Oath of Fealty

By: Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Jeremy Johnson

In the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, wracked by crime, violence, pollution and poverty. But above the blighted city, a Utopia has arisen: Todos Santos, a thousand-foot high single-structured city, designed to used state-of-the-art technology to create a completely human-friendly environment, offering its dwellers everything they could want in exchange for their oath of allegiance and their constant surveillance. But there are those who want to see the utopia destroyed, whose answer to tomorrow's best and brightest hope is mindless violence. And they have just entered Todos Santos.

©2007 Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (P)2010 Audible, Inc.

Great book

Even better listening than reading.
Makes you really think about the future. Well told story

Awesome Story

Excellent tale, but didn't make the translation into audiobook as well as I had hoped, still very enjoyable. Once again, the voices I had put to characters as I read were not quite what the narrators give us.

good not great

Title says what I think of the story. The book is from 1981, and the central premise of it is very out if date. The context is of crime not well controlled in LA. But I'm not sorry I listened.

I give it a firm meh.

As a lifelong Niven fan I was hoping for something new. It was just a political novel. Barely science fiction.

It's an entertaining enough listen

If you could sum up Oath of Fealty in three words, what would they be?

anachronistic, interesting, futuristic

What does Jeremy Johnson and Suzanne Toren bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

They are quite good performers and really bring the characters to life.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No.

Any additional comments?

It's a worthwhile read/listen but it's definitely a product of the time it was written.