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The City Who Fought

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The City Who Fought

By: Anne McCaffrey
Narrated by: Constance Towers
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A huge space station on the fringes of human space, SSS-900 is controlled by the brain of Simeon, a shellperson who relieves his daily monotony by replaying computer simulations of great battles. When a battered, jury-rigged ship appears to threaten the station, they rescue the people who are fleeing from the vicious Kolnari pirates. As the Kolnari take over the station, the stationers and the Bethelites from the rescued ship must devise ways to work together to fight the invaders. Luckily, Simeon's love of wargaming has unexpected uses, and he clandestinely builds his trap for the Kolnari. Will Simeon become the only thing standing between ruthless alien pirates and total destruction?

©1994 Anne McCaffrey (P)1994 Phoenix Books, Inc Adventure Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction Pirate
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I read the book about 5 times this is shorter and lesser it left out too much .I will read book again , will NOT listen to this again.

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I really wanted to like this. But I've read the book repeatedly, and I know what's missing from this abridged version.

Whole conversations are missing. Whole scenes are missing. Whole sub-plots are missing.

Characters are introduced and left hanging with no development. The story jumps from scene to scene with no transition or resolution or conclusion.

While the narrator tries gamely (and occassionally fluffs the accents), she's having to refer in the audiobook to bits and references cut from it.

The Kolnari get no culture or development or character. Patsy-Sue and Gus and even Simeon..... actually, never mind, no character gets much of a developed view.

The plot jerks around crazily with the cuts, the rising tension and desperation is lost completely, and even the rescue at the end is edited into a damp squib.

Find a full version, or read the book. Because this isn't worth listening to.

Abridged into incomprehensibility

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