Hell Divers (Hell Divers, #1) By Nicholas Sansbury Smith
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More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home Aging and outdated most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers men and women who risk their lives by skydiving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need. Is hell divers 12 the last book When one of the remaining airships is damaged in an electrical storm a Hell Diver team is deployed to a hostile zone called Hades But there s something down there far worse than the mutated creatures discovered on dives in the past something that threatens the fragile future of humanity Hell Divers Hell Divers 1 Nicholas Sansbury Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Hell Divers series His other work includes the Extinction Cycle series the Trackers series and the Orbs series He worked for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management in disaster planning and mitigation before switching careers to focus on his one true passion writing When he isnt writing or daydreaming about the apocalypse he enjoys running biking spending time with his family and traveling the world He is an Ironman triathlete and lives in Iowa with his wife their dogs and a house full of books Sign up for Nicholass spam free newsletter to learn about future releases how to claim a book patch special offers and bonus content Nicholas Sansbury Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Hell Divers series His other work includes the Extinction Cycle series the Trackers series and the Orbs series He worked for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management in disaster planning and mitigation before switching careers to focus on his one true passion writing When he isn t writing or daydreaming about the apocalypse he enjoys running biking spending time with his family and traveling the world He is an Ironman triathlete and lives in Iowa with his wife their dogs and a house full of books Sign up for Nicholas s spam free newsletter to learn about future releases how to claim a book patch special offers with well developed multidimensional realistic characters I was familiar with Sansbury Smith s work from his Extinction Horizon Zombie series and went through them one after the other till I had to wait for his newest release and preordered that one. Hell divers book 1 This book had it all mystery suspense nonstop thrills and horror all mixed in I did not read the synopsis of book 2 for this series until I finished this one so was surprised by the ending and thought it was perfect. New hell divers book Looking forward to moving onto 2 in this series soon and cannot recommend Mr Sansbury Smith s work highly enough He is definitely not a one hit wonder and is quite honestly just terrifically talented and gets what readers enjoy and seek in thrillers horror books. Hell divers book 1 C Bray was amazing as the narrator Whenever I see his name listed as the person who narrated a book I know the listening experience will be well beyond expectations Audiobook DNF. Hell divers book series Even the most outlandish science fiction must include some actual science at some point If you want a floating city you can totally have a floating city But don t try to float it on helium Or if you do be sure to explain the millions of cubic feet of helium required to lift an small city You cannot skip over that part If you want the human race to be reduced to 500 people you do that But you better come up with some cool sci fi trick to explain away the genetic damage of that kind of inbreeding If you want the city ship to leak so much radiation that it give most of the citizens cancer you can do that too But now you need to make your genetic damage trick work twice as hard And so on. Helldivers game 2 Bottom line there is no magic in science fiction Even the most miraculous technology requires a plausible sounding explanation Audiobook We dive so humanity survives I would rather die in World War III than to live in Hell Divers world After the war what s left of humanity lives on airships that circle earth Teams of courageous men and women have to dive down to earth for supplies These dives are very dangerous with high death rate Electrical storms radiation and hungry mutated monsters live on the surface Great characters and fun story Audiobook Listened to this I enjoyed the world but felt the author did not think things through There appeared to be no prey for the Sirens to eat yet there were appeared to be endless swarms of them And if the Sirens were some how living off radiation why did they evolve to be super predators Also if the humans lived on the airships and were always in need of supplies Why were the Helldivers able to just throw away things like parachutes crates guns boosters armor and all sorts of other things Also were did they get zip ties Audiobook I had never heard of this author before but he can certainly write an exciting story In this post apocalyptic novel the remainder of the human race has been relegated to two ancient spacecrafts where they are faced with class warfare scant resources electrical storms and carnivorous mutant humanoid creatures Teams of hell divers plummet 20000 feet from the spacecraft called the Hive to land on the poisoned surface of the Old World in order to scavenge for critical supplies The Earth has been radioactive for centuries and is subject to both monstrous blizzards and those killer electrical storms and creatures. Hell divers book monsters The action takes place both on the Hive and on the Old World especially a particularly dangerous portion of it called Hades Perhaps it was a formatting problem in the advance digital copy of the book that I read but sometimes it was confusing telling exactly where the action was taking place However the action wherever it occurred was really thrilling This is not exactly a character driven book and the only ones we really get to know in any detail are X a veteran hell diver Tin an intelligent and resourceful 10 year old boy and Captain Maria Ash the leader of the Hive and it was easy to root for all three of them. Helldivers levels I did not realize that this was the first book of a new trilogy and the book ends on what may be a cliffhanger which I found somewhat annoying Nevertheless I really liked this book and I will probably read book two. Hell divers book bookpedia I received a free copy of this book from the publisher Audiobook Heart Taking Out of electric parts as usual X and his team has to dive down to Earth to get the necessary supplies they need to stay afloat. Helldivers crossplay Hell Divers is the perfect name for the men and women doing the job Four stars for the drama series Audiobook Hell DiversThe Hell Divers Series Book 1By Nicholas Sansbury SmithNarrated by R C BrayThis is one of my favorite books It is so exciting with sci fi and the fantasy part Suspense intrigue nail biting moments and creatures Oh yeah I loved this What if the only people left on Earth was in ships that floated about the Earth down to only two ships now Now one needs help your ship is the only one left and the only one that can helpall supplies are on Earth that is contaminated lightning storms between you and Earth and creatures on the Earth that are growing in number So exciting The narrator is the great RC Bray My favorite narrator He makes any book better The emotions voices and inflections are perfect The suspense is doubled So intense Wonderful as usual Audiobook So aggravating It s Impossible to buy into a post apocalyptic action story when the worldbuilding is as fundamentally broken as this one. Hell divers books in order Setting a couple hundred years ago WWIII incinerated the Earth Some people survived on giant airships similar to the ones that dropped the world ending bombs Now scavengers from the airships parachute down to the wrecked surface to find parts for the decaying airships. Helldivers kinguin Okay the setup doesn t make much sense Why would huge dirigibles drop bombs Maybe that s an unreliable narrator thing as this is said by a character who grew up on said airship We ll let this one go as our one big buy in. Hell divers book bookpedia But if the world is so inimical how are there still usable supplies left after at least two centuries Radiation corrodes everything from metal to cement And if a huge thermonuclear bomb was dropped near enough to a city for there to be lingering radioactivity that would imply searing heat and shockwaves to destroy everything I ll buy that they might be scavenging outside of the various grounds zero except they literally traverse a crater in Chicago and the radiation is off the charts Which means the heart of the nuclear explosion was right there Plus all the weather Come on. Hell divers how to destroy fuel silos There are monsters too Huge flying dinobatdragon things that are blind and eat radiation This is nonsensical bullshit What do these things eat Radioactive dirt It s just super stupid These critters are straight out of the Riddick movies except dumber In Pitch Black one could at least assume the monsters have an entire underground ecosystem and it was just bad luck the hapless travelers landed on their planet the one day every millennium that the multiple suns are blocked casting darkness over the place that allows the flying biters to venture out onto the surface Don t listen to the commentary director David Twohy makes it stupider But here these things don t make sense. Hell divers hug I m already balking at the idea these monstrosities evolved after just two centuries this attraction to energy sources is a bridge too far I can t just shrug and go Eh it s all just fantasy let it go because the story presents itself as a hardnosed tech based tale Which implies a modicum of science Which implies a modicum of realism. Hell divers logo And the airships wtf These things must be gargantuan Early on it s said there are 560 people on board Lifted by helium We ll get to the helium in a moment There is for some reason a class structure on the craft Above decks versus below decks Why There are only 560 people You would need every single person working around the clock to keep a 200 year old airship flying Also how is it that our hero Xavier runs into someone he doesn t recognize There are only 560 people They all live in what is essentially a single apartment building You re going to run into everyone eventually Even if you don t know everyone s name you will at least recognize them just by living in the same enclosed space for YOUR ENTIRE GODDAMN LIFE. Hell divers 2 book They also have farms to feed these people plus animals like cows and goats How big are these fakakta ships It takes about a quarter acre of land to produce enough food for one person Which implies 140 acres of food We can probably cut that by 3 4 if we assume a super efficient hydroponic growing situation which isn t the case here because at one point a kid runs through a corn field A corn field On a damn airship Plus the animals It takes a lot space to house and to feed animals just to turn them into food and clothes This thing must be miles long and hundreds of feet tall just to accommodate the bare essentials. Helldivers for ps4 The last two dogs are there too Huskies Just in cages They don t eat the dogs and Smith doesn t kill them which is good by me but why are they there At some point they would ve been eaten given that people are literally starving to death At the very least they wouldn t keep useless animals around Just mouths to feed Historically every time explorers got stranded they eventually ate their dogs and horses With great regret I m sure but there comes a time when pragmatism and hunger wins out over emotional attachments to your beloved pets. Helldivers kinguin They can t see the sun so where are they getting the lights for the plants plus all the other places Is it all from helldivers Riiight The ships are powered by several nuclear reactors which leak causing cancer among the below decks crowd Why are there several reactors One should be fine And why do they leak Just to cause drama between the privileged above deckers and shat upon below deckers It doesn t escape notice that the below decks group is black and the above decks group is white If this is social commentary it is the stupidest version of it ever Even Snowpiercer Vol 1 The Escape makes sense than this and that story is ridiculous But it works just fine as a metaphor because it unapologetically leans into the metaphor The helium they make it Except you can t Even with the vague handwavium employed here the fact is that you Can t Make Helium Well okay technically you could but it requires massive building sized equipment and shit tons of radiation from nuclear fusion Radiation they ve got but not everything else Helium is essentially only created inside of a star They would only be able to make minuscule amounts of it not the extraordinary volumes to float a sky town. Helldivers game 2 And those volumes would have to be INCREDIBLE to lift all those people animals acres of dirt and crops water and all the other stuff needed for this floating city in the sky A cubic meter of helium can lift a little over a kilogram How much does a small town with 560 people animals engines nuclear reactors and farms weigh A hundred million kilos That s helium than exists on Earth We re running out of helium now by the way And wasting it on party balloons The dumbest part of this is that hydrogen is easy to make using just water and electricity plus it s only half as dense as helium and has about 8% lift AND it is explosive creating yet another dramatic danger the characters could face without changing anything else about the story. Helldivers factions See what I mean about aggravating It seems pretty clear to me that Smith wanted to tell an entire story about the one cool scene from the 2014 Godzilla movie namely the HALO jump featured in the trailers This one The cover of the book literally looks like a screen grab from that scene He also enjoyed the 2000 dragon movie Reign of Fire which has a similar scene and he shamelessly steals it for the climax Seriously the denouement is exactly that scene Like some of us wouldn t notice Setting it with the flying version of Mortal Engines is just the natural outgrowth of that desire. Helldivers levels I don t even care that the characters are stock tropes who say stock phrases and act in a stock manner Those would be fine if the worldbuilding were cool enough Even the most amazing characters with spectacular writing couldn t save this story though Edit I posted this review August 7th 2020 Today February 11th 2021 I saw a cool video on YouTube uploaded last week Up IRL VFX Artist Simulates Pixar but with Real Physics goes into the science of lifting the house in Up with helium balloons Lots of neat science stuff including a vacuum balloon watch the vid that s suitable for kids and gets across the math in a fun way Which serves to prove my point that this Helldivers book is annoyingly dumb Audiobook Very satisfying post apocalyptic scifi While there are some minor plot holes the book really delivers a satisfying summer blockbuster feel If this was turned into a movie I d be in the theater on opening night In simple terms HELL DIVERS is a monster story a tale of survival Humanity is pushed to the very brink of extinction magnifying the potential impact of every character s actions and decisions Smith does a great job of using two literary devices the option lock where character have no choice but to fulfill a particular option if they want to survive and the time lock a. Helldivers game 2 Overall this is a strong work I loved it Audiobook If u don t mind some mindless action and adventure by putting away all sense of logic and reasoning behind carried out by cardboard cut out chatacters then dive right in Pun totally intended.
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And bonus content Subscribers will also receive access to exclusive giveaways site_link eepurl. Helldivers 2 com author_sansbury site_link Hell Divers was even better than based on all the great reviews I read prior I already expected. Hell divers pfp Getting to the supplies mean going into dangerous territory Not only is the dive dangerous but so is the surprise that s waiting for them: Helldivers publisher The surface is a radioactive hellscape of gargantuan snowstorms and electrical discharges as well as actual monsters Hence the book title The parachutists dive into hell, Helldivers app a the ticking countdown timer of a bomb Both devices add significant tension and when Smith combines them I was on the edge of my seat, Helldivers game 2 To be honest I somewhat did indeed enjoy reading this book So 3, Hell divers push to talk key 25 stars for sheer frivolous ness factor amidst all my heavy reads Audiobook
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