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Narrated by:
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John Pirhalla
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Written by:
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J.N. Chaney
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Rick Partlow
About this listen
Abducted by aliens. Frozen for decades.
Charlie Travers figures his life can’t get much worse. He lives over a pizza restaurant, he’s lost his girlfriend, and has no prospects for a career.
Then, he’s abducted by an alien robot and taken across the galaxy. When he wakes up, he finds himself stranded thousands of light-years away and about to be killed by space pirates.
Charlie’s only hope of getting through this is learning to work with his fellow abductees: a green-skinned warrior woman, a feathered con man who is just as likely to steal their starship as he is to save them, and a cyborg insectoid pilot who could rip a man apart with ease—if he wasn’t a strict pacifist.
To make matters worse, they were abducted for a reason—one that aims to change the course of the galaxy forever.
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