The Second Artifact

De: David Collins

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In the first book, Ben had ordered a strange object from eBay. It turned out to be the missing part from an alien spacecraft. One with an AI that needed a crew so it could pass itself off as a non-AI ship.

Having survived their first adventure in space, they now had a new, larger, and much faster ship. Returning to Earth should have been the easy part.

They also had a wedding to plan.

Unfortunately, nothing goes as planned.

They are sent to a new destination in space to meet with a new alien species, with whom the other aliens' first contact didn't go very smoothly.

Along the way, they stumble across a new artifact, something ancient and possibly more dangerous than anything they have encountered.

What do you do with a piece of technology that can upset the balance of power in the galaxy?

enjoyable storyline

I really enjoy this storyline. it has plenty of character development, following the voyages of a fledgling earth crew initiating contact with alien species. the only negative applies to the AI voice over for narration, as there are run-on sentences in plethora, which sometimes confuses me as to who is speaking, or lack of pauses between passages to demonstrate a change in direction or time, as well as frequent mispronunciation of common terms and words, and untimely tone inflection during certain passages that would have had more reader-impact otherwise. once I got used to the AI narration, and set aside some of the annoying inherent habits of it, I was able to more thoroughly enjoy the story, which is very interesting to this point.

the humour

I need more of this story. I look forward to future stories, from this author.

Great story concept and narration is far above exp

This and the preceding volume are a good story with lots of fun and light peril for easy listening and a laugh. The narration sis better than some flesh and blood narrators I've listened to here. Would strongly recommend this story for anybody that might like something like Bob and Nikki or similar soft fun sci-fi.

Looking forward to another sequel!

A new beginning

Nice blend of humor and being serious. Kept me thrilled till the end of this book. Have to keep going. To find out more.

Fun!

The second of a 3 book space adventure. It's just really fun. Going to read the 3rd book now.

I really like the premise

awesome story line, I can't wait for the next installment. how long will we have to wait?

Less than optimal narration

There are times when the narration pauses mid sentence as if the narration comes to the end of a printed sentence, pauses, then starts the next line — instead of pausing briefly at the end of a sentence.

Some words are pronounced incorrectly. This is especially true when a word means two different things based on how it is pronounced. An example is the word “bow”.

Virtual voice has improved

Very good story even if the plot is simplistic and extremely unlikely.

I almost skipped this book when I found out it used computer generated narration. However while it is not as good as most narrators, there has been considerable improvement since the first time I listened to a book using virtual voice.

Recommend

Was different nice pace looking forward to book 3

Ai are getting better hope the can do male and female better and give us more differences for ethnicities

when it gets technical...the VV let's us down but great story and so worth the listen!

Beginning to love this author!! the story is so imaginative and original most of all it is fun! the balance of action and humor is just right. now if we can only train the Virtual Voice to differentiate voices.