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Ironclads

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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Scions have no limits. Scions do not die. And Scions do not disappear.

Sergeant Ted Regan has a problem. A son of one of the great corporate families, a Scion, has gone missing at the front. He should have been protected by his Ironclad - the lethal battle suits that make the Scions masters of war - but something has gone catastrophically wrong.

Now Regan and his men, ill-equipped and demoralised, must go behind enemy lines, find the missing Scion and uncover how his suit failed. Is there a new Ironclad killer out there? And how are common soldiers, lacking the protection afforded the rich, supposed to survive the battlefield of tomorrow?

A stand-alone audiobook by the Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time.

©2017 Adrian Tchaikovsky (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd Fiction Hard Science Fiction Military Science Fiction Solider
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An interesting mix of the knights of old mixed with the corporations of new. A lot of social commentary but a hella fun ride.

Fun military science fiction

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Not Tchaikovsky’s best story, but still very worth reading - keyword READING.

The narration is distractingly awful.

Solid Story, Terrible Narration

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I like the story of this pretty well. It moves fast, the concept is interesting, and it recognizes how terrifying Finns are. The narrator does okay, but he’s British and his American accent is pretty ropey. He does okay with the main character’s voice, but has trouble differentiating the other characters. Because of how the story’s structured this doesn’t matter as much as it might in another book.

Pretty good, narrator’s a little dodgy

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I would like more from the story. Adrian Tchaikovsky scratches a sci-fi itch that no one else does. More please.

Phenomenal

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The story is fine, with some decent concepts in it, but it really doesn't have much happen. The narrator, however, is terrible.
His enunciation are bizarre (like a bad Captain Kirk impersonation) and I thought, for a long time, that maybe it was read by AI.
Apparently not. A real human read it. His diction and enunciation are terrible. Is that how he things American soldiers speak? He also mispronounced A LOT of words. A LOT.
This really needed a director who speaks the language fluently supervising the narration.

Terrible narrator

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Great story, horrible narration. It's as if they used a 1990s digital narrator from Microsoft to read this. SAMPLE FIRST :)

HORRIBLE NARRATOR

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the narrator is very corny, loved the world building and the characters were ok too.

good bones -- poor delivery

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This was a great, punchy sci-fi story that was difficult to listen to because of the awkward drawl and pacing Peter Noble chose for the POV character. It sounded like a southern accent from someone who never heard a southerner speak before. If the story wasn’t so engaging, his narrative choice would have turned this into a DNF from me.

Narrator swings and misses

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Dumb story, with the titular Ironclads (not actually called Ironclads in the text) are a trite metaphor for a boring class struggle.

Tchaikovsky's writing is hit or miss. Shards of Earth and Cage of Souls were pretty good, This was not good at all. I wanted to give the overall rating and story rating one out of 5 stars, but then there would be no way to describe how utterly terrible the narration of this story actually is. I was trying to think of a worse narration from audible, but I could not think of any thing worse. I could however think of something just as terrible. Linked to the same author. The woman who narrated the Children of Time series. Just a nasty thing to do to any story, even if the story is dumb.

Not worth listening to.

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the story feels like its trying to say something but the narrator continually takes a middle ground so it feels like very bland social commentary.

rushed and meh

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