The Great Nuclear War of 1975

By: William Stroock

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Great Nuclear War of 1975

In a Different 1975…


Superpower relations breakdown and a nuclear war all but annihilates the Soviet Union and devastates the United States.

100 million Americans are dead.

After Washington is destroyed, a smalltown judge delivers the oath of office to Vice President Rockefeller.

Surviving American forces on land, sea and in the air await orders from the new president.

Americans across the nation climb out of the rubble looking for a homeland that no longer exists.

In surviving capitals across the globe, governments ponder the implications of a world without the superpowers.

In Britain, a rump cabinet meets in the Cotswolds to plan a way forward without the United States

Commonwealth Prime Ministers in Canberra, Auckland and Ottawa look to the UK for leadership

In Buenos Ares, a weak government plots the takeover of the Malvines.

As radiation sweeps down from Siberia, the Chinese government faces unprecedented famine.

In New Delhi, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi wonders how she will feed India.

In Rhode Island, one man will start a trek halfway across North America to reunite with his family.

William Stroock is the author of 15 novels including the World War 1990 alternate history series.

Pretty good

I just wish this had been read by a human and not AI. The story was pretty good, but haveing human read it would have made it great.

Decent story

Ai is a horrible way to narrate a story. An amateur would be better than ai. It made a decent story bad.

Glad the audiobook was available

I appreciate that this audiobook was narrated in the first place, but the AI male narrator needs some work. The characters didn't stand out in any memorable way. Lots of nukes.

My Last Virtual Voice Title

Great story made almost unlistenable by virtual voice. No inflection, no accents, plenty of mispronounced words. Someone (human) should proofread these books before passing them to the computer. I’m sure the author is disappointed

Virtual Narration-- cheaper, but slightly flawed.

I'm not done yet, but I had to make the following comment:

What stood out to me was the virtual voice. i didn't mind it most of the time, but I think someone should have sat with a copy of the book in their lap and listened to the AI narration. there are places where it was read, very strangely. and others where things, places, and people's names were mispronounced. e.g., Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin was pronounced "RAB•inn", not "Rah•BEEN".
I would also have preferred it if the accents were changed slightly to reflect at least when the british were speaking. hearing British people quoted in American accent, was strange. British characters would say words like "Leff•TEN•ent" instead of the American "LOO•ten•ent" for lieutenant.

As I said, I haven't finished yet, but yeah, what i've heard so far has been great from a story standpoint. i am old enough to remember 1975, and I can imagine what it might have been like to be up in our up vacation place in Maine, when my hometown of Boston got nuked, and what the aftermath and surviving it might have been like.

I look forward to finishing this book and the next two.