The often under-rated and criminally under-known genius of our times deserves to have more books written about him. Finding out more about the man who truly rivaled Edison, and some would say surpassed, is always a treat. If you are a long time fan of Tesla, you may not find much new in the contents of this book, but it still serves as a good place to start for those who haven't discovered this odd, quirky inventor and how critical he was to the modern world.

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* really great, long book! worth the read and a book i really want to put on my shelves!

Tesla was not my kind of book. If one loves incredible detail, and is a strong follower of Tesla then you will enjoy Mark Seifer's work. Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to read about Tesla even if this story is not my passion.

I've always been interested in Tesla and wasn't aware of how much tech we have that he innovated. I was aware of how he got taken advantage of and basically robbed of his patents and hard work. This is an interesting read if science/tech is your thing. But I feel this could have been structured much better. It seemed to jump around back and forth between different parts of his life and around certain concepts and devices. An interesting read but not an excellent book.

Format: audiobook
Author: Marc J. Seifer ~ Title: Tesla: Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power ~ Narrator: Simon Vance
Content: 3 stars ~ Narration: 4 stars

I like Nikola Tesla and I don’t understand how is it possible that this brilliant mind was forgotten for so many years. Although I found this audiobook interesting, it was quite hard to follow. I would say this is partly because the author filled it with so much data and it sometimes read too much as a book of facts. It took me quite some time to finish it, because I couldn’t listen to long chunks in one sitting. Otherwise, this is a very well-researched book. A deep dive into the world of Nikola Tesla and his contributions for war purposes.

It depends if you will like this audiobook or not. If you are Nikola Tesla’s fan, and interested more in his inventions involving war, then I would say this could be what you would like to read. Otherwise, if you know little about Nikola Tesla, I would say this is not the book to start with.

Narration by Simon Vance was good, but unfortunately, he could not make it more interesting just with narration.

Thanks to the Tantor Audio for the ARC and the opportunity to listen to this! All opinions are my own.

3.5 stars.
I used to be a science teacher, though Tesla was not one of the figures I usually presented in my classroom. However, I know a little bit about him, probably just his major contributions. I found his battle with Marconi over who really invented the telegraph interesting. I also thought his ideas about weaponry (bombs or missiles, I don't recall) ensuring an end to war very interesting. He was ahead of his time with the "Peace Keeper Missile" theory.
I just stated that I did not recall exactly what he was proposing: bombs or missiles or something else. That is the problem I had with this book. For the most part, I found it rather boring. As a work of nonfiction, I was not expecting an entertaining novel, but my attention wandered. I had to back up the audio file and listen to parts of it again. I listened to over 80% of the book and decided I was finished and could write a fair review.
In my opinion, this book is not for people who want to learn a little something about Tesla. It includes plenty of detail. It is well researched. Readers who are more familiar with Tesla's life and career than I am may have enjoyed this book more. Since it is nonfiction, readers with a specific interest can certainly refer to that topic rather than reading the entire text.
Depending on what you are looking for, this book may be either 3 or 4 stars.
Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The information in this book about Tesla is interesting, and can be explored thoroughly on some of Tesla's greates inventions. However, I would not recommend this to be the first book somebody should pick up when trying to read about Nikola Tesla. This is a book for educated people who have already made a lot of research or read up on Tesla before and know a great deal about him and his experiments. That would certainly make this book a bit more entertaining and understandable.

Having said that, I feel like the narrator Simon Vance did a great job at narrating this book's contents and I enjoyed listening to the audiobook. It is definitely out of my usual choice of genre, so the fact that I enjoyed this might say that a lot of other people who do not know a lot about Tesla's history might also want to pick this up at some point, if they're truly interested. I enjoyed learning about Tesla's role in the origins of Star Wars technology and his dynamic theory of gravity!

I couldn't really get into this one. The information in it was good, but it was just so dry and hard to follow. I found myself tuning out and having to back up and listen to the same parts over and over again. It wasn't necessarily the narrator; it was more about how it was written. It was just really draggy in parts.

I really couldn't get into it. I finished it, and again, I enjoyed learning about some of the actual factual information, but I didn't enjoy the way that it was presented.

The narrator was fine. It was just the overall pacing of the story. I just couldn't get into it.

I was granted audio ARC access to Tesla via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Tesla is one of my favourite historical figures, so I was excited to try out an audiobook biography of this fascinating man. What I got felt more like a summary and exploration of OTHER biographies written about Telsa. This means the reader still gets a lot of great, fascinating information about Telsa, but it doesn't feel like this is the book we should be getting it from.

From what little serious and accurate information I could gather online, Mark Seifer is an apparently self-promoting, ex-teacher of parapsychology. This immediately put me on my guard, because parapsychology is an out-and-out bullshit fringe field which has been exposed and debunked repeatedly. It has zero solid scientific evidence to support it, but this author brought in everyone, including the evidently deluded Andrija Puharich, and the laughable and discredited Uri Geller, and treated them all as though they were reality-based, instead of debunked and exposed as they are. That was when I quit reading this rambling, dissipated, haphazardly tangential, and misleading attempt at a biography.

The audiobook was read decently by actor Simon Vance who, but even he can't make up for the gullible and naïve material used here. This book is a joke; it's garbage. Do not waste your money.

I loved it. I've been meaning to read about Tesla for a long time. In the past, I even started a biography of Tesla and didn't finish. This time, it's a quick and smooth listen.
I would absolutely recommend the audiobook. The audiobook is narrated by the incomparable Simon Vance :)) He adds much more depth to the story being told.

This is not a full biography of a man himself, however it specifically focused on Tesla’s inventions and involvements in war efforts.

Nikola Tesla was a brilliant man who was hundreds of years before his time. Somewhat triumphant yet ultimately tragic life of a genius inventor.

This was interesting. I learned things that I never knew before about Tesla and I have had another Tesla book or two.