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The Heirs of Babylon

Von: Glen Cook
Gesprochen von: Curt Bonnem
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The dystopian politics of 1984 meet the naval warship backdrop of The Last Ship in fantasy master Glen Cook's reissued first novel, available for the first time in decades.

It is 2193, and still the war continues.

Two hundred years after nuclear and chemical weapons have nearly annihilated the global population, the last of mankind struggles on in isolated communities. Law and order is carried out by the Political Office, black-clad police who rule through fear and violence, commanding the world's survivors how to think, how to act, and when to obey the call to the Gathering: the ritual massing for war against an unknown and unseen enemy.

Now the call has come, and all nations must pay tribute.

Kurt Ranke is a young man eking out an existence in the ruins of former Germany with his pregnant wife. But when the Gathering is called, he boards the decrepit destroyer Jäger - a once-mighty warship now more than two centuries old. Antiquated, broken down, and running on steam, it wallows through uncharted waters carrying Ranke and a reluctant and ragtag group of soldiers en route to the Final Meeting: a battle from which it's rumored none have ever returned...

©1972 Glen Cook (P)2020 Tantor Abenteuer Militär Postapokalyptisch Science Fiction
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"audible hopes you enjoyed this program" - yet I didn't enjoy it. While the beginning of this book may seem like a slow prelude leading up to some more enjoyable moments, it is leading you on. Leading you on to take part in the horrors of mindless and meaningless loss of life. It is a perfect story of how the regular soldier might behave noways and forever. Though I am not a theist, I pray for people of today and the future, to not be lured into pointless carnage as this book describes. If I wasn't a pacifist, I am one now. Another perfect lesson delivered by the master Glen Cook himself.

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