Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? did different action.' and quips which feel out of place and that serve to remove one from action scenes, combined with constant 'he said, she said', which works well for books, but detracts from audiobooks. This book gets 3 stars because while enjoyable the writing tends to be rather repetitive in places which really takes away from the listening pleasure. If a book is so bad I don't finish it, it gets 1 star.

(For note Old Man's War hits this criteria). If I would immediately recommend, talk about a book a lot or want to go back to the book a couple more times it gets 5 stars. My three star rating is due to the following.

The story is a run sci-fi romp, but honestly if you haven't encountered John Scalzi you should be listening to Old Man's War instead. There's only one chance to get it right, to save the life of Robin Baker - and to protect the future of humanity.Ī fun romp, with some room for improvementįirst things first, Narration by Wil Wheaton is solid narrator and enjoyable. To keep our planet from being enslaved, Harry will have to pull off the greatest diplomatic coup in history, a grand gambit that will take him from the halls of power to the lava-strewn battlefields of alien worlds. And alien races, eager to start a revolution on their home world and a war on Earth. Adherents of a secret religion based on the writings of a 21st century science-fiction author. But there are others with plans for the sheep as well: Mercenaries employed by the military. And they find it, in the unknowing form of Robin Baker, pet store owner, whose genes contain traces of the sheep DNA. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinaire, who with the help of Brian Javna, a childhood friend turned artificial intelligence, scours the earth looking for the rare creature.

To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: A type of sheep ('The Android's Dream'), used in the alien race's coronation ceremony. A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most unusual way.

The Android's Dream by John Scalzi