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Revenant Sun
- Narrated by: Sean Duregger
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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Summary
Stanley Gabrels has been online for most of his life, living in a makeshift paradise hovering above those left behind for the sake of progress, shoulder to shoulder with thousands of others like him, working nonstop, guided in everyday life by the world's most advanced artificial intelligence.
As passionate as he is for the latest technology and augmentation, he also longs to escape from the constant barrage of information that is stripping away his humanity. When offered to crack a code that could make him a fortune, he becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse that will forever change him and the world as he knows it.
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- Richard C
- 17-11-20
Cyberpunk for the thinker
This book is full of ideas and very densely packed at times. I enjoyed the book but was sometimes a little impatient for it to move the story along faster. I don't need car chases or anything, but the story did take its time getting to the point at times.
I've read a lot of the classic cyberpunk books when they came out in the heyday of the genre in the 80's. Some of which can be almost funny now with assumptions in technology progress. I think this book avoids a lot of this with keeping a lot of the tech vague but functional. I'm happy to view the book as a very good new chapter in cyberpunk and I will await other books from this author with interest.
The narrator was very good and the voices were very clearly defined.
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- Norma Miles
- 10-06-20
A Blackbird's Wings.
Set a century in the future, one man, augmented and successful in his fast paced world, begins to experience strange dreams and feel a sense of madness when a voice starts talking to him in his head. A mysterious message asking him if he is ready to play the game further destabilized him as he struggles to find out what is going on. A complex and confusing cyberworld, this is nevertheless a powerfully visual book and one which will linger in this reader's mind for a long time into the cuture.
Narration is fast, almost too fast at the beginning, but it suits the style of the author. Sean Duregger voices his protagonists and slides through the web of words with a skill electric and he takes the reader with him through this tale of depravity, and selfishness, and the terror of losing one's mind and being. This is not an easy read, it needs concentration, but it is totally consuming.
My thanks to the rights holder of Revenant Sun, who, at my request freely gifted me with a complimentary copy via Audiobook Boom. It is an astonishing piece of science fiction, one which I know I will read again. And recommend to those who enjoy there science fiction to get inside their heads.
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- Ryan Pascall
- 13-06-20
A deep, rich and engaging Cybertale.
As a teenager, I read Neuromancer by William Gibson and this (along with his other works) left me with a real appreciation for the Cyberpunk genre and even affected my social life when it led me to run the role playing game Cyberpunk 2020 for groups of friends.
The problem is, it is really hard to write good Cyberpunk as all too often I come into a story expecting great things and end up finding that the setting is used purely as an excuse to justify flying car chases, cyborg battles and oversized weapons but wholly lack a realistic world for them to exist.
I find that the genre has, ever since GIbson, lacked a world-builder like Tolkien is to Fantasy and Lovecraft to horror and so I admit that I fully expected the same here but thankfully, for once, I was mistaken.
This is not a book for action fans,let's get the out there straight away. Don't come into this expecting the aforementioned car chases, gunfights in Zero-G or Cyborgs punching holes through walls, this is more like a mix of Minority Report and Gibson's fantastic short story Johnny Mnemonic (with a bit of Winter Soldier thrown in for good measure).
The story is based in a world not unlike where our own is slowly heading. The inhabitants day-to-day lives are automated through Adam, an AI whom they communicate with via a wetware mental link like a more advanced Alexa or Siri.
In this world we find Stanley, a pretty normal man living a perfectly normal, safe life as a journalist but who starts to experience blackouts and waking to find himself in strange places and unusual, dangerous situations. Slowly, he begins to realise that there is someone else in his head and they are intend of wrestling control of his body from him.
What begins is a journey through the shining world of the future, weaving through a city all too familiar at times both in its reliance on technology but also in the conditions that the different parts of a society exist, all while seeking to understand what is happening to his slowly fracturing mind. With the aid of some unlikely allies, he comes to realise the truth behind both of the voices in his head and the larger implications it has for all of society.
I admit that initially I was a little worried by the slow start of the story and felt this might be one of those books that takes so long to get going that, by the time we get anywhere, the story has ended. Thankfully, before too long the mystery began to unfold and it had its hooks in me good and proper.
A dialogue heavy book with a wide-ranging plethora of characters, it's a testament to both the writing and the narration that I was able to follow the story so easily. Never once did I find myself unsure as to the route the story was taking or whom was involved and throughout all near-12 hours I was confident in my understanding of the characters and their choices.
While I think that this book isn't for everyone, as again I highlight the lack of any grand action sequences, for those who prefer a rich world and deep, engaging story I can't recommend this highly enough.
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- Debbie McLean
- 09-06-20
good
this was a little confusing at times but well written by Eric Danhoff and superbly narrated by Sean Duregger xxxx
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- Big Dave
- 05-02-23
Authored by Basil Exposition
Everyone speaks in the same way - same phrases, same short sentences.
Endless exposition.
Slum kids who have never been to school can hack corporate security without us knowing how.
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Banal dialogue is repeated again, and again and again:
"this can't be happening", "are you serious right now?" and variations thereof.
It is all very dull and predictable.
The narration is fine; voices of the 2 protagonists are occasionally samey which can confuse but I assume the performer was as bored as I was.
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