Valkyrie: Expeditionary Force, Book 9 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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After saving the world many times, the Merry Band of Pirates have accepted the inevitable: Earth is doomed.

All they can do is try to bring a few thousand people to safety, before vicious aliens arrive to destroy humanity's home world.

No.

There is one other thing they can do: hit the enemy so hard that the aliens will regret they ever heard of humans.

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19 hours and 45 minutes
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Craig Alanson
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R.C. Bray
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February 4, 2020
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English
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Podium Audio
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B082LRPKWD
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	19 hours and 45 minutes
Author	Craig Alanson
Narrator	R.C. Bray
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	February 04, 2020
Publisher	Podium Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B082LRPKWD
Best Sellers Rank	#1,066 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #21 in Military Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #27 in War & Military Action Fiction (Books) #42 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)

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Lynn

OMG...what a wild ride...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 24, 2023

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Loved this book. It's the first in the series to which I've given 5 stars for the overall story. I actually listened to the audio version, even though I also bought the kindle version. RC Bray always gets 5 stars from me, but the story is usually just good...not great. This one kept me on the edge of my seat much of the time. It was nice to really get to know some of the supporting characters and to understand them better. I was also glad Craig was able to bring in new characters. I'm looking forward to Book 10 to see if we continue to enjoy them or if the insane AI of the Valkyrie snuffs them all out....whew...!

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it just doesn’t stop entertaining

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 15, 2023

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The merry band of pirates must live because there are 5 more books! The solutions to crazy complicated problems are a challenge to my deductive logic. Love this series.

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Steven R. White

Cliffhanger and major change in the formula

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 3, 2020

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What happens when your favorite series has to take risks?

That's the question in ExFor 9, the last book in what's been a great ride. For the last eight books (and one REALLY must read in published order) we've had a formula -- our heroes find a new terrifying problem that threatens all humanity, the Elder AI Skippy finds new ways to tweak the powers of the universe, the meat-sacks think of something that Skippy could never conjure up, and viola! Problem solved and Earth is safe for a bit longer.

If you like that, you've had eight full books of fun space opera action. The first half of ExFor 9 starts us on a similar journey but if you're observant, you'll see that things are changing. Some old characters of course are gone thanks to Armageddon, new characters pop up, and Skippy continues his quest to understand who he is and how he came to be. Several of our favorite characters (e.g., Gunnery Sgt. Adams) have substantial new problems to overcome, and it's not pretty. Our main hero, Joe Bishop, comes to realize just how in over his head he is. His quest for vengeance -- to "hurt the MFers" as he refers to the Maxholx-- ultimately causes him to make bad decisions. He pays for that as does ExFor. It's a fine exploration of the law of unintended consequences.

That gets us to the second half where a new mission pops up. Without spoiling the details, if you read that new mission as a diversion from the main problem, well yes, it is, though the plot twist (once recognized as such) becomes just another business-as-usual for ExFor -- when do they ever get a break, right? But see what the author is doing -- he's putting our heroes into a real bind by posing a moral question that they must (of course) accept. It's one all of us would struggle with but in the end most of us would do what they do. This then pulls together just about every thread that's been out there in all the books -- where is humanity headed? Can we manage to survive without help? What's our obligation to others? And what in the world is Skippy? Be careful when, many light-years from home, you place your trust in an awesome but quirky, god-like alien AI, you may not like the final result.

There's the risk for the author and for all of us as readers. I'm very curious to see where this goes. If Ex For 9 had been just like the last eight books I might have quit reading -- you know, fun but golly let's move on because it's getting a little stale. Just like Jim Butcher had to do with the Dresden Files, Vince Flynn with Mitch Rapp, and Patrick O'Brien with Aubrey/Maturin, there comes a point where you depart from the formula. Craig Alanson is doing that and while the one-star reviews suggest that a lot of readers like formula, I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for ExFor 10.

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William S. Morris

Does need to get the science correct

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 11, 2021

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I liked the book. The discussion between Skippy and Joe has dumbed down to a simple "I hate you." I like that. The back and forth in the earlier books was getting old. We were a little short on puns like loose wheel = Lucille. I missed those. Everything was a little intense as we're battling superior odds, moving dormant transportation hubs, and trying to stock Avalon. We get to a point where we have to rescue a stranded bunch of humans while not revealing who we are, and the end of the book is the rescue, or not as the author gives us a catastrophic cliff hanger. There's still some amusing editing problems. Things like the text says "the to" when it obviously should have said "to the." A couple of wrong words, and a few grammatical errors. My big beef is the verifiable science. Altitudes are being measured in meters. That's like a yard or three feet. So if I'm 10,000 metres in altitude, I'm at 30,000 ft. That's way way up there. It's very cold up there, and a parachute will take nearly forever to get to the ground. I would not open a parachute at that altitude. If I were trying to come in stealthy, I would still not open a cute at 3,000 metres which is about 9,000 feet. It's still a long way to the ground. I've never jumped from an airplane. People get killed that way, and operational aircraft are designed to land. I've worn a parachute, but that was a precaution. I got my kicks seeing if I could get my aircraft flying below 100 ft AGL at 360, 420 480 knots. (6,7,8 miles per minute). So slow moving aircraft staying at 30 metres (90 ft) as described in the story seemed rather conservative to me, and sky diving at the altitudes mentioned in the story seemed ridiculous for a stealthy drop. It's as if Mr Alanson got confused about his meters/feet conversion. There was one mention of hovering at 25,000 meters. That's 75,000 feet. I think that's the altitudes Gary Powers was flying at when the Russians shot him down.

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Jarrak

Didn't see that coming!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 27, 2019

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WTF and You've got to be kidding me!
Those were my initial responses to reading the last line in the 9th novel of the excellent Expeditionary Force series written by Craig Alanson. Many a time a TV show has left you with a season finale cliffhanger that has you cursing the writers and producers but it's rare in a novel but Craig has managed to do so with Valkyrie. Naturally I am intensely interested in how our favoured characters are going to get out of this situation but it really did put a damper on the immediate joy of christmas after putting the kindle down. On the upside I needed a stiff drink so swings and roundabouts.
As for the novel itself, well after the terrible toll taken by Armageddon the Merry Band of Pirates have risen to the challenge and addressed the cold fact that Earth may indeed burn but any small victory is a victory when you consider the incredible obstacles a whole galaxy can throw up against them. I've got to admit the beginning of the novel had me laughing like an idiot which is no small feat given the low point (plot wise) we were in but it all kinda makes sense and that's something Craig proves himself capable of time and time again when creating situations and solutions to entertain us. Naturally Joe and the rest of the pirates face the dilemma of using their battlecruiser to maximum effect when faced with a senior species who begin to ask the right questions as to who is striking their ships but when intelligence indicates a few hundred human prisoners are being sold for bioweapon research there was never any doubt no matter what they risk they would find a way to help.
Valkyrie is without a doubt a valuable addition to the series and draws a line in the narrative, where is goes from now only Craig knows and while I have some trepidation I'm along for the ride.

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PJL

Entertaining SF

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 28, 2020

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Book 9 - bargain entertainment when purchased audible narration £3.99 from Amazon to help fight the boredom of the Coronavirus lockdown With The Merry Band of Pirates have accepted the inevitable: Earth is doomed. All they can do is try to bring a few thousand people to safety, before vicious aliens arrive to destroy humanity's homeworld. No. There is one other thing they can do: hit the enemy so hard that the aliens will regret they ever heard of humans. Would have preferred a better final chapter.

Ms. Ashley R. Pollard

Shit Gets Real

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 22, 2022

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This is the book that for me changed up a gear, and as Skippy would say, the story is awesome. The story is fun, exciting, and moreish.

Beware, this series is seriously addictive, as in if you get hooked you won't just read one, you'll want to read them all.

D. Marsh

Similar battles but with a big ending

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 20, 2020

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A good read and entertaining as ever, but some annoyance that their difficulties are repeats of already covered storylines - earth in the do do, paradise in the do do, earth again in the do do etc etc. This changes however when squeezed within the last 3% of the book, their situation becomes more hopeless than at any point beforehand. Book 10 will certainly be a interesting read 😊

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Kindle Customer

A complete waste of a book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 18, 2020

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This books pacing is incredibly bad, the whole plot of the book leads up to a big mission that isn't really important, only for a new plot point to be railroaded in at the last second and the book ends on a massive cliffhanger.

Honestly everything but the last 10% of this book is pointless and o ly pads out the story so that the cliffhanger can happen and we have to wait for the next book for the main plot to progress.

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