The Silver Ships: The Silver Ships, Book 1, by S.H. Jucha
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An explorer tug captain, Alex Racine detects a damaged alien craft drifting into the system. Recognizing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make first contact, Alex pulls off a daring maneuver to latch on to the derelict. Alex discovers the ship was attacked by an unknown craft, the first of its kind ever encountered. The mysterious silver ship's attack was both instant and deadly.
What enfolds is a story of the descendants of two Earth colony ships, with very different histories, meeting 700 years after their founding and uniting to defend humanity from the silver ships.
The Silver Ships: The Silver Ships, Book 1, by S.H. Jucha- Amazon Sales Rank: #7558 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-06-30
- Released on: 2015-06-30
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 627 minutes
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful. Light & Silly Space Opera By C. Remes A fun and light read; will read Book 2.To future self reading this review, here is what you liked & disliked.SPOILERSLikes...* The interplay between the hero (Alex) and the ship AI (Julien) is probably the best part of the book. Those characters get the most attention and are the most well rounded.* I enjoyed the setup. Having two different groups of humans get together after 800+ years apart was a lot of fun. They both started with the same tech base but due to different circumstances one group was *much more* advanced than the other. This setup a natural conflict.* I liked the first quarter of the book and the last quarter of the book. The middle 50% was unimportant. In a movie, that part would have been handled via a montage set to bouncy music. (More on this below...)* I liked the hero (Alex) and how he was written for the latter 70% of the book. However, this "Alex" bears little resemblance to the character described in the first 30% of the book. Specifically, he's described as a homeschooled genius with a stubborn independence streak and antisocial behavior. In the rest of the book, he's a natural leader with no antisocial tendencies at all.* I liked the idea of the genius professor who inspires Alex to program his pseudo-AI (Tara) with her voice. Unfortunately, we get a few pages with said professor and then she's never mentioned again. Clearly someone who was so influential on this young man would be utilized as a subject matter expert or something for a good chunk of the novel. Seemed like a waste of a good character.Dislikes...* The politics and economics of this "universe" are ridiculous and go against human nature as we know it. Kudos to the author for the token bad guy to be the "conservative" politician in the pocket of big business. All the good guys are liberals and pacifists with the main exception being the hero who's essentially Libertarian. But in Space Opera those kinds of author choices are forgivable.* The female characters are mostly atrocious: ** Major Tachenko is described as a tough-as-nails and very competent officer for the first half of the book. For the second half, she's a lovesick and incompetent First Mate. She eventually gets passed over for promotion to Captain at book end. ** Renee is the local leader of her House, but she shows none of the traits of leadership you would expect. She's Vulcan-lite and boring. ** The Squadron Leader is promoted to Captain but hasn't demonstrated any leadership yet. She's well meaning but all of her promotions were just granted by the hero (who is perfect in every way).* The tech choices, particularly for armament, are disappointing. Why produce "fighter jets in space" when a drone would be so much better? Here we have spaceplanes that can't maneuver as fast as necessary because they will kill the pilots. The throw-away explanation is that the human mind is a more clever and canny opponent than a computer. However, instead of carrying 4 giant planes that need to conform to people they could have probably had 50 small drones that could swarm the enemy. The drone could use the same "avoidance" routine that the spaceplanes do (that causes the pilots to pass out anyway) and do it faster. Again, it's Space Opera so we'll forgive it but I don't have to like it.* When they return their human cousins to their own solar system, Renee's brother immediately betrays the humans coming to his rescue. But, we just spent 85% of the book learning about how they are so nice, selfless, pacifist, etc. It's a "human" moment in a sea of cardboard characters but it's still jarring because it doesn't flow naturally from everything we've been told about their society.I'll read Book 2 but this is decidedly *light* fare.
66 of 79 people found the following review helpful. An intriguing and interesting space opera By Terri Skurzewski In the nature of full disclosure, I was provided an advanced reader copy of Scott Jucha’s novel, The Silver Ships. Scott contacted me because of an earlier review I penned for one of Nathan Lowell’s books in the Trader’s Tales from the Golden Age of Solar Clipper series.Jucha’s portrayals of sci-fi and space opera make an excellent debut story in his continuing series. Although I recognized familiar story arcs to other books I’ve read, these were not too troublesome.Similar to the Lowell series, Jucha’s protagonist, Alex Racine, is an intelligent, young loner. He’s also an astute mathematician who’s devised a proven formula to capture asteroids and then hurl them to places in need of ice, and quickly, as opposed to the currently accepted method. When Alex faces the possibility of making “first contact” with a ship that’s barreling through space in his sector, a ship that will cross his path and shoot out of reach rapidly, he has little time to weigh the two possible outcomes… successfully catapulting his explorer-tug into a near-death maneuver to catch the unknown entity’s ship for salvage, or die trying. The obvious success of capture leads the reader through challenging circumstances of gaining entry into the foreign vessel, aided by the assistance he’s provided by Julien, a self-aware AI and heart of the alien vessel, and the discovery the effort morphs into a rescue mission. (I have a feeling there’s a whole lot more to Julien, and I can hardly wait to learn what it is!)I experienced Alex’s intrigue over the construction of the alien ship, felt his awe for “Julien’s” level of control in maintaining all ship’s systems as well as his snarky attitude, and shared Alex’s pain in locating and rescuing the bodies of the innocents killed in the brief but deadly assault by the Silver Ships. I witnessed Alex’s growing maturity as he becomes the human protector of the few remaining Meridiens. A la Battlestar Galactica, we learn the true meaning of displaced humanity, developing divergent attitudes and technologies, learning to work together to battle a shared adversary. That’s what happens when the descendants of two Earth colony ships, the Meridiens and the New Terrans, build their own diverse histories and meet 700 years later.Loved the book! Loved the characters. I was emotionally invested in the story and found it to be a true page-turner. My two complaints are (1) that nearly everything keeps going Alex’s way, that sometimes there isn’t enough stumbling and fumbling or trial and error, and that he continues to escape impediments relatively easily, and (2) that the upward progression in rank for so many of the characters happens too quickly. Perhaps things won’t be so easy for him in the next installment. I still want to be there with him! Yup, I’m hooked!Scott, congratulations on a well written, well developed story. I'm looking forward to Books 2 and 3 in the series. Well done! Fini!
89 of 109 people found the following review helpful. flat characters on a flat world By ec Made it 40% through. I liked the writing style and I think the author shows potential for great story telling.But his characters and governments are very one dimensional in this story. Every girl falls in love with the lonely socially awkward genius. The men are awed by his amazing strength. He can get the best of negotiating against the heads of government. The government is this happy loveable socialistic democracy with just enough evil business men who had the nerve of trying to send their kids to private school (really it's in the book, it caused huge protests and boycotts).I'd try another book from this author as he sharpens his skills, just not in this world.
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