The City Who Fought

By: Anne McCaffrey, S. M. Stirling

Narrated by: Constance Towers

Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Simeon is bored, even with his latest war game. When he hears of the arrival of an out-of-control refugee ship, he welcomes the excitement. But the refugees' story is horrifying: they were attacked by space barbarians. If anyone is to survive another attack, Simeon must turn his war game hobby into the real thing! This tale is narrated by television and stage actress Constance Towers (Capitol).

©1993 by Bill Fawcett and Associates, Abridgment Approved by the Authors (P)1994 by Dove Audio, Inc.

Absolute perfection

Fully rounded characters. Well built universe fascinating story line and JOAT makes everything seem realistic this series will let you laugh and cry with the storyline in an enjoyable escape life as we know it .

Abridged!

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This is one of my favorite "shell person" novels, but the abridgement cut too much of the character development and other pieces that add so much to the story. I wish that there was a complete version.

too chopped up

when I bought this, I did not realize it was an abridged edition. so much is missing from the original book, it was bitterly disappointing. too much essential character development was chopped out. the original story was a favorite of mine. this was just a disappointment.

Wow this is scaled back...

Never in all my years have I seen a story butchered so much due to time constraints. The general gist of the story is there, but it’s as if someone is telling it in the third person secondhand. The book is great ,But this does not do it justice. The narration is good. Overall I won’t give it one star due to the memory of McCaffrey.

This is abridged!

This book was great. This audiobook not so much. It cut out significant scenes and left a lot of things unexplained. I’m not sure I would purchase another one of these without worrying that it will be abridged and I won’t find out until halfway through the story.

Great Concept, Awesome story.

What a great concept and storyline. Anne did an awesome job with the details, and I felt Conctance captured the charecters well. Great value at under ten bucks!

Horribly Abridged

The full length novel is fabulous. one of my favorites! Don't waste your time on the abridged version. The story was shredded.

The One Time I Didn't Read The Reviews

I was so excited to see this book available on Audible I didn't stop to read the reviews like I usually do. I wish I had! I would not have wasted my money on this abridged version. So much of the story was completely cut out! The parts that made the characters fascinating and have a reason to do the things they did... just gone. The performance is ok, not the best I've ever heard but not the worst, either. Unfortunately, not even the best narrator could make up for the butchering of the story.

Extremely abridged

This is an abridged version from the era when people couldn't be bothered to read good books, so the 3-hour abridged audiobook was invented (fitted on two double-sided 45-minute cassettes) so that pretentious people could get the gist of a book by trudging through a horribly condensed recording during that commute into the city, then later claim, "I read [title of popular book]!"

I read this book in print several years ago and loved it, then listened to this abridged recording and hated it. So much detail was left out that the story was actually difficult to follow, and it was quite boring.

Don't bother wasting any money or time on this rubbish rendition of a great book. Beware of older audiobooks running right around 3 hours which aren't explicitly labeled UNABRIDGED.

It's abridged-Don't waste your credits or money

I don't think anyone should get this title. I didn't realize that this was an abridged novel until I started listening to it and I started missing details right from the start. I had read the book years ago, but there were scenarios that I remembered that I was looking forward to hearing and they were gone! And since it has been produced in this form, I believe it is unlikely that it will be produced in the full form anytime soon. I hate this. I have nothing against the narrator; it's not her fault. The story -->in the original book, is superb. But don't waste your money or credits on this neutered, hollow shell of a story.