TFS Ingenuity
The Terran Fleet Command Saga, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Jeffrey Kafer
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Written by:
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Tori L. Harris
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It's the year 2277. For 50 years, Earth has received mysterious data transmissions from random locations in deep space. The streams include advanced technology, allowing humans to achieve faster-than-light travel virtually overnight. As we prepare to take our first tentative steps into interstellar space, we know almost nothing about our alien benefactors, and their motivations remain unexplained.
While completing their shakedown cruise, Captain Tom Prescott and the crew of the first Terran Fleet Command starship, TFS Ingenuity, stumble into a first contact situation. They learn that Earth is not the first civilization granted access to the stars before their time - and how this Faustian gift has inevitably led to centuries of interstellar war. Humanity's existence hangs in the balance as a powerful alliance assembles a preemptive military strike, believing it to be their only option to protect themselves...from us. Prescott and his small, initially unarmed starship must serve as our only line of defense. Ingenuity is our only hope.
©2015 Tori L. Harris (P)2016 Podium PublishingWhat listeners say about TFS Ingenuity
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Adrian M.
- 2022-04-13
Good military space opera
I liked it, it's well written and well read. Maybe one day we'll be there as a species
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Langer MD
- 2022-12-16
Essential Introduction To A Provocative Posit
This first installment in the 'Terran Fleet Command Saga' is meant to do little more than set the table: humanity has been invited to join the fraternity of space-faring intelligent species. The problem? The motivations of the participating forces are suspect.
Should earth trust the 'Pelaran Alliance' - who spoonfed Earth the data that allowed for rapidly accelerated technological advances?.. or the 'Wek' - close galactic neighbors who were observed battling the Pelaran just beyond Jupiter.. and appear friendly (actually sending a personable envoy for face-to-face negotiations on behalf of the 'Sajek Collective')? The Wek ambassador warns humanity that they are being "cultivated" to join a brutal aggressive cabal that will expect Earth to subjugate civilizations within FTL Drive range. This book sets up a thought-provoking galactic dynamic nicely.
Tori L. Harris writes clearly, with logical/plausible well-conceived conjecture, and with vivid description.. but gets bogged down in technical detail (including a looooong discussion of the physics & mechanics of landing a spacecraft on Earth, for example) and has a legitimately *terrible* sense of pacing (virtually NO action occurs until the final three chapters of the novel).
Fortuitously, Jeffrey Kafer turns in a praiseworthy reading performance on this project. He reads with commendable voice-acting.. and peerless diction, timbre, and tone. True, his characteristic odd cadence (LOUD DIALOGUE - sotto voce text - LOUD DIALOGUE - sotto voce text) amusingly persists.. but Podium Audio cast this project marvellously. If given the choice between this recording and a text version of the book - choose this iteration hands-down.
This is indisputably the weakest entry in the series. While many of Harris's deficiencies as a SciFi author linger in subsequent installments, they are most glaring in 'TFS Ingenuity'.
Still, the book rates 6 stars out of 10 and is indispensable if you want to follow this imaginative series. Fans of technically plausible Science Fiction in general and intuitively logical 'First Contact' fiction in particular will enjoy the book (recognizing that the Military Hardware & Tactics in this purported "Technothriller" is acceptable at best).
If you can get it - and further books in the TFCS - as part of the 'Plus' catalogue (as I did), it's a no-brainer: great choice. If Audible asks for a Credit, however.. consider carefully - better options undoubtedly beckon.
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- Kelvin Fong
- 2021-10-15
Good story
It’s a good story but at times a bit slow. It’s the first in the series so I’m looking forward to more action in the second book as is hinted.
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- Brett
- 2022-09-05
Unoriginal
The story was long and drawn out. Once you listen to the first chapter you know how the story will end. I’m glad book one was free. I wouldn’t spend my time listening to books 2 & 3 even if they were free. I’m pretty sure that this three book story could have been edited down to one book. Regards Brett L.
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- kbd
- 2022-01-16
Good story, but too short and incomplete
Great book, too short. This book is like the beginning of a story. Where I would expect it to go on to the next section of a story, it just ends. I do not like going back and forth to the store to purchase each section of a book separately. if a publisher splits a book into multiple books to make more money from one story then at least offer me a trilogy package to buy them all together. yes I am going straight back to purchase the next section but it really is cheap of audible to break one story into multiple sections to sell individually. the story that is presented here simply ends right where you expect a story line to begin the main part.
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- Stuka Pilot
- 2023-06-12
Good story but it’s a series
Good story and narration but like so many books these days it’s a series. Be prepared for the classic cliffhanger writing
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- JK Wichert
- 2022-02-20
Please get an editor
This book sorely needed a strong edit: repetitive, over-detailed and dull. Also the whole book fetishizes weaponry and the military.
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