
Darkness and Claws
Starship Medusa book 2
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy for $4.99
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Virtual Voice
-
By:
-
David Collins

This title uses virtual voice narration
About this listen
In the first book, On Mars, Jason stumbled across the escape pod to a 3,500-year-old derelict spacecraft. The AI for the ship then informed Jason that he was now the Captain of a massive alien Starship due to him having traces of alien DNA. That 'should' have been good news. But the bad news was that Jason's DNA has an additional trait, one that shouldn't be there... The last time anyone had one of the forbidden DNA traits, it started the war that left the ship derelict. To fight the aliens that want him dead, Jason must become something from their nightmares...
This second book starts with the ultimate bad hair day (with fangs). The ship finally had a full crew and was outfitted with the most creative weapons that Earth had managed to come up with. They take off to their first interstellar destination, a Mauron (Gorgon) shipyard that turns out to be run more like a penal colony. While their ship is in the repair bay, they get attacked by a state-of-the-art Felinog battleship. The Felinog were not counting on the unusual Earth weapons that had been added and some very creative tactics.
Who is the Darkness? Who are the Claws? Where do Jason and his ship fit into their conflict?
What new secrets hide beneath the strange ship they find in a world of darkness?
Then, the Felinog tried again with a different weapon. Jason has no choice but to fight fire, with bigger, nastier fire, but things do not go as planned...
People who viewed this also viewed...
-
Void Ripper
- Starship Medusa book 1
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On Mars, Jason had stumbled across the escape pod to a 3,500-year-old derelict spacecraft. The AI for the ship then informed Jason that due to him having some traces of alien DNA, he was now the Captain of a massive alien Starship. That 'should' have been good news. Except that most of the Mars and Earth government agencies had different ideas about the alien ship. And the ships AI, having been derelict for centuries... It now has some issues... But the real problem was that Jason's DNA had an additional trait that shouldn't be there... The last time anyone had one of the forbidden DNA ...
-
-
the story oh god
- By unicrom4hm on 04-24-24
By: David Collins
-
The Void Shaper
- Starship Medusa book 3
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the first book, On Mars, Jason stumbled across the escape pod to a 3,500-year-old derelict spacecraft. The AI for the ship then informed Jason that he was now the Captain of a massive alien Starship due to him having traces of alien DNA. That 'should' have been good news. But the bad news was that Jason's DNA has an additional trait, one that shouldn't be there... The last time anyone had one of the forbidden DNA traits, it started the war that left the ship derelict. To fight the aliens that want him dead, Jason must become something from their nightmares... The second book starts with ...
-
-
Great story.
- By Jay/ricky on 04-13-25
By: David Collins
-
The Fourth Artifact
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Benjamin, Chloe, Mark, and Kibbiea are off on a new adventure, much further away than anyone has ever traveled before. They are heading out to identify the source of a mysterious signal they detected. They also now have three instances of Mee Keralatazaku to deal with: Anya Fathi, the newest instance; Kera Prime, the original 2,000-year-old version; and Meera Fathi, Anya's human clone. When they reach the distant area of space, they find not one but three different races: one whose looks are terrifying, one whose current actions are horrible, and one that has accidentally opened a worse ...
By: David Collins
-
The Wrong Button
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jerry Anderson was an astronaut faced with an impossible choice: die of asphyxiation in a few hours or see if the alien pod he was transporting really was an escape pod and find out if it could actually save him. When he enters it, he finds that the controls are unreadable, lacking anything to go on, and rapidly running out of air. He presses the blinking green button. The next thing he knows, he isn’t human anymore, and he finds himself on a seashore, next to some birds feasting on a body that looks very similar to his new body. He is alive, but staying alive will be a challenge, and he ...
-
-
Outstanding fresh ideas, wish books were longer
- By Troy, just troy. on 12-28-24
By: David Collins
-
The Second Artifact
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the first book, Ben had ordered a strange object from eBay. It turned out to be the missing part from an alien spacecraft. One with an AI that needed a crew so it could pass itself off as a non-AI ship. Having survived their first adventure in space, they now had a new, larger, and much faster ship. Returning to Earth should have been the easy part. They also had a wedding to plan. Unfortunately, nothing goes as planned. They are sent to a new destination in space to meet with a new alien species, with whom the other aliens' first contact didn't go very smoothly. Along the way, they ...
-
-
I really like the premise
- By Kindle Customer on 10-22-24
By: David Collins
-
The Third Artifact
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An ancient derelict yields some unexpected small surprises, and the crew acquires some unusual new crew members. Mee Keralatazaku, the rather troublesome ruler of the planet Kanpripticon, has them take her to a very strange and secretive location. When they return, all hell breaks loose as the Kipitz try to kill Mee Keralatazaku and everyone else on Kanpripticon. She, who must not be annoyed, is now very, very angry.
-
-
Gets better!
- By Rob on 04-01-25
By: David Collins
-
Void Ripper
- Starship Medusa book 1
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On Mars, Jason had stumbled across the escape pod to a 3,500-year-old derelict spacecraft. The AI for the ship then informed Jason that due to him having some traces of alien DNA, he was now the Captain of a massive alien Starship. That 'should' have been good news. Except that most of the Mars and Earth government agencies had different ideas about the alien ship. And the ships AI, having been derelict for centuries... It now has some issues... But the real problem was that Jason's DNA had an additional trait that shouldn't be there... The last time anyone had one of the forbidden DNA ...
-
-
the story oh god
- By unicrom4hm on 04-24-24
By: David Collins
-
The Void Shaper
- Starship Medusa book 3
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the first book, On Mars, Jason stumbled across the escape pod to a 3,500-year-old derelict spacecraft. The AI for the ship then informed Jason that he was now the Captain of a massive alien Starship due to him having traces of alien DNA. That 'should' have been good news. But the bad news was that Jason's DNA has an additional trait, one that shouldn't be there... The last time anyone had one of the forbidden DNA traits, it started the war that left the ship derelict. To fight the aliens that want him dead, Jason must become something from their nightmares... The second book starts with ...
-
-
Great story.
- By Jay/ricky on 04-13-25
By: David Collins
-
The Fourth Artifact
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Benjamin, Chloe, Mark, and Kibbiea are off on a new adventure, much further away than anyone has ever traveled before. They are heading out to identify the source of a mysterious signal they detected. They also now have three instances of Mee Keralatazaku to deal with: Anya Fathi, the newest instance; Kera Prime, the original 2,000-year-old version; and Meera Fathi, Anya's human clone. When they reach the distant area of space, they find not one but three different races: one whose looks are terrifying, one whose current actions are horrible, and one that has accidentally opened a worse ...
By: David Collins
-
The Wrong Button
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jerry Anderson was an astronaut faced with an impossible choice: die of asphyxiation in a few hours or see if the alien pod he was transporting really was an escape pod and find out if it could actually save him. When he enters it, he finds that the controls are unreadable, lacking anything to go on, and rapidly running out of air. He presses the blinking green button. The next thing he knows, he isn’t human anymore, and he finds himself on a seashore, next to some birds feasting on a body that looks very similar to his new body. He is alive, but staying alive will be a challenge, and he ...
-
-
Outstanding fresh ideas, wish books were longer
- By Troy, just troy. on 12-28-24
By: David Collins
-
The Second Artifact
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the first book, Ben had ordered a strange object from eBay. It turned out to be the missing part from an alien spacecraft. One with an AI that needed a crew so it could pass itself off as a non-AI ship. Having survived their first adventure in space, they now had a new, larger, and much faster ship. Returning to Earth should have been the easy part. They also had a wedding to plan. Unfortunately, nothing goes as planned. They are sent to a new destination in space to meet with a new alien species, with whom the other aliens' first contact didn't go very smoothly. Along the way, they ...
-
-
I really like the premise
- By Kindle Customer on 10-22-24
By: David Collins
-
The Third Artifact
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An ancient derelict yields some unexpected small surprises, and the crew acquires some unusual new crew members. Mee Keralatazaku, the rather troublesome ruler of the planet Kanpripticon, has them take her to a very strange and secretive location. When they return, all hell breaks loose as the Kipitz try to kill Mee Keralatazaku and everyone else on Kanpripticon. She, who must not be annoyed, is now very, very angry.
-
-
Gets better!
- By Rob on 04-01-25
By: David Collins
-
The Artifact
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Benjamin, Mark, and Chloe were all set to graduate college in a few weeks. Ben had ordered a strange object from eBay to use as cover art for a book he was writing. It looked really cool, like a slightly charred old military artifact from 70 years ago. It was possibly part of an engine. After cleaning it up (it was found in a cow field), he placed the strange device on his dorm room desk directly over the wireless charging port. That woke it up. Unknown to him, the disabled starship hiding on the moon could now communicate with the missing part. The ship needed two things: 1) The missing ...
-
-
The AI voice may be the worst thing ever!
- By Harley Covington on 04-02-25
By: David Collins
-
The Bug War
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Ogres seemed to be 'monsters,' but they were monsters that could be reasoned with—as long as you understood what motivated them. Several new aliens have now joined the fray: One that seems helpful and friendly, but something from its past may have kicked over a hornet's nest—a really nasty threat that hasn't been seen in centuries. A new race may be the most dangerous they have encountered. They have a weapon against which they have no defense. To top it all off, a massive swarm of intelligent insectoid aliens has been expanding, and their former enemies, the Meduala, are now ...
-
-
Story line is easy to listen to and follow
- By Rigger76 on 01-28-25
By: David Collins
-
The Fifth Artifact
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ben, Chloe, Mark, and the others are off on another adventure, back where they had just stopped one interplanetary war. Now, they are searching for the mystery ship. What could it be up to? They rescue two new beings, but things go awry as their planet doesn't even want them back. Then they discover some more refugees, only some are not what they claim to be, and they land in the middle of another war, all while planning a wedding between Meera and Dylan. After that, the ship finds a derelict that looks like it came out of a 1950s campy movie, only one that someone shot full of holes.
-
-
the AI narrator
- By Joe on 03-28-25
By: David Collins
-
The Lord of Darkness
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This is a story about someone who is just a "normal" college girl. Well, maybe not "completely normal."... It's not like she is the most powerful living weapon ever created... It's not like she carries what is effectively a nuclear weapon in the holster she wears... It's not like she is an Evil Galactic Overlord... Or is it? I always knew my birth parents had to be complete assholes; why else would they name me something horrible like Vladimira Darkness. Now that I am in college, I go by the nickname Mira. Then, a bunch of these heavily armed men-in-black types showed up and made me come ...
-
-
Cliffhanger. Boo Hiss
- By Sandra Collins on 03-03-25
By: David Collins
-
The 2,000 Year War
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The war between different alien groups lasted for over 2,300 years. But Keith Robinson didn't know anything about that. He assumed that the job he had applied for was to work on an Arctic research ship. He thought that he would be assembling parts for upgraded sonar buoys. He thought wrong. The AI on the derelict spaceship was open to lying if that could finally get the ship repaired. Hiring a repair technician from the primitive planet Earth was a crazy plan. And even crazier, it worked. After salvaging an alien ship, Keith now finds himself the ship's owner. But something is deadly wrong ...
-
-
It’s the AI portion that’s so interesting
- By Amazon Customer on 10-09-24
By: David Collins
-
The Second War
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After leaving the medical chamber, Keith thought the long war was over. He had united two warring factions and identified the culprit behind the earlier devastating war. A xenophobic race that was out to destroy all the other races. The problem was that they didn't like that he had uncovered their deception, and they were out for revenge. Then the Earth sent their “secret weapon” out to him. Something that could possibly beat the Meduala at their own game. Unfortunately, her daughter insisted on coming out too. Much of his earlier success was based on help from the AI on his patched-up ...
-
-
Fix the system, , a 5 star rating is preposterous , is this a perfect book, a masterpiece, zero room for improvement ? pl
- By Michael B. on 04-15-25
By: David Collins
-
Return of the Old Gods
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The modern gods are gone; they have been removed from power by the old gods. The old gods are back: Greek, Egyptian, Norse, Roman, Hindu, Aztec, Celtic, Japanese, Chinese, Babylonian, and many others. The first thing they do is kill off over 1 billion people who have been judged as Evil. They also eliminate the weapons of all of the militaries, all nuclear power fuel, and waste. Gordon Anderson was a clerk at a 7-11, and he was (as usual) late for work. That is suddenly the least of his problems. The world is changing; everything is in turmoil. However, the most disturbing fact may be that ...
-
-
poor characterization bad world building wokeness out the Ying yang. performer should be scrubbed from all media
- By james on 11-05-24
By: David Collins
-
The Giant War
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Earth Space Force Military has a huge problem. The massive alien Ogre that they had earlier fought was only an immature little one. The full-grown ones had found some derelict starships and were about to find one with an FTL drive. Keith and his crew were tasked to sneak in and destroy the derelict that contained an FTL drive before the Ogres could find it. To do that, the Meduala sent them a living weapon to assist with the battle. One that the Meduala has spent thousands of years trying to deal with. Is the new weapon more of a problem than the Ogres? The Ghost Ships that contacted ...
By: David Collins
-
The Wrong Number
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
This is the humorous misadventures of Steve White, who was taking a stroll and looking out over a small pond to see if any of the turtles were out. When suddenly, he finds himself over 400 light-years away. Surrounded by strange aliens and desperately trying to find a way out of this impossible situation. He "fakes it” and accepts the role of the Earth Ambassador to the Pathless, the somewhat insectoid partial humanoid 4-sexed race he now finds himself with. His goal is to return to the Earth. Their goal is much harder to understand. They want him to be the trade ambassador. But what do ...
-
-
Interesting story line.
- By LarryB on 04-01-25
By: David Collins
-
Prelude To Fate
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Jake’s commute home takes an unexpected detour, leaving him stranded on a completely different planet. He soon finds himself in a high-tech hospital in a world populated by strange alien races. However, the new world is not your standard Isekai story. These are not the cliché cute monster girls or the generic characters that look like they were borrowed from a video game. In this world, he is the primitive, has no magic or cheat abilities, and has no clue what will happen. Jake tries to learn to live in the new world but discovers that not everything is what it seems.
-
-
Great imagination
- By chris on 05-20-24
By: David Collins
-
A Dangerous Universe
- Saving Crystal
- By: Saxon Andrew
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From bestselling author Saxon Andrew comes A Dangerous Universe - Saving Crystal. Kyle Jamison is given command of the Rock Project and he's thankful for the opportunity to get away from his personal issues. The Rock Project has been studying a strange rock sphere that was uncovered hundreds of years ago. The Project has been going on for more than a hundred years at M.I.T. and there's been no breakthrough or progress to take place on finding out just what the Rock might be or why it emits energy. The project is basically a dead-end unit and only misfits and problematic sailors have been ...
-
-
Great storyline
- By Rosalie Carter on 02-10-25
By: Saxon Andrew
-
Lost Mission
- Oblivion Series, Book 1
- By: Joshua James, Daniel Young
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Two decades of bitter war between Earth and her furthest colonies is finally at an end. Captain Lee Saito's massive new starship is sent to seal the uneasy truce. But a series of terrorist attacks on Earth and the mysterious acts of a strange cult threaten to derail the fragile peace. When the mission goes awry, Saito must try to salvage what he can in deep space while his estranged son must navigate a conspiracy back on Earth that could implicate the highest levels of government.
-
-
First Three Books should be ONE book. Poor value for money here
- By Mr EPN on 01-22-25
By: Joshua James, and others
What listeners say about Darkness and Claws
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Michael V
- 09-25-24
Good story. Terrible narration
The reason why I pay for audible books is for the personalized narration and different voices. The computer narration, even though it’s inflections are pretty good. It’s still very monotone. The AI Often gets confused on if an a is a long sound or short sound for example. And words like errr or ahhh are complete loss. If the price were less, I may purchase AI read books, but it would have to be significantly less. The story is quite interesting and unique. However, a little bit redundant instance, giving both metrics and standard measurements for everything. Just pick one.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Henry Wodnicki
- 04-05-25
Good story but…..
The story was good but the narration was terrible. It was bland making it hard to get really into the story
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!