Gate Crashers

Written by:
Patrick S. Tomlinson
Narrated by:
Alyssa Bresnahan

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
12
Narrator
8
Release Date
June 2018
Duration
15 hours 22 minutes
Summary
A light-hearted science fiction novel about first contact, exploration, and desperately trying not to screw up from an up-and-coming sci-fi author. On humanity's first extra-solar mission, the exploration vessel Magellan, or as she prefers 'Maggie,' discovers an alien artifact. Deciding that finding advanced alien life is too important to ignore, Captain Allison Ridgeway chooses to return to Earth while ordering her crew to reverse engineer technology far beyond anything back home. Meanwhile, at mission control, the governments struggle to maintain the existence of aliens a secret while also combating bureaucracy, the military industrial complex, and everyone else who wants a piece of the science that could skyrocket humanity into a new technological golden age. Little does everyone involved know that the bumbling of a few highly evolved apes in space hasn't gone unnoticed and the people of Earth have put themselves on a collision course with a far wider, and potentially hostile, galaxy.
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Philip H.

I enjoyed this story as the technologies and political strategies were believable and allowed the author to focus on character development. The author makes certain assumptions about alien intelligence and technologies, like listening to Neil de Grasse Tyson, so I could relate to the challenges and ingenuity of the characters. I think the story description in Audiobooks has a few incorrect statements, but essentially okay. The narrator is good, but could be better if she developed more unique voices for each character.

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Anonymous

exciting and funny.

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Thorn

Once i cottoned on to the humor, liked it very much

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Rico S.

Excellent book and storyline. Loved the humor - and if you'd enjoyed "A Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" by Douglas Adams and/or "Excession" by Iain M. Banks you'll enjoy this one as well :-)

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Marissa Vicich

A fun sci-fi first contact adventure!

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Linda R.

Liked the book - would have been.better if the narrator could have read the characters voices a bit more different from each other. Sometimes I had to play back a part of the book to try to understand who the characters were because the author jumped around a lot in the story. The story was good . But Almost too many characters and was a bit hard to remember who they all were. I loved that his main character was a woman and her AI was so human like.

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