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A review by electricoutcast
Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh
5.0
How I read/listened to Downbelow Station:
Let's start from 10 years ago, both me and my dad were at a truck stop in Arkansas and I saw a group of audio books that were made by a company called GraphicAudio: A Movie in Your Mind. The first ever audiobook I bought from them was a Batman title called The Stone King the entire audiobook felt like a radio drama being told and long form. On average their audiobooks are abridged and run about 6 hours and sometimes they usually release audio books in like one or two parts sometimes maybe even six. Fast forward to now and I find out that GraphicAudio was planning to release Downbelow Station, and prior to them releasing their version of the audiobook, I had never heard of this 1980s novel, but the plot line interested me enough to give it a try and they did not disappoint. The story felt like Star Trek Deep Space 9, before there was a deep space nine series on Star Trek that and it felt darker than any Star Trek related thing I've ever seen, it may even be potentially darker than Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back. One warning I will give to anyone who wants to try the dramatized audiobook version of this story: there will be times where they'll cut some parts out of the novel for time allocation because I tried to read along with the story like how I did in my childhood with the Disney read along tapes, not a bad experience but you better keep your attention on the book if you read along. But I will finish by saying that if you listen to this audiobook on GraphicAudio, you will never want to listen to a single voice version of an audiobook ever again.
Let's start from 10 years ago, both me and my dad were at a truck stop in Arkansas and I saw a group of audio books that were made by a company called GraphicAudio: A Movie in Your Mind. The first ever audiobook I bought from them was a Batman title called The Stone King the entire audiobook felt like a radio drama being told and long form. On average their audiobooks are abridged and run about 6 hours and sometimes they usually release audio books in like one or two parts sometimes maybe even six. Fast forward to now and I find out that GraphicAudio was planning to release Downbelow Station, and prior to them releasing their version of the audiobook, I had never heard of this 1980s novel, but the plot line interested me enough to give it a try and they did not disappoint. The story felt like Star Trek Deep Space 9, before there was a deep space nine series on Star Trek that and it felt darker than any Star Trek related thing I've ever seen, it may even be potentially darker than Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back. One warning I will give to anyone who wants to try the dramatized audiobook version of this story: there will be times where they'll cut some parts out of the novel for time allocation because I tried to read along with the story like how I did in my childhood with the Disney read along tapes, not a bad experience but you better keep your attention on the book if you read along. But I will finish by saying that if you listen to this audiobook on GraphicAudio, you will never want to listen to a single voice version of an audiobook ever again.