Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi
Goliath, Tochi Onyebuchi
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Goliath
A Novel

Author: Tochi Onyebuchi

Narrator: Adam Lazarre-White, JD Jackson, Juliana Vélez, Kevin R. Free, Nidra Sous La Terre, Shayna Small, Stephanie Willis, Tim Campbell

Unabridged: 12 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/25/2022


Synopsis

"A diverse cast of narrators provides glimpses of a near-future Earth devastated by climate change, nuclear disaster, and disease."-AudioFile Magazine

“Onyebuchi sets fire to the boundary between fiction and reality, and brings a crumbling city and an all too plausible future to vibrant life. Riveting, disturbing, and rendered in masterful detail.”—Leigh Bardugo

In his adult novel debut, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Award finalist and ALA Alex and New England Book Award winner Tochi Onyebuchi delivers a sweeping science fiction epic in the vein of Samuel R. Delany and Station Eleven

In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists of the world that they wrecked.

A primal biblical epic flung into the future, Goliath weaves together disparate narratives—a space-dweller looking at New Haven, Connecticut as a chance to reconnect with his spiraling lover; a group of laborers attempting to renew the promises of Earth’s crumbling cities; a journalist attempting to capture the violence of the streets; a marshal trying to solve a kidnapping—into a richly urgent mosaic about race, class, gentrification, and who is allowed to be the hero of any history.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.

About Tochi Onyebuchi

Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of Goliath, a Locus Award and Dragon Award finalist, the young adult novel Beasts Made of Night, which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African, its sequel, Crown of Thunder, and War Girls. His novella Riot Baby, a finalist for the Hugo, the Nebula, the Locus, and the NAACP Image Awards, won an Ignyte Award, the New England Book Award for Fiction, and an ALA Alex Award. He holds a B.A. from Yale, a M.F.A. in screenwriting from the Tisch School of the Arts, a Master's degree in droit économique from Sciences Po, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Venneh

Let’s get this out of the way first - no, it’s not linearly told, yes, it’s inherently political, fucking deal with it. It also isn’t interested in hand holding you through it, which I respect. This is, to my understanding, Onyebuchi’s first novel aimed at the adult sci-fi market, and I’m honestly d......more

Reading Vlog: [URL not allowed]-TJsz4 Goliath is an outstanding example of literary science fiction with the ability to interrogate the pressing fears of the day- from climate change and race wars to disease, gentrification, technological advancement, class division, and more. It contains a non-......more

Goodreads review by P.

Brilliant, imaginative, provocative, and, at times, terrifying. Goliath takes us to disturbingly plausible dystopian future, through the perspectives of the many denizens who call it home.......more

Goodreads review by Angela

Non-spoiler Video Review: [URL not allowed] Actual Rating: 4.5/5 This book was a journey for me. On my first read I was very confused and disconnected and was thinking of dnfing it until I was in the right headspace but I continued and trusted the author and I am so glad I did cause I r......more

3.5 Stars Who would be left behind when humanity leaves earth behind? Sadly, the answer would likely be the marginalized. This was a well written piece of literary fiction with some hard hitting themes of surrounding race and class. While this is classified as science fiction, it reads more like a pie......more


Awards

  • Audible.com Best of the Year
  • Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Finalist
  • Time Magazine Best Books of the Year
  • The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year
  • Locus Awards - Nominee
  • NYPL Best Books of the Year
  • NPR Best Book of the Year