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Sulin Hasso
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Seth Dickinson
Michael Crichton meets Marvel’s Venom in award-winning author Seth Dickinson’s science fiction debut
"Viciously funny, vivid to the point of horror, and entirely profound."—Arkady Martine
"Magnificent. . . . A science fiction action juggernaut."—Tamsyn Muir
"Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. It’s very unlikely that you’ll die right now. It wouldn’t be narratively complete."
Anna Sinjari—refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker—has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. Enter Ssrin, a many-headed serpent alien who is on the run from her own past. Ssrin and Anna are inexorably, dangerously drawn to each other, and their contact reveals universe-threatening stakes.
While humanity reels from disaster, Anna must join a small team of civilians, soldiers, and scientists to investigate a mysterious broadcast and unknowable horror. If they can manage to face their own demons, they just might save the world.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.
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Critic reviews
"Dickinson brings the same richness of characterization that made his Baru Cormorant series (The Traitor Baru Cormorant, 2015) so compelling, but this one reads like a Michael Crichton thriller on psychedelics—in a good way."—Booklist, starred review
"Seth! Jesus f***ing christ, Seth, you can't f--king keep doing this to me, I have a kid who's going to get up at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning no matter how late I stayed up reading, again, it's been days, I can see time."—Max Gladstone, co-author of the New York Times Bestselling This is How You Lose the Time War
"Exordia is an avalanche: an inevitable, overwhelming, pell-mell landscape-scale transformation of a book. Dickinson uses science fiction as an ethical scalpel, and the results are breathtaking: viciously funny, vivid to the point of horror, and entirely profound."—Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire
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Full to bursting
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A book written for me
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The writer has either first hand experience with the many cultures involved and/or done deep research. I did like that part of the story. There are many very interesting ideas and themes that if followed deeper and limited in number would be much easier on the reader/listener. I made it through to the end, my curiosity driving me on. Nope, doesn’t wrap up or even end on a cliffhanger. After 26 hours of unfamiliar cultural references, foreign languages and invented alien words, it just stops, like it was chapter one. Psych!
Clearly, there is a sequel somewhere in the future. Curiosity or not, I don’t think I could manage it twice.
Some reviewers complained about the narrator. I think she was fine, mostly staying out of the way, not overly thinking the many, many accents and ethnicities.
I can’t pan a book with novel ideas, well developed characters and even many very funny parts, but I can’t recommend it either. It was too often confusing and it just felt like work much of the listen.
Listen to a sample and see if it’s your taste.
Many interesting ideas, but ultimately unsatisfying
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A mess
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Mind bending
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I was bemused by the choice of posh, British reader. Anna’s casual American dialogue sounded weird in her mouth and she seemed to struggle with spanish words and names. I also thought her voices for Erik and Clayton sounded confusingly similar. But she kind of grew on me as we went along. I liked her aixui, her Chaya, and especially her erovage! (Excuse my phonetic spelling of character names here!)
Extremely challenging but satisfying; odd reader
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Fun XD
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The reader had zero change between characters and it made the story incredibly difficult to follow.
Too much going on
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The heavy handled moralizing is so tiresome after 100 pages.
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Incredibly slow buildup, but boy howdy, that ending was disappointing too. Whoowee.
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