



Exodus: The Archimedes Engine (Unabridged)
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4.5 • 11 Ratings
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
Explore EXODUS, a new sci-fi action-adventure RPG coming soon from Archetype Entertainment featured in this epic novel from legendary author Peter F. Hamilton.
Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. Traveling in massive arkships, these brave pioneers spread out across the galaxy to find a new home. After traveling thousands of light-years, one fleet of arkships arrived at Centauri, a dense cluster of stars with a vast array of potentially habitable planets. The survivors of Earth signaled to the remaining arkships that humanity had finally found its new home among the stars.
Thousands of years later, the Centauri Cluster has flourished. The original settlers have evolved into advanced beings known as Celestials and divided themselves into powerful Dominions. One of the most influential is that of the Crown Celestials, an alliance of five great houses that controls vast areas of Centauri. As arkships continue to arrive, the remaining humans and their descendants must fight for survival against overwhelming odds or be forced into serving the Crown Dominion.
Among those yearning for a better life is Finn, for whom Earth is not a memory but merely a footnote from humanity’s ancient history. Born on one of the Crown Dominion worlds, Finn has known nothing but the repressive rule of the Celestials, though he dreams of the possibility of boundless space beyond his home.
When another arkship from Earth, previously thought lost, unexpectedly arrives, Finn sees his chance to embrace a greater destiny and become a Traveler—one of a group of brave heroes dedicated to ensuring humanity’s future by journeying into the vast unknown of distant space.
Customer Reviews
A decent book, but quite long
Where to begin? The pacing of this book was good, though a bit rushed at times. That being said, this book is looong. I personally felt that if it was split into 3 books it would have been incredible. The world building and the cultures created in this book were fantastic! But the missions were rushed, and characters fell flat (Ellie could have been cut out of this whole book and we wouldn’t have missed a thing).
The only part of the book that got really annoying was the constant exclamations/“profanities” about Asteria’s various body parts (at some point half-way through the book it happened every paragraph/sentence. We get it, be more creative and add some different variations of responses).
Voice actor did a decent job for this beast of a book. I do have some complaints about the audiobook, however. I hated how he started off a sentence strong and loud and would taper off the end in a near whisper. This made listening really difficult at times because I had no idea what the second half of the sentence was. Turning up the volume to hear better would hurt my ears when he started a new sentence. There were also several messy slip-ups of character voices that did cause some confusion throughout as well. Some of the phrases he chose to emphasized regularly came off as strange, too— this could be due to the nature of how long the book is. Overall, I think I would have enjoyed this book more as a physical book.