The Second Ship, Richard Phillips
The Second Ship, Richard Phillips
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The Second Ship

Author: Richard Phillips

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews

Unabridged: 11 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/02/2012

Synopsis

In 1948, an alien starship fell from the New Mexico sky—and immediately vanished behind the walls of the Los Alamos Laboratory. Since that day the US military has endeavored to reverse engineer the ship’s alien technology through top-secret research known only as the Rho Project. Now, decades after the crash, the government is prepared tell all.Or so it claims…For there is a second ship, hidden for all these years, just out of the military’s reach. And when a trio of students discovers it buried deep inside a remote canyon, they are changed forever. With a single touch, the technology the government has spent billions trying to unlock is uploaded into the minds of three teenagers—teenagers who now know the frightening truth about the Rho Project. When the NSA black-ops team of Jack “The Ripper” Gregory and Janet Price come calling, they are thrust into a violent world of secrets and corruption, becoming reluctant soldiers in a war destined to alter what it means to be human.Revised edition: This edition of The Second Ship includes editorial revisions.

About Richard Phillips

Richard Phillips was born in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1956. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1979 and qualified as an Army Ranger, going on to serve as an officer in the US Army. He earned a master’s degree in physics from Naval Postgraduate School, completing his thesis work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. After working for three years as a research associate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he returned to the army to complete his tour of duty. Today he lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife, Carol, dividing his time between developing simulation software for the US military and writing science fiction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf

I´m absolutely not sure if this is an ingenious comedy YA sci-fi fun or unintentionally funny, average writing Seriously, I´ve hardly ever read a novel that has such weird, half baked, intentionally emotionally wanted or unwanted moments, dialogues and characters. Dialogues Extremely strange cuts bet......more

Goodreads review by Adam

A slightly clumsy, but ultimately interesting SciFi entry. There were several times when I was screaming to myself, "Where is this author's editor, and why was this not edited????" when the text showed weird phrases being used repeatedly or when there was a really long, awkward metaphor going on tha......more

Goodreads review by Brett

The dialog felt like something out of an 80s after-school special. People in 2012 don't talk like they do in this book, and I found that to be a huge distraction. So it's sort of this innocent "kids find a space ship" story, but then there's lots of secret agent-types moving around, people talking all......more

Goodreads review by David

The Second Ship is a bizarre pastiche of "Golden Age"-style science fiction writing (think 1950's b-movie dialog and equally hollow characterizations), pulp-novel action heroes (think Don Pendleton), and semi-modern science (think semi-modern science). It reads like Young Adult fiction until you hit......more

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