Empire of the East

Name: Empire of the East
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Fred Saberhagen
ISBN: 9781455105731

Author: Fred Saberhagen

Narrator: Raymond Todd

Unabridged: 18 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/27/2005

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

In the distant future, society has crumbled. Dark forces now rule the land, keeping all humans under their oppressive thumbs. But behind the darkness there is talk of rebellion. In the swamps, a small band has formed, determined to regain their freedom with the help of one incredible weapona weapon of technology. It is the mystical Elephant, and whoever masters it holds the key to freedomor defeat.

About Fred Saberhagen

Fred Thomas Saberhagen (1930–2007), a native of Chicago, served with the US Air Force then worked as an electronics technician and as a science writer and editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He began writing science fiction for Galaxy in 1961. His first novel, The Golden People, was published in 1964. He is most renowned for the Berserker series of stories and novels.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brent on November 21, 2019

Classic Saberhagen: cool ideas, fascinating world-building, dull characters. Fun, but not exactly a page-turner.......more

Goodreads review by Jim on January 05, 2018

This is actually a trilogy containing The Broken Lands, The Black Mountains, & Ardneh's World in order. They read like fantasies, but they're set in a post apocalyptic world with an interesting bit of SF blended in. It's listed as a precursor of his Swords series on Wikipedia, but IIRC there were in......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on August 26, 2021

From back in that day when you could publish an omnibus collecting an entire fantasy trilogy and it would still only be ~500 pages long. So back in high school, I knew Fred Saberhagen's name (from hearing discussion about his Berserker series, SF stories where humans were, I believe, fighting against......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on April 29, 2013

Writing: 3 Story: 2 Satisfaction: 3 Probably somewhere between a 2 and a 3. Saberhagen is a fantastic world-builder. The post-apocalyptic society that he's written is really interesting and the viewpoints of his characters as they discover bits of old technology is fantastic. The moment that I understo......more

Goodreads review by David on May 11, 2021

Finally read the last volume in here...and it's an excellent fantasy trilogy.......more