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Exodus Trilogy: The complete omnibus edition

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This is the complete omnibus edition of the Exodus Trilogy, which has captivated readers all over the world.

When an object threaten human civilization it becomes clear that we need to venture to the stars. With just a few years warning, this will be a race against time, and only a small number of colonists can be saved.

In an America turned authoritarian, a small group of people draws up their plans to change not this world, but the next. The confrontation seem inevitable, but who will prevail, and at what cost?

A world divided makes their separate plans. Some will fail, some will prevail, and some will stay hidden until the time comes to unveil their plans and schemes. In desperate times, humanity will show it's darker side, and even the best of intentions can result in the worst of outcomes. Will human ability for compassion and unity rise up, or succumb to fear and ruthlessness under pressure?

And when the starship Exodus leaves for distant Aurora, more than 40 light years away, nobody knows that this journey will end up answering some of humanity's greatest and oldest questions:
Who are we? Are we alone? Where do we come from?


This box set contains the complete Exodus Trilogy.
1. Exodus
2. Aurora
3. Genesis

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Published February 2, 2016

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About the author

Andreas Christensen

32 books134 followers
Andreas Christensen is a Norwegian science fiction and fantasy author. His most recently published work is Frostfall, an epic fantasy.

His popular series the Exodus Trilogy received rave reviews in both the U.S. and the U.K. and has been compared to classics such as Heinlein and Asimov. The Rift Saga is set approximately two centuries after the events of Exodus, and a reviewer described it as "Hunger Games on steroids". In a good way...

He is currently working on new projects, including a "second generation" story set in the Aurora universe, in addition to the Legionnaire Series.

Andreas Christensen has a degree in Psychology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and his professional background is mainly from public service. He has a weakness for cats, coffee and up until recently, books so heavy he'd need a separate suitcase in order to carry them every time he traveled. Luckily, the world has changed, and the suitcase has now been replaced by an e-reader.

You can find Andreas Christensen here:
Website and blog: christensenwriting.com
Twitter: @achr75
Facebook: facebook.com/christensenwriting

Get your FREE copy of ALIVE, the Exodus companion novella. Just go to christensenwriting.com to get started!

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Profile Image for Ken Jensen.
Author 4 books4 followers
February 12, 2022
EXODUS: I just finished reading Andreas Christensen’s debut novel Exodus. A rogue planet enters our solar system and smashes Mars into oblivion. What remains of the rogue planet continues towards Earth. Mankind must flee or face destruction. This makes for an exciting plot.

Christensen writes English extremely well for a foreigner, with only a few mistakes here and there. Unfortunately, he repeats a lot of words, often in the same sentence. For example something like this: "The rocket exploded behind her, and she exploded into action." This is just a fictitious example, but it serves its purpose.

Moreover, the characters nod too much or shake their heads too much, and the author doesn’t know how to use paragraphs, especially in connection with dialogue. Here’s an example from the book:

“He needs me too much to cut me off completely, or at least that’s what I thought. But I was kept in the dark about this, and I think that would demonstrate how powerless I am here.” Thatcher shook his head, and smiled wryly.

Obviously, Thatcher is the one talking, right? Wrong!

When a character stops speaking and another character starts doing something, there must be a paragraph to separate these actions, otherwise there is confusion and utter chaos. Christensen’s book is marred by this horrible mistake, and that in itself warrants no more than two stars, possibly only one. However, this is a debut novel, so we must not be too harsh.

The story is entertaining and moves along at a solid pace ... more or less. Okay, so it dwells a little bit too much on a few things that are not all that important, but so what? All in all, it’s a good first-time effort.

AURORA: Once again, the writer demonstrates that he doesn't have a clue how paragraphs work, which, besides being extremely annoying and amateurish, makes it very hard, sometimes even impossible, to keep track of who is speaking. For this reason alone, I cannot give the book more than two out of five stars.

The story is entertaining, though, and mostly well-written, if one disregards poor punctuation and a few minor issues with grammar. English is the author’s second language, so we need to cut him some slack. His mastery of English is solid for a foreigner. Heck, many native speakers would be envious. The vocabulary is a bit on the thin side, though.

The escapees from Earth have finally arrived at their destination and are in the process of inhabiting their new home world when their leader turns into a power hungry lunatic with dangerous ideas. He becomes a dictator and quickly goes to war with everyone who dares to disobey him.

Let’s leave it at that as I don’t want to reveal too much.

Despite what I said initially, Aurora is a good and entertaining book. It could have been a lot better, though, with professional editing and a tighter grip on the art of writing.

GENESIS: The third book in the trilogy is basically just like the first two, except slightly worse. The writer still has no clue how to use paragraphs, which is annoying and confusing and the very thing that prevents the book and the trilogy as such from getting three stars.

There’s a big mistake in the book. The characters wear protective masks over their face, covering the mouth and nose especially. Despite this fact, two characters manage to kiss while wearing these masks ("their lips met"). This is quite embarrassing.

Next is a spoiler alert. Civil war has broken out between the colonists. Female protagonist Tina Hammer has a friend who crosses over to the other side. Later, his entire team is reportedly wiped out by enemies from another planet. Her former friend somehow survives, turns crazy for no apparent reason, and returns to kill her. She is saved by a young man who turned insane after removing his face mask, exposing himself to some kind of micro organism in the air. This young man killed some people and had to run away. He pops up like some kind of guardian angel out of a Hollywood movie and saves Tina Hammer at the last moment, which is plain ridiculous. This is so bad that any decent editor would have spoken up. The entire scene reeks of the writer’s idea of a clever setup. Unfortunately, it’s not very clever at all. Far from it. The reward is two stars.

Despite all of this, the trilogy is interesting and entertaining. I would definitely recommend it to any science fiction fan looking for a lightweight story.
5 reviews3 followers
June 27, 2018
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771 reviews31 followers
October 26, 2019
If you are the type that selects “all of the above” on questionnaires, you are going to love the Exodus series! This trilogy has a dystopian plot, politics, terrorists, space flight, rogue planets, aliens (two species), strong female characters, battles, rebellions, espionage, and romance. With all of that you will glued to your seat not wanting to put it down - I read the three books in two days.

After terrorists blow up Seattle with a nuclear device, the US elects a law and order president who quickly rewrites the constitution and limits political descent. Additionally, our first Mars colony is destroyed the public outrage leads to cutting all funding for NASA. So when a rogue planet enters our solar system and goes into an elliptical orbit around the sun that will cause it to impact Earth in eight to twelve years, we are completely unprepared. In similar stories, the world’s nations suddenly cooperate to build escape rockets to prevent the death of the human race. Christensen takes what is probably the more realist approach of every country for themselves.

Obviously the USA manages to launch an interstellar craft with enough people to start a “new earth” light years away. While the first book is all about getting the ship launched, the second and third books concentrate on what happens when they arrive at the new planet. This is where Christensen shows off his talents creating plots and subplots that will keep you guessing as to how it will all come out.

I’ve mentioned in other reviews how bad many male writers are at creating good female characters. In this series, Christensen excels at this - creating several different capable, strong, multilayered women who are more than equal to the males in the story. I also am frequently appalled when science fiction writers leave out science entirely or just “make shit up” to help the storyline. While Christensen doesn’t have a lot of hard science in these books, what he does include is accurate, thought-out, and believable.

I do find it interesting that a Norwegian author did such a fantastic job of building on the current state of America’s politics to extrapolate a very believable future built on paranoia, censorship, and the severing of citizens’ rights. I don’t even know what type of political system Norway has other than there is a king that hands out Nobel prizes.

While I prefer my Science Fiction with a lot more science, the Exodus Trilogy took me on an enjoyable and exciting ride.
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255 reviews1 follower
February 28, 2017
Hours of good reading. The story was interesting and moved along at a good pace. Good character development; the reader could empathize with each character, even the "bad guys". I especially liked the way the author told the story from the perspective of a different character with each chapter. Although it had the potential to interfere with continuity, it had just the opposite effect, giving the reader a more complete understanding and more thorough immersion in the story. I would love to read more tales like this and I will keep my eye out for more Andreas Christensen novels.
Profile Image for Alison Pashos.
583 reviews4 followers
June 10, 2017
I only read 2/3 books before I gave up. It had an interesting premise and I really liked the idea so I kept reading, but really shouldn't have stuck with it for so long. The book struck me as far too vague about much of the plot and the author skipped over a TON of potential action/interesting stuff in order to move the plot of the books along, while focusing instead on long, boring descriptions of how people felt. This was also accompanied by serious repetition of thoughts/plot points and no subtlety in what characters were feeling. Overall not to my taste so I couldn't stick with it.
Profile Image for Jay Van Emmenis.
38 reviews
March 21, 2017
Brilliant

The two factions of he last of humanity, combine their little resources to fight a frightening new enemy.
The story of survival on a new planet they have named Aurora.
This trio of novels, tells the story from the beginning, from their selection, to the arrival and landing on the planet, to the fight for survival and independence from, tyranny.
I loved this story, a great concept, well written.
Highly recommended.
123 reviews
November 6, 2020
Wow!

Is personal survival more important than making sure the human race survives? Some will spend their lives making sure a select group are able to escape before destruction hits. Others will do whatever they can to stop them.
Excellent story about what sacrifices need to be made in order for the human race to survive.
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315 reviews1 follower
January 2, 2018
I would give this 3.5 stars if possible. I read Exodus and wanted to know what happens next. When I bought the trilogy, I reread Exodus to get reacquainted. There are many characters, some are explored well, others leave you wanting to know more about them. Each section has a character name. There is a great deal going on at any one time, so that you are following the story chronologically (for the most part) by briefly focusing on a character, then going on to another character. I had no problem following the story in this manner. My quibble with the books is that a proofreader would have caught the grammatical errors; in the last book there was an inconsistency in the story. I started to bookmark these errors while reading the second book, and these bookmarks are open to anyone (?).

Overall, it was a fun read, and had lots of characters to care about
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803 reviews9 followers
July 17, 2023
A nice space opera.



Andreas Christensen Exodus trilogy feels exactly how things would have happened if it was real.
Excellent penmanship, research and imagination in the creation of this Space Opera which is full of brilliant twists, action, conspiracy and mystery.
In short, Earth is gone, humanity found and made it to a beautiful new world, instead of researching and learning about it they fight among themselves like they have done back home on earth.
Only that right before it was all over the mother of all twists have changed the story in a beautiful and totally unexpectedly way upside down.
Now what ?

Excellent choice getting Jeffrey Kafer to narrate each of the characters perfectly on this one.

Got my full
recommendations !!!

Oded Ostfeld.

Profile Image for Jim Kratzok.
1,070 reviews3 followers
June 30, 2020
Great trilogy!

I thoroughly enjoyed these stories! They depict the end of the world as we know it. A rogue planet comes hurtling into our solar system, destroys Mars and the remaining pieces are earthbound. Although the US has abandoned space because of an earlier disaster that destroyed the Mars colony, they still manage to put together an escape plan that takes 1600 people off on a journey to discover a new home in an attempt to continue the human race.

These books depict the political issues as well as the science and technology behind the scenes as well as how they affect the long term potential for survival of these brave colonists.

This would make an excellent TV series!
74 reviews
February 15, 2024
In a different version of history a rogue planet entered our solar system and crashed with mars. Mars was completely destroyed. The remainder of the rogue planet began to settle into an orbit around the sun. When that orbit was determined scientists learned that the mass would collide with earth.
A great effort was started to build a large spacecraft to carry a small number of humans to a new planet. The president of the USA managed to make sure that some people that he chose would be on the spaceship.
Profile Image for Dennis Zimmerman.
383 reviews
May 21, 2020
Exodus
Aurora
Genesis
A very easy read that you can't put down.

While most apocalyptic novels tend to give the futuristic background/backdrop to their story early on and then pursue a mundane script afterwards this one is almost unique in the way that the overall story line becomes more interesting the further into it you read, by the end of it I was and am desperate for the next book in the series.

Great job, brilliant ideas and imagination.
31 reviews
December 6, 2022
Compelling

It was hard to put this book down. Unlike most science fiction, it is not primarily based on war and the wars depicted in the trilogy reminded me if human history almost continually repeated. It was alarming to read his vision of the American experiment in democracy subverted by the forces of fear and ambition. However, that appears to be exactly what is happening to many western democracies now.
8 reviews
January 30, 2018
It was alright at times it kept my interest but then it would drag on with ant action but the description was pretty good and I would recommend it to anyone

It was alright at times as it kept my interest but then it would drag on and there wouldn't be much happening but the description mwas good and so I would recommend it to anyone
Profile Image for Robert.
15 reviews
March 6, 2022
This is an interesting take on the 'end of the world' genre. Some of it seems a bit too fatalistic but it also seems to me to point out how people can pull together in tough times. I like the idea that humanity came to earth from another star system. To me that does not seem to all that far fetched.
Profile Image for Chance.
6 reviews
January 22, 2017
Great series, Captivating

The series turned out better than I thought. Once I get started reading it plowed through it as quick as I could. I will continue reading the Exodus novellas.
6 reviews
July 1, 2018
Really enjoyed this series!

As a huge sci-fi fan, this topic has been addressed many times, but never from this perspective. Easy to read, entertaining and engaging - I’d recommend to anyone looking for a good story.
Profile Image for Cary Wagner.
29 reviews
July 12, 2018
Great story!!!

I really enjoyed this story. Lots of depth and very interesting way of telling it from each characters perspective. I definitely going to have to read the related series now...
172 reviews
October 30, 2018
I enjoyed this trilogy. Earth is under threat from a dwarf. The USA has a solution which might work. It's really about human politics; how we create and try and solve problems. Some interesting solutions and lots of interesting characters which are developed in interesting ways.
Profile Image for Ben Dechesne.
14 reviews1 follower
March 29, 2020
All the ingredients for a interesting book are there, but because of the "he said, she said" level of writing, i stopped reading after finishing the first book of the trilogy. This story is in need of editing and rewriting.
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64 reviews1 follower
August 2, 2021
Very good read

Very scary how the government got rid of the constitution and all the rights it guarantees. Very close to the democrats in Washington D.C. today! Unfortunately, people won't realize their rights are disappearing in till it's too late. I loved how freedom won.
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136 reviews14 followers
August 3, 2017
Good

The fact is I have a lot of time for this game but it’s so addictive but the game has to get the best of it
Profile Image for James Dodds.
7 reviews
November 12, 2017
Good collection of books.
Well paced. The jumps between characters occur too often for my liking, but they are reasonably smooth transitions.
Better get on with reading the Rift books now I guess!
4 reviews
August 31, 2023
terrible writing

I kept reading just to see how he tied up the ends, but the writing was extremely sophomoric.
Last book was the worst of the three.
Profile Image for Bill Edwards.
85 reviews
June 2, 2025
Enjoyable

Great trilogy! Lots of mystery about what happens from one chapter to another. Good syfy /good characters kept me intrigued from the first page. Looking forward to Rift
Profile Image for John Herrick.
87 reviews
March 21, 2017
This has some page-turning portions and several surprises. Ends with enough loose ends for another book.
40 reviews
January 18, 2017
A New Planet for Man

Insightful into the foibles and strengths of humanity, the creation of a world abounding in mysteries draws the reader into experiences only found in the search for a safe refuge off earth. I think the images of this creation will stay with me for a long time.
Profile Image for Charles Kibby.
82 reviews
March 12, 2017
Very enjoyable read

Great read . The entire trilogy is fantastic to read. Great character development throughout each phase of the story. I recommend that you check this trilogy out.
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