Capital Starship
Ixan Legacy, Book 1
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Capital Starship
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Scott Bartlett
About this listen
The Galaxy's Doomed Without Him
The Ixa smashed the galaxy to bits before they were defeated. Captain Husher has sounded the alarm in the decades since: the Ixa’s creators will return to finish the job.
But unlike Husher, the galactic government didn't battle the Ixa, and the politicians have convinced themselves that maintaining peace means limiting the ability to wage war.
Now the enemy has returned, with high-tech weapons that prove they haven’t limited their own combat capabilities in the slightest. If Captain Husher and his beleaguered supercarrier crew can't manage to stop the invaders, they will happily devour the galaxy whole.
Fans of Daniel Arenson and Jay Allan will love Capital Starship, part of a new military science fiction series set in the Ixan Prophecies universe.
©2018 Scott Bartlett (P)2018 Scott BartlettListeners also enjoyed...
first book in second trilogy in this universe did not listen to first one yet (did not felt like I was missing anything)
Like always Mark Boyett did a great job narrating this book
space opera with politics (little too much)
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After the long peace from the events of the first trilogy, support for the fleet has reduced and the political compromise was to build space faring cities on military ships which leads to events as ridiculous as you might expect.
As usual the narration from Mark Boyett is excellent whilst the writing adds a relevant political commentary which is as interesting as it is unusual. This stands as a reflection of the commentaries from both the prophecies and the mech wars books. The final twist made this series for me and it fit well with the commentary of the series.
The beginning of the end
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It's very hard to not give spoilers (I've tried my best) but there are the return of a few characters we know and it's interesting to see who is still hanging around 20 years after the last book in the series.
The book is set aboard a 'Capital Starship' which is a city based within a huge spaceship with an entire non military population living there full time.
Quite a lot of this book is Vin dealing with the struggles of politics and leading a ship meeting pushback from politicians and the general public and honestly the way that this pushback was written got me so frustrated because it's so true, the way that Vin is practically forced to jump through some hoops to try and placate the public is so true to life I was really wound up by it.. That said when Vin overcomes the odds (and you know he will!) it is that much sweeter.
This is the first book of a trilogy and sets up the next book right at the end. I'm looking forward to the next past which will reunite us with another of the characters from the universe.
I definitely recommend going back and starting with the Ixan Prophecies if you haven't read those books yet as you'll miss a lot of background otherwise and go from there.
Capital Starship and intergalactic politics
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Good work by Scott
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I cringed but not why your thinking!
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As with the previous trilogy, this is a military scifi series, and the writing style is very similar. Good dialogs, interesting characters, and very well written action, of which there is a lot. Since it has been 20 years since the war has ended, politics takes up much of the first half of the book, which I found to be a nice change from the previous trilogy, as it fleshed out the world building even more. The public community aboard The Vesta is pushing for peaceful actions, and this is in stark contras to how Husher want to act, and creates nice tension between the two world views. Husher has to deal with both being a warship captain, a man in charge of 50.000 civilians, and he is also coping with memories of his dead daughter, and likely suffering from PTSD. Husher believes in following principles, but he starts to find disbelief in himself, when he is accused of being a fascist that undermine of non-human species. This gives us a complex main character, which is quite interesting to follow, and I really enjoyed that. It also gives the civilian view a much larger voice in this book, compared to the previous trilogy, which suited it quite nicely.
The book is a little less action oriented, because it takes its time building up, which was good, and in the we of course find outselves in the climax of the story, with excellent space battles yet again. The author has a nice and simple way of writing tense space battles, despite the many variables that are part of it, and that in a 3D setting.
The narration again was excellent, as Mark Boyett again was in charge. Great voices, good pitching during action sequences, and generally a very nice and clear voice to listen to.
If you enjoyed the previous trilogy, you’ll most certainly also enjoy this. If you haven’t read the previous trilogy, I’d recommend that you do that first, since there’s a lot of recurring characters and it often refers to what happened during those books. It will also explain why some things happen as they do.
I received this audiobook for free in return for a review. I have no affiliation with the author, the narrator, the publisher, or their pets (Although I am sure the latter are quite nice!).
Good story, great narration
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This series is also helped along by the brilliant narration of Mark Boyett.
Good start, albeit a slow one
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Excellent And Quite Topical Really
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The first 30 odd chapters feel like one long political lecture and far too much time is spent on that as opposed to meaningful character development or action - we are all here for the space battles right?
Eventually we get to the point that politics are complicated, the book starts to get moving at a faster pace and the final quarter was pretty enjoyable.
Takes effort
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