Gogmagog, Jeff Noon
Gogmagog, Jeff Noon
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Gogmagog

Author: Jeff Noon, Steve Beard

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Unabridged: 11 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/13/2024


Synopsis

Gogmagog tells the story of an epic journey through the sixty-mile long ghost of a dragon. We travel by boat, a rickety steam launch captained by Cady Meade, a veteran taxi pilot on the river Nysis. In her heyday, she carried people and goods from the thriving seaports of the estuary into Ludwich, the capital city. But that was years ago. Now she’s drunk, holed up in a rundown seaside resort, telling her bawdy tales for shots of rum. All that’s about to change, when two strangers seek her out, asking for transport, one of whom—a young girl—is very ill and in great danger and the other, an artificial being of singular character, has secrets hidden inside his crystal skull. And so begins the voyage of the Juniper. The Nysis is unlike any other river. Mysteries unfold with each port of call. Not many can navigate these channels; not many know of its whirlpools and sandbanks, of the ravenous creatures that lurk beneath the surface. Cady used to have the necessary knowledge and the powers of spectral navigation, but her glory days are well behind her now. This might well be her final journey.

About Jeff Noon

Jeff Noon is an award-winning British novelist, short story writer and playwright. He won the Arthur C Clarke Award for Vurt, the John W Campbell award for Best New Writer, a Tinniswood Award for innovation in radio drama and the Mobil prize for playwriting. He was trained in the visual arts, and was musically active on the punk scene before starting to write plays for the theatre. His previous book, The Body Library, was nominated for the Philip K Dick Award.

About Steve Beard

Steve Beard is a writer who experiments with making essays and fictions from theory, history, testimony and psychogeography. He has written two novels and contributed to the anthology London: City of Disappearances, edited by Iain Sinclair.

About Matthew Lloyd Davies

Matthew Lloyd Davies is a veteran actor, audiobook narrator, and director with experience in radio. A regular with the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has performed internationally and in award-winning television shows and films. He prides himself on his ability to tell a story and holds a master's degree in directing.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jamedi

Review originally on JamReads Gogmagog is the first book in the Chronicles of Ludwig duology, an epic fantasy novel written by Jeff Noon and Steve Bear, two authors with a long career that could be defined by their weird fiction, and published by Angry Robot. And it doesn't disappoint, creating a......more