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2034
- A Novel of the Next World War
- Gesprochen von: Emily Woo Zeller, P.J. Ochlan, Vikas Adam, Dion Graham, Feodor Chin
- Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 49 Min.
- Ungekürztes Hörbuch
- Kategorien: Literatur & Belletristik, Belletristik

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From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 - and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration.
On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris "Wedge" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the Chinese Navy. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their moves, which involve the use of powerful new forms of cyber weaponry that render US ships and planes defenseless. In a single day, America's faith in its military's strategic pre-eminence is in tatters. A new, terrifying era is at hand.
So begins a disturbingly plausible work of speculative fiction, co-authored by an award-winning novelist and decorated Marine veteran and the former commander of NATO, a legendary admiral who has spent much of his career strategically outmaneuvering America's most tenacious adversaries. Written with a powerful blend of geopolitical sophistication and human empathy, 2034 takes us inside the minds of a global cast of characters - Americans, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Indians - as a series of arrogant miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In the end, China and the United States will have paid a staggering cost, one that forever alters the global balance of power.
Everything in 2034 is an imaginative extrapolation from present-day facts on the ground combined with the authors' years working at the highest and most classified levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the listener a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid.
* This audiobook edition includes an exclusive interview with co-author Admiral James Stavridis.
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“It is hard to write in great detail about what ensues in this novel without giving away the drama of its denouement. Suffice it to say that there is conflict and catastrophe on a large scale, and it unfolds, as major conflicts tend to, with surprising twists and turns.... The strengths of the novel are anything but incidental to the background of one of its authors, Adm. Stavridis, a former destroyer and carrier strike group commander who retired from the Navy in 2013 as NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.... Adm. Stavridis not only understands how naval fleets work; he has clearly given a great deal of thought to America’s biggest strategic risks, and at the top of the list is war with China, which, as this book seems designed to point out, could occur quite by accident and at almost any time.... One of the messages of this book is that war is utterly unpredictable and that opportunist adversaries of the U.S. are likely to play important roles in any widening confrontation.... 2034 is nonetheless full of warnings. Foremost is that war with China would be folly, with no foreseeable outcome and disaster for all. This is not a pessimistic book about America’s potential, but the picture of the world it paints before the central conflict will be a difficult one for many to accept, albeit one well supported by facts.” (Wall Street Journal)
"An unnerving and fascinating tale of a future.... The book serves as a cautionary tale to our leaders and national security officials, while also speaking to a modern truth about arrogance and our lack of strategic foresight.... The novel is an enjoyable and swiftly paced but important read.” (The Hill)
“This crisply written and well-paced book reads like an all-caps warning for a world shackled to the machines we carry in our pockets and place on our laps, while only vaguely understanding how the information stored in and shared by those devices can be exploited.... In 2034, it’s as if Ackerman and Stavridis want to grab us by our lapels, give us a slap or two, and scream: Pay attention! George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-four: A Novel was published 35 years before 1984. Ackerman’s and Stavridis’s book takes place in the not-so-distant future when today’s high school military recruits will just be turning 30.” (The Washington Post)
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- Billy
- 04.04.2021
Blutleere Romanhandlung
Zu sagen, ich wäre enttäuscht von 2034, setzt voraus, dass ich spezifische Erwartungen hatte an das Buch. Der Medienhype - ein Vorabdruck einiger Kapitel in WIRED sowie zahlreiche Besprechungen in nicht minder relevanten Medien - machte es jedenfalls unmöglich, 2034 zu ignorieren. Meine ganz persönliche Erwartung war, dass mich 2034 genauso positiv überraschen würde, wie die anderen Bücher von Elliot Ackerman. Das Autorenduo Stavridis/Ackerman hat eine bemerkenswert blutleere Romanhandlung vorgelegt. Vielleicht hätten sie sich auf den militärischen Teil beschränken sollen. Die aufgesetzt wirkende Geschichte mit ihren holzschnittartigen Protagonisten enttäuscht jedenfalls auf ganzer Linie.
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- Jan
- 06.04.2022
Eines Admirals nicht würdig
Die Figuren und ihre Motive sind das einzig gute an dem Buch. Der Plot ist Sci Fi und erinnert etwas an Battlestar Galactica. Zum Ende mit Indien wird es wirklich lächerlich, wenn man sich im militärischen Bereich auskennt ist es nur cringe.
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- Anonymer Hörer
- 16.01.2022
Utopie mit kleinen Schwächen.
Erschreckende fiktionale Utopie. Cyberfähigkeiten etwas übertrieben dargestellt. Trotzdem lesenswert. gute Mischung aus Jack Ryan und Dr. Strange.
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- Otto Ruthenberg
- 13.09.2021
great plot and power logic, somewhat credible story
however if alll great powers are effectively defenceless they are unlikely to spiral into mutual tit for tat destruction, game theory demands a credible cooperation offer after each tat…
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- Dr. Ahl.
- 25.08.2021
Recht spannend und gut zu hören
Mir hat das Buch gefallen. Eine echte Warnung davor, was passiert, wenn man sich zu sehr auf Technologie verlässt. Es passiert auch nicht immer das, was man Leser erwartet.
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- Vincent M.
- 15.06.2021
Great read and makes you really think.
Just a star off on the story side of things for two things. First, the American-greatness self pleasure fest towards the end. While it’s refreshing that it is not a America wins the day type of story still a strong whiff of that. Second, while there’s focus on the quadrilateral of US, China, India, and Iran, with a few appearances of Russia, rest of the world seemingly doesn’t exist. Latin American and Africa are not mentioned by a word and Europe has a slight cameo appearance. Would have been neat for a book about global realignment to have a part on how does the world look and how does it react to things. Though still comparatively it’s great.
The separate readers for the different character sections was an amazing touch, helped it bring the book to life and have a sense of separation. Well done!
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- hrdfgdg
- 08.06.2021
Thin story, many holes
A very superficial plot in the broadest possible strokes, jumping over anything of substance like the new fast and furious movies. do not recommend.
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- green
- 17.04.2021
So bad, I fear for the US....
This story is so bad, I cannot believe it. To have a US admiral co-authored it makes it worse..... Provoking China with an act of plain piracy..... Having a Chinese diplomat standing in front of the While House with no odd to talk to..... well no ody with any authority.... Having this admiral littering in the White House garden..... Having him casually disclose that China is able to hack into the controls of US fighter planes.... LAUGHABLE.....
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