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Weapons of Choice

Axis of Time, Book 1

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Weapons of Choice

By: John Birmingham
Narrated by: Jay Snyder
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The impossible has spawned the unthinkable. In 2021, a quantum military experiment goes horrifically wrong. A multinational taskforce of ultramodern warships is suddenly transported back in time to 1942...right into the path of the US naval battle group bound for Midway Atoll.

History is rewritten in an instant as the future smashes into the past, and high-tech hardware goes head to head with World War Two technology. In the chaos that ensues, thousands are killed, but the maelstrom has only just begun. The veterans of Pearl Harbor have never seen a helicopter or a cruise missile - let alone nanotechnology, ceramic bullets, and F22 Raptor stealth jetfighters.

Allied and Axis forces are then caught in a desperate struggle to gain the upper hand - each hoping to tip the balance with a fist full of 21st-century firepower. What happens next is anybody's guess - and everybody's nightmare.

©2005 John Birmingham (P)2017 Audible, Inc. Action & Adventure Adventure Alternate History Fiction Genre Fiction Science Fiction War & Military Military Technology Emotionally Gripping War Imperial Japan
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Great story. A slant on the Philadelphia experiment and Philip K Dick's Man in the high castle with some interesting consequences. There is a lot to take in in the early part of the book, with a lot of characters to follow, and it gets a bit hard to remember which time each character comes from. Jay Snyder's Aussie accent is terrible, but his voice characters are good. He has a way to individualise a lot of different characters so you know who is speaking. All in all a good story and I will be reading on to see how the future unfolds.

Great story, a lot of characters to follow

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I love this series and have read it a couple of times in paperback. However, the American narrator can't do Australian accents, and even the British ones are hard to deal with. Like fingernails down a blackboard. It really took away from being in the story when he didn't seem to figure out if he was meant to be speaking Australian, New Zealand, or South African.

Horrendous accents

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