Behold Humanity!

May We Come In?

By: Ralts Bloodthorne

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Unified Civilized Council, which has ruled for over a hundred million years has discovered new species in the Long Dark. Strange and unknown species that seem to have no rhyme or reason about them. Compounding the problem is the reappearance of the ancient Precursor Autonomous War Machines. Even worse is the fact that the newly discovered Terran Confederacy of Aligned Systems appear to be the only force capable of stopping the murderous robotic starships, some the size of small continents.

The first book in the Behold Humanity! series, this covers the initial meetings as well as the initial battles between the living and the terrible machines.

Shown from multiple alien viewpoints, including alien viewpoints, the series is vast and is over 1,000 chapters in rough draft form.

The rough draft for the series has been completely finished and is in editing. This series will not be dropped partway through, as the writing has finished. It currently stands at 1,000+ chapters and nearly 3.5 million words.

I loved the interactions between the races and the gestalts.

the ai reader needs a few remakes. especially in the earlier chapters. be nice to have more voices for the races too.

ai needs rework

ai needs serious reworking especially in pronunciation and completing some words, otherwise really good

Digital Voice couldn't pronounce words and names.

love this story and really want to suggest it to family but that text to speech voice ruins the emotional impact of so many good moments.

the voice

I love these stories and for some reason I can't think of it being read by anyone else but agro squirrel narrates

AI reading

I was introduced to this story on YouTube. I wasn't aware that it was an unauthorized reading. It was a far better reading than what's here unfortunatly. The person that did it had far more experience telling stories. It made me seek out the author and to want more.

Great story and just humans having a fun time messing around.

The AI narration is bad. It is flat and used the same voice for everything. Some cases ot switches tone abruptly and out of context. I miss the fan narrations.

Fun Story Marred by Virtual Voice

I'd heard about this series for a while and decided to jump in last week. Finished this book tonight, and enjoyed pretty much the whole story. It's more like an anthology of short stories, with a lot of different characters introduced throughout, some showing up once, others showing up several times. It's kind of chaotic, a mix of serious, hardcore interstellar combat and zany and humorous moments between engagements. I laughed several times during these moments, but the serious moments were just as good.

The most disappointing aspect of this story is the use of Virtual Voice, which, unlike the AIs in the story, is fairly limited and downright dumb at times with its pronunciations, and it struggles with some of the syntax used to simulate things like chat rooms and code. Still, if you can overlook this, you will get the story in all its glory, and you'll likely enjoy it. I know I'll be starting the second book before long.

Me Like Long Time!

This is the Virtual Voice version of Part One of a series I greatly enjoyed reading.

The Virtual Voice sadly suffers from Artificial Stupid and so listening to this one may find many more annoying error spikes throughout, compared to if it was performed by an average human audio narrator.

I'd say the Virtual Voice AI programming still needs to be improved. A lot!

That said, with some forbearance and this knowledge in mind, this isn't awful. Even though it may actually make this specific work of fiction harder to parse at times.

I love this series

I love this series and have since I first saw it on HFY back before the coof, the audio reader is pretty good but it tends to screw up when it gets to the Gestalt conversations

the fact that humanity was competent and the good guys

I would say this is a great military sci fi that balance the humor and intensity of situations, all in all a good book, my only complaint is the person speaking, I believe it's a.i., so what can you do but it is not the worse thing so I would recommend it