The Metal Monster


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(3 stars; 26 reviews)

The Metal Monster is an Abraham Merritt fantasy novel.

Dr. Goodwin is on a botanical expedition in the Himalayas. There he meets Dick Drake, the son of one of his old science acquaintances. They are witnesses of a strange aurora-like effect, but seemingly a deliberate one. As they go out to investigate, they meet Goodwin's old friends Martin and Ruth Ventnor, brother and sister scientists. The two are besieged by Persians as Darius III led when Alexander of Macedon conquered them more than two thousand years ago.

The group is saved by a magnificent woman they get to know as Norhala. She commands the power of lightning and controls strange metal animate Things, living, metallic, geometric forms; an entire city of sentient cubes, globes and tetrahedrons, capable of joining together and forming colossal shapes, and wielding death rays and other armaments of destruction.

They are led to a hidden valley occupied by what they name "The Metal Monster", a strange metal city occupied by the metal animate Things Norhala commands This city is governed by what they call the Metal Emperor, assisted by the Keeper of the Cones.

Ruth is slowly being converted by Norhala to become like her; her little sister. Martin, her brother, tries shooting the Metal Emperor, who retalliates with a ray blast, putting Martin in a comatose state.

Closed in between the Metal Monster and the Persians, it falls to Goodwin and Drake to find a way to escape their predicament. (Summary Wikipedia) (9 hr 59 min)

Chapters

Prologue 6:51 Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
Valley Of The Blue Poppies 21:53 Read by Mike Schwabe
The Sigil On The Rocks 9:58 Read by Mike Schwabe
Ruth Ventor 29:14 Read by Roger Melin
Metal With A Brain 14:47 Read by Mike Schwabe
The Smiting Thing 20:14 Read by Robin Balmer
Norhala Of The Lightnings 30:23 Read by Lucy Lo Faro
The Shapes In the Mist 10:05 Read by jfmarchini
The Drums Of Thunder 19:07 Read by jfmarchini
The Portal Of Flame 15:31 Read by jfmarchini
Witch! Give Back My Sister 19:02 Read by Lucy Lo Faro
The Metal Emperor 19:10 Read by jfmarchini
I Will Give You Peace 11:16 Read by Anna Roberts
Voice From The Void 8:30 Read by Anna Roberts
Free! But A Monster! 11:30 Read by Anna Roberts
The House Of Norhala 22:22 Read by Lucy Lo Faro
Concious Metal 9:47 Read by Annise
Yuruk 11:49 Read by Al Dano
Into The Pit 30:39 Read by CalmDragon
The City That Was Alive 22:12 Read by CalmDragon
Vampires Of The Sun 32:13 Read by Beatrice
Phantasmagoria Metallioue 21:45 Read by Scott Carpenter
The Ensorcelled Chamber 20:42 Read by Lucy Lo Faro
The Treachery Of Yuruk 43:00 Read by valli
Ruszark 14:52 Read by Scott Carpenter
Cherkis 14:21 Read by Scott Carpenter
The Vengeance Of Norhala 20:59 Read by Lucy Lo Faro
The Drums Of Destiny 22:40 Read by Robin Balmer
The Frenzy Of Ruth 22:39 Read by Scott Carpenter
The Passing Of Norhala 13:45 Read by Scott Carpenter
Burned Out 12:40 Read by Scott Carpenter
Slag 15:31 Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)

Reviews

mark nelson should Read this


(4 stars)

mark nelson should read this as its spoiled by not so great narration


(1 stars)

too many readers, too many different volume levels

odd episodic flaws


(3 stars)

I enjoyed this book over all but the old fasition episodic nature of the story disappointed. Goodwin is constantly perplexed by interacting with thing less outragious then his experiences in the previous work. this is made more obvious by a begining that remind us this is a sequel.


(1 stars)

Don't really know the novel...but oh my the reader was atrocious. Could not take her


(1 stars)

Libravox - it would be good if you just used one reader volunteer per novel to read. when you mix and match different readers to each novel it makes it hard to follow due to different styles of reading and enthusiasm, let alone some readers mispronouncing words or stalling

cant listen


(0.5 stars)

every chapter abruptly ends in mid sentence, then starts the chapter over, when the next chapter starts it is obvious that you missed some of the story.

Impossible!


(1 stars)

I had to give up on this because the writer makes depictions that are far to complex and impossible to picture or follow.

The Metal Monster


(4.5 stars)

Ovre all a a book well worth listening to. A couple of readers for me, were hard to understand.