Archangel Down: Archangel Project, Book 1 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Emily Woo Zeller (Narrator), C. Gockel (Author), Podium Audio (Publisher)

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In the year 2432, humans think they are alone in the universe. They're wrong.

Commander Noa Sato plans a peaceful leave on her home planet, Luddeccea, but winds up interrogated and imprisoned for her involvement in the Archangel Project. A project she knows nothing about.

Professor James Sinclair wakes in the snow, not remembering the past 24 hours or knowing why he is being pursued. The only thing he knows is that he has to find Commander Sato, a woman he's never met.

A military officer from the colonies and a civilian from Old Earth, they couldn't have less in common. But they have to work together to save the lives of millions - and their own. Every step of the way they are haunted by the final words of a secret transmission: The archangel is down.

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13 hours and 32 minutes
Author

C. Gockel
Narrator

Emily Woo Zeller
Audible release date

October 4, 2016
Language

English
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Podium Audio
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B01M04PM71
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	13 hours and 32 minutes
Author	C. Gockel
Narrator	Emily Woo Zeller
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	October 04, 2016
Publisher	Podium Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B01M04PM71
Best Sellers Rank	#194,664 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #1,167 in First Contact Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #3,048 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #9,560 in Alien Invasion Science Fiction

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Marvinator

The idea is to write a full story that people enjoy and want to see these same characters in another ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2018

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I would give this book more stars but it lacks a cohesive ending. The author thought that they'd get you to buy TWO books instead of one by only giving you half the story. After an incredible story and much ballyhoo in getting to the end, the book ends without resolution. Very dissatisfying after putting in so much time,. The idea is to write a full story that people enjoy and want to see these same characters in another adventure, rather than making two books out of one. Or wait, maybe the 2nd book won't end the story either!

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Xstitcher

Have Sci Fi books flagged with sexual content or extreme cruelty so reader can choose to buy or not.

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2018

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The story was great until the end. The last few pages was all about explicit sex not Sci Fi. There should be a tag or something to indicate the sexual content of books so you can skip them if you want.

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Dan

Detailed Storyline

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2018

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I found that I had to slow down my normal reading pace to stay on top of this one. Perhaps that's why I felt that the story was taking too long to get anywhere, by about half way through the story. It had a great start and an even better finish, but it bogged down for me, while it was introducing additional characters, during the planning for the future stage. It seems like the story only covers a period of about a week, but takes forever to get there, due to all of the detail.

I felt like Noa's unplanned and failed attempt to reach her brother wasn't necessary and was detrimental to her strong resourceful character, since she allowed her emotions to rule her actions, which could have lead to disastrous results for the rest of her followers..

I'm excited to see where the continuing story leads. Seems like mankind's search for intelligent life is now successful, but it's not exactly what we were expecting.

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R. Adkins

Archangel Down: Archangel Project. Book One is well-written Sci-Fi

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2018

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Archangel Down: Archangel Project. Book One would have gotten 5 stars from me except for the following two reasons: 1) it left too much unexplained about the background and nature of James Sinclair, the "Archangel"; and, 2) it seemed to me that the author ended book 1 prematurely in that the whole narrative of book 1 had been Noa Sato's struggle to reach the Galactic Fleet and seek their help in overthrowing the fascist regime on the colony world of Luddaccea and the book stopped a little short of that result. On the plus side, I thought the plot was somewhat unique and the characters (for the most part) were well developed. The book definitely gets the reader involved and concerned for the well-being of the lead characters, but also creates a constant feeling of anxiety which I prefer not. In summary, "Archangel Down" is a good read and an entertaining work.

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maartin kitelhaus

A book not to be recommended

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2018

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The first pages were interesting. But to soon it was getting boring.
I read the whole book, but there were moments where I thought it would be better to abort. Too many words about nothing and the end.....it has no real end.

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Julie Blaskie

can Noa and her crew escape?

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2019

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I enjoyed this story as there are several things happening at once. While I had read a couple of books in this series out of order, I definitely liked learning more about Noa Sato... and I learned more about the origins of other characters as well!

The story is well written, and the characters are well developed. Yes, the story is complicated, but nothing is ever simple and falls according to plan, does it? Noa and the others are put to the test - and they learn to trust each other and work as a team. While it's a disparate bunch of people planning to escape, they are indeed held together by the fact that they have augments or artificial parts. They learn others like them are disappearing - forever.

I love reading the author's work as she does write a complicated, intricate story that eventually comes together! I enjoy stories that are like this - you do have to think and try to keep track of many variables... but there is satisfaction when they complete their mission.

In particular, I loved the character 6T9, and here I understand his love for Eliza - and her love for him. It may be unorthodox, but it is a bright spot in the story! Of course, Noa has her werfle again!

I can't say much more as I always feel you need to read the book for yourself. I definitely enjoyed this, and I look forward to reading more books in the series to find answers to questions that even Noa and James have yet to find the answers!

This is definitely a different sci fi story, and it's a good read! All I can say is, "More, please!"

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Tom

Archangel Down

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2016

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Really liked the characters and the story line. I would have given 5 stars instead of 4 if I didn't feel disappointed where the story ended. I felt like I had stopped mid sentence.
Tom

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Kyla

Read At Your Own Risk

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2020

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As a disclaimer I got the Kindle version of this book for free during a sale, and I'm glad I did get it for free because I did not care for it at all. The pacing was horrendous, I managed to make it through almost 200 before giving up because it felt like nothing had happened and the characters weren't interesting enough to make me care. They were horribly dry, and though the main character is a black woman, I could tell instantly that the author is white because I can't imagine any black person (fictional or otherwise) willingly going towards the hub of a fascist government. I couldn't bring myself to read to see the payoff of that because the book dragged on for so long it felt pointless, so perhaps it made sense after I left it. But suspending disbelief is not something I usually have trouble with, I love reading speculative fiction. But between that and her attempts to create a varied racism felt so hollow and utterly unnecessary, as though to create this internal subplot for you to think there might be more happening than there really is.

There was the potential to tell a story of the complications of colonizing extrasolar worlds and how it impacted the characters living there, but instead this book and its uninteresting characters got center stage, and it's quite unfortunate. I do not recommend this, there are other series worth your time and money.

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Mr. Martin J. O'Donnell

Needs an editor

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2021

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Firstly the story had some interesting ideas and concepts about future colonisation. That's the good bit.

It should have been half the length, it was padded out and way too much "rolling eyes", "winking", once you've explained a concept you don't have to keep going back and explaining it again and again, we get it.

It seems technology hasn't moved on at all since the 20th century, detailed descriptions of box-sprung bed which was nice to sleep in - I mean, come off it! They have anti-gravity fields for crying out loud. Kept going on about "The Ethernet" and "plugging yourself in" all I could see was someone with a hole in their head into which you plug a cat-5 cable. 50 years ago we didn't even have the internet and basically the height of development is the internet, no concept at all of hundreds of years of development.

All the cultural references were made in relation to the 20th century films, music, books, quotations showing a distinct lack of imagination and creative thought it was just slung on in there.

Worst of all the ending just left you hanging - after ploughing through all that pain it was just a gimmick to sell another book. I'll be avoiding this I don't want to go through all that again. Dire!

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F.R. Jameson

Gripping space opera

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2019

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A now imprisoned senior member of a space-fleet breaks out of her prison, but during her escape bumps into a man with an uncanny resemblance to her ex-husband. This man has strange abilities, to the point of being super-powered. But can he be trusted? And is he even human?

When I’m in the right mood, I’m a sucker for space opera, and what I really enjoyed about this one was how damn hard it worked to be likeable. Yes, there’s the distant planet, a new religion and a world in turmoil, but there’s also compulsive characters and pretty good jokes.

It’s all written in a breezy style which makes it hard not to go with it; there are enough 20th century cultural references to makes one chuckle, but not be irritated by, and there’s a sex robot (called, ahem, 6T9). Now no one ever put a sex robot into a book without making it the focus of cheap gags. And there are cheap gags aplenty, but what’s amazing about them is not how many different ways Gockel manages to raise a chuckle, but that simultaneously she makes him a real character. This is a sex bot you have cheap gags with and also care about.

Undoubtedly those in the hard sci-fi camp should give this a miss, as I’m not sure how well its science would hold up. But if you’re climbing on board for the distant worlds and the adventure story, then I think – like me – you’ll have a good time.

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Gail Cook

Galactic Fleet pilot teams up with History professor

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2021

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Noa (a pilot with the Galactic Fleet) has been imprisoned and is desperate to escape the concentration camp where the women have to share a bed and a blanket with two or three other women, stacked in bunk-beds four levels high. She wants to take her bedmate, Ashley with her but Ashley’s augmented legs have been ripped out of her body by the guards.

James can’t remember what exactly has happened to him due to the fall. He gets flashbacks of memories of before the fall but is struggling to piece it all together. He manages to do all sorts of things that he has no knowledge of learning to do and can run exceptionally fast and lift great weights.

Together Noa and James must find a way to connect with the galactic fleet and ask for their assistance to free the people of Luddeccea but without their ethernet connections they decide that they are going to have to leave the planet’s surface. But how to do that without a ship and crew, that is the question.

As the first book in the series I am left wanting to know what happens next. It is well written and all of the incidences, that cannot possibly be true to life here on Earth in the 21 century, are well explained and described so as to make you suspend your belief and simply enjoy the story.

Good points but a few imperfections too

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2018

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I am normally not a fan of Science Fiction because most of the time the science is too fiction. But with C. Gockel's books I found them very often explaining magic or like in this case future based on very real scientific grounds, just taken a little step further. And I like that.

This story is 400 years into the future and comes with lots of advanced technology but it's still comprehensible.
I actually got into this series through the short story “Carl Sagan...” and I hope he will play a bigger role in the next book in this series. I think without that insight, I might have lost interest in the story because some points of this book disappointed a bit: first the permanent repetition of James feeling “compelled” and Noa feeling apprehensive about James. They got to know each other more and more throughout the story but this point in their relationship didn't move on.
Also the quotes from movies from our time did make me wonder when Noa had the time to watch them all.
My major problem though was that I wasn't sure on which side I am. All these augmentations in humans, I sympathised with the Luddecean traditional way but of course not with their methods.
Also there is a lot about racism and accepting differences in this book.
I will definitely read the next one because although not a major cliffhanger but too much open ends to not continue the series....

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Emilija Stalaza

Great concept but lost steam

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2019

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I really enjoyed the concept behind this book - the idea of augmentations and their controversy - when does human become machine and vice versa. I also thought it was clever the way religion and a cultish group of fanatics created a colony and how this then impacted on the plot. It creates a great sense of place, history, and culture with some truly unique people and stories to go along with it.

I also really enjoyed the fast pace of an escape from a detention centre and the chase of authorities, as well as the mysteries around the main character's brother's fate.

I did feel though that the story ran out of steam. The prep for the last portion of the plot took so long that the tension waned. I also felt that the book didn't quite fulfil its promise. It ended in an odd place. We neither have an answer to the mystery of James' nature, nor the knowledge of whether they are free of pursuers and able to escape for good. We also didn't get a true idea of what the archangel project is, only some clues. For me that meant the story ended without true satisfaction and I'm not sure I'll read the next book in the series.

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