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The Doomed City
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
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Summary
It is a mysterious city whose sun is switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from 20th-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves, advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable.
This is life in the Experiment. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a die-hard believer in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. As increasingly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect.
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- Piotr Karas
- 28-12-20
A masterpiece!
Excellently constructed and developed. I enjoyed every bit of it - both the events and the philosophical discourses and dialogues. The Experiment, in a veiled way - of the Soviet communism - is put here into question through the described events, as well as in the lives of the particular characters, esp. the central one.
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-09-23
Strangely Compulsive
By no means an easy story to follow but intriguing nonetheless. Political discourse intertwined in a dreamlike alternative world works surprisingly well with an excellent narrator. Persevere.
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- Mary Ryan
- 18-05-23
Strange and stunning
Took a while to get into and not entirely sure I got it but we'll worth the time. I thought the reader was brilliant.
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- Penny Nom
- 22-08-21
story seems good, reader is hard work.
I couldn't get into the story due to the readers many awful bizarre accents
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