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Alexander Outland: Space Pirate

By: G. J. Koch
Narrated by: Andy Caploe
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Captain Alexander Outland of the Sixty-Nine (short for Space Vessel 369, of course) is the best pilot in the galaxy. He’s also a pirate, a smuggler, and loved and loathed by women in umpteen solar systems. His crew of strays and misfits includes an engineer of dubious sanity, a deposed planetary governor, an annoyingly unflappable Sexbot copilot, and a slinky weapons chief who stubbornly refuses to give the captain a tumble.

Outland just wants to make a decent living skirting the law, but when an invisible space armada starts cutting into his business, he soon finds himself in hot water with the military, the mob, mad bombers, and an extended family of would-be conquerors. And that’s not counting an occasionally telepathic spy....

Like any sensible scoundrel, he hates heroics. They’re risky and they don’t pay well. But to keep his ship and crew in one piece, and make time with a certain hard-to-get weapons chief, he might just have to make an exception - and save the galaxy in spite of himself!

©2012 G.J. Koch (P)2012 Audible, Inc. Adventure Science Fiction Fiction Transportation Interstellar Pirate

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Editor reviews

Andy Caploe's performance as Alexander "Nap" Outlander perfectly pairs with the tongue-in-cheek humor of G. J. Koch's campy space romp. Caploe's husky growl captures the antihero rogue's buoyant snark and swagger, bringing to life Koch's dime novel adventure.

The fast pace of the action-packed narrative is matched in speed by the repartee between the quirky, patched-together crew, peppered with the one-liners that make up libido-driven Nap's internal monologue. The chapters of Alexander Outlander: Space Pirate fly by in a rapid-fire flurry of death-defying escapes, jaunty banter, and pure fun.
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Enjoyed listening to this on a long drive. A good old space yarn. I hope we get more of Alexander Outland

Good old space yarn

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absolutely loved it action adventure a pirate who definitely loves women but all set with a tounge in cheek sense of humour loved it

A fantastic adventure with a sense of humour

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Don't get me wrong, Koch is no Douglas Adams, but this is a likeable, amusing sci-fi story which takes the idea of a character like Han Solo and runs with it. Personally, I'd ship out with Captain Outland over Solo any day, he's got the better crew and gets into funnier situations.



Essentially, Alexander Napoleon Outland is a rogue with a woman in every spaceport (usually several women in each one), despite the fact that the one he really wants is his weapons and security officer. She's called "Slinky" and I think that covers everything we need to know about her (though she's brighter than the name might suggest). Together with Randolf, their ultra-nerd mechanic, and "The Governor" they get dumped into a situation where they must outwit a pirate armada bent on taking over the galaxy. Of course, that's not a problem, but it's the getting there that's the fun part.



Oh, and along the way they pick up a copilot who happens to be a converted sexbot, a spy who happens to be a brilliant cook, a military officer who happens to have a universal communicator, and a self-aware scanner. You'll get the hang of it.

Amusing sci-fi action space opera

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For me the narrator destroyed the book. I forced me through first 20 minutes since I needed to listen a easy book while travelling without Internet

Ok book but that could be shorted

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What disappointed you about Alexander Outland: Space Pirate?

biggest pile of poo I have heard ,thought it would get better,but sadly wrong

Would you ever listen to anything by G. J. Koch again?

no

How could the performance have been better?

read something different

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Alexander Outland: Space Pirate?

prologue to epilogue

Any additional comments?

none

poo

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Just crap... This wanna be hero in story, who are a mix between "all be back" and James Bond copy. Had so many girls that he don't remember any names.. Bad wannabe cool reading to.. Stay away.. Waste.

Really cheap and bad

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I tried listening to chapter one twice. The misogyny was just too much. It’s like a badly scripted bond movie from the early 60s or 70s.
Someone once told me that offence is taken not given, I found the sexism unapologetically old fashioned.
The narrator has a pleasant voice but I could hear him ‘acting’ instead of narrating. I’m sure I’d enjoy him reading something else but his irregular but almost predictable habit of a sharp intake of breath before delivering a dramatic line was a bit irritating.
Not a book for me.

Couldn’t get past chapter one

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got about 90 mins in before giving up. shallow characters, slow plot and I could smell the teen bedroom through the speakers.

teen boys imagination gone to far,

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