Great story

Loved the book. So much of what he wrote about is right on target here, where I live. Religion rules the lives of many of these people here, most of which are very uneducated, poor, and having as many as 16 children. The story line keeped me interested through out. Wish I had started with the first in the series.

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Be Prepared for the Soap Box

I listened to all four of this series because I love science fiction, but this the forth in the series, Bova is on his own soap box/religion especially regarding population control. It's his his book/story so he can do whatever he wants to, but for me it was bit Over killed and soured the book.

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Could not finish it

I listen nearly to the end of the first part, then skipped ahead a couple times and at the end could not finish it. There was not enough science fiction in the story to keep me interested to listen to environmental lectures.
It appears to me that many good authors which are entertaining get to a stage were they feel they have to educate the population about current world problems. Please stick to entertainment that is why we buy fiction.

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Voyagers Series

If you're looking for a story of space, aliens, space travel, this is not your series. The review addresses Voyagers, Voyagers II, III, and The Return.

Plot. A spacecraft is approaching earth — no response to earth signals. A mission from earth determines that the craft is a sarcophagus - the sole passenger is a dead alien. A ship message tells us to study the alien and his ship and send him on his way to other worlds. A USA astronaut decides to stay on the alien ship, goes into stasis for 18 years, and returns to earth. He has changed - and so has the earth.

Liked: Stuck with it, well, because it IS a Bova series. Narration and production are fine. No sex, no objectionable language, clean reads.

Not so hot: This is NOT a typical SciFi, rather a platform for the author to voice concerns regarding world politics, religious zealots, climate change, nuclear war...the earth will perish if humans do not change. There have been other books and movies with the same basic theme - The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Abyss, more. So, it's been done before - and better, IMO.

Disappointed.

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slow to start

Slow to start but worth it. This is totally compelling and vary hard to put down. A Briant ending also..

Very good book! Especially for free.

Very good book! Especially for free. I would really, really, really recommend to anyone.

A long sermon on sustainability

This book felt like a long sermon, complete with unnecessary guilt and questionable moral advice. Maybe it felt that way because it's preaching to the choir?

Besides that, the plot seems a bit forced. The characters actions don't seem to align with what we know about their thoughts and previous actions.

The narrator is pretty good, although most of the foreign accents are really unconvincing.

Excellent Book

I wasn’t sure I like the direction the book started in, but I am very very happy I finished it. A very good book addressing many real world problems and the answers to how they may be solved. Well done!

Disappointing

Reading all 3 books it seemed like the story line changed to an entirely different book and character base. I stopped reading after chapter 10

loved it

one of the better of this series. i definitely think this will live through the ages