Ten Low

Name: Ten Low
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Stark Holborn
ISBN: 9798200699407

Author: Stark Holborn

Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella

Unabridged: 10 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 06/01/2021

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Firefly meets Dune in a breakneck race to escape across an alien moon thriving with aliens and criminals.Ten Low is an ex-army medic, one of many convicts eking out a living at the universe’s edge. She’s desperate to escape her memories of the interstellar war, and the crimes she committed, but trouble seems to follow wherever she goes. One night, attempting to atone for her sins, she pulls a teenage girl—the sole survivor—from the wreck of a spaceship. But Gabriella Ortiz is no ordinary girl. The result of a military genetics program, she is a decorated Army General, from the opposing side of the war to Ten. Worse, Ten realizes the crash was an assassination attempt, and that someone wants the Ortiz dead …The pair bury their hatreds and strike an uneasy deal to smuggle the General off-world. Their road won’t be easy: they must cross the moon’s lawless wastes, facing military hit-squads, bandits, and the one-eyed leader of an all-female road-gang, in a frantic race to get the General to safety. But something else waits in the darkness at the universe’s edge. Something that threatens to reveal Ten’s worst nightmare: the truth of who she really is and what she is running from.

About Stark Holborn

Stark Holborn is a novelist, games writer, film reviewer, and the author of Nunslinger, the Triggernometry series, and Ten Low.

About Nicol Zanzarella

Nicol Zanzarella is an award-winning audiobook narrator, with titles spanning multiple genres in both fiction and nonfiction. She came to audiobook narration after (literally) growing up within the walls of a local radio station that her father ran, and brings with her a background in both classical and contemporary theater, as well as film. She also has numerous television and radio commercials to her credit. Originally from Yonkers, New York, she currently lives in California, where, when not in the booth, you can usually find her drinking coffee, cooking her grandmother's Italian recipes, or in the local boxing gym. Thank you for listening!

Reviews

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on July 31, 2021

Q: Has he fallen from so far he doesn’t even know which moon he is on? (c) Q: emptiness beneath a brilliant, star-strewn sky. (c) Q: I stare out at the horizon. As the shards melt on my tongue and dextro rushes through me, bright and pure, what I see looks a lot like hope. (c) Factus, ie A Moon. Felicitat......more

Goodreads review by Gabrielle (Reading Rampage) on August 18, 2021

I am a sucker for a space Western: maybe it’s having been brought up on “Star Wars”, but I can’t really resist the idea of scrapy misfits ganging up together to fight a big evil galactic army, so obviously, I placed a pre-order for “Ten Low” as soon as I read the synopsis and saw the great retro-fut......more

Goodreads review by Lukasz on May 29, 2021

A Western? In space? Yes, please. Ten Low, an ex-convict and ex-medic, lives on Factus, a remote moon. She tries to stay away from the authorities and forget her dark past. After rescuing a girl from a spaceship crash, she becomes embroiled in a deadly intrigue. The girl, you see, is a genetically en......more

Goodreads review by The SciFi Book Guy on May 28, 2021

So yeah, *takes a deep pull on a dart* that was fucking amazing! Like I don’t even smoke bro, but here I am *takes another drag*. Yeah dude, that was gooood. Just give me a moment to put myself back together here… Alright, I’m cool, I’m cool… Yeah, so this was a gritty spaghetti western in grimiest......more

Goodreads review by Matteo on February 21, 2025

4,5/5 ⭐️ Una nota, innanzitutto, è doverosa. Il romanzo NON è autoconclusivo. Per niente. Viene così venduto dalla CE, ma nel complesso è una trilogia e presenta diverse questioni che rimangono irrisolte (una su tutte, il mistero "esoterico" che interessa la protagonista e che si rivela essere la parte......more

Quotes

“I loved Ten Low. Splendidly inclusive and innovative sci-fi.” Joanne Harris, New York Times bestselling author

“A crisply written space western brimming with hard living, villainy, and the search for redemption…With plenty of action and vivid worldbuilding, this tense adventure will have readers hooked.” Publishers Weekly

“A good story, with lots of action.” Booklist

“The most vibrant desert world since Dune.” Alex White, author of the Salvagers trilogy

“Stark Holborn continues to impress. Great characters and a blistering pace.” Gareth L. Powell, award-winning author of the Embers of War series

“Fantastic, punchy SF action.” Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time

“Action-packed SF adventure…OH, HELL YES!” Stina Leicht, author of Persephone Station