The Devils Dictionary, Steven Kotler
The Devils Dictionary, Steven Kotler
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The Devil's Dictionary

Author: Steven Kotler

Narrator: Ryan Vincent Anderson

Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/19/2022


Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler's follow up to Last Tango, a near-future thriller about the evolution of empathy in the tradition of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson.

Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn, protagonist of Last Tango, is the first of his kind—an empathy tracker, an emotional soothsayer, with a felt sense for the future of the we. In simpler terms, he can spot cultural shifts and trends before they happen.

The Devil's Dictionary finds Lion Zorn enmeshed with a strange subculture: polyamorous crypto-currency fiends with a tendency toward eco-terrorism. These crypto-eco-punks have executed the largest land grab in U.S. history, buying up huge swatches of the American west to establish the world’s first mega-linkage. This unbroken tract of wild lands stretching from Yellowstone to Yukon is meant to protect biodiversity and stave off the Sixth Great Extinction, but something’s rotten in Eden. Instead of saving existing species, exotic creatures unlike anything seen on Earth keep turning up. Called in to track down the origin of these exotics, Lion quickly finds himself entangled in a battle for the survival of our species.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

About Steven Kotler

STEVEN KOTLER is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and Founder and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is the author of over a dozen books, including The Art of Impossible, The Rise of Superman, Abundance, and Bold. His work has been translated into over 50 languages and appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on April 19, 2022

I admit I feel quite connected with this book, as with the previous one, because it's rife with all the cool SF nostalgia things that I loved while growing up. Dune references, or specifically the massive empathy drug named Sietch Tabr that got released into the wild, messing up humanity in the prev......more

Goodreads review by The SciFi Book Guy on May 28, 2021

So yeah, our main man is this empathy tracker Lion Zorn. As an em-tracker his brain is essentially rewired with his sense of empathy totally cranked up. It also helps him predict future trends and be a human lie-detector. Best part is that weed helps his hone his abilities, so dude smokes a ton of w......more

Goodreads review by Ana on May 14, 2021

Steven Kotler put a lot of wild information into this book. You should read it twice to get the full effect of the storylines. The author weaves a spiderweb of tales intricately intermingling as they lead you through Lion Zorn’s mission to rescue his missing friends, Kendra and Ibrahim. It truly doe......more

Goodreads review by Fraser on March 26, 2022

Lion Zorn is an empathy tracker. Think Will Graham from Hannibal, only more focused on moods and macro, cultural patterns. We come off the last book, in which Zorn has leaked details of a drug that more-or-less unearths or allows for more people like him to bond with animals, heighten their empathy,......more

Goodreads review by AndiReads on March 22, 2022

What a crazy ride this book is. This book will make you laugh, cringe and think- sometimes all at the same time! The Devil's Dictionary is the successor to Steven Kotler's The Last Tango. I have not yet read TLT but was able to enjoy TDD as a stand alone. In TDD, "em-tracking" are empaths, emotional "......more