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About the audiobook
The Worldship Humility is the start of The Code trilogy, written exclusively for audio by sci-fi author R. R. Haywood. Narrator Colin Morgan brings the colourful characters and treacherous escapades of The Worldship Humility to life, a gripping space adventure which will appeal to fans of Ready Player One, Bladerunner and Haywood's previous best-selling works, Extracted and The Undead.Â
Summary
It's been 120 years since the 50 or so worldships containing the few million survivors set off after planet Earth was destroyed by a meteor.Â
On the Worldship Humility, Sam, an Airlock Operative, is bored. Living in space should be full of adventure, except it isn't, and he fills his time hacking 3-D movie posters.Â
Petty thief Yasmine Dufont is also from the WS Humility, but she is not bored. Growing up in the Elfors, the lawless lower levels of the ship, has seen her surrounded by violence and squalor since birth, and now she wants out. She wants to escape to the luxury of the Ab-Spa on top of WS Abstinence, where they eat real food instead of rats and synth cubes.Â
Meanwhile, the sleek-hulled, unmanned Gagarin has come back from punching out ahead of the fleet in the ever-continuing search for a new home. Nearly all hope is lost that a new planet will ever be found, until the Gagarin returns with a code of information that suggests a habitable planet has been found. This news should be shared with the whole fleet, but a few rogue captains want to keep the information to themselves and colonise the new planet.Â
When Yasmine inadvertently steals the code, she and Sam become caught up in a dangerous game of murder, corruption, political wrangling and...porridge, with sex-addicted Detective Zhang Woo hot on their heels, his own life at risk if he fails to get the code back.Â
About the author
R. R. Haywood is the author of UK's number one horror series The Undead, which propelled him into the top 20 best-selling authors in the UK. Haywood is a Washington Post best-selling author and both the Undead series and the Extracted trilogy are Audible best sellers.Â
About the narrator
Colin's television credits include Humans, The Living and the Dead, The Fall and Merlin. His film credits include Benjamin, The Happy Prince, Legend and Testament of Youth. Theatre credits include Translations (The National Theatre); Gloria (Hampstead Theatre); Mojo (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Tempest (Shakespeare's Globe); Our Private Life (Royal Court); A Prayer for My Daughter and All About My Mother (The Old Vic).Â
Read The Worldship Humility Audible Audio Edition R R Haywood Colin Morgan Audible Studios Books
"So, this is a weird review, because on one hand, i really enjoyed the audio book. On the other, the fact that this book was written exclusively for audio has me scratching my head. There are LOTS of moments in this audio book where the listener is forced to listen to MANY minutes of stuff like, "really", he said. "yes", she said, "oh", he said. "yep", she said. This can go on for so much time, its maddening! The amount of "he said", "she said" in an audio book written for Audio is crazy! The narrator can have perfectly good voices for the characters in conversation , yet, we all have to listen to "he said", "she said" over and over and over. WE DONT NEED that part. Please, for the love of god, do not read the "she said" "he said" part while reading the book for audio. I cannot overstate this. This was so maddening, i have to remove a start from the review. Also, i can't say that im in love with the narrator choice. The female tone that the male narrator had made every woman in book sound completely unattractive. I know this seems shallow, but the story makes a big deal of attractive and pretty women, so its hard to buy into it with the voice.
That said, the book was fun. I was disappointed in some of the longer dragging parts where the writer obviously wanted to have some silly fun with useless dialog from non characters...but whatever.
I will warn you.....this is the 1st of a series and without spoiling much, this audio book ends abruptly with very little payout, so since this book is actually a fun story, you will be left hanging pretty hard and not getting to enjoy some of the stuff that you hoped would transpire."
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The Worldship Humility Audible Audio Edition R R Haywood Colin Morgan Audible Studios Books Reviews
- So, this is a weird review, because on one hand, i really enjoyed the audio book. On the other, the fact that this book was written exclusively for audio has me scratching my head. There are LOTS of moments in this audio book where the listener is forced to listen to MANY minutes of stuff like, "really", he said. "yes", she said, "oh", he said. "yep", she said. This can go on for so much time, its maddening! The amount of "he said", "she said" in an audio book written for Audio is crazy! The narrator can have perfectly good voices for the characters in conversation , yet, we all have to listen to "he said", "she said" over and over and over. WE DONT NEED that part. Please, for the love of god, do not read the "she said" "he said" part while reading the book for audio. I cannot overstate this. This was so maddening, i have to remove a start from the review. Also, i can't say that im in love with the narrator choice. The female tone that the male narrator had made every woman in book sound completely unattractive. I know this seems shallow, but the story makes a big deal of attractive and pretty women, so its hard to buy into it with the voice.
That said, the book was fun. I was disappointed in some of the longer dragging parts where the writer obviously wanted to have some silly fun with useless dialog from non characters...but whatever.
I will warn you.....this is the 1st of a series and without spoiling much, this audio book ends abruptly with very little payout, so since this book is actually a fun story, you will be left hanging pretty hard and not getting to enjoy some of the stuff that you hoped would transpire. - Thank you RR Haywood!!
- Even before I heard the anti-semitic shpiel, I was wondering how this book has a 4.5 star rating. It is cartoonish and not that well written. By cartoonish, I mean there's a hacker who can hack anything he can imagine in 10 seconds including creating graphics...it's cartoony. And it's not like he's augmented with cyborg technology to do this, he uses a virtual KEYBOARD and is able to make any digital animation he wants in seconds. This book is filled with constant, 'okay, that's silly, but I'll overlook this, that and that too."
Then out of the blue, the author says some of the ships that fled earth were at war with each other. Each ship is controlled by a nation, and the only nation it mentions is Israel...which happened to buy something form the Iranian ship and didn't pay for it (I'm pretty sure that's an anti-semitic trope) and then preemptively attacked Iran in response to them getting mad at them and that the Israelis couldn't get past their differences on earth and nobody knows who started it and no one cares, they just wish they could get over it. This mention of Israel was so far out of left field and had very little to do with the plot. - Narration is fantastic.... I could listen to this guy all day, everyday. The story is interesting, and funny, and full of action and I just can’t say enough good things..... I was looking for the actual book, but I believe this is just for audio right now. I recommend this to anyone who is a sci fi, comedy or action fan! Just heads up, maybe don’t listen with a 5 year old in the car....
- The narrator is awesome, and the story is engaging and funny. The only negative is that this is only the first of a trilogy, and the other 2 are not yet out.
Someone else mentioned anti-Semitism, but I don't see it--just book written from the a point of view of someone who is not Jewish and is puzzled by the tensions in the middle east.
As far as the hacking being unbelievable--it's set in the future. Who knows what kind of shortcuts might be available by then? Someone good enough to code on the fly might have a wicked toolkit that he's created for himself. - I'm in love with almost every character in this series. Clara especially is AMAZING. The book is funny, fast-paced, and keeps your attention at all times.
My one complaint about it (and this is really a very minor complaint), is that the author has practically zero interest in actual science. Spaceflight and computer hacking both feature prominently in the series and both are utterly inaccurate. I would have liked a portrayal more similar to The Martian or Seveneves.
That's just my personal preference though and the wonderful characters and story more than made up for it anyways. Can't wait for book 2! - Everything about this book worked. Every voice in the narration was fledged out and authentic. The plot was both complicated and simple and while the ending is a cliffhanger i don't care. I will wait. The characters all felt like friends (yes, MY friends) and the world was fantastic. The most brilliant SF audiobook since Illuminae!
- So far, this audible is SUPER!! One can NEVER go wrong with Colin Morgan. He brings the story alive and into your mind in great detail. The story itself is wonderful...so far. But I have no doubt I will fully enjoy the rest of the book. No regrets on this book. Thank you, Colin, for a great adventure!! Wonderful choice of voice for this book. A definite read for those who love sci-fi, adventure and well laid out subplots.--Brook
