Fleet Elements

Walter Jon Williams

Dec 2020 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Victor Bevine

About this audiobook

""Space opera the way it ought to be . . . Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.""—George R. R. Martin

Following The Accidental War, the second book of a brand-new series set in the Praxis—an epic mix of space opera and military science fiction, from a grand master of science fiction, Walter Jon Williams.

The Praxis, the empire of now extinct Shaa, has again fallen into civil war, with desperate and outnumbered humans battling several alien species for survival. Leading the human forces are star-crossed lovers Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula, who must find a way to overcome their own thorny personal history to defeat the aliens and assure humanity’s survival.

But even if the human fleet is victorious, the divisions fracturing the empire may be too wide to repair, as battles between politicians, the military, and fanatics who want to kill every alien threaten to further tear the empire apart. While Martinez and Sula believe they have the talent and tactics to defeat an overwhelming enemy, what will prevent their fellow humans from destroying themselves?

Ratings and reviews

the book series is great. Accidental war narrated by Drummond was excellent and kept me captivated the entire time. however 2 chapters in to fleet elements I find myself not paying attention. its not the book it's the narrator he is monotone for everything, doesn't pronounce some of the place names the same and doesn't change his voice for the different characters when the talk. Victor Bevine is a very boring person to listen to and has taken a book that I'm sure I'd enjoy and made it bland and uninteresting. I'm deleting this audio book and downloading the ebook. so I recommend the novel but not if Victor Bevine is narrating.

great!

About the author

Walter Jon Williams is a New York Times bestselling author who has been nominated repeatedly for every major sci-fi award, including Hugo and Nebula Awards nominations for his novel City on Fire. He is the author of Hardwired, Aristoi, Implied Spaces, and Quillifer. Williams lives near Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife, Kathleen Hedges.