Hades' Star: Hostile Takeover

By: Doug Wallace

Narrated by: John Pirhalla

The Hades Galaxy is so far from Earth, its light hasn’t even reached our most powerful telescopes. It’s a strange place - familiar, yet different. A place where stars erupt at a moment’s notice, planets crumble like glass, and the laws of physics push the limits of the impossible. It’s also inhabited. Or it used to be. So how did Paul Johnson get from his grandpa’s ranch in Montana to the shores of alien waters in a distant galaxy? How did he and millions of colonists become trapped there, with no hope of ever returning home? He did what men throughout history have done: he chased after a beautiful woman. And he got her. Sort of.

The promise of land grants on virgin worlds and first contact with alien races are now in the rear-view mirror. Do battleships even have rear-view mirrors? Promoted out of turn, Paul leads a crack team of corporate marines in the fight to re-establish the Rift, the mysterious wormhole that joined Hades to the Milky Way. To make matters worse, Earth’s most cutthroat corporations have engaged in an all-out free-for-all to control the new galaxy’s plentiful-yet-very-alien resources. But Hades won’t give up its secrets so easily. Menacing forces conspire to keep the human visitors from their aims, and possibly, from ever returning home.

Fans of military sci-fi, space opera, and speculative physics will enjoy reading Hades' Star: Hostile Takeover. Think a cross between Star Trek and Starship Troopers. It’s a story of alien worlds littered with technology, romance, action, mystery, played out by characters that will make you wish you could suit up right beside them and take the fight to the bad guys. The pace never slows in this throwback to the pause resisiting sci-fi of yore.

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Awesome sci-fi!

Loved the innovation around tech in the Hades’ System. While I am a relative newcomer to the game, I enjoyed the backstory and character development set in the Hades’ Star universe.

Exciting, unique, humorous

All the excitement of classic sci-fi franchises without the cliches that the well-worn genre often recycles. Hades’ Star: Hostile Takeover is literately and figuratively in a galaxy of its own. Human greed and corporate competition sets our relatable and funny hero against his own species as well as a newly-discovered alien race. As the adventure deepens, new planets, ancient alien artifacts and surprising technological advances accelerate the novel to a fulfilling conclusion!

Great storytelling through a great storyteller

loved the story, its compelling fiction and requires no prior knowledge of the game world that it is based in. I also appreciated that the narrator differentiates between individual character voices and narration.

Really Quite Good - Well Worth a Listen

In a very Expansian way, this book took me off guard. I listened to it because I actually played the video game Hades Star. I enjoy the game but it is rather on the strategic, chess-like side of video games. The book, on the other hand, is anything but chess-like. Wallace takes the Hades Star universe to an completely different level. The characters, the technology, the politics, the romance, the suck-you-in-storyline is all in this book. Loved the main character from the first paragraph. Couple that with the fantastic narration and you have the start of a damn good series. The narrator's voices and accents are excellent. Pirhalla's tone & personality reminds me of Ray Porter in the Bobiverse series. Look forward to book 2.

Short but sweet

starts slow but ends on a high note, can't wait for the next book to come out.