Details:
- author: David Wellington
- full title: Paradise-1
- series: Red Space #1
- narrator: Laurel Lefkow
- genre: sci-fi, horror
- topics: #spaceship, #spaceopera, #ai, #robots
- publisher: Hachette Audio
- publish date: 04 Apr 2023
- timing: 21:12:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
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Excerpt from the Book:
Three days still before dawn on Ganymede, and the cold seeped right through her suit and into her bones. The only light came from what reflected off the crescent of Jupiter, a thin arc of brown and orange that hung forever motionless in the night sky. Occasionally a bolt of lightning would snap across the shadowed disk of the big planet, a bar of light big enough that even from a million kilometers away it blasted long black shadows across the charcoal ice of the moon.
My Thoughts:
A robot named Rapscallion and three people (Alexandra Petrova, a FireWatch officer, Zhang Lei, a doctor, and Sam Parker, a pilot) travel to Paradise-1, Earth’s first deep space colony. None of them suspects what awaits them there.
The novel Paradise-1 is set in space. It is a gripping and fast-paced science fiction thriller with some elements of horror, and it is the first part of the trilogy (Red Space). The audiobook version is over 21 hours long. But even though it’s so long, the story is fast-paced, and you probably won’t feel like it drags. This was not my favorite type of sci-fi novel, but I enjoyed it anyway.
I recommend this to sci-fi readers, especially those who like fast-paced space operas.
About the Author:
David Wellington was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Syracuse University and received an MFA in creative writing from Penn State.
In 2004 he began serializing his novel Monster Island online. The book rapidly gained a following, and was acquired for print publication by Thunder’s Mouth Press.
Since then, Wellington has published more than 15 novels, and has been featured in The New York Times, Boing Boing and the Los Angeles Times.
About the Narrator:
Laurel Lefkow is an accomplished stage, television and radio actress. She has won awards for a number of her audio books and was nominated for best supporting actress for her performance in A Shayna Maidel in London’s West End. Other theatre roles include Alison in Look Back in Anger, Irina in The Three Sisters and Rose in Slow dance on the Killing Ground. Her television and film credits include In Suspicious Circumstances, The Tracey Ullman Show, Spy Game, Inside the Twin Towers and A Perfect Family. She was born in Washington D C and grew up in India, Kenya and France where her father worked as an American Diplomat. She trained at the Webber Douglas Academy in London. Laurel also has an extensive and successful career as a voice-over artist in many well known cartoons and advertising campaigns.
