Ogres

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrated by: Emma Newman

Brought to you by Penguin.

Ogres are bigger than you. Ogres are stronger than you. Ogres rule the world.

It's always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call. Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their size and strength and appetites. It's always been that way. It's the natural order of the world. And they only eat people sometimes.

But when the headman's son, Torquell, dares lift his hand against the landlord's son, he sets himself on a path to learn the terrible truth about the Ogres, and about the dark sciences that ensured their rule.

©2022 Adrian Tchaikovsky (P)2022 Penguin Audio

A Remarkable Story

This story, that begins like a fantasy, but is in fact a superb science fiction story, is quite relevant to our times. I listened to the last three hours nonstop. Adrian Tchaikovsky doesn't disappoint. In fact with his astite sociopolitical observation woven into his engaging stories, he has never disappointed me. This is what good science fiction out to be. Excellent narration all through. Highly recommended.

surprisingly accurate portals of the human condit

whether the author knows it or not he's hit the nail on the head when it come to humanities inclination towards oligarchs. The author also gets right why progressives should never be trusted.

WOW. ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL.

This is one of those stories that just hits on all cylinders. Excellent reader, excellent production, brilliant writing. I'd go so far as to say it should be taught in schools because of the subject matter. Just amazing.

Almost skipped it but glad I didn't

I almost skipped this one because the cover art mischaracterizes the book. It looks like a Victorian style fantasy novel about Ogres and Humans and I've heard that story before. But this book ISN'T about just that. it's about a lot more and gets to the heart of power and corruption and honestly it's a great story with a very capable voice actor. The second person narrative usually grates on me because it's typically used as a way to quickly make the reader invested in a protagonist that may or may not be relatable but in this case it's really well done and serves the opposite purpose (for me at least) and provides a much needed distance from the protagonist and puts the reader in the seat of the narrator instead of the protagonist.

overall very enjoyable even if a bit short.

I almost skipped Ogres cause it's short...opps

I've said things like "I like Jack London because he doesn't waste words and goes for the heart of the story instead". But I've gotten into buying audible books based, in part, on how much comute time ( I drive over an hour and a half a day) the book will occupy. I almost passed on this one even though I should have know better. Tchaikovsky can ramble on with complex world building and generation spanning plot lines. That is awesome for housework and drive time and is probably more profitable for an author making a living but I had forgotten how satisfying a well told tale, as long as it needs to be and not a sentence longer, can be.