Mark Nelson narrates Storm over Warlock, a science fiction classic in the Public Domain by legend Andre Norton:
The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and forth across the base with methodical accuracy. And a single cowering witness, flattened on a ledge in the heights above, knew that when the last of those yellow-red bolts fell, nothing human would be left alive down there.
And so Shann Lantee, most menial of the Terrans attached to the camp on the planet Warlock, was left alone and weaponless in the strange, hostile world, the human prey of the aliens from space and the aliens on the ground alike.
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December 29th, 2010 at 9:01 am
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January 25th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Andre Norton is an awesome writer. I remember reading this book when I was a kid & really getting into the story.
The narrater’s voice in this version is flat & dead sounding. This edition should only be *Read* by someone already familiar with the book, so they can compensate for the poor delivery.
February 6th, 2011 at 10:19 am
While this reading is not particularly dynamic or emotive, I think it suits Andre Norton’s writing style just fine. Andre Norton wrote a bunch of compulsively readable adventure stories that sort of straddle the line between science fiction and fantasy. This may have been one of the ones I found in a library some time in the mid 1960′s — I read them so fast that they all tend to blur together now.
April 18th, 2012 at 2:46 pm
I’ve always enjoyed Norton’s work, and it is nice to have the book in Podio form. I agree that the style of narration is not particularly emotive, but it is clear and strong and lets the author’s words carry the story.