Reviewing Audiobook of Lieutenant Henry Gallant by H. Peter Alesso & Theo Copeland

Lieutenant Henry Gallant (The Henry Gallant Saga #2) Written by H. Peter Alesso & narrated by Theo Copeland 4*
BLURB: In an era of genetic engineering, Lieutenant Henry Gallant is the only Natural (non-genetically enhanced) officer left in the fleet. In spite of his superiors’ concerns that he is not up to the challenge, his unique mental abilities have proven essential to the defense of the United Planets in its fight against the Titan invaders. Serving on the first FTL prototype, the Intrepid, on its maiden voyage to Tau-Ceti, Gallant finds a lost human colony on the planet Elysium. Elysium’s leader, Cyrus Wolfe, has allied himself with an ancient Artificial Intelligence which had lain dormant on the planet for millennia, but is now willing to protect the colonists against the Titans. Gallant allies himself with Alaina Hepburn, the leader of the democratic opposition. With Alaina’s help, he discovers that the ancient AI has a sinister ulterior motive and he must match his exceptional mind against the complexity of machine intelligence to escape the ultimate trap and prevent the extermination of humanity.
My Review: “I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.” When I first started listening to this, I wasn't sure if I'd be able to enjoy it as much as book one. It was a different narrator from that first book so the character voices weren't quite the same. However with the story catching me up in the first ten minutes or so, it made no difference to my enjoyment after all. In fact I thought the narrator did an excellent job of bring the book to life. As for the actual story, I can only say it was more than I expected for a continuing adventure. It had everything the first book had plus a few things I wasn't expecting. I won't tell you what they were, but if you want to know I advice you to go buy the book or the audiobook. Then you can find out for yourselves I don't think you'll be disappointed. I know I wasn't.
n.b. Just looked at the rest of this series and I hope the next two come out in audio soon.

My kind of Science Fiction!

Lieutenant Henry Gallant (The Henry Gallant Saga #2) by H. Peter Alesso
BLURB: In an era of genetic engineering, Lieutenant Henry Gallant is the only Natural (non-genetically enhanced) officer left in the fleet. In spite of his superiors’ concerns that he is not up to the challenge, his unique mental abilities have proven essential to the defense of the United Planets in its fight against the Titan invaders.
Serving on the first FTL prototype, the Intrepid, on its maiden voyage to Tau-Ceti, Gallant finds a lost human colony on the planet Elysium. Elysium’s leader, Cyrus Wolfe, has allied himself with an ancient Artificial Intelligence which had lain dormant on the planet for millennia, but is now willing to protect the colonists against the Titans.
Gallant allies himself with Alaina Hepburn, the leader of the democratic opposition. With Alaina’s help, he discovers that the ancient AI has a sinister ulterior motive and he must match his exceptional mind against the complexity of machine intelligence to escape the ultimate trap and prevent the extermination of humanity.
In Lieutenant Henry Gallant, one man pits the naked human mind against the perspicacity of machine intelligence.


My Review: This can be read as a stand alone even though it was the second book in this series. As in the first book the action is immediate and interesting. The main characters are engaging and the aliens are believable and deadly. Though in this case they are not the immediate threat that Henry has to worry about and I won't be giving away any plot lines to say that the AI is the main enemy at work here. If you like old fashioned science fiction where the science is almost secondary to a character driven action packed adventure then read this book.