The Erik Blair Diaries, John W. Whitehead
The Erik Blair Diaries, John W. Whitehead
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The Erik Blair Diaries
Battlefield of the Dead

Author: John W. Whitehead

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 6 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/15/2022

Synopsis

Welcome to 2084.Be warned: utopia does not await us.The dystopian future that George Orwell predicted for 1984 has finally arrived, one hundred years late and ten times as brutal. To save all that he loves, Orwell will have to travel between his future self—Erik Blair, Orwell’s descendant and unwitting heir to his legacy—and the past.As for Erik Blair, his life plan isn’t overly complicated: Avoid trouble. Avoid pain. And get from one day to the next without attracting the “wrong” kind of attention, which really equates to any kind of attention when the government and its robotic thugs are involved. In this post-apocalyptic world where everyone marches to the beat of the same drummer, Blair—a young man earmarked for a future of compliance and servitude—isn’t volunteering to be anyone’s hero. Unfortunately, life doesn’t always go according to plan.

About John W. Whitehead

One of the nation’s most vocal and involved civil liberties attorneys, John W. Whitehead is the president of the Rutherford Institute. The author of the bestselling Battlefield America: The War on the American People and A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, Whitehead also writes a syndicated weekly column, which focuses on tyranny, injustice, the government's use of emerging technologies to oppress the population, resistance, activism, and the tendency of power to corrupt.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director and producer. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award. He received AudioFile’s award for 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Along with a cast of other narrators, Rudnicki has read a number of Orson Scott Card's best-selling science fiction novels. He worked extensively with many other science fiction authors, including David Weber and Ben Bova. In reviewing the twentieth anniversary edition audiobook of Card’s Ender's Game, Publishers Weekly stated, "Rudnicki, with his lulling, sonorous voice, does a fine job articulating Ender's inner struggle between the kind, peaceful boy he wants to be and the savage, violent actions he is frequently forced to take." Rudnicki is also a stage actor and director.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christopher on December 17, 2021

John Whitehead's experience battling state tyranny is certainly reflected in this book. I would love to see a sequel because this book left me wanting to know more about the world he foresees for humanity. Keep up your great work, sir!......more

Goodreads review by T.C. on November 19, 2024

Wow, what a fast-paced book. While many readers out there want to see their favorite books turned into movies, this one needs to be a video game. It certainly reads like one, with our main cast navigating through their fair share of death-defying adventures amidst arguably the darkest society I've r......more

Goodreads review by Steve on October 04, 2022

A bit of Blade Runner, a bit of The Matrix, a good helping of 1984, Clockwork Orange and perhaps some borrowings from Dune and Foundation….The Erik Blair Diaries is worth company. A had to force a slow down to not read the book in one session. Beyond the icons already mentioned, Matt Ruff’s “Bad Mon......more

Quotes

“This is not a sci-fi fantasy, it’s a vividly imagined prediction of a nightmare that will happen. It’s a heart-stopping, unputdownable headlong rush.” David Dalton, New York Times bestselling author and a founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine

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