Ironclads

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrated by: Peter Noble

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

Creative use of timely politics to frame a war story

This is a war story told from the perspective of a squad of grunts forced to fight it. Well done in Adrian’s usual florid prose. But that’s not all.

What makes this more than a war story, much more, is the insidious framing of this conflict as the inevitable outcome of governments bent to oligarchy, corporate interests, and religious fanaticism. In a clever foretelling of the potential consequences of the authoritarian slants a number of countries are today sliding toward, Adrian skewers the attempts to destroy democracy by showcasing what the next step in corporatized, authoritarian control of militaries might look like.

A clever indictment of corporate run authoritarianism through the eyes of grunt soldiers made to fight their wars.

Solid Story, Terrible Narration

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

The narration is distractingly awful.

Terrible narrator

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.

HORRIBLE NARRATOR

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

good bones -- poor delivery

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