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The Worldship Humility

By: RR Haywood
Narrated by: Colin Morgan
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About the audiobook:

The Worldship Humility is the start of The Code trilogy, written exclusively for audio by sci-fi author R. R. Haywood. Narrator Colin Morgan brings the colourful characters and treacherous escapades of The Worldship Humility to life, a gripping space adventure which will appeal to fans of Ready Player One, Bladerunner and Haywood’s previous best-selling works, Extracted and The Undead.

Summary:

It’s been 120 years since the 50 or so worldships containing the few million survivors set off after planet Earth was destroyed by a meteor.

On the Worldship Humility, Sam, an Airlock Operative, is bored. Living in space should be full of adventure, except it isn’t, and he fills his time hacking 3-D movie posters.

Petty thief Yasmine Dufont is also from the WS Humility, but she is not bored. Growing up in the Elfors, the lawless lower levels of the ship, has seen her surrounded by violence and squalor since birth, and now she wants out. She wants to escape to the luxury of the Ab-Spa on top of WS Abstinence, where they eat real food instead of rats and synth cubes.

Meanwhile, the sleek-hulled, unmanned Gagarin has come back from punching out ahead of the fleet in the ever-continuing search for a new home. Nearly all hope is lost that a new planet will ever be found, until the Gagarin returns with a code of information that suggests a habitable planet has been found. This news should be shared with the whole fleet, but a few rogue captains want to keep the information to themselves and colonise the new planet.

When Yasmine inadvertently steals the code, she and Sam become caught up in a dangerous game of murder, corruption, political wrangling and...porridge, with sex-addicted Detective Zhang Woo hot on their heels, his own life at risk if he fails to get the code back.

About the author:

R. R. Haywood is the author of Amazon UK’s number one horror series The Undead, which propelled him into the top 20 best-selling Amazon authors in the UK. Haywood is a Washington Post best-selling author and both the Undead series and the Extracted trilogy are Audible best sellers.

About the narrator:

Colin's television credits include Humans, The Living and the Dead, The Fall and Merlin. His film credits include Benjamin, The Happy Prince, Legend and Testament of Youth. Theatre credits include Translations (The National Theatre); Gloria (Hampstead Theatre); Mojo (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Tempest (Shakespeare's Globe); Our Private Life (Royal Court); A Prayer for My Daughter and All About My Mother (The Old Vic).

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About the performer

Colin's theatre credits include Translations (The National Theatre); Gloria (Hampstead Theatre); Mojo (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Tempest (Shakespeare's Globe); Our Private Life (Royal Court); A Prayer For My Daughter, Vernon God Little (Young Vic) and All About My Mother (The Old Vic). Colin's television credits include Humans, The Living and The Dead, The Fall and Merlin. His film credits include The Happy Prince, Legend, Testament of Youth, Island and Waiting for You.

Colin will play the lead role in upcoming film Benjamin which premiered at London Film Festival this year.

About the Author

A beard-keeping, caffeine befuddled, dog owning writer, and currently one of the top authors in the UK, with over a million books downloaded. He is the creator of The Undead. A self-published series that has become a cult hit with a readership that defies generations and gender. He is also immensely proud for his Extracted series. A world-wide best-selling time-travel series now optioned for a TV series by a major LA based media company. He hides his face because firstly, his beard is very ginger, and secondly, he's still involved in law-enforcement.

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"My main love in writing comes from pushing ordinary people into extraordinary situations and seeing how they react, and in so doing, you see the pure goodness of unselfish acts and how only by working together can people ever really achieve everything they need."

- R.R. Haywood, on the impact of the post-apocolyptic setting.

"“Sam hacking the 3D adverts in the retail zone"
A scene from The Worldship Humility. Illustrated by Andrei Pervukhin.

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I loved everything about this and as entertainment goes, it doesn't get much better. This is not just life on a spaceship, this is could be life anywhere, class structure, poverty, crime, elitism, wealth and from that we get our delicious mix of characters that range from every walk of life.
A foul mouthed theif with dreams of one big payday, a nerdy geek who's best friend is a "suicide booth" , a sex addicted dirty cop, a grumpy down on his luck cafe owner, elitist captains, dodgy politicians and a psychotic pimp and his gang are just a few of the characters you will meet and see cross paths in this wickedly clever space romp with lots of heart.
Oh I didn't forget that this is a story about finding a new home planet and that people are getting murdered to hide secrets and that they are all heading ultimately into disaster because of conspiring backstabbing politicians.....and it all starts with a probe and little bit of "code" but to find out more you will just have to listen.
Nobody does banter quite like R.R Haywood and this natural and often funny interactions between his characters makes for a great listen. I also quite enjoy the throw in of the odd stereotype with regards to people of different countries like the British ship having to be a "HMS" rather than a "Worldship" and it being full of pet dogs.........because the truth is we Brits do like our four legged friends!
The narration is by Colin Morgan is top notch and he breathes life into every character and with multiple accents, he was very well cast for this intrepid adventure.
This is a riviting story and I can't wait to see what happens next on Worldship Beijing and Worldship Humility. Bring it on Mr Haywood......your audience awaits!

Seriously Sassy Space Opera!

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I picked this up just because I like the other books by the author. I’m so glad I did. Great fun romp thru space. I was immediately drawn to the characters and felt for them. Can’t wait for more.

Brilliant

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A very different story to RR Heywood's other two series. But what they all have in common is great characters that you can't help but fall in love with. An exciting new universe and a roller coaster story. Loved it!

Colin Morgan did a sterling job of narrating this story. I look forward to hearing him read again.

New characters to fall in love with

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a captivating story, very enjoyable never boring, can't wait for the next book!!
can't wait

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Always enjoy R R Haywood’s books and this no exception. Colin Morgan’s narration is absolutely brilliant. Astounding in places. The voices are so different from one another and accents so believable, even the females.

Loved it

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