Nether Station

De: Kevin J. Anderson

Narrado por: Scott Brick

From New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson comes Nether Station, a thrilling mix of epic science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.

Space is vast. Space is full of wonders. Space is terrifying.

In the darkest part of the solar system lies a wormhole. Nether.

Astrophysicist Cammie Skoura has joined the first research team traveling to the Nether anomaly, eager to understand the mechanics of the wormhole and to explore its possibilities as a shortcut to Alpha Centauri.

But another race of ancient beings has already been here—an impossibly long time ago—leaving remnants of their vast complexes and gigantic temples built for horrific beings beyond comprehension.

What dangers did those elder races find in the hidden corners of spacetime?

What did they unleash?

And what remains?

Now, Cammie and the crew of Nether Station must find the answers—before the darkest part of the cosmos swallows them up …

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It's alright.

The concept is cool, but for a story set in space it's decidedly light on the actual science fiction. Few details on operations, equipment, and the scientific method. This is fine for a space opera, but this story is about researchers doing research.

Despite their academic credentials, these characters act decidedly unacademic and never try to explain their leaps of logic. Perhaps the author doesn't want to waste time explaining the fictional science because they want the plot to happen faster, yet this can't be it either, as the story is often bogged down by the same exposition the reader has figured out long ago through context.

Overall though, I recommend all stories about wormholes, big dumb space objects, and elder gods, and this is no exception. Still disappointing.

Ok but Unfulfilled Potential

This was an ok book and some people might enjoy it a lot. It was a little juvenile in story and writing for my taste. Characters weren’t well developed. The “science” part wasn’t well developed and was overshadowed by a shaky fiction. The plot was very predictable. This was not a bad book and some people might enjoy it. It just wasn’t the style of story development and writing that engaged me personally.

The story was written in a way that a non scientific person like myself could understand And as always Scott Brick……

That the story ended. I wanted even more. I hope there will be a sequel or a follow up

Wormhole at the edge of the solar system

Kevin J Anderson’s Nether Station explores an anomaly at the edge of our solar system that appears to be a wormhole to Alpha Centari after a probe goes missing but sends a message back to Earth at a later date as if it had been instantaneously transported to Alpha Centari. A team led by a tech billionaire goes out to investigate and that’s where the trouble begins. The majority of the crew cannot be revived from their cyrosleep pods after the senior physicist dies in the process. Science duties fall to a younger, autistic scientist. Alien lifeforms are found around elaborate structures, and a story emerges that rather than a transportation hub, this station is defensive in nature against a powerful, dangerous entity.

Anderson offers an interesting sci-fi concept piece with alien technology operating at the edge of our solar system. Character motivations are a bit underwhelming with an autistic female physicist who is clueless about the romantic inclinations of her mentor as well as the tech billionaire who seems to imagine a huge trading opportunity with the other end of the wormhole.

Narration is excellent with solid character distinction. Pacing is smooth and a tad brisk.

nothing better than a new space Opera

I have been reading Kevin j. Anderson forever and I'm glad he's starting up again. my only disappointment is either that I've read too much science fiction and can see what's coming or he was a bit too predictable. anyways, it's a good read and a fun time

A new Saga?

I loved it. I love hard sci-fi and the physics that goes along with making stories plausible. I didn’t like the zombie creatures that resurrect. Demonic stories and movies go against my core beliefs and in this case go against plausibility.

I see some parallels to the Seven Suns saga which I loved. This book is a change from the military sci-fi that seems to dominate and has grown old to me, This book hopefully starts the beginning of another saga with fantastic civilisations and creative interpretations of how alien worlds interact. I don’t get wrapped up in character development, not my focus but I’m sure another saga will leave multiple opportunities to introduce new societies and people. I can’t say any of the remaining crew are outstanding but they’ll do.

A bunch of greedy morons

Too many things didn't make sense. Everyone was greedy, stupid or both. it was llistening to a bad B movie.

Cosmic Horror

This was a super fun listen.
I’m sure there is a follow up coming. I hope soon. Mr Anderson does a great job creating another part to the Lovecraft mythos.

Building tension.

It was great at first. Exciting. Cami’s never ending focus on her mentor became tedious. But near the end it was a mess of Walking Dead, brainwashing (Stargate) and other tropes. Then it firmed up enough to become intriguing and now I’m going to have to read the sequel.

Need sequel!

It was good, a lot of fun, I love anything lovrcraftian and so much of it is pretty terrible so I pounced on this book. Decent characters. Not so blindingly stupid you want to kill then off yourself. Interesting ending. Definitely set up for another book or a series. Can’t wait!