Brilliant narration and story

This was an unusual mix of brilliant narration applied to a brilliant story. It’s not a story for everyone, though, and a reader/listener who doesn’t care for philosophy or theology will probably get quickly bored. You’ll need your literary criticism cap on to catch the theological and philosophical parallels and innuendo, including Chesteron’s critiques of faulty theology and reasoning alike. The context is a bit of fantastical though infrequent sci-fi which serves to increase the contrast between wielding science as a weapon and right (reasonable) belief in God. However, this is not sci-fi for sci-fi fans. The story seems to wander a bit in the middle, but it all becomes purposeful in the climax which, if you’ve been intrigued by the arguments being made throughout, brings it all together. And, again, applause to the narrator: he made the characters come seamlessly alive, possibly more-so than if I’d read the book. He’s the sort of British narrator we wish read every book we have out loud to us. Or perhaps that’s the sort of wish the Tolkien/Lewis/Kenneth Graham-fan types have.

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