The Blue Star
Fletcher Pratt
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The novel is set in a parallel world in which the existence of psychic powers has permitted the development of witchcraft into a science; in contrast, the physical sciences have languished, resulting in a modern culture reminiscent of our eighteenth century.
The protagonists are Lalette Asterhax, a hereditary witch, and Rodvard Bergelin, an ordinary government clerk who has been recruited into the radical conspiracy of the Sons of the New Day. Rodvard, though attracted to the daughter of a baron, is commanded by his superiors to seduce Lalette instead to gain the use of her blue star in the furtherance of their revolutionary aims. The witch is no more truly enamored of him than he is of her, but both fall in with the scheme for their own reasons, unaware of how much they are simply pawns in the larger scheme of things. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia) (9 hr 43 min)
Chapters
Prologue | 15:05 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Netznegon City: March Rain | 19:05 | Read by Mark Nelson |
April Night | 21:15 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Escape | 21:11 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Daylight; Refuge | 21:19 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Night; Generosity; Treason | 21:12 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Night and Day; The Place of Masks | 18:48 | Read by Angelique G. Campbell |
Sedad Vix: A New Life | 22:46 | Read by Mark Nelson |
High Politic | 21:01 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Spring Festival: Intrigue of Count Cleudi | 17:45 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Prelude to the Servants’ Ball | 18:32 | Read by Angelique G. Campbell |
Kazmerga; Two Against a World | 24:18 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Netznegon City; A Zigraner Festival | 24:20 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Farewell and Greeting | 20:34 | Read by Angelique G. Campbell |
The Eastern Sea; The Captain’s Story | 22:38 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Charalkis; The Door Closes | 26:00 | Read by Angelique G. Campbell |
The Eastern Sea: Systole | 22:02 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Charalkis: The Depth and Rise | 24:54 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Decide for Life | 19:57 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Two Choices | 15:29 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Inevitable | 17:52 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Midwinter: The Return | 23:04 | Read by Angelique G. Campbell |
The Law of Love | 18:27 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Netznegon: Return to Glory | 18:20 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Speeches in the Great Assembly | 18:18 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Interview at the Nation’s Guest-House | 11:25 | Read by Mark Nelson |
The Court of Special Cases | 12:15 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Winter Light | 16:43 | Read by Angelique G. Campbell |
Embers Revived | 16:25 | Read by Angelique G. Campbell |
No and Yes | 9:56 | Read by Angelique G. Campbell |
Epilogue | 3:36 | Read by Mark Nelson |
Reviews
not bad
A LibriVox Listener
well written but the plot never seems to develop. it's not bad not great.
Enjoyable
Darcy
Enjoyable listen, little bit confusing sometime but overall not bad .
aj Patto
great story I loved it all well read