The Highest Treason: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Highest Treason, credited to Randall Garrett, 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 Highest Treason, by Randall Garrett. Read by Lee Elliott. Set in a future in which humanity’s dream of total equality is fully realized and poverty in terms of material wealth has been eliminated, humanity has straight-jacketed itself into the only social system which could make this possible. Class differentiation is entirely horizontal rather than vertical and no matter what one’s chosen field, all advancement is based solely on seniority rather than ability. What is an intelligent and ambitious man to do when enslaved by a culture that forbids him from utilizing his God-given talents? If he’s a military officer in time of war, he might just decide to switch sides. If said officer is a true believer in the principles that enslave him and every bit as loyal as he is ambitious, that’s tantamount to breaking a universal law of physics, but Colonel Sebastian MacMaine has what it takes to meet the challenge. (Summary by Lee)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Highest Treason
• Author credits: Randall Garrett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 2:30:44

Catalogue topics

• science fiction
• randall garrett

Track guide

1. Chapter 01 - The Prisoner — 13:18
2. Chapter 02 - The Decision — 34:04
3. Chapter 03 - The Escape — 16:17
4. Chapter 04 - The Traitor — 18:05
5. Chapter 05 - The Strategy — 16:13
6. Chapter 06 - The Results — 27:28
7. Chapter 07 - The Reason — 13:57
8. Chapter 08 - The End & Epilogue — 11:25

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