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I, Starship

A Space Opera

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I, Starship

By: Scott Bartlett
Narrated by: Mark Boyett
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As a Marine, Henry Morgan would have said it was more likely he’d die from enemy fire than from being struck by a flying lawnmower while at a baseball game.

But it was the lawnmower that ended up taking him out.

A century later, Henry wakes up as a reconstituted intelligence, and is promptly drafted to be the governing AI for America’s first military starship. After decades of model-trained AIs wreaking havoc across the globe, humanity is ready to try something a little more…human.

Henry is perfect. For one thing, as a reconstituted intelligence, he has no rights and can be forced to do the bidding of the powers that be. For another, he’s the only Heritage Mind™ with any military experience that survived the Great Power Surge of 2072.

So, Henry’s it.

Blastoff, good Henry! Our hopes and dreams go with you. Oh, and while you’re at it, could you take a look at the aliens setting up shop in our asteroid belt? They seem to be…multiplying.

Download I, Starship now and grab the edge of your seat for this bold new space opera.

©2024 Scott Bartlett (P)2025 Scott Bartlett Military Science Fiction Space Opera Interstellar
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The narration is fantastic as usual from Mark Boyett. What do I mean by it's Stargate Universe? Well that show should have been called something else as it was certainly not part of the the Stargate "universe". Stargate teams are the best of the best but the team in universe was a bunch of back stabbing, spouse cheating, incompetent miserable people. That is exactly what the crew of I, Starship is and that makes it very hard to get through. Henry the main character is a Marine that dies and has his brain copied as the ships AI but we are lead to believe that he is sentient as real person. For reasons that are NEVER explain almost everyone treat him like dog crap especially the captain. There are so many things that irritate me about this story but one of the biggest is what a gutless pushover Henry is. He is definitely not like any Marine I ever knew or served with.

The book is worth listening to just the great job Mark Boyett does, I would not have finished it other wise.

It's Stargate Universe again!!!

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Scott Bartlet needs to study physics and inertia in the absence of friction.
The story has a nice start, pretty unusual in its setting, but soon devolves I a collage of “borrowed” ideas, taken from far better book series like the Bobiverse.
The characters are absolutely not realistic, being mostly single-faced, with no nuance or development.
Scarcely plausible plot twists are just annoying.
The only redeeming grace, imho, is the transposition of Taffy 3 epic battle against the Imperial Japanese Navy during the battle of Samar.
Of course the outcome is different, but I’ve found the similarities at least enticing, unlike the rest of the books.

Run-of-the-mill hodge-podge of Sci-Fi tropes

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Really like the character development and world building of the first book. We have some interesting characters some that are hopeful and bright. Some that are flawed that you do see redemption coming through for. The second book really did get into the space marine mode with battles and fighting, etc. All in all I Loved it.

Great story.

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Love the concept of this book. Was fast paced enough with great battles. Mark is one of my favorite readers.

Writer and narrator top notch

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I liked the premise. Character development was not balanced. One adventure to the next.

Good idea.

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