I rip CDs at 320 Kbps for better sounding music but mere speech hardly sounds any better at 128K compared to 32K. I use Audacity to convert them to 32 Kbps and increase the speed 20% so they play faster and only use up 100 megabytes. But these things are recorded at 128 Kbps so one audiobook takes up about 500 megabytes. Nathan Lowell is a good reader and there is some nice Irish music in the MP3 files. They aren’t even as good as the Star Trek novels that I usually avoid. I don’t understand how it got 39 5-star ratings. Full Share and Captain’s Share are the next best stories but Quarter Share and Half Share are in the stagnant doldrums. This story at least has some conflict to raise it above the bland boredom of others in the series. He is assigned to a ship with serious social problems and Ishmael is the unwitting sacrificial lamb. It begins after Ish has graduated from spacer college and becomes a third mate. Of the five stories Double Share is the best. He is also a secret computer wiz which turns up in the 3rd story. The spacer certification method in the story just involves passing tests and apparently this character, Ishmael, is a wiz at memorizing and passing tests so he is able to qualify for many spacer jobs quickly. The individual that gave the series 1-star pretty much said that. The science and technology don’t really make this story happen.Īccording to Theodore Sturgeon, “A good science fiction story as one that could not happen at all without its science content.” The Solar Clipper Series does not really make the grade.
This tale could basically be retold in the old days of sail clipper ships.
That is the bland thing about this story. The company won’t let him stay on the planet and the only way off under his on steam is joining the crew of a solar clipper ship. This is a story of an 18 year old kid that has to leave a company planet because his college professor mother is killed in a flying accident. If I had to actually READ it I would never finish. For people that insist that it is sci-fi since it has space ships then it is VERY BLAND science fiction. I would not really call it science fiction. So I decided to download and listen to the MP3s. Quite often the 4-stars are greater than the 5s. With 39 5-stars I would expect a lot more 4-stars.
What caught my interest was that the star rating for the first book, Quarter Share, on Amazon is: 39 5-stars, 3 4-stars, 2 3-stars and a 2-star and 1-star. Someone mentioned them here before as audiobooks.
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