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.

HORRIBLE NARRATOR

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

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.

good bones -- poor delivery

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