Otaku, Chris Kluwe
Otaku, Chris Kluwe
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Otaku

Author: Chris Kluwe

Narrator: Shayna Small

Unabridged: 11 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/03/2020


Synopsis

Otaku is the debut novel from former NFL player and tech enthusiast Chris Kluwe, with a story reminiscent of Ready Player One and Ender's Game.

Ditchtown.

A city of skyscrapers, built atop the drowned bones of old Miami. A prison of steel, filled with unbelievers. A dumping ground for strays, runaways, and malcontents.

Within these towering monoliths, Ashley Akachi is a young woman trying her best to cope with a brother who's slipping away, a mother who's already gone, and angry young men who want her put in her place. Ditchtown, however, is not the only world Ash inhabits.

Within Infinite Game, a virtual world requiring physical perfection, Ash is Ashura the Terrible, leader of the Sunjewel Warriors, loved, feared, and watched by millions across the globe. Haptic chambers, known as hapspheres, translate their every move in the real to the digital—and the Sunjewel Warriors' feats are legendary.

However, Ash is about to stumble upon a deadly conspiracy that will set her worlds crashing together, and in the real, you only get to die once…

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

About Chris Kluwe

Chris Kluwe is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction collection Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies, a contributor to Press Start To Play, and the lead designer of the tabletop card game Twilight of the Gods.A former NFL player, Kluwe has received wide attention for his TED talk about the future of technology, virtual reality, and empathy, and has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sachin on March 12, 2020

Originally reviewed here on my blog: [URL not allowed] Otaku in Japanese refers to the anime/manga/video-game obsessed fans and the underground culture, who put their games ahead of real social interactions. In Chris Kluwe's debut cyberpunk sci-fi thriller Otaku, he opts to have......more

Goodreads review by Jareth on March 21, 2020

Before getting to my review of this book, can we all take a moment to acknowledge and appreciate that this Science-Fiction novel, steeped in video-game and nerd culture, was written by a professional athlete?!? That’s right, plot of ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ be damned! Alpha Beta and Lambda Lambda Lamb......more

Goodreads review by Stewart on July 27, 2020

Nice! In some ways, Otaku is an updated version of Larry Niven and Steven Barnes’ Dream Park crossed with Ender’s Game, and overlaid with a veneer of cyberpunk. Ashley Akachi lives in Ditchtown, a city of skyscrapers sprouted from the sunken ruins of old Miami. She and her team, the SunJewel Warrior......more

Goodreads review by Allison on April 07, 2020

Thanks to Netgalley and Tor for sending me this copy to review! Sadly, DNF @ 33%. The future world Kluwe envisions includes a flooded landscape (thanks, global warming) with no anonymity online (hello, censorship), one where pro gamers are the new pro athletes and Florida is ruled by a theocracy. So......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on October 05, 2020

Otaku is a Japanese word for someone to whom fandom is life. They live their fandom day to day, in and out. It is everything, so much so that it can damage and even eradicate their social life. And it’s the perfect title for this book. Take Ready Player one, and mix it with Warcross and you get this......more