Into the Black

Odyssey One, Book 1

By: Evan Currie

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

This edition of Odyssey One has been completely edited and remastered to correct the typos and content issues that reviewers commented on in the original edition.

Beyond the confines of our small world, far from the glow of our star, lies a galaxy and universe much larger and more varied than anyone on Earth can possibly imagine. For the new NAC spacecraft Odyssey and her crew, the unimaginable facets of this untouched world are about to become reality.

The Odyssey’s maiden voyage is an epic adventure destined to make history. Captain Eric Weston and his crew, pushing past the boundaries of security, encounter horrors, wonders, monsters, and people, all of which will test their resolve, challenge their abilities, and put in sharp relief what is necessary to be a hero.

A first-rate military science-fiction epic that combines old-school space opera and modern storytelling, Into the Black: Odyssey One is a riveting, exhilarating adventure with vivid details, rich mythology, and relentless pacing that will leave you breathlessly awaiting book two.

©2011 Evan C. Currie (P)2019 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

A sci-fi line letter for geeky high-tech warfare afficiandos

Not breaking any literary records or writing the next classic, this is a fun action-packed romp through a ton of self-acknowledged sci-fi tropes in a near-future first contact tale that doesn't waste any time. And by putting just enough of an original spin on the required FTL tech and the one bit of physics-breaking "magic" tech, the author gives our crew of diverse but decidedly familiar characters the means to jump head first into a David-vs-Goliath struggle to uphold the most noble values any military can have. His space battles are told with a great sense of timing, leveraging the "hurry up and wait" aspect of system-scale battles to turn a tension filled chess game into fast and fierce dogfight.

Solid adventure

Liked the technical detail and action. Too many characters and too much headhopping. Too long, needed an editor to cut it down. Reads like the first novel of an incredibly skilled yet unpracticed writer.

Good story, narration a bit off

The story is well written but the narration often makes transitions within the chapters difficult to follow. In the print version, u suspect there is some mechanism (blank lines or a few characters such as asterisks or a solid line) to indicate a transition from one group of characters to another. The narrator just read across these transitions without even a pause.

Like the story but.............

Pretty good story, would more than likely get the rest of the series. But can not get past the narrator.

a glorious Edition to the Sci-Fi genre

this is a fairly fast-paced book with a decent amount of action in it although there is plenty of amount of description of environments it doesn't take itself overly seriously of course the start of the book is always a tad bit slow due to introduction of characters I have already purchased the entirety of the series and I have enjoyed them all. in truth I I have not found other of Evan curries series enjoyable they are a bit too hardcore militaristic I guess the characters just don't breathe as much as it were however his Odyssey one and Archangel one series I have determined to be one of my most favorite sci-fi ever.

Enjoyable

Very good, lots of twists and turns. Great story and well read. Good characters and great quick transitions from different character view points

not particularly inventive original, but decent

the narrator was overly dramatic through most of the book, it took a while to get used to that. most of the time he sounded like someone parodying a cheesy science fiction TV show from the seventies or eighties.

Inconsistencies and lots of unanswered questions

Was an interesting book once you got past the inconsistency. The Colony crew lieutenant that they rescued was in an escape pod with a RADIO emergency beacon. Later in the read the planetary admiral was unable to communicate with the Odyssey because they no longer used Radio signals. The Drasin did use radio waves to send three pulse transmission which is also interesting or may prove so in later books.
There are a large amount of secrets still being withheld. And why was there a break in the colonies that created “The Others”? Why are the Drasin all of a sudden attacking the colonies? Why is the Drasin origin so close to earth?

Not a fan of the new narrator.

The story itself is one of my more liked "first contact" stories, though the series does go down an atypical path in later books.

I've listened to this book several times over the years and was surprised by a newly narrated edition. The old narration had some odd quirks like spelling out H-U-D instead of just saying "hud", but overall I thought it was good.

The new narration is unfortunately not as good. the overall tone seems a bit bombastic at times, like someone narrating comic book characters instead of real people. Perhaps I was just too used to the older narration but in my opinion the new one is not an improvement.

by far one of my favorite books

It is amazing wonderful and great an epic story that is by far one of my favorite books I've read it 8 times