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Against the Tide of Years

By: S. M. Stirling
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
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 In the years since the Event, the Republic of Nantucket has done its best to re-create the better ideas of the modern age. But the evils of its time resurface in the person of William Walker, renegade Coast Guard officer, who is busy building an empire for himself based on conquest by technology.

When Walker reaches Greece and recruits several of their greater kinglets to his cause, the people of Nantucket have no choice. If they are to save the primitive world from being plunged into bloodshed on a 20th-century scale, they must defeat Walker at his own game: war.

©1999 S. M. Stirling (P)2008 Tantor Adventure Science Fiction Time Travel
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loved the story, the names and countries a bit confusing already loaded the third part

Good story

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I must have read the paperbacks already four times. The Audible books are better with excellent naration

Fifth time

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Love the storyline and the narration. But here's where the weakness of audio book shows: with unfamiliar sounding names and scenes from many places happening, its a bit difficult to turn back a few pages to review about what happened to who.
Now trying to put those questions behind me, move on and find out what happens next.

Love it but...

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The narration is still great. Mispronunciations still occur on occasion.

Stirling is a great writer with the gift of simplicity and clarity, but he becomes overwhelmed by the tangled web he weaves. It feels like the author got carried away researching the ancient world. He appears determined to push his characters through what becomes an overwhelming number of narrative arcs in order to put all that research on the page. Too many of these arcs are under-developed. Too many are quite dull. The number of characters required to service all of them becomes downright bonkers. Stirling unwittingly writes near-identical scenes again and again, sometimes with different characters, sometimes even with the same. Worst of all, it is not that different from the first book, and lacks anything that comes close to the brilliantly executed idea that kicks off this series.

Repeats the flaws of the first volume but worse.

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