War Machine
Never completed. The perils of simultaneous releasing, it seems. Deleting since it’s been years.
Andy Remic is either a glutton for punishment, or really committed to dishing out free serialized audiobooks of his novels. Not content with having one book already “in-progress”, he today makes available War Machine:
In a time of post-Singularity and FTL travel, Combat K are elite and murderous combat squads trained by the Quad-Gal Military specialising in interrogation, infiltration, assassination and detonation. Their gameplan is simple: to end The Helix War, which had raged across galaxies for a thousand years.
Ex-soldier Keenan, a stocky battered war veteran, addicted to Jataxa spirit yet still horribly efficient at his job, is working as a private investigator on a planet at the peaceful fringes of the Quad-Gal. Following the death of his family, Keenan is riddled with guilt and self-loathing, and carries a need for revenge which consumes him. When a prince from Jervai Province offers him a case on a dangerous colony world in exchange for clues that may lead to his family’s murderer, Keenan is dragged from his self-pity. However, to have any chance of success he must gather together his old military unit, a group who swore they’d never work together again…
Through the tribal jungles of Ket, the mean chaotic streets of The City, the mission leads the squad to Teller’s World, a Dead World, and home of the extinct God Leviathan… and there Keenan will find answers to his deepest nightmares… and face an ancient, evil terror older than The Four Galaxies.
You can grab the first five episodes in the default feed, then get new ones as Andy releases them. Or exercise a bit more control and get a personal feed, allowing you to get them one episode at a time on your schedule. Also, Andy’s books are available for sale in print. Check the books’ pages for info on that.
November 25th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Interesting start.
I’d like to recommend:
Different “voices” for different characters. It gets a little hard to follow when there is no inflection or tone difference when different characters are speaking.
Also I would cut the music to beginning, end and chapter changes. It gets a little distracting.
November 25th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
OK, thanks for the feedback. I’m the first to admit I am not the best orator in the world, but I give it a good shot
And I’ve been considering dropping the backing music; anybody else have an opinion on this??
January 10th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I actually enjoy the music in the podcast, it makes it more dramatic in my opinion and adds nice flavor.
March 8th, 2009 at 9:42 am
I’m a hardcore military sci-fi fan. Because I travel a lot, I like to wait until the book is finished to listen.
Any feedback on the story quality? The plot sounds great!
April 12th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
your book is the best and I love love love your reading, thats why podiobooks is so f@#king great.
thank you
April 29th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I’m enjoying the book.
Only a few episodes in though I have to agree with Baxter I’m afraid, the music is really distracting and makes me want to turn it off.
The oration is fine, the only thing which springs to mind on that score is slow down a little.
June 20th, 2009 at 7:43 am
Andy, great book true hardcore UK writing. When will you be posting more episodes?
June 27th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Andy, your prose is top-notch and the action in both your audiobooks is believable and intense…but…
I have to agree with the previous posters who were not quite happy with the constant music and your speed of reading.
Maybe if you pretend you are reading your story as commentary that goes along with a movie of your story.
a one second break at commas, colons and semi-colons, 2 seconds break at a period and 5 seconds break at paragraph-ends is about perfect
September 27th, 2009 at 11:30 am
While Andy may be a good author, he is also the king of PodFade. He has left us hanging with two unfinished books. If you like to finsih the stroy (like I do), subscribing to this book is probably not for you.