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Neon Leviathan
- Narrated by: Greg Patmore
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
A collection of stories about the outsiders - the criminals, the soldiers, the addicts, the mathematicians, the gamblers and the cage fighters, the refugees and the rebels. From the battlefield, to alternate realities, to the mean streets of the dark city, we walk in the shoes of those who struggle to survive in a neon-saturated, tech-noir future.
Twelve hard-edged stories from the dark, often violent, sometimes strange heart of cyberpunk, this collection - as with all the best science fiction - is an exploration of who were are now. In the tradition of Dashiell Hammett, Philip K Dick, and David Mitchell, Neon Leviathan is a remarkable debut collection from a breakout new author.
Critic reviews
"Haunting and iridescent-combines the paranoid weirdness of the best Philip K Dick, the chilly but cool-as-fuck future gleam of cyberpunk, and an achingly beautiful literary inflection reminiscent of mainstream heavyweights like Murakami or Ishiguro. T. R. Napper’s futures feel at once gritty and vertiginous and close-focus human in the way only the best SF can manage. Whatever roadmap he’s working from, I can’t wait to see where he’s taking us next.” (Richard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon)
“It is easier to write about violence than to write about the aftermath-the grief, the guilt, the long-held trauma. It’s easier to write about the shouted argument than the taut silence which follows it. It’s easier to write about dreamlike unreality than it is to invest a reader in the mundane and the everyday. And yet the stories within Neon Leviathan balance all these competing demands with a deft and masterful hand.” (Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time)
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- Richard C
- 19-04-21
Amazing debut novel
Not often i need to take a break after listening to a novel, but this one did need a break. Not because of anything bad but because my brain needed a rest after being pummelled by an author with some very interesting ideas and i needed to come up for air.
I can't really say too much about the stories without dropping spoilers - they are linked sometimes, almost a follow on, but the way they intermesh for a series of short stories was very fresh. The jumps in time and characters wasn't an issue.
Oh there is some harsh language- the c-bomb is used fairly often. I actually found some of this pretty funny but I'm used to a work environment where these words are not out of place. Also there is something about the everyday Aussie and harsh language that can be almost musical.
The narrator totally nailed the book. Not many accents but i always followed the book well.
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- Edward Cope
- 01-02-23
Just wasn’t for me
I struggled to get into this book, maybe it was the stories or the narrators slightly sleepy manner of speaking, so ultimately this wasn’t a winner for me.
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