No Gods, No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull
No Gods, No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull
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No Gods, No Monsters
A Novel

Author: Cadwell Turnbull

Narrator: Dion Graham

Unabridged: 9 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/07/2021

Synopsis

Named a BEST BOOK OF 2021 by the New York Times, NPR, the New York Public Library, Audible, Tor.com, Book Riot, Library Journal, and Kirkus!Longlisted for the 2022 PEN Open Book Award“Riveting…[A] tender, ferocious book.”—New York Times“Beautifully fantastical.”—NPR“Masterful.”—Chicago TribuneOne October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it.As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events. Members of a local werewolf pack are threatened into silence. A professor follows a missing friend’s trail of bread crumbs to a mysterious secret society. And a young boy with unique abilities seeks refuge in a pro-monster organization with secrets of its own. Meanwhile, more people start disappearing, suicides and hate crimes increase, and protests erupt globally, both for and against the monsters.At the center is a mystery no one thinks to ask: Why now? What has frightened the monsters out of the dark?The world will soon find out.

About Cadwell Turnbull

Cadwell Turnbull is the author of The Lesson and No Gods, No Monsters. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and several anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019. The Lesson was the winner of the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Award in the debut category and No Gods, No Monsters won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Speculative Fiction. Turnbull lives in Lafayette, IN.

About Dion Graham

Dion Graham is an award-winning narrator named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine. He has been a recipient of the prestigious Audie Award numerous times, as well as Earphones Awards, the Publishers Weekly Listen Up Awards, IBPA Ben Franklin Awards, and the ALA Odyssey Award. He was nominated in 2015 for a Voice Arts Award for Outstanding Narration. He is also a critically acclaimed actor who has performed on Broadway, off Broadway, internationally, in films, and in several hit television series. He is a graduate of Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, with an MFA degree in acting.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer

As like the king of authors said: “ Monsters are real and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us,sometimes they win.” This story starts with a dead body! Laina opens her eyes on early October morning to learn the new tragic news about her brother’s brutal killing by Boston police officers. Is thi......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

This story has been showing up in my dreams the last few days, and that's both a good thing and a bad thing. Good, because the story is a haunting supernatural weaving of characters and stories that will keep you turning pages, anxious to see what happens next. Bad, because parts of the story are ha......more

Goodreads review by luce (cry baby)

❀ blog ❀ thestorygraph ❀ letterboxd ❀ tumblr ❀ ko-fi ❀ My review for No Gods, No Monsters will not make a lot of sense. The main reason for this is that, to be quite frank, I did not ‘get’ this novel. I did try, I persevered in spite of my mounting confusion, hoping that at some point I would be ab......more

Quotes

“An intricate sequence of moving, intimate character portraits…The depth and care with which Turnbull inhabits each character is riveting; despite an expansive cast spread over wide terrain, I never felt lost or confused. His attention to location detail is considered and clear: The story shifts from Massachusetts to St. Thomas to Virginia with confident ease, carried by beautiful, conversational prose that’s startlingly punctuated by reminders of who’s narrating the stories—and how…I can appreciate how thorough a grounding Turnbull has given this sprawling first act…Let yourselves sink into this tender, ferocious book like hands into piano keys, or teeth into flesh.” New York Times

“This harrowing and lyrical novel combines elements of urban fantasy with biting social commentary.” Buzzfeed

“Beautifully fantastical.” NPR

“Structurally ambitious, intricately imagined.” Elizabeth Bear, Hugo Award–winning author

“You’ll stay up all night bingeing this cosmic political thriller about monster factions battling over the past and future of the multiverse. Cadwell Turnbull has created a fascinating world of supernatural conspirators whose goals are sometimes unknowable, and sometimes align perfectly with the mundane, systemic injustices of human life. No Gods, No Monsters is also a moving journey through many families across many worlds—all coping with traumatic loss, but finding new ways to love each other.” Annalee Newitz, author of The Future of Another Timeline and Autonomous

“Profound and unsettling in the best way…Sharp, insightful social commentary wrapped up in a tale of the uncanny.” Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award–winning author

“Masterful…Begins with a Black man shot by police, then remarkably remains a human story about identity, even as the killing unleashes something new.” Chicago Tribune

“No Gods, No Monsters is a thrilling story, set in a world not unlike our own, that follows events in the wake of the discovery that creatures from myth and legend are real. It’s a page turner…an exciting plot, full characters, complex moral dilemmas, mystery, mayhem, with a bit of romance. This science fiction/fantasy story grabs your attention from the beginning. I love the way Turnbull changes the narrative of hate and division that has been written about so many times and makes us ponder the question, Who are the real monsters?” Keri Cooks, Forbes

“Turnbull is a rising star in the science fiction and fantasy world.” The Verge

“Magic and monsters roam every corner of this page-turner, but the real star is Cadwell Turnbull’s breathtaking prose. A perfect hymn to otherness and the beauty of the strange, No Gods, No Monsters is so good it reads like music. Simply masterful.” Sylvain Neuvel, author of the Themis Files, The Test, and A History of What Comes Next

Awards

  • GoodReads Pick
  • Library Journal Pick
  • Marie Claire Magazine Pick
  • BookRiot Pick
  • Forbes Magazine Pick
  • Polygon Pick
  • NY Press News Pick
  • Tor.com Reviewers' Choice
  • Publishers Weekly Pick
  • BuzzFeed Books Pick
  • Indie Next List
  • Millions.com Pick
  • Chicago Tribune Pick
  • LibraryReads Pick
  • Kirkus Reviews Pick
  • Publishing Post Pick
  • Bustle Pick
  • Literary Hub Pick
  • io9/Gizmodo
  • BookReporter Pick
  • A Chicago Public Library Staff Pick
  • Vol.1 Brooklyn Pick
  • Harper’s Bazaar Pick
  • CrimeReads Pick
  • Fantasy Literature Pick
  • Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year
  • New York Public Library Staff Pick
  • Audible Best Audiobook
  • New York Times Top 10 Book
  • PEN/Open Book Award
  • Barnes & Noble Pick
  • Library Journal Best Audiobook
  • Transfer Orbit
  • Boston Globe Pick
  • Locus Magazine Pick
  • Lammy Award
  • Locus Award
  • Nerd Daily Pick
  • Manly Wade Wellman Award
  • New York Times Book Review pick
  • Shirley Jackson Award
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