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    Cage of Souls
    Cage of Souls
    Cage of Souls
    Audiobook23 hours

    Cage of Souls

    Written by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Narrated by David Thorpe

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    About this audiobook

    The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts and into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will meet with monsters and mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?
    Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth.

    Epic, far-future science fiction from an award-winning author.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateMay 30, 2019
    ISBN9781789548839
    Cage of Souls
    Author

    Adrian Tchaikovsky

    Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has practised law and now writes full time. He’s also studied stage-fighting, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and table-top games. Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. Children of Time won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, Children of Ruin and Shards of Earth both won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel and The Tiger and the Wolf won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

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    • 5/5
      That's an impressive yarn. Action scenes could have been shorter, but then again it was pretty obvious that their gifted writer had a great time writing them. All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed this one and I look forward reading more of Adrian Tchaikovsky's works. David Thorpe's excellent rendition put the fifth star of this review.

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    • 5/5
      Amazing as always. Loved the twists and turns in this: I didn’t see quite a few of them coming. I highly recommend this for anyone who enjoys deep dives into futuristic societies and their inner-workings.

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    • 5/5
      A wonderfully written and engaging story. I’ve read several other books by the author, and this seemed to be written in a substantially different voice. It has quite a Neil Gaiman vibe to it, and I really enjoyed it. Also, the narrator was fantastic. I’ve listened to a couple hundred audiobooks and he easily ranks among the best I’ve heard.

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    • 5/5
      This story is just so bizarre and fascinating...I haven't read anything even remotely similar. This is the most impressive world building and character development I've read in my life.
    • 5/5
      Seriously one of my favorite books of all time, read immediately.
    • 5/5
      Loved the world building and the usage of an unreliable narrator. Tchaikovsky gives us a vivid story of a slow burning post apocalyptic humanity clinging to dear life as the sun dies a slow death and in the style of a memoir written by a protagonist, explores humanity's slow last breath and the various forms of life created by the ever increasing radiation from the dying sun.