The Sisters Sputnik, Terri Favro
The Sisters Sputnik, Terri Favro
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The Sisters Sputnik
A Novel

Author: Terri Favro

Narrator: Shannon McDonough

Unabridged: 11 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 06/30/2022

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

An odyssey wrapped in a love story, set in a near-future of artificial people The Sisters Sputnik are a time-traveling trio of storytellers-for-hire who are much in demand throughout the multiverse of 2,052 alternate worlds. Each world was created by the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Earth Standard Time, home of the Sisters’ leader, aging comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi, her 20-something apprentice Unicorn Girl, and their pop culture–loving AI, Cassandra. Tales of Earth Standard Time-That-Was, from World Wars to the space race to Hollywood celebrities, have turned the Sisters into storytelling rock stars. In a distant reality where books and music have disappeared, Debbie finds herself in bed with an old Earth Standard Time lover who begs her to tell him a story. Over one long, eventful night, she spins the epic of the Sisters’ adventures in alternate realities, starting with the theft of a book of evil comic strips in a post-pandemic Toronto full of ghost kitchens and robot-worshipping lost children known as junksters, to a disco-era purgatory where synthetic people are sending humans into the past through a reverse-engineered Statue of Liberty, to a version of the 1950s where the Sisters meet a rising star named Frank Sinatra and his girlfriend, the once-and-future Queen of England.

About Terri Favro

Terri Favro, winner of the CBC Creative Non-fiction Prize for her essay “Icarus,” is the author of the novels Sputnik’s Children, Once Upon A Time In West Toronto, and The Proxy Bride, and the co-creator of a series of comic books published by Grey Borders Books. She has written marketing copy for IBM, Apple, Blackberry, and LEGO, among others. She lives in Toronto.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jacqueline on May 18, 2022

I really enjoy Terri Favro's writing style. I zoomed through this book which is always a good sign for me. I liked the characters but my tired pandemic brain found the multiverse and the time travel a bit confusing. I'll take this opportunity to recommend Favro's Sputnik's Children, which is still o......more

Goodreads review by Geonn on May 19, 2022

This was so borderline that I went back and forth a few times trying to decide on a grade. In the end, I decided middle of the road was best. It was difficult to get into the story, being thrown into the narrative with very little prepation (the author has another novel called Sputnik's Children, wh......more

Goodreads review by Krista on February 18, 2023

Well, that was unusual. Its an outrageous, twisty plot worthy of a sci fi comic strip or graphic novel, which is the point. The protagonist is a comic book artist whose plot comes to life. An ode to stories and storytellers that asks what comes first? The story or the world?......more

Goodreads review by Dan on March 27, 2022

My thanks to both NetGalley and ECW Press for an advance copy of this science fiction work. The idea of alternate worlds is both a fascinating concept and a great comfort to me. The more I look at Twitter, or the occasional Facebook reminds me of that old joke, "Beam me up Scotty, there is no intelli......more

Goodreads review by Jen on January 28, 2022

Traveling storytellers offer tales to entertain people throughout the multiverse in Terri Favro’s The Sisters Sputnik. To read this, and other book reviews, visit my website: [URL not allowed] Creator of the comic book series Sputnik Chick: A Girl With No Past, Debbie Biondi use......more

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