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Columbus Day
- Expeditionary Force, Book 1
- Sprecher: R.C. Bray
- Serie: Expeditionary Force, Titel 1
- Spieldauer: 16 Std. und 23 Min.
- Kategorien: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy

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Nominee, 2018 Audie Awards — Audiobook of the Year
We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news.
The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the Native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon came ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There went the good old days, when humans got killed only by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits.
When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved. The UN Expeditionary Force hitched a ride on Kristang ships to fight the Ruhar wherever our new allies thought we could be useful. So, I went from fighting with the US Army in Nigeria to fighting in space. It was lies, all of it. We shouldn't even be fighting the Ruhar; they aren't our enemy. Our allies are.
I'd better start at the beginning.
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- T. Voigt
- 08.11.2018
Sehr gut!
Ein gutes Buch mit viel Humor! Auch der Nachfolger ist gut gelungen. Vielleicht kein absolutes Meisterwerk, da etliche Wiederholungen negativ auffallen. Aber auf jeden Fall hervorragende Unterhaltung und das Guthaben alle mal wert!
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- Tertius
- 14.01.2021
Eine der besten SciFi-Reihen der letzten Jahre
Die Expeditionary Force Reihe ist ein wunderbares Beispiel, wie Hard SciFi aussehen kann ohne dabei knochentrocken zu sein. Wenn man Stargate SG-1 mochte, wird man an dieser Reihe seinen Spaß haben. Neben der guten Story ist hier besonders der Sprecher R.C. Bray hervorzuheben, der eine exzellente Arbeit abliefert!
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- Joan-Philip Wedemeyer
- 01.02.2020
great Story!
the speaker really gets the athmosphere and Charakters. had a lot of loud laughs at skippy and his rather abnormal Charakter. habe been binge listening until book 6 now and counting...
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- echee
- 11.07.2017
nice weird AI, too much army style
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great narrator!
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- habib
- 24.11.2020
Hat Spaß gemacht.
Es gibt durchaus Action und Spannung. Die künstliche Intelligenz sorgt für lustige Momente. Kann ich empfehlen für Leute die Science Fiction mögen
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- Alex
- 11.10.2020
just great
great story, great narrator great everything. one of the most entertaining books i heard recently!
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- Patrick
- 18.09.2020
God bless America!
As most of military-sf goes, this is very americany. Almost everyone else is like cargo. Lots of slang and abbreviations difficult to understand for german readers, and many anti-nazi-paroles. But the story and the jokes are really nice, so I'll order the next one!
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- Viktory
- 24.06.2020
Das Buch das einfach so gut ist...
Nach einem Standart Anfang macht das zuhören einfach spass. Ich Kann es nur jedem Empfehlen der SIFI Geschahen mag die auch etwas mehr an tief geben.
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- Kindle-Kunde
- 23.08.2019
Love it
bloody brilliant. Buy it now (you filthy monkey) great speaker, great Story, awesome cast of characters.
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- Christian Kissling
- 29.06.2019
Gave up reading, story not thrilling,reader boring
Was looking forward as the story sounded interesting and thrilling and as I'm fan of SciFi and also military related books. However the way the story is written is not thrilling and long drawn-out. The reader (audio CD) Is unfortunately not making it any better and makes the book even more monotonous. Style reminds me of military reports and pathetic story telling. Though this is in general not bothering me it is way too pathetic here. Quit reading after maybe half of it.
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