Kitty Cat Kill Sat

A Feline Space Adventure

By: Argus

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

In this inventive and heartfelt take on a dystopian space opera, humanity’s last hope comes complete with a space station, an attitude, and …whiskers?

Civilization has fallen. The solar system is blanketed with the automated weapons of ancient wars, engineered plagues, hazardous waste, rogue AI, monsters from outside our dimension, artificial disasters, and nuclear climate change. Every moment of life on Earth is a brutal fight for survival. The people of Sol carry on, but hope is at a premium. They need something more. Someone with a plan, a savior, a hero.

What they get is Lily. Owner of the last functional battle station for the last four hundred years by right of being the last living soul on it, Lily ad-Alice has spent all that time struggling to save lives, fend off loneliness, and operate human-made weapons controls with paws and meows. Four centuries of establishing protocols, figuring out how to utilize an irresponsibly large arsenal of orbital weaponry, and scraping by with what life support still functions.

Lily doesn’t have a plan. She can’t even tell how haunted her home is. Every day is an endless stream of alarms and crises—it’s a lot for a lone desperate housecat to handle herself. But being the proprietor of the last piece of working orbital infrastructure in existence is a responsibility and duty she’s accepted anyway.

Now things are changing again. Something big is looming, and everything Lily has scrambled for hundreds of years to achieve is at risk. But if she’s quick, maybe she can do some good. If she’s cunning, maybe she can adapt. If she’s smart, maybe she can build something that lasts this time. And if she’s very, very lucky, maybe she won’t have to do it alone.

The hit science-fiction tale—with more than 900,000 views on Royal Road—now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!

©2023 Argus (P)2023 Podium Audio

My first ever review is on a book about a cat.

I don’t really know why I am submitting this review but I am. I have just finished this book and I have been left in a sort of daze. After having a library on audible of over +150 books this one book about a cat in a space station is the first and only book that I have ever written a review for. So if that could tell you anything please give this book a try because I truly is a hidden gem.

Brilliant

There are so many things to love about this book. The author opens up the main character in a way very few succeed in doing, it really feels like you're there with her. The sci-fi elements are all interesting and none of them seem nonsensical in context which is tough. And it made me cry over the destruction of a satellite.

Loved it on RR, the audio is puurfect!

This was perfection in every way possible. I laughed, I cried, I got angry, and I shouted with glee. This is one of the good ones!

Loved it

it was a beautiful story well written, I hope that the author decides to continue the story.

Did I say that out loud?

This book wins sci-fi. All of it. Probably forever.

I am likely biased though. I like cats, a lot. I also like space, a lot. It then follows that I like cats in space a whole lot, and Lilly ad Alice is, paws down, the best spacecat I have had the pleasure to hear from.

That's another thing. Given that this is an audiobook (obvious, I know), and narration matters, a story like this needs the right voice, and in my opinion, the narrator nailed it. Each character voice was distinct and fitting for that character. They kept what could have been a confusing jumble of technical description lively, and I never felt disconnected from the story or characters. Most importantly, they gave Lilly just the right voice. again, my opinion, but I have strong opinions when it comes to voicing spacecats. Again, I am biased.

I felt Lilly's frustration at the endless hurdles and ridiculous workarounds she has to deal with in maintaining and operating the condensed chaos that is the station, the weariness of never having more than a catnap's worth of downtime for four centuries, the earned note of smugness when she finds a particularly clever solution to one of the endless problems, the little moments of joy she finds that help her keep going, and the care she feels for those she has managed to save. All of these are captured brilliantly in the read.

It is perhaps worth mentioning that I don't usually compose reviews. I've listened to a great number of brilliant audiobooks by now, and if it really grabbed me, I give it five stars and call it good, but it would not be inaccurate to say that this one not only grabbed me, it scruffed me by the neck and pulled me along the entire way. So, to everyone who helped bring this one to my ears, thank you!

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Quite possibly the best sci-fi book I've read

One of if not the best sci-fi book I've ever read/listened to. I was expecting the adventures and antics of a cat in charge of a heavily armed space station and got that and so, so much more.

Loved it! Cleverly engaging!

You think you know how this will go then it takes off in a new way.

amazing

this was such a great book I started thinking this book would have a little plot But mostly there for the laughs and humor. but this book turned out to have a super deep plot and a very interesting and compelling story with lots of Mysteries to the book. I really enjoyed alot and looking forward to the next book

Inconsistent story pacing, book editor needed

After reading the book, I think the premise and the "idea" of the story is good... but the book's pacing is really inconsistent and could have used a bit of editing to do a better job of spreading out the plot development across the entire book. Some people complained that "nothing happens" in the first part of the book and I was actually ok with the relatively slow pacing in the beginning to build the world and the psychology/motivations behind the main character.

However, I do sense a bit of whiplash with that very detailed, meandering journey on loss and loneliness and the frenetic pace and limited development in the second half (last third)? It get more and more rushed the way until the final chapters were there are tons of plot developments/twists that are just kind of throw in there, and the author doesn't spend more than a few lines "telling" the effects of those change instead of "showing" them. tI feel like the author didn't flesh out the consequences of major plot point and character arcs because they were under a length/time deadline or something.

I think if an editor made them go back and foreshadow more of the plot points earlier in the book (I mean the author did try to, but it wasn't more of a token gesture), to make more stuff happen there... and spent more time/page developing the later plot points - the story would have felt more "fully-baked" with a better organized plot structure.

Still I enjoyed the story over all.

The main character a 400+ year-old house cat and I loved it.

I freaking loved this story. I’m actually trying to search for more like it. There are none. It is wholly unique, as far as I can find. There are very few truly unique stories, most are just the same story told in different worlds and maybe very rarely there’s a twist in there somewhere. Professional storytelling follows a predictive rhythm, rhyme and meter. This story blows that all out of the water with the simple fact that the main character is the ultimate agent of chaos trying to do with all four of her furry little paws… a common house cat. It’s brilliant.