Exodus

Empires at War, Book 1

By: Doug Dandridge

Narrated by: Finn Sterling

Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

Humanity's worst nightmare has again come out of the Dark. Can a human race in turmoil survive?

When the human race faces extermination at the hands of an expanding species the last survivors travel 1,000 years to reestablish the race 10,000 years away. It is now a thousand years after the birth of the New Terran Empire. The race has aggressively expanded during that time, with a fleet that has never lost a war against an alien species. But the signs are there, the old enemy is back, and the Fleet will face its greatest challenge in a foe 50 times their size.

Science fiction in the tradition of Anderson and Weber, where the physics of normal and hyperspace dictate the strategy and tactics. Enormous fleets battle across the immensity of space with advanced technologies. Can the proud human Fleet hold off the tide of an advancing enemy, rallying allies and deploying new tech? Or will the conquerors achieve what they could not 2,000 years before, and end the existence of the upstarts.

©2012 Douglas K. Dandridge (P)2014 Douglas K. Dandridge

A Good Solid Story & Reading

A lot of plot lines left open. I will definitely get the next book in the series.

Too jammed up.

Any additional comments?

Exodus is the name of the only surviving ship to exit Sol system after the conquering aliens laid waste to Earth and Human kind. They travel in subspace for millennia to form an Empire and outgrow the old aliens’ technology base. Will it be enough?
This was a 10 hour audio book and the storyline was so crammed it felt rushed. It would slow down for some things then speed up for the sole purpose of telling a thousand year story in ten hours. The innovation bit was really over done here. There was enough stupendous tech developments dropped in this one book to keep a forty book series going. I could have liked this if it had been paced better but it wasn’t which resulted in 3 out of 5 from me.

I enjoyed

I enjoyed this novel quite a bit. I look forward to reading the next book.

good story

strange beeping noise after every chapter. all in all a pretty good listen worth the credit.

War is Losing & living to fight again

Would you listen to Exodus again? Why?

Not likely since book one is history of the empire before the war. But I enjoyed thinking that this might happen in the future.

Great story, horrible narration.

What did you love best about Exodus?

I thoroughly enjoyed the story, but it was very difficult to get through because of the terrible narration.

What didn’t you like about Finn Sterling’s performance?

He didn't even try to capture any kind of emotion in any of the characters voices, he was decent with a few characters with accents, but otherwise very monotonous and uncaring. He needs to stick to gay romance novels and leave sci fi to the great narrators like Jeffrey kafer

Imperium Excelcis

It is hard to develop and hard to identity with and hope for the best for an Empire, as those in out past we have, more often than not, had to deter, contain or destroy those we have faced. The Roman Republic had a pathological fear of kings. Therefore, the Senate appointed Consuls to manage wars when at a safe distance from Rome. The alternative to that was to appoint a ,"dictator " which was pretty much what it sounds like. But, he, only held power for a year. After Cannae, and the improbable loss of at least ten legions and/or 50 to 80,000 men, it would come as no surprise that a dictator, one Fabius, whose patronym is lost to me. However, after three battlefield losses and Fabius' appointment, he became known as "cuncator" or the delayer, who ordered the cities of Italy to close themselves up until the situation improved. Most cities in Italy were walled and, fortunately for Rome, Hannibal had no liners of supply from Carthage.
In this series the human race ran to and through the space lanes, a thousand years in hyperspace, an impossible distance, to delay and depend on time and space an human advancement to develop and grow until such time as they could face with a new Empire that enemy they could not defeat on the battered world of Earth. Having an enemy with six limbs and standing 8 feet high, it would take a thousand years, given the the "ancient enemies" technology was far in advance of Earth's, was just another problem.

Started Mr. Magoo slow BUT...

Started this book when purchased but it was so slow it worked as a sleeping pill so I put it back up. Reopened early this morning and can report this evening "DONT DO THAT"! By the third chapter, I was engrossed and not going to turn the book off! By then it was pretty evident that humanity was toe to toe with an alien life that gave no quarter and had eaten their copy of The Rules of War. Humanity's last hope was 3 ships. 2 don't make it. 1 warship is left to get humanity to jump space and it's on a wing and a prayer. BUT.....get the book!

Lots of plot building with little action.

Lots of plot building with little action. Many characters have been introduced but none of them have achieved anything. Hoping book two will make some use of storylines.

Not bad, book 2 seems more promising

The series has potential but the characters aren't as strong as the honor verse. Good enough to read the rest though.