Book description
Narrated with visceral intensity, Kameron Hurley's "The Light Brigade" crackles through your earbuds like live ammunition. The author's Hugo Award-winning pedigree shines as she crafts a military sci-fi thriller that gnaws at your nerves long after the final chapter.
This isn't your typical boots-on-the-ground war story. Hurley's prose hits like shrapnel, each sentence sharp with the metallic taste of corporate warfare and temporal dislocation. The audiobook format perfectly captures the fractured, staccato rhythm of Dietz's reality as light-soldiers bounce between battlefronts, their consciousness scrambled across space and time.
What makes this performance truly electric is how Hurley peels back the slick veneer of interplanetary conflict to reveal something raw and bleeding underneath. The corporate machinery grinding out soldiers like so much ammunition feels uncomfortably familiar, while the protagonist's growing awareness of inconvenient truths builds with the pressure of a incoming artillery strike.
Listeners will find themselves questioning every briefing, every mission objective, right alongside Dietz. The narrative's temporal juggling act never feels gimmicky-instead, it mirrors the disorienting horror of modern warfare where information becomes its own weapon. Hurley's experience with feminist speculative fiction infuses the story with a keen awareness of how power corrupts not just individuals, but entire systems of thought.
"The Light Brigade" succeeds as both pulse-pounding adventure and searing social commentary, proving that the best science fiction doesn't just predict the future-it interrogates our present moment with surgical precision.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience