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Titan's revolution is coming. All it needs is one final spark.Â
After decades hunting wanted offworlders throughout the solar system, Corporate Bounty Hunter Malcolm Graves doesn't bother asking questions. So long as the pay is right, he's the man for the job. And he always works alone.Â
But when a high-profile bombing on Earth has Pervenio Corp clamoring for answers, they force him to team up with a strange, cyber-augmented partner. A young man more interested in statistics than instinct. Their assignment Track down a suspected group of extremists from Titan who will go to any length to free their moon from the grip of Earth's corporations.Â
Heading into hostile territory, Malcolm will have to use everything he's learned to stay alive. But he soon realizes the situation on the ground is much more complex than he anticipated...and much more personal.Â
Experience the epic first entry in the Children of Titan series. If you're a fan of The Expanse, Blade Runner, or Star Wars, you'll love this gritty, space opera thriller from USA Today best-seller Rhett C. Bruno!Â
Download PDF Titanborn Audible Audio Edition Rhett C Bruno RC Bray Audible Studios Books
"Think dystopian stories like Blade Runner and the old gumshoe noir films, oh, and even a touch of James Bond all set in a verse somewhere between Firefly and The Expanse. Did I mention doomsday already came and went? The protagonist, Malcom Graves, is a gritty, strung-out "Collector" hunting bounties on the company dollar. After botching his latest job, fate hands him a second chance at redemption in more than just his employer's eyes. While on vacation, he finds himself at ground zero for a terrorist attack. He must then take on a cyborg partner he doesn't want while they chase the attackers across first the earth and then the solar system. All the while, Malcom feels the past chasing him.
Post-apocalyptic and sci-fi gumshoe fans will love this story. I know I did!"
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Titanborn Audible Audio Edition Rhett C Bruno RC Bray Audible Studios Books Reviews
- Having already been a reader and fan of The Circuit series, I was expecting Titanborn to be good.
Luckily for me, it lived up to expectations )
When I first began reading this book I was expecting it to be part of the same universe as The Circuit books, but it turns out that although it's somewhat similar, it's different enough to stand entirely on it's own.
There were a bunch of lengthy descriptions of people, things, places and events, which kinda distracted me a little bit, but that is normal when you have to build an entire world in a few pages.
Overall this is a solid piece of Sci-Fi writing, with a pretty interesting world and story. When there will be more stories set in this world, I will doubtless read them. - "Titanborn," Rhett C. Bruno's novel of an earth more than 300 years in the future, establishes in its opening scenes the rebellion that will haunt its protagonist, bounty hunter Malcolm Graves, for the rest of the novel. Graves is a throw-back, a kind of anti-hero who ruled the paperback section of the bookstore regardless of genre back in the days when the Marlboro Man ruled the backs of magazines. He's a hard-drinking sort who gets his man, sometimes in dramatic fashion. Bruno doesn't have his main character moralize. He's an observer doing his job. He'd rather not kill an entire group of poor miners rebelling for better pay and conditions, but he's got to stop the movement before it spreads. His employer, a massive company that took root after a meteor nearly destroyed all life on our planet some three centuries before, acts more like a governing body. It is nearly all powerful with the exception of several smaller corporations that jockey for position. Caught in the middle is humanity. Most are dependent on this new world order for survival. Earth is in a perpetual winter. Most life is dead. Civilization as it was once known is a relic. The major conflict of Titanborn is that between the earthers and those who fled the planet just before impact of the meteor. Those off-worlders enjoyed independence and a degree of success populating the moons of Saturn and other spots in the universe. However, as earth began to recover its corporate powers sought out a means of profit and that took them to the realms of the off-worlders. The earthers brought disease that wiped out many of those they came in contact with. The off-worlders died in droves, and the corporate powers took control. Titanborn becomes the calling card for rebellion. Graves really doesn't care. He just doesn't want distraction from doing what he loves, and that's tracking down bad guys. A subplot is that he illegally raised a daughter who wasn't officially sanctioned. He took her on assignments and taught her to be a bounty hunter. But she and he had a falling out some six or so years earlier. Graves is soon sent on the trail of a terrorist who ignites a bomb amongst revelers of a massive celebration. His corporate employer gives him a partner, a robotic type who has been trained from a young age to be his replacement. Graves doesn't like the guy at first. Graves makes mistakes. He's brash. But he gets results. His partner earns his respect. Both save each others lives. They even begin to like each other. But as Graves gets closer to the truth of the conflict spawned by the Titanborn, trouble erupts. It goes in a direction he doesn't expect. This novel is a bit of a throwback. It reminded me a little of Isaac Asimov's private eye R. Daneel Olivaw. All is not as it seems. Graves must make a decision. The book is well worth a read, and Bruno appears to be one of those writers with a lot to say.
- A strong sci-fi thriller from one of the best new voices in science fiction. Part space opera, part thriller, Titanborn was a great read on its own and promising start to a new series.
Malcolm Graves is a collector, a combination bounty hunter, detective, and assassin. After a major terrorist attack on Earth, Graves is tasked with tracking down and eliminating the perpetrators. With him is his new partner Zhaff, a conditioned human with incredible combat skills and intelligence but zero social skills, just like an android. They discover that the attack is just the beginning of what could be a much broader conflict that could tear the Solar System apart.
Graves and Zhaff live in a future where Earth was struck by a meteor nearly wiping out the species. One small group of brave souls escaped to the Saturn moon of Titan, while the rest endured, survived, and rebuilt on Earth as well as Mars and other celestial bodies of the solar system. The great reunification of the Earth survivors and the people of Titan is not a happy one, creating an ethnic friction between the two peoples.
Graves is a noir detective of the future, employed by a major corporation but with all the authority and immunities of a government agent. Graves and his apprehension of getting a new partner was reminiscent of those classic detective stories, police procedurals, and shoot'em ups from back in the day.
The terrorist pursuit is pretty exciting, although takes a little bit of time to develop. The first 30-45 pages are pretty slow, taking time to set the stage rather than advance the story. After that, the pace is more than adequate. It doesn't have the great twist at the end that many noir mysteries have but there are a few surprises.
A note on the world-building A growing number of sci-fi authors love using mega-corporations as the powerful, authoritarian entities in the future rather than governments. I am not sure why, especially since many of the novels do not touch on economics, cronyism, or any of the other elements that usually come with the "evil corporations" theme. Instead, it is more like what puppet Tim Robbins said in Team America "The corporations are greedy and act all corporationy, and they make money..."
Titanborn does not bother with the economic inequality or corruption themes, instead sticking with the bounty hunter/detective angle. Very smart in my opinion. I don't think most sci-fi readers want to read about economics. At the same time, some may be disappointed the book does not dwell on any social commentary.
Titanborn takes place in a very detailed and well-developed future. The world-building, technology, and physical descriptions are all excellent. You get a real strong sense of the Earther-Ringer tensions and can easily understand the animosity and bitterness that emerges between the two.
While most elements of the book are compelling, there is no particular part that really blew me away, aside from the world-building. I enjoyed reading it but it didn't quite leave that powerful lasting impression. Even so, I recommend it for readers who love thrillers and space operas, as well as general sci-fi readers. - Think dystopian stories like Blade Runner and the old gumshoe noir films, oh, and even a touch of James Bond all set in a verse somewhere between Firefly and The Expanse. Did I mention doomsday already came and went? The protagonist, Malcom Graves, is a gritty, strung-out "Collector" hunting bounties on the company dollar. After botching his latest job, fate hands him a second chance at redemption in more than just his employer's eyes. While on vacation, he finds himself at ground zero for a terrorist attack. He must then take on a cyborg partner he doesn't want while they chase the attackers across first the earth and then the solar system. All the while, Malcom feels the past chasing him.
Post-apocalyptic and sci-fi gumshoe fans will love this story. I know I did!
