Impulse, Dave Bara
Impulse, Dave Bara
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Impulse

Author: Dave Bara

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/03/2015


Synopsis

Lieutenant Peter Cochrane of the Quantar Royal Navy believes he has his future clearly mapped out. It begins with his new assignment as an officer on Her Majesty's Spaceship Starbound, a Lightship bound for deep space voyages of exploration. But everything changes when Peter is summoned to the office of his father, Grand Admiral Nathan Cochrane, and given devastating news: the death of a loved one. In a distant solar system, a mysterious and unprovoked attack upon Lightship Impulse resulted in the deaths of Peter's former girlfriend and many of her shipmates. Now Peter's plans are torn asunder as he is transferred to a Unified Space Navy ship under foreign command, en route to an unexpected destination, and surrounded almost entirely by strangers. To top it off, his superiors have given him secret orders that might force him to become a mutineer. The crisis at hand becomes a gateway to something much more when the ship's Historian leads Peter and his shipmates into a galaxy of the unknown -- of ancient technologies, age-old rivalries, new cultures, and unexpected romance. It's an overwhelming responsibility for Peter, and one false step could plunge humanity into an apocalyptic interstellar war..

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nicky on February 06, 2016

I picked up Impulse because I have a weakness for space opera — probably because I was raised on a steady diet of Star Trek and Star Wars, Blake’s 7 and Babylon 5. Impulse is fun enough, with chases and traitors and first contact with (sort of) aliens, and dealing with romance on board ship, and con......more

Goodreads review by John on March 29, 2015

Military space opera, flawed not only by a disregard for physical laws ("Full stop, Mr. Marker." "Turn us around, Mr. Marker."), but by deep seated sexism---ranging from the fact that women are usually referred to by first name and men by their last, to truly hamfisted efforts to seem "balanced" by......more

Goodreads review by Mike on September 14, 2015

Impulse by Dave Bara is very much an old-school space opera. The novel’s hero Lieutenant Cochrane is also a member of a landed gentry class and in line for the throne; competent and capable Cochrane is thrust into the unexpected when an attack on a lightship kills his girlfriend along with many of h......more