Skyler Ramirez Audiobooks

The Worst Admiral in the Star Cluster: comic military space opera

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.6/5 average

1 listener rating

Who is Skyler Ramirez?

Few series names tell you as much as Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes. Add a novel titled The Worst Admiral in the Star Cluster and the register becomes unmistakable: military science fiction played for comedy, with incompetence as the engine and survival as the running gag.

Skyler Ramirez works a well-loved corner of the genre. Space opera has always had room for the unlikely officer promoted far past their ability, and the form supplies both the fleet-scale set pieces and the low farce of a chain of command that should never have been assembled. Eleven hours is a good length for it, long enough to build a war, short enough to keep the joke sharp.

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Skyler Ramirez in audiobooks

Michael Murphy narrates, and comic science fiction is unforgiving of a flat reading; the material needs somebody who can deliver a catastrophic order with a completely straight face.

This is a new listing and the ratings are barely established, so set the average aside for now and judge it on premise and length instead. Anyone who enjoys the sillier end of naval space opera, where the plans collapse on schedule and the hero survives on nothing but luck, will know within a chapter whether this fleet is theirs.

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