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Croma Venture

The Spiral Wars, Book 5

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Croma Venture

By: Joel Shepherd
Narrated by: John Lee
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Upon the ancient drysine moon/city of Defiance, the UFS Phoenix is being rebuilt, but her crew cannot do so in peace. Parren factions jostle for control of not only Defiance, but of the drysine data-core that Phoenix won at such an awful price. But the parren do not lay sole claim to that ancient knowledge, and within the bowels of the machine-city, something long-dead is awakening.

While aliens battle, Captain Debogande struggles to decide his next step. Human emissaries beckon him home, while a terrible new threat drives him toward the far edge of Spiral space. There live the croma, locked in a titanic struggle against the reeh, a species more terrifying than any yet faced by humanity. And holding perhaps the key to humanity’s salvation are a small force of freedom fighters, waging a hopeless battle against impossible odds, having waited a thousand years for just such a saviour as the UFS Phoenix....

©2018 Joel Shepherd (P)2018 Audible, Inc. Hard Science Fiction Military Science Fiction Fiction

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When does the next one come out? Another awesome addition to the Spiral Wars sagas.

Give me more

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Also this work has faster pacing than previous books. I like it like this, more fluid.

Solid work, highly enjoyable!

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I felt this was the build up to a new story I hope. I felt like I was listening to a foreign office discussion

too political

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The series just keeps getting better and better!

Joel Shepherd is a true master of Science Fiction. While John Lee, provides the perfect narration. I can't praise this series highly enough!

Truly Awesome!

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Another amazing book from Joel Shepherd. As galactic empires clash, starship Phoenix and her crew continue to try out manoeuvre the threat to humanity from cold genocidal AIs and their allies. Unwillingly they become political pawns of older galactic races in their own internal conflicts, can't wait for the next one.

The Plot Spirals Thickly

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This series improves as it goes along. Very entertaining. The main characters are developing nicely as the main story line continues its interesting arc.

Great stuff

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A book loved the story great narration 5 stars I highly recommend listening to this book 👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

You have to listen to it

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Looking for a new SF author, look no further than Joel Shepherd

John Lee excels himself with a huge range of voices for characters

So much material for Joel to explore in future books within the Spiral

Download Book 1 and enjoy!!!

Brilliant SF - Can’t wait for book 6

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Book 2 was a bit slow but other than that this is a solid sci fi series and I am loving the journey. Lots of characters to adore and hate and all of them brought to life with John Lee's narration (although once or twice I noticed he used a different accent for Lt. Dale but given the amount of character voices he does superbly I'll allow it!). On to the next one :)

Love, love, love this series and its narration!

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This is probably the weakest of the current five volumes regarding the UFS Phoenix but it certainly sets out an exciting path for the books to come. Narrator John Lee is, as always, supremely adept at bringing a tale to life.

The Saga Continues

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