Undertow

Name: Undertow
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Elizabeth Bear
ISBN: 9781436184038

Author: Elizabeth Bear

Narrator: Timothy Reynolds

Unabridged: 11 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/10/2008

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

A frontier world on the back end of nowhere is the sort of place people go to get lost. And some of those people have secrets worth hiding, secrets that can change the future—assuming there is one. … André Deschênes is a hired assassin, but he wants to be so much more. If only he can find a teacher who will forgive his murderous past—and train him to manipulate odds and control probability. It’s called the art of conjuring, and it’s André’s only route to freedom. For the world he lives on is run by the ruthless Charter Trade Company, and his floating city, Novo Haven, is little more than a company town where humans and aliens alike either work for one tyrannical family—or are destroyed by it. But beneath Novo Haven’s murky waters, within its tangled bayous, reedy banks, and back alleys, revolution is stirring. And one more death may be all it takes to shift the balance. …

About Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction, a Sturgeon Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. She is the author of the acclaimed Eternal Sky series, the Edda of Burdens series, and coauthor (with Sarah Monette) of the Iskryne series. Bear lives in Brookfield, Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on July 27, 2024

As the name might suggest, this sci-fi thriller sucked me in with the promise of revolution against human colonizers on a planet styled after the Louisiana bayous, and kept pulling me along with the constant twists and reveals about characters’ identities and loyalties, as well as the tech at play a......more

Goodreads review by Rusty on January 30, 2015

So my kid has this ridiculously awesome car. It’s a Chrysler 300, it has those ridiculously stupid, or awesome, I can’t decide which, wheels that all them kids are crazy for these days. You know, where it is the illusion of being all rim with just the thinnest sheen of rubber that passes for a ‘tire......more

Goodreads review by Brownbetty on December 17, 2007

One sentence: Solid writing, nicely foreign future, good speculative use of the human impact of quantum physics, oddly un-foreign aliens. I liked that the aliens, "ranids" or froggies in the vernacular, didn't have a species name. They call themselves "people" as most people do. Only the humans calle......more

Goodreads review by Althea on March 03, 2013

I'm finding myself having to revise my opinion of Elizabeth Bear. I read her "Blood and Iron" for my book club in 2006, and really didn't like it very much. But I was told, "Her sf is much better than this venture into fantasy" - (I should mention here that I have this vague feeling that I then read......more