Starship grifters audiobook free download

This is the best thing audio can bring to a book -- the narrator creating a better voice than the one in your own head. In this case, it is Kate Rudd as the charming, charismatic, deadpan Sasha.

This story is a what if. What if there was a law against AI computers? What if there was a weird way for starships to travel faster then light? What if those door to door religious folk can travel in space? What if these religious folk can knock on the door of your space ship? What if there is a scam artist who lives only for the next deal? What if this same scam artist can somehow convince logical people into illogical ideas and behaviors?

Well add all this up and you have this book. The story is told from the view point of Sasha, a robot with a female personality. Not the sexy, know it all type of robot. A robot who starts to tell the tale with a discussion on why robots are not allowed to be smarter then humans. Robots are not allowed to have independent thought. If any occurs the robot has a built in reboot.

The story is predictable. The question is not what is going to happen. The question is how it is going to happen. That is what makes this tale so entertaining. I enjoyed this tale a lot. I especially liked the Sp'ossels. Space apostles whose religion centers on outer space. This is an enjoyable listen with a different type of ending.

Would you listen to Starship Grifters again? Probably not, but I enjoyed the lighthearted trip the first time. Who was your favorite character and why? Either Rex, our anti hero, or Sasha his robotic side kick. Which scene was your favorite? Lots of clever scenes and I carefully avoid spoilers, but when Rex shoots one of his troops with his laser gun to teach him a lesson saying to his side kick, its ok, I have it on "stun" and the mans head explodes, his sidekick informs him that his gun doesnt have a "stun" option.

Not really, mostly just a fun romp. Guilty pleasure. Perhaps I've been spoiled by my recent introduction to the Bobiverse series, but this was really disappointing in comparison. The best way I can describe this book is as a very poor imitation of Douglas Adams, with less creativity and far too much redundancy of jokes that weren't funny the first two dozen times they were told.

The narrator is not the worst I've heard, but not engaging enough to make me seek her other works.. What would have made Starship Grifters better? The characters are entirely flat and serve no other purpose than to either deliver set-ups or punchlines. It's a 'Saturday Night Live' sketch, not a story. The entire book is very funny.

The laughs are definitely in there. This is a funny book. But story, pacing, characterization, and structure are all sacrificed at the altar of humor. It's just an endless series of slapstick Benny Hill action sequences with Abbott and Costello repartee. It wants to be a Douglas Adams book very badly, but just doesn't deliver. I sincerely regret wasting a credit on this. Starship Grifters is merely puerile. Adolescent boys will think it the last word in humor; all others should move on.

Rex Nihilo thinks he savvy and smart and no amount of evidence to the contrary will convince him otherwise. Luckily, this robot sidekick and keeper , Sasha, is able to navigate a safe-ish path for both of them…. This was a very, very fun book. She is a robot after all. This book is clever. The dialogue is witty, the characters are fleshed out, the plot is carried through. And I snicker-snort laughed my way through it. Sasha is the perfect character to deliver much of the humor in this book in that straight, matter-of-fact voice of hers.

Sasha is one of those nearly independent thinking robots. Someone somewhere at some time decided it was a bad idea to have sentient robots roaming the galaxy, so a governor was installed in them that monitors for individual and original thoughts and if any are detected, the robot is shut down for 15 seconds and a small part of its memory wiped.

So, every time Sasha is on the verge of an independent thought, she shuts down for 15 seconds only to come back to it with no recall of what she was thinking or about to say. This little gimmick added to the humor of the book quite a bit. The story starts off with a card game in which Rex unwisely bets his entire wealth, as little as it is.

Rex wins, much to the amazement of nearly everyone, just in time for a ruckus to start. Rex and Sasha flee in the newly won space ship, Flagrante Delicto. So he is now in a great amount of debt. The kind of debt that attracts bounty hunters. But he has bigger problems that that right now at least until Pepper Melange in her ship Bad Little Kitty shows up.

As circumstances evolve, he gets sucked into the conflict between the Malarchian army and the revolutionary Revolting Front. Rex is a total scoundrel and Sasha keeps him alive and sometimes makes him look competent. There were just so many fun parts in this book. At one point, Sasha takes a pretty heavy hit to the face, which does some damage to her face plate. She and the guard start up a conversation about armor and what works best for both protecting and damaging.

I swear, they were flirting! And Sasha deserves a fun date. The ending had a surprise twist that was cleverly done. The Narration: Kate Rudd was perfect for this book. It was perfect for delivering the humor.

Of course she did character voices for whenever someone else was speaking and she kept them all quite distinct. I also liked her sexy voice for Pepper. First is the story itself. It's a very original, hugely hilarious, and overall entirely entertaining bunch of fiction. Interspersed into the original story are a bunch of references to Star Wars and Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy that, from time to time, had me laughing out loud.

And not all of the references are easily seen, making discovery a lot of fun. Pretty much everything in the story is strangely twisted, from the oddly acting characters, to the incredibly witty dialogue, to the space missionaries.

Then there's the performance of Kate Rudd. She's perfect for the story! Her attitude is perfect as the narrating robot, Sasha. And her representation of all of the characters just adds more to the fun. Overall, this audiobook is a blast in every way.

The narration was spot on - bearing in mind that the narrator is both a robot and a great deal smarter than the 'lead' character. What was one of the most memorable moments of Starship Grifters? The denouement. It was quite unexpected and I just hope the author hasn't made it impossible to write any follow-ups.

Which scene did you most enjoy? There are too many excellent scenes in a book of this length to easily pick one, but any scene with Rex so drunk or incompetent his loyal robot has to do his thinking for him will do. It's not an especially moving book, although it does have its moments. This is a good long audio book and if you like old-school sci-first done with a good dollop of humour it's well worth checking out.

It will never win awards, but it kept me amused for quite a few hours of DIY and I resorted to it again when painting and decorating was needed. That's surely a book which has earned its keep! I was expecting something like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and, to be fair, there are strong similarities.

There's the same clever silliness that Douglas Adams did so well, and it's always good to see science fiction cliches made fun of. The author cleverly subverts the traditional plots and tropes of the sci-fi genre, while at the same time presenting a sci-fi tale of his own.

Adam's books were, more than anything else, satires on the culture and values of s England. I suspect that the sci-fi setting was only a vehicle for the satire. The Hitchhiker books were so clever, and so funny, that it was possible to forget that they had stupid plots and cardboard characters. Rex Nihilo doesn't quite pull this off, and it doesn't have the element of satire that Adams' books had. This isn't a bad book by any means, but it doesn't live up to my expectations.

Some of Kroese's other books are excellent. Incidentally, despite some other comments, I think the narration was pretty good. The story is, after all, told by a robot. It must be difficult to voice a robot, whilst still carrying the story.

On the whole, I think the narrator made a good job of an impossible task. It wasn't funny. I bought this book because a few people said it was very funny, I was hoping it might be as clever and witty as 'Hitchhikers guide' but it was dreary.

Maybe the written book comes across better. The narrator drove me mad and I found I was unable to listen to it. I am sending it back. I can't honestly think of anyone. The narration was terrible and the 20 minutes I endured made me come to the conclusion I would even want to read it. Has Starship Grifters put you off other books in this genre?

SF no.. Everything by Robert Kroese and Kate Rudd yes! Only if it was mime.. Sadly not.. It is a poor imitation of Rex Branagan off of Futurama and Futurama does it better. I bought this because I've enjoyed all the other books by Robert Kroese. Unfortunately, I was unable to finish it when the female reader suddenly decided that, in order to impersonate the voice of one of the male characters, she needed to raise her own voice by an octave and start screeching and wailing.

There seems to be an increasing trend among readers to imagine they are voicing a cartoon show, which is a shame when it spoils the hard work that an author has put into developing a plot and characters.

As a fan of Robert Kroese, I'm hoping that at some point, this will be re-released, voiced by someone with a better understanding of the requirements of an audio book reader.

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