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The Weapon

Tachyon, Book 1

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The Weapon

By: Brandon Q. Morris
Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
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Earth Moon, Great Archive

Chronicler Tsai Yini monitors the tachyon communication system, which transmits data faster than the speed of light. When classified results from an astrobiologist's research are leaked to her, she cannot believe what she reads. The report reveals that intelligent life forms exist on a tropical planet in the Gliese system.

Their civilization is still in its infancy but revolves around an artifact of unknown origin that seems to influence their body chemistry. But there's more: the astrobiologist who uncovered this artifact has undergone a baffling evolution of his own, and he's now en route to Earth!

Yini suspects he carries a danger far greater than anyone could imagine. To stop him, she must make unimaginable decisions that could determine not only her fate but the future of the universe.

For fans of Cixin Liu, Andy Weir, and Frank Herbert, The Weapon delivers a high-stakes adventure where the line between discovery and destruction blurs.

©2024 Brandon Q. Morris (P)2024 Podium Audio Science Fiction Space Opera Adventure Space Exploration Hard Science Fiction

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let me just start by saying that I'm on to the third book so I certainly enjoy it, but there are some deeply upsetting scientific and accurate irrases and terrible name choices. stasis isn't stasis, it's hibernation and for some reason is deeply flawed in a way. that means that people are fully conscious the entire time even though time isn't passing till apparently induced comas. even though that's something we can do now is something we can't do anymore. for whatever reason, the process of uploading the personality is called consciousness verifying purification which is a stupid term and makes no sense and is not what anyone would ever call it. not if it's something that gets done on a regular basis. what else? I have to stick to the critical because I'll run out of characters. The the eaves droppers as a profession would never be a thing except perhaps in super secret government agentsies because no one would ever use the technology if there was even the slightest possibility of someone else, just casually poking through their memories! especially when the brother does it without any certification or security checks or anything. and just casually drops into random people's memories without you know so much as a log that he's done it! there would have been some narratively easy ways to work it in such as a government agent gave him access and he just didn't realize. but no, it's just a thing that people can Snoop on other people's memories, passwords, logins, private moments, everything! That's insane. people would use one-time pad, encryption or something! to keep their new memories private. I could go on, but you'll see that you'll be infuriated by these kind of things on a regular basis

if you're scientifically literate, prepare to be annoyed

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Couldn't even finish it. Slow start which is fine, but then doesn't go anywhere. Got to just a little over the halfway point in the book before I just gave up. Part of the problem is the narrator isn't good imo. It was difficult to distinguish characters at times because the voices all sound far too similar. Not to mention his narration style is very off-putting. Reminds me of a dad trying to make every line sound dramatic at bedtime for the kids.

However, the main issue is plain old bad writing. And this ain't hard scifi. There were a couple of sex scenes that were completely gratuitous and silly. Served literally no purpose in the story and were described with more detail than just about anything else in the book. Reads like something I would have been proud of as a sophomore in high school.

I'll avoid both the author and narrator in the future

Extremely disappointing

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