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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on http://hotaudiobook.com [http://hotaudiobook.com] Title: Out of the Soylent Planet: A Rex Nihilo Adventure Subtitle: Starship Grifters, Book 0 Author: Robert Kroese Narrator: J.D. Ledford Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 01-19-18 Publisher: Robert Kroese Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Fiction, Humor Publisher's Summary: Interstellar con man Rex Nihilo has a price tag on his head. Railroaded into smuggling a shipment of contraband corn to a planet short on food, Rex finds himself on the run from an insidious corporation named Ubiqorp, which reaps obscene profits by keeping the planet dependent on shipments of synthetic rations. When Rex and his long-suffering robot companion Sasha are sentenced to work as slave labor on a massive Ubiqorp plantation, they learn the terrible secret behind the corporation's products. To escape, Rex and Sasha team up with a mis-programmed combat drone and an intelligent mutant plant to lead a rebellion against their merciless corporate overlords. Out of the Soylent Planet is a novel-length prequel to Starship Grifters, the book New York Times best-selling author Hugh Howey called "one of my favorite space romps of all time". Members Reviews: Make reviews fun again out of soylent planet by kroese with sasha, she's no floozy in streetcar she's stella ends up with a fella the rest of this story's a doozy stranded on soylent planet rex very often says dammit through soylent wrangling and other shenanegans rob kroese makes reading fun again I snorted coffee out of my nose. Absolutely worth the wait! This is the third in an outstanding series that keeps getting funnier. Love Yet another Rob Kroese hit. Rex is outstandingly obnoxious as usual. Love it Laughs, adventuresâand creamed corn Sasha, the narrator of Out of the Soylent Planet, is a Self-Arresting near-Sentient Heuristic Android . As she admits, she âwas no good in a fight, couldnât tell a lie to save my life, and shut down whenever I had a good ideaâ (This last feature was required by GASP, the Galactic Artificial Sentience Prohibition of 2998, designed to ensure that AIs did not show up their human creators.). Nonetheless, Sasha and her owner, Rex Nihilo, manage to get out of a tremendous number of VERY bad situations. When the book opens, Rex is trying to sell some illegal explosives and get out of his debt to the interplanetary crime boss Bergoon the Grebatt, but he and Sasha find themselves shipped off to the planet Jorfu, where they immediately get into in hot water again for illegally importing cans of creamed corn. They have help in their adventures from a sentient version of the SHAMBLER (Self-Harvesting Ambulatory Legume Resource) plants that are the basis for the food eaten on Jorfu and from Bill, a mis-programmed security-enforcing robot that falls in love with Sasha. Out of the Soylent Planet is clever, funny, sometimes downright silly lighthearted entertainment. One of the bonus features I especially enjoy in Kroeseâs writing, though, is the occasional glimpse of his obvious fascination with learning, especially philosophy. Rex and Sasha attempt one of their many escapes in a battered spaceship named Reductio ad Absurdum, for example, and discover how appropriate is its name. And Sasha has âa full-blown soliloquy on free will and determinismâ, which might not be a good idea, since she was facing down an army of killer robots at the time. She later engages in a discussion of what distinguishes a lovable rogue (Rex) from a villain. This book is a prequel to Starship Grifters, so even though it takes place before that book, the question is whether you can read it first.
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