The Golden Slave: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Golden Slave, credited to Poul William Anderson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Golden Slave by Poul William Anderson. Read in English by Mark Nelson 100 B.C. The Cimbrian hordes galloped across the dawn of history and clashed in screaming battle against the mighty Roman legions. Led by their chief, Boierik, and his son, Eodan, the hungry and homeless pagan tribes hurled back the Romans time after time in their desperate search for land. But for all the burning towns, the new-caught women weeping, the wine drunk, the gold lifted, the Cimbri did not find a home. And now it was over. At Vercellae the Roman armies shattered them completely. Only a few survived—and for them death would have been more merciful. Eodan, the proud young chieftain, had been caught and sold into slavery, his infant son murdered and his beautiful wife, Hwicca, taken as a concubine. But whips and slave chains could not break the spirit of this fiery pagan giant who fought, seduced and connived his way to a perilous freedom to rescue the woman he loved. - Summary by original text

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Golden Slave
• Author credits: Poul William Anderson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 7:35:28

Catalogue topics

• sci-fi
• science fiction
• poul anderson
• classic sci-fi

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I — 21:41
2. 02 - Chapter II — 20:53
3. 03 - Chapter III — 16:58
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 24:07
5. 05 - Chapter V — 28:33
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 16:46
7. 07 - Chapter VII — 24:02
8. 08 - Chapter VIII — 18:06
9. 09 - Chapter IX — 19:30
10. 10 - Chapter X — 30:21
11. 11 - Chapter XI — 25:11
12. 12 - Chapter XII — 27:00
13. 13 - Chapter XIII — 26:54
14. 14 - Chapter XIV — 14:39
15. 15 - Chapter XV — 23:26
16. 16 - Chapter XVI — 22:21
17. 17 - Chapter XVII — 28:53
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 22:57
19. 19 - Chapter XIX — 14:54
20. 20 - Chapter XX — 18:39
21. 21 - Chapter XXI — 7:55
22. 22 - Epilogue — 1:41

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