Heel

audiobook

Heel

by Philip José Farmer

EN·~30 minutes

Chapters

Description

In a gleaming command centre that overlooks a holographic Trojan battlefield, a flamboyant director declares himself a god, tweaking the ancient story with the swipe of a hand. He commands his crew—Apollo the script‑keeper, a stylish blonde youth, and a chorus of mythic figures—to reshape the fate of heroes like Achilles and Hector. The scene crackles with neon‑bright costumes, iridescent uniforms, and a soundtrack generated by the director’s wife’s scarlet‑woven skin. As the old grudges between gods and mortals flare, the audience is invited to watch a timeless war through a high‑tech lens.

Caught between loyalty to his comrades and the promise of a swift return home, Achilles wrestles with pride, humiliation, and the tyrannical whims of Agamemnon. His mother, Thetis, appears in a cloaking suit, offering a secret escape that could rewrite the whole conflict. Yet the director’s obsessive need to keep the Trojans from winning threatens to keep the heroes locked in their ancient roles. Listeners will be drawn into this playful clash of myth and machinery, wondering whether the script can ever be changed without breaking the story itself.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~30 minutes (29K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2019-12-07

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Philip José Farmer

Philip José Farmer

1918–2009

A boundary-pushing science fiction and fantasy writer, he became famous for the Riverworld and World of Tiers books and for bringing sexuality, religion, and literary playfulness into genre fiction. His stories are bold, strange, and often wonderfully imaginative.

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