The Orphanage Series – REQUEST – Robert Buettner Free Audiobook

Written by Robert Buettner
Read by Adam Epstein
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 56 Kbps
Unabridged

1. Orphanage
2. Orphan’s Destiny
3. Orphan’s Journey
4. Orphan’s Allaince
5. Orphan’s Triumph

Robert Buettner – Orphanage (2004/2012) Jason Wander #1

8:43 unb 56/44 mono 209 MB

This book is written in homage to Science Fiction Greats Robert A. Heinlien, and Joe Haldeman, who each wrote political commentaries on War set in science fiction stories. Heinlein wrote his original Starship Troopers in 1959, and Haldeman wrote his The Forever War in 1972. Each of these books follows a young man from basic training through to great battles to attempt to save the earth from aliens, as does this story.

The begining of the Jason Wander series, this book introduces our hero. Just another disenfranchised youth in trouble with the law. He is suddenly thrust into a harsh and bitter struggle for survival after an alien attack upon Earth kills millions including his parents. Now the human race must reach for the stars, but nobody has advanced spacefaring technology in nearly a century and all nations must work together to fund a new space race. Soon a forlorn hope is sent out against the enemy. Butt it isn’t humanities last hope, its a test of the aliens defensive abilities and no one in command expects them to survive. Good thing it’s crewed by the only soldiers who won’t be missed, the Orphans.

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Mankind’s first alien contact tears into Earth: Projectiles launched from Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, vaporize whole cities. Under siege, humanity gambles on one desperate counterstrike. In a spacecraft scavenged from scraps and armed with Vietnam-era weapons, foot soldiers like 18-year-old Jason Wander, orphans that no one will miss, must dare man’s first interplanetary voyage and invade Ganymede.

They have one chance to attack, one ship to attack with. Their failure is our extinction.

Robert Buettner – Orphan’s Destiny (2005/2012)

8:46 unb 56/44 mono 211 MB

At 25, General Jason Wander has fought and won man’s only alien conflict. Now, after long years in space, he’s coming home…but to what? Earth’s desperate nations, impoverished by war damage and military spending, are slashing defense budgets. There’s just one problem with this new worldwide policy – the first alien invasion was merely Plan A.

Suddenly, the real assault begins: Earth is attacked by a vast armada of city-sized warships. To block their invasion, mankind has only one surviving craft and a single guerrilla strike force…a suicide squad led by Jason Wander.

Buettner does a very admirable job of conveying Jason’s life after the events of the first book, from the survivors guilt Jason (naturally) feels, to his adjustment from soldier to political puppet. Here in Orphan’s Destiny, again told in the first person, Jason’s story comes across very genuinely, and for all of Jasons heroic acts, in a rather self-deprecating manner. Despite the successful campaign Jason led, he still has no preconceived notions that he is a hero, he considers himself simply a soldier. However, years have passed between Jason defeating the Slugs on Ganymede and his ultimate return to Earth. Still present are the clouds of dust from the impacts of the Slug missiles, butt the political climate has changed, and amidst all of this, Jason adjusts to being considered a Hero, and everything the role of Hero entails as a symbol to the people of Earth.

Robert Buettner – Orphan’s Journey (2008/2012) Jason Wander #3

11:08 unb 56/44 mono 267 MB

In the years since the last Slug War, Jason’s command style hasn’t made him any friends in the Army. Now, in an effort to keep him out of trouble, the Army has sent Jason to the vast, Earth-orbiting resort called New Moon. At the core of this enormous space station is a starship, a relic from the last war.

When a test run of the ship goes wrong, Jason, along with a handful of others, will be torn from orbit and thrust into space. Now, stranded on an alien planet, Jason realizes that not only are his friends are looking to him for rescue, but an entire planet sees him as their only hope.

About the author
Robert Buettner’s best-selling debutt novel, Orphanage, 2004 Quill Award nominee for Best SF/Fantasy/Horror novel, was called the Post-9/11 generation’s Starship Troopers and has been adapted for film by Olatunde Osunsanmi (The Fourth Kind) for Davis Entertainment (Predator, I Robot, Eragon). Orphanage and other books in Robert’s Jason Wander series have been translated into Chinese, Czech, French, Russian, and Spanish. Robert was a 2005 Quill nominee for Best New Writer.

Robert is a former U.S. Army intelligence officer and National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology. As attorney of record in more than three thousand cases, he practiced in the U.S. federal courts, before courts and administrative tribunals in no fewer than thirteen states, and in five foreign countries. Six, if you count Louisiana.

He lives in Georgia with his family and more bicycles than a grownup needs.

Robert Buettner – Orphan’s Alliance (2008/2012) Jason Wander #4

8:14 unb 56/44 mono 198 MB

Humans have been discovered on the Outworlds. And the Army decides to send emissaries. Emissaries like Jason Wander.

As intraplanetary conflicts rage around him and the personal stakes get ever higher, Jason finds that playing planet-hopping politician can be harder than commanding armies.

When united mankind squares off to battle the Slugs for a precious interstellar crossroad, Jason will discover that the most dangerous enemy may be the one he least expects.

Robert Buettner – Orphan’s Triumph (2009/2013) Jason Wander #5

10:07 unb 56/44 mono 243 MB

Jason Wander is ready to lead the final charge into battle.

After 40 years of fighting the Slugs, mankind’s reunited planets control the vital crossroad that secures their uneasy union. The doomsday weapon that can end the war, and the mighty fleet that will carry it to the Slug homeworld, lie within humanity’s grasp.

Since the Slug Blitz orphaned Jason Wander, he has risen from infantry recruit to commander of Earth’s garrisons on the emerging allied planets. But four decades of service have cost Jason not just his friends and family, butt his innocence.

When an enemy counter stroke threatens to reverse the war and destroy mankind, Jason must finally confront not only his lifelong alien enemy, but the reality of what a lifetime as a soldier has made him.