
Alternate Routes
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Narrated by:
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Bronson Pinchot
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By:
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Tim Powers
A new novel from award-winning master of fantasy and science fiction Tim Powers. A modern ghost story as only Tim Powers can write it.
Something weird is happening to the Los Angeles freeways - phantom cars, lanes from nowhere, and sometimes unmarked off-ramps that give glimpses of a desolate desert highway - and Sebastian Vickery, disgraced ex-Secret Service agent, is a driver for a covert supernatural-evasion car service. But another government agency is using and perhaps causing the freeway anomalies, and their chief is determined to have Vickery killed because of something he learned years ago at a halted Presidential motorcade.
Reluctantly aided by Ingrid Castine, a member of that agency, and a homeless Mexican boy, and a woman who makes her living costumed as Supergirl on the sidewalk in front of the Chinese Theater, Vickery learns what legendary hell it is that the desert highway leads to - and when Castine deliberately drives into it to save him from capture, he must enter it himself to get her out.
Alternate Routes is a fast-paced supernatural adventure story that sweeps from the sun-blinded streets and labyrinthine freeways of Los Angeles to a horrifying other world out of Greek mythology, and Vickery and Castine must learn to abandon old loyalties and learn loyalty to each other in order to survive as the world goes mad around them.
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Critic reviews
“Powers continues his run of smashing expectations and then playing with the pieces in this entertaining urban fantasy...this calculated, frenetic novel ends with hope for redemption born from chaos. Powers’ work is recommended for urban fantasy fans who enjoy more than a dash of the bizarre.” (Publishers Weekly)
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WOW just let go and believe it's real
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Another great story
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Interesting ideas, but a bit slow
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Hard story Great Performance by Bronson Pinchot
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Powers is always solid.
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Powers may not be everyone's cup of tea - he really does give the imagination a workout - but if you like meat on the bones of a good story - I'd spend that credit!
Audible perfection!
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Average Powers, exceptional compared to most
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Earth-Shattering Action
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Bronson Pinchot is in my top 3 favourite narrators, but his reading of this was oddly… low energy? It seemed like he was trying to keep his voice down so as to not disturb the people in the next room or something. It didn’t help that the story would often have a perspective change occur without a chapter divider to demarcate it. I would frequently lose track of what was happening as a result, and this was probably made worse by Pinchot’s reading not holding my attention.
I suspect the root issue for me here was I just didn’t find the story all that compelling, despite the interesting premise and ideas.
Less than the sum of its parts
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Crazy fun
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