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Altered Starscape Audiobook Summary

Galaxies collide in a thrilling new series from bestselling author Ian Douglas, as the last humans in the universe face off against a new threat

2162. Thirty-eight years after first contact, Lord Commander Grayson St. Clair leads the Tellus Ad Astra on an unprecedented expedition to the Galactic Core, carrying more than a million scientists, diplomats, soldiers, and AIs. Despite his reservations about their alien hosts, St. Clair is deeply committed to his people–especially after they’re sucked into a black hole and spat out four billion years in the future.

Civilizations have risen and fallen. The Andromeda Galaxy is drifting into the Milky Way. And Earth is most certainly a distant memory. All that matters now is survival. But as the ship’s Marines search for allies amid ancient ruins and strange new planetary structures, St. Clair must wrap his mind around an enemy capable of harnessing a weapon of incomprehensible power: space itself.

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Altered Starscape Audiobook Narrator

Nick Sullivan is the narrator of Altered Starscape audiobook that was written by Ian Douglas

Ian Douglas is one of the many pseudonyms for writer William H. Keith, the New York Times bestselling author of the popular military science fiction series The Heritage Trilogy, The Legacy Trilogy, The Inheritance Trilogy, The Star Corpsman series, The Andromedan Dark series, and The Star Carrier series. A former naval corpsman, he lives in Pennsylvania.

About the Author(s) of Altered Starscape

Ian Douglas is the author of Altered Starscape

Altered Starscape Full Details

Narrator Nick Sullivan
Length 12 hours 13 minutes
Author Ian Douglas
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date October 25, 2016
ISBN 9780062448743

Subjects

The publisher of the Altered Starscape is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Opera

Additional info

The publisher of the Altered Starscape is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062448743.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Leif Dolan

July 09, 2017

Visit to the far futuresA nice start to the story of moving to the future. Learning new and exciting thing. Trying to stay in Command of his own mind and worried and the others A dark mind can find you

Fred

January 16, 2017

Thrown 4 billion years into the future and across the galaxy the 1 million inhabitants of the Ad Astra find themselves under attack and craving to go home. They make friends, they think with an alien race but are soon fighting their battle and wondering how they got themselves in that position.Book one of a trilogy from Ian Douglas.Great book and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Author if you like Military Science Fiction

Michael

December 20, 2016

This is the 1st book in the new Andromedan Dark series by Ian Douglas. This is a great example of Space Opera/Military Science Fiction. In this one Earth has made contact with an alien culture who will help us technologically in exchange for our help in fighting an interstellar war. Earth sends a huge ship with a large military contingent as well as many scientists, AI's and a group of diplomats. Upon arrival they find that the alien culture has been destroyed. Also they become trapped in the pull of a giant black hole. While trying to escape the black hole they are flung four billion years into the future to a time when the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy are colliding. They are almost immediately attacked by unknown aliens and find themselfelves involved in a future intergalactic war where they are not sure who is friend and who is foe. This book is a great read and a great start to a new series by Ian Douglas and I highly recommend it!

Doctor

March 01, 2018

This is a big, big story. What’s bigger than a galaxy? Two galaxies! Colliding!!I admit I’m a space opera junky. Expanding your imagination to take in a distant future, on a huge scale, with all sorts of speculative technologies, strange species, . . . what could be more fun?Tellus ad Astra is a colossal colony ship, on a mission to join with the Coadunation, a MIlky Way Galaxy association of civilizations, in a conflict that representatives of Earth only vaguely comprehend. There appears to be much for Earth to gain, though, in technology and alliances.But things don’t go well, and the Tellus ad Astra, in an attack on the Coadunation at the core of the Milky Way, is thrown ahead 4 billion years into the future, when the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are colliding.Douglas throws two principal themes into the story at this point.The stronger of the two is the confrontation between the crew of the ship and a spooky, powerful enemy, whose real nature is still being divulged toward the end of the book. Remember this is only Book One of the series.Douglas loves speculative physics. The enemy, not just the enemy of the crew of the Tellus ad Astra, but of a new galactic association in this distant future, is multidimensional. “Multidimensional” in the sense that it can move through spatial (and potentially temporal) dimensions beyond our familiar experience of three spatial dimensions. Douglas uses two-dimensional metaphors to explain how this enemy can suddenly appear at intersections with our own dimensions, appearing out of nowhere and otherwise taking advantage of its multidimensionality in combat.In fact, you’ll find many favorites from speculative physics and extraterrestrial intelligence all through the book. Dark matter and black holes have starring roles. But you’ll also find Dyson Spheres and Alderson Disks, speculations about the Fermi Paradox, not to mention standards like faster-than-light-travel. All fun, and, made even more fun by Douglas’s propensity to explain how the speculative technologies he introduces actually work. It’s a fun blend of hard science fiction with space opera.And, with that first theme of galactic scale conflict, Douglas plays to another of his strengths — the details of military combat, again in a speculative universe of specialized attack ships, weapons, and military tactics.The second big theme is one I found less compelling. Douglas pits the military commander of the voyage, Grayson St. Clair, against the civilian authority, Gunter Adler. St. Clair is the protagonist in the story. His position is strained. He is a military commander who finds himself having to extend what had been a short mission, under clear military authority, into a long-term exploration and survival mission. St. Clair maintains strong democratic sensibilities, challenging in the aftermath of a second American revolution that has taken place, with a renaissance of authoritarianism.St. Clair’s opposite in the power struggle, Adler, is, to my mind, too caricatured — an arrogant egomaniac, little disturbed by anything approaching self-doubt, even in private. Okay, there are such people, but here it makes for a pretty one-sided conflict — one where the reader could have been exploring issues of power and authority, especially between the military and civilian spheres, but ends up just rooting for good and competent over vain and arrogant.For myself, I tried to look past that theme to the bigger story, with its huge scale and imaginative future history of galactic conflict. And I think that works.At the end, there’s no slow petering out. Douglas throws in a big surprise that recasts everything we’ve read up to that point and, of course, sets up the next part of the story.

William

October 19, 2017

Altered Starscape, Andromedan Dark: Book One by Ian DouglasThe last book I read from Ian Douglas was Star Corpsman: Bloodstar back in 2012. It was good, not great but good. This book is the first in a new series and it is excellent. It has obviously been impacted by other good Sci-Fi but how do you divorce you mind from your reading experiences. Earth has met aliens and is going to their capital. Their arrival is fraught with peril and they find themselves far from where they had anticipated. St.Clair is the military commander of the humans and Adler is the political leader. Douglas illustrates a less than complimentary attitude regarding politicos and realistically with today’s political climate, how could he otherwise proceed. The proliferation of AI adds a equal rights component to the book which is thought provoking. As much as we would like to think that Asimov’s 3 laws of robotics actually might exist, Douglas thinks otherwise. I found the author provide some interesting concepts to contemplate. Gasp!, he actually encourages you to think! I really enjoyed the book and I recommend it.Body of work of Ian Douglas Web site: www.whkeith.com

Becky

December 06, 2017

A huge spaceship from Earth is going to another planet to leave a million people for a few years to learn about this new place. They were invited there. But before they arrived, there is a huge explosion in the milky way that transports the spaceship about 4 billion years into the future.The story is mostly about what they find in outer space that far into the future. They assume Earth is gone by that time but don't have time to go look for it as they are kept busy with different alien species - some nice, some attacking them. At the end of the book they are just starting to head back to Earth to see if maybe it might still be there. Then the book ends because it is just part 1 in a series. I enjoyed reading it and I want to know about the fate of the Earth.

Jake

January 19, 2019

I have to say, what I enjoyed most about this book was Douglas's vision of the future. The plot and characters are serviceable. It's one part hard sci-fi, one part military sci-fi, and it works. There's perhaps a little too much eye-roll worthy patriotism, but it mostly comes in the form of Thomas Jefferson quotes, so I can forgive that little trespass.Ultimately, this is a book is one big guess at what our far-future may have in store, and I gotta say, it's one of the more rational, yet interesting, guesses at what lies ahead for humanity.

S.L.

June 11, 2017

Altered Starscape brings the awe back to science fiction. The hard science is well researched, exquisitely described, and ideally projected into a far, far distant future. To name the often terrifying wonders encountered in this book is to give them away, so all I can say is read Altered Starscape for yourself. Looking forward to the next novel in the series.

clifford h leighton

November 28, 2016

Excellent Excellent, many unique twists and turns with interesting science and characters. One of the better recent scifi books i have read, and i read a lot of scifi. It really made me stop and think about the future of our universe.

Matt

December 11, 2021

Wow. Incredible storyI loved this story from beginning until the end. I have already purchased book two and I will be devoting the next couple of my time to reading all of it in a single sitting:).

Daniel

October 09, 2018

Really enjoyed this one. Loved the tech! The seemingly endless internal monologue got old fast, as did the repeating of what was just said. But overall this was a great book, I've learned to skip filler text.

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