Despoilers of the Golden Empire
Randall Garrett
Read by Steven Seitel
A handful of men, and an incredible adventure—a few super-men, led by a fanatic, seeking to conquer a new world! The story appears to be about an expedition through space to a planet inhabited by a civilized but technologically backward people, whom the expedition conquer. However, in the last line it is revealed to be anything but that.
[T]he story reads like a pulp magazine yarn mixing space travel and classic swashbuckling themes, to the point where the characters even fight with swords, bringing to mind the adventures of Flash Gordon, or the Barsoom stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs. - Summary by Wikipedia, with excerpt from text (1 hr 42 min)
Chapters
| 01 Chapters 1-4 | 14:16 | Read by Steven Seitel |
| 02 Chapters 5-8 | 25:53 | Read by Steven Seitel |
| 03 Chapters 9-12 | 26:23 | Read by Steven Seitel |
| 04 Chapters 13-15 | 21:01 | Read by Steven Seitel |
| 05 Chapter 16 | 15:01 | Read by Steven Seitel |
Reviews
he didn’t fool me!
Suzie
Well read, clever idea for a story. Can you figure out the author’s trick?
clever!
A LibriVox Listener
Creative telling of an interesting take on a sci-fi story!
excellent book
Josh Erickson
I fell for it and loved it
good shorter story
Sherie Black
very well read. interesting story
a gripping yarn
Shelly
Excellently read, the story rolls on with good pace and detail. I did guess the reality,largely helped by the illustration
I'm pretty sure I read this when it came out
Chubber
but the hook got me again! Good job!
This is Raycyst
Bill Cosby
It makes Conquistadores out to be a vile European colonizers. In actually both the Conquistadores and the Meztica were victims of the white male wealth structure that forced the Conquistadores to travel across oceans to enslave the Mezteca so that they may supply the white wealth mechants of Europe with the gold they needed. Really both the Mezteca and the Spanish were both victims of unequal power dynamics created by white people. Everything is always white peoples fault. The Conquistadores were brown skinned and therefore incapable of anything untowed. They are victims like all nonwhites.