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The Ship

The New Frontiers Series, Book 1

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The Ship

By: Jack L. Knapp
Narrated by: Tom Lennon
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Building a spaceship that uses Nicola Tesla's revolutionary space drive is only the beginning. From a new industrial revolution to the brink of global war, restless humanity presses onward, eventually to the first contact with an alien species.

There will be changes...if we survive.

Fans of Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, and Jerry Pournelle will love this hard-SF series.

©2016 Jack Knapp (P)2016 Jack Knapp Adventure Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Fiction

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An enjoyable story, which was ruined by narration. The narration sounds like it was done using 1960’s equipment.

A good book but…

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The author Jack L. Knapp first book of the series is full with much of the real world with much imagination like the invention of the first Antigravity device, corporate espionage and much more only that even so it’s the first of six books it feels wrong it feels like he wrote this for children like everything have to be explained way to much with too many words leaving nothing for the readers to feel in with his own imagination.
All I can hope that when I’ll move on to the rest of the books it will have more action and a few twists to make things interesting.
Tom Lemnon does a nice job voicing the character’s.


If you are into a simple reading with no brain braking hard to understand science fiction then this series is for you !!!

Oded Ostfeld.

An ok beginning for a six book series.

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I liked the story didn’t like the narration found it hard sometimes to no how was talking if you can get over it keep with it

Not bad

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There is a lot to like about this story but there are several things that made it less than perfect.

First the good:
The characters are shown to be human with failings and foibles. They also don't have some magic way to get money. They make mistakes, both in development and in security and under-estimating their opposition.

Now the bad:
Firstly, the narrator uses one voice for everybody so sometimes you have no idea who said what. It makes it difficult to stay engaged.

Secondly, near the beginning there is a fair amount of technical discussion including mention of Einstein, Tesla, etc and one of the characters says that he thinks Einstein was wrong. His argument involves an analogy using E=mc2 where he says that when you square something you square the number and the unit, which is true: 3 meters become 9 square-meters. He then goes on to say that squaring the unit of time, seconds, doesn't make sense. And that is where his lack of fundamental science shows through. Let me explain with an example: Speed is measured in meters per second. Rate of change of speed (i.e. acceleration) is measured in meters per second per second, or, in other words, meters per second squared. The character's stupid statement broke the immersion for me. Maybe it will come back.

Thirdly, there is a lot of seemingly technical discussion, along the lines of "we attached a ribbitt to the flanangle which allows the torquesquib to be unilaterally diverted", which doesn't really get you any further in the story. It might be suitable for somebody describing a technical process to somebody who needs to replicate it, but that isn't this book.

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Just ok

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Thoroughly enjoyed this book, had the feel of a modern day Heinlein, who I grew up reading. I can only hope the following books in the series are as good.

Excellent!!!

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the reader was terrible and the story was hard work maintaining interest. i would give zero stars if i could

awful narration r

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I liked this story. The narrator has a pleasant voice to listen to as the writer explains the struggles of the inventor of a new kind if propulsion system as he tries to get a space ship built. All the obstacles and triumphs make interesting listening like a rambling retelling of extraordinary events from an old friend. If you require laser focused storytelling and perfect accents, then maybe this is not for you, but otherwise this concept-to-ship story is good easy listening.

If your pa had invented antigravity

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