The Little Green Book of Chairman Rah..., Brian Herbert
The Little Green Book of Chairman Rah..., Brian Herbert
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The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma

Author: Brian Herbert

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 13 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/08/2014

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

A novel about saving the environment through totalitarian repression—by Frank Herbert's son Brian.A revolution has taken over the government of the United States, and the environment has been saved. All pollution has been banned and reversed. It's a bright, green new world. But this new world comes at a great cost. The United States is ruled by a fascist green police state, and the corporations are fighting back. Joining them is an increasing number of rebels angered by the dictatorship of Chairman Rahma. The chairman's power is absolute and appears strong, but cracks are beginning to show as new weapons are developed by the old corporate powers, foreign alliances begin to make inroads into America's influence … and strange reports of mutants filter through the government's censorship.The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma is both thrilling and thought-provoking, revealing that human greed can poison even the most righteous intentions.

About Brian Herbert

Brian Herbert, the son of Frank Herbert, is a New York Times bestselling author who has won the New York Times Notable Book Award. He has been nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. In 2003 he published Dreamer of Dune, a moving biography of his father that was a Hugo Award finalist. Two of his recent novels are ecological thrillers—Ocean and The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma.

About Scott Brick

Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel

ARC provided courtesy of NetGalley. Imagine a world where homicidal hippies escalated the culture war to all-out war against the establishment and that those same fanatical hippies actually won and gained control over all of the Americas, now known as the Green States of America. This is the setting......more

Goodreads review by Jacob

Possible spoilers ahead. The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma was my first book by Brian Herbert and will likely be my last. The book begins interestingly, if not a little silly and weird. In the close future, an army of environmentalists overthrow the government and form a dictatorship that prior......more

Wasn't able to finish the book, which is unusual for me. Maybe my 'dune' expectations were too high.......more


Quotes

“Twenty years after the Corporate War of 2041, the Green States of America follows its radical environmentalist leader, Chairman Rahma Popal, and two trusted eco-techs, Joss Stuart and Kupi Landau, to the brink of another battle…A fresh and forbidding near-future world.” Publishers Weekly