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Emerging mysteriously during World War II, metahumans became icons of the best - and worst - humanity had to offer. Yet sixty years later, the world still suffers from war, greed and madness. Worse, man's nadir of systematic cruelty returns with bizarre new weapons. The metahumans of Earth must find a way to defeat this powerful foe and discover what lurks behind the scenes - a secret world hidden from our own. Mercedes Lackey, one of fantasy's most beloved voices, and new talent Steve Libbey bring you a podcast series that catapults the classic superhero into the 21st century.

Book One: Invasion starts the series off with a bang - a set of coordinated attacks by Nazi warriors in futuristic battle armor. We meet our cast of heroes in the midst of chaos: Belladonna Blue, a young azure-skinned healer; Victoria Victrix Nagy, a geomancer fighting panic attacks; Handsome Devil, whose luck is metahumanly good; Red Saviour, strident leader of an anachronistic Soviet team; Red Djinni, the shapeshifting criminal; and John Murdock, a fugitive super-soldier. Watching over them all is the Seraphym, descended from the Infinite to protect humanity.

As the heroes fend off the blitzkrieg attack, they are left wondering what secrets have erupted from this hidden world, and whether, once unleashed, they can be contained. For there are clues that all is not what it seems...

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By: dan
hello, Great story. Also as an historian I can say that I understand why Nazis keep popping up as villians. They were arguably the most vile group of people to ever walk the earth. I mean really, what's more terrifing than Hitler and the third reich?

By: vikz
Really enjoyed this story. I agree that it's not high art and the story is not new. But, it's enjoyable and engrossing all the same.

By: Julie
Just listened to the first episode, can't decide if I like it yet, but the premise sounds somewhat interesting so far. But I have to agree, I'm kind of tired of also the Nazi stories too, and not just because I'm German. It seems to me like a lot of fiction and screenwriters think if they need some really bad guys in a story it always has to be the Nazis. Why not come up with something new? Anyways, that's not really what bothered me as much as the use of the German language in the story. PLEASE, if you have to sprinkle your book with a few foreign phrases here and there, MAKE SURE you got them right at least! Have them checked by a native speaker!! Of course the narrator can't suddenly pronounce all the words correctly, especially the ones with the umlauts but make sure the grammar and the way the words are used is right... Maybe I'm annoyed with this too easily, but it is the reason why I have stopped reading a number of books that might have been good books, but the writer just didn't bother to check whether what he or she wrote in a foreign language was actually right. Okay, I'll shut up now and move on listening to the next chapter, let's hope there won't be any more German in it ;-)

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