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Procyon is an inhospitable planet. No one can survive on the surface for more than a few minutes without a full suit and oxygen, unlike the occasional fearsome Argoni sometimes still seen roaming about. Twice the size of a human, they seem impervious to almost anything.
Landry Stanton is an engineer, a supervisor, on the planet of Procyon. He works hard, eats, sleeps and then does it all over again. He doesn't have any friends, well, perhaps just one. So when that one person begs for his for help, just a little thing, he says, something no one will ever know about, Landry reluctantly agrees.
Cait is.not his friend. In fact, she wants Landry's job, which means he'll have to go. But when she is given the supervisor job when he fails to turn up at work, she is at first thrilled but soon finds it's not all she had hoped for or even expected.. Then she starts to discover things about Landry that surprise her.

This is a story which creeps under the skin slowly, steadily, until the reader is right there, experiencing through the eyes ànd ears of the protàgonists. The characters are cleverly cràfted, slowly emerging as real living, breathing people.with their fears and frustrations becoming palpable. There are choices to be màde which could have serious implications. These personalities are further brought a to life with the narration of Travis Baldree, who gives each a personalised and distinctive voice as well as reading fluently and with a passion fitting the text. Part survival, part discovery, this is an excellent science fiction story which will entertain as well as open up ideas to make the reader think. My thanks to the rights holder from whom I received a complimentary copy of Dawn of Procyon, via Audiobook Boom. It was a thoroughly enjoyable book, full of suspense, tension and humour, too, almost from the beginning..A continuation book is definitely needed - I will be looking out for .it..

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Enjoyable Science Fiction

This seems like a great book for fans of The Martian or other such 'seat of the pants survival in hostile enviroments' stories. This one has the added advantage of also having alien enemies to try and defeat whilst trying to survive in that hostile enviroment. I certainly enjoyed listening to it. Travis Baldree has the kind of voice that keeps you chained to your seat and unwilling to move in case you miss something exciting. I only have one major issue with it, but it's a good thing I knew from the title that it was part of a series, because it finished with too much of the story still to go - not exactly a cliffhanger but almost one.

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It got better and better

In the end I really enjoyed this audiobook and I'll be looking to see if book 2 is available once I finish writing this.

At first I thought that it was going to be an Enemy Mine clone and wasn't particularly keen. However, the story quickly became something completely different. The main players' histories came out slowly while the action built.

Interesting take on alien technology.

I was left wanting to find out more. Now to see if book 2 is available.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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Anticlimax in the Procyon system

A readable and imaginative story. I liked the two suns depicted as rising and setting on a Mars-like exoplanetary landscape just far enough from our solar system to make interstellar travel feasible.
The poisonous atmosphere of the place gives a good back-drop to the story of Landrey stranded out on the surface after crashing as a passenger in a scout aircraft and struggling to survive alone on the surface, which all takes sometime to be dragged out.
Technical description almost gets there. The aliens - just about scary and the characters are pretty representative of a 90's tv adventure.
The narrator over does the American drawl a bit too much for my taste and the ending is all wrong. Overall its all mildly interesting and just long enough to keep you reading the undemanding text but the ending is so sudden as if there was a power-cut and the word processor died on the author.

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