Michaelmas

Name: Michaelmas
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Algis Budrys
ISBN: 9781982557461

Author: Algis Budrys

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 11/06/2018

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

One of the world’s wealthiest and most influential men, journalist Laurent Michaelmas lives in a penthouse overlooking New York City’s Central Park with his superintelligent computer, Domino. He attained his fame and power after hacking into the worldwide computer network. He then went on to use his unique gifts to create a version of the UN that would ensure global peace. In short, he and Domino secretly run the world. But now he has reason for concern.A Swiss doctor has cured an astronaut believed to have vaporized in a shuttle explosion during an expedition to the outer planets of the solar system. Suspecting that something extraterrestrial is behind this miraculous recovery, Michaelmas uses his immense influence to launch an international investigation. Are there really aliens in their midst? Is the resurrection of a dead man an attempt to cancel history and destroy the world’s precarious balance of power?Published less than a decade into the internet era, this remarkable science fiction novel foreshadows many of the world’s technological advances.

About Algis Budrys

Algis Budrys (1931–2008) was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, where his father served in the Lithuanian diplomatic corps. The family came to the United States when Budrys was five years old. A Renaissance man, he wrote stories and novels, and was an editor, critic, and reviewer, a teacher of aspiring writers, and a publisher. His science fiction novels include Rogue Moon, Hard Landing, Falling Torch, and many others. His Cold War science fiction thriller Who? was adapted for the screen, and he received many award nominations for his work.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon

Too much dialogue that was mundane and went nowhere. I read it through to the end in order to understand what was going on. If you hold out you will find out but I can't say it was worth it. Michaelmas is a media personality with a little black box that is a computer that can tie in data from all ove......more

Goodreads review by Bandit

This was my third read by the author and by far the least favorite. The first two were interesting, intriguing, good if not great. This one was managed to hit none of those highs, even though the quality of writing itself was still present. Something about the story just didn't work for me, first it......more

Goodreads review by Jason

The Cold War has ended, and the world is experiencing peace. UNAC, a UN-like global organization, is planning a joint interplanetary mission to the far ends of the solar system on behalf of all mankind. (And yes, if you like the Ronald Moore-created show For All Mankind, you should like this book).......more

Goodreads review by Erik

In the year 2000 (yes, that does seem to be the year this takes place), war has faded from the Earth, and humanity growing ever-closer together is getting ready to explore the rest of the solar system. Humanity doesn't know that one man is responsible. The Anderson Cooper-like Laurent Michaelmas is......more

Quotes

“[Budrys’] most humanly complex and fully realized novel…Michaelmas describes in considerable detail a near-future world whose information media have become prophetically sophisticated.” Encyclopedia of Science Fiction