Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
A Stranger in the Citadel
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£0.00 for first 30 days
A Stranger in the Citadel
Buy Now for £21.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Summary
A tale of family bonds, royal power, and the truth that threatens it all, from World Fantasy Award-winner Tobias S. Buckell.
“You shall not suffer a librarian to live.”
Growing up in Ninetha, Lilith has known this law all her life. The city’s every need is provided for by a god-machine called the cornucopia, which can produce food, clothing, anything in response to a thought. The gods provided this bounty on one condition: that humanity give up reading and writing.
Then, a librarian, an actual seeker of forbidden written knowledge, walks through the gates of the citadel, his very presence unraveling the life Lilith has known. She learns her father, the Lord Musketeer himself, has been harboring a secret - one that turns Ninetha against Lilith’s family.
Forced to flee, forced to throw in her lot with the librarian, Lilith uncovers even greater secrets - about the lie her life has been, and about the very nature of their world.
Listeners also enjoyed...
![The Kingdom of Liars (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] cover art](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ztgcYUj6L._SL240_.jpg)
What listeners say about A Stranger in the Citadel
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- R. Maines
- 16-08-21
Harking back to the old days
A good story set in a well worn trope. After some unspecified event, humanity has been banned from reading and lives a low tech existence with help from the very hitech cornucopia. Set hundreds of years later, the capture of a stranger is the catalyst for the protagonist to go a journey that will expand her world. Recommended.
Narration was good.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall2 out of 5 stars
-
Performance3 out of 5 stars
-
Story2 out of 5 stars
- Karina
- 01-11-23
Go away, Lilith
In a world where reading is forbidden, everyone sure used a lot of words. I found the teen protagonist so unlikeable that towards the end I lost interest in everything. The story was a patchwork of other stories, with muskets, future tech, ancient history, so many biblical references, and literature. And religion. So much religion.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!