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Ironclads

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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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 Fiction Hard Science Fiction Military Science Fiction Solider

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My only complaint is this book is not long enough. I would love a full novel of these guys. .

Tough, brutal and quite a lot of fun.

I want more

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Good story, I think it would have been better if the narration wasn’t so jarring.

Not the best Narration

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Loads of fun to be had here. Lots of big, crazy tech stomping around, twists and turns in the plot, mixed with unsubtle but straight-faced polemic.

Likely too short to be worth a credit, but if you have a spare one, and want near-future mech action from one of the best sci-fi authors on the scene right now, fill your robo-boots.

Short, but great.

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Excellent narration by Peter Noble. An interesting novella on the ambiguities of war in a dystopian future.

A good read

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I thought this is definitely good sci-fi, I like the short story format, the author crams a lot in, but he's very good at that.

Good

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