Windswept [Dramatized Adaptation]

Name: Windswept [Dramatized Adaptation]
Brand: Graphic Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Adam Rakunas
ISBN: 9781648814006

Author: Adam Rakunas

Series: Windswept #1

Narrator: Richard Rohan, Scott McCormick, Terence Aselford, Nathanial Perry, Dawn Ursula, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Tracy Olivera, Colleen Delany, Barbara Pinolini, Yasmin Tuazon, Nanette Savard, Michael John Casey, Tia Shearer, Kenyatta Rogers, Lily Beacon, Todd Scofield, Marni Penning, David Jourdan, Peter Holdway, Nora Achrati, Mort Shelby, Alyssa Wilmoth, Thomas Penny, A Full Cast, Christopher Graybill, Jonathan Feuer

Unabridged: 8 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: GraphicAudio

Published: 06/03/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Labor organizer Padma Mehta is on the edge of space and the edge of burnout. All she wants is to buy out a little rum distillery and retire, but she's supposed to recruit 500 people to the Union before she can. She's only thirty-three short. So when a small-time con artist tells her about forty people ready to tumble down the space elevator to break free from her old bosses, she checks it out -- against her better judgment. It turns out, of course, it was all lies.

As Padma should know by now, there are no easy shortcuts on her planet. And suddenly retirement seems farther away than ever: she's just stumbled into a secret corporate mission to stop a plant disease that could wipe out all the industrial sugarcane in Occupied Space. If she ever wants to have another drink of her favorite rum, she's going to have to fight her way through the city's warehouses, sewage plants, and up the elevator itself to stop this new plague.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on May 11, 2015

Windswept does what only a few truly great Science Fiction novels dare accomplish - it's simultaneously a captivating adventure with action, suspense, and strong characterization AND a thoughtful work of sociological speculation, investigating labor rights, corporatism, colonialism, and more.......more

Goodreads review by Charlie on May 02, 2019

A tough union organizer just wants to retire and take over a rum distillery on a planet of sugar-cane farmers -- but first, she has to sign up a few dozen more union members in a corporate-dominated dystopian future. That setup sounds kind of grim, but it actually leads to a fun, zippy adventure wit......more

Goodreads review by Siobhan on August 11, 2016

If I’m being completely honest, this one really surprised me. I love science fiction books, yet I find myself thinking they’re often a case of hit or miss. Either every mark is hit or I’m left wanting something more. Of course there are varying degrees of the latter, but I often find myself reading b......more

Goodreads review by Tal on November 21, 2017

Really really intersting settings. Enjoyed the story a lot, but there were also too much Deus Ex Machina solutions I didn't like. +1 Star for the graphic audio production.......more

Goodreads review by Wayland on October 14, 2019

Padma just wants to run her Ward, make her numbers, keep the jobs filled, and get enough money together to buy into her retirement dream. It's a good plan, and not all that unreasonable. Among the complications are a rival boss who is great at stealing new recruits as they arrive on planet, a local......more