died. We learn little about the vast majority but focus, instead, on the few and in particular, the Wanderer ship, which travels the galaxy collecting and recording Everything - yes, that's everything with a capital E. From technologies and species down to the minutest moments, incidents, things. It has all the time it needs as it slowly moves, absorbing, contemplating and sometimes communicating, especially internally. It has been travelling in this way for many,many millennia. And it encounters a small planet which shows signs of infection by Synth Space, hated and feared for past destructions, to be eliminated at all costs.

Simultaneously, the reader is introduced to Gil, a young human, living in a smallish hunter gatherer community, with her beloved twin brother, Tor. Because of an accident when she was a child, Gil cannot speak but can still communicate with her village companions and, most easily, with her brother. Other senses seem to have been enhanced since her loss of speech, in particular her sphere, a sort of intuitive bubble that can reach out to sense the presence and feelings of others. All of the people in the community have this, but Gil's seems more developed than that of the others.

The book alternates between the space history and Gil's story - the sense and the specific. It was difficult initially for this reader to find a comfort zone, not understanding the vastness and not diagnosing with the villagers, but at some point, not too far into the story, everything seemed to fall into place and the enormity stopped being overwhelming and became a truly thrilling adventure taking place in slow motion. Beautiful and quite remarkable. And very funny on occasion, as well.

So, as anyone can probably tell, this reader still has no idea how to write this review. The narration by Rhett Samuel Price is excellent, the story both near infinite and locally specific, both coming together, intriguing each other, various outlooks and all wanting life. This is a book I will be reading again, something I almost never do. My thanks to the rights holder who, at my request, freely gifted me a complimentary copy of Gil's World, via Audiobook Boom. To all who enjoy science fiction, I recommend that you read this remarkable story. See what you think. I personally look forward to the arrival of volume two.

Kill, evolve and reach for everything. Or die.

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This book took me on a journey of intrigue which had my heart racing at times. I'd listen and at times even broke out in a sweat during precarious situations. I loved being able to listen deep into the night after everyone had gone to bed so I could just immerse myself in the story and journey through the space adventures right along with the characters. Great story! Highly recommended! I received a free review copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.

A Great Adventure!

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Initially I didn't enjoy the split between the two separate storylines that make up this book because early on you just end up not being invested enough in either half, but gradually it drew me in and by the end of the book I was looking forward to finding out what would happen next.

While the two stories eventually intertwine, their scale and setting is vary different from the outset, Gil's story is on a much smaller and more personal scale to the larger more cosmic setting of the other half, but both halves build nicely together.

The performance by the narrator is an interesting one, serving to give the book a greater sense of gravitas with his tone, while also managing to keep things sufficiently distinctive within a disparate cast.

Overall, an interesting start to a series that got stronger as I listened to more of the book.

[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]

Interesting start to a series

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Three hundred million years ago, the galactic community was taken by surprise.
I enjoyed this book very much

great book

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