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Goliath
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White, JD Jackson, Juliana Vélez, Kevin R. Free, Nidra Sous La Terre, Shayna Small, Tim Campbell, Stephanie Willis
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
"A diverse cast of narrators provides glimpses of a near-future Earth devastated by climate change, nuclear disaster, and disease."—AudioFile Magazine
“Onyebuchi sets fire to the boundary between fiction and reality, and brings a crumbling city and an all too plausible future to vibrant life. Riveting, disturbing, and rendered in masterful detail.”—Leigh Bardugo
In his adult novel debut, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Award finalist and ALA Alex and New England Book Award winner Tochi Onyebuchi delivers a sweeping science-fiction epic in the vein of Samuel R. Delany and Station Eleven.
In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists of the world that they wrecked.
A primal biblical epic flung into the future, Goliath weaves together disparate narratives—a space-dweller looking at New Haven, Connecticut, as a chance to reconnect with his spiraling lover; a group of laborers attempting to renew the promises of Earth’s crumbling cities; a journalist attempting to capture the violence of the streets; a marshal trying to solve a kidnapping—into a richly urgent mosaic about race, class, gentrification, and who is allowed to be the hero of any history.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.
Critic reviews
2022, Audible.com Best of the Year, Long-listed
Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Finalist, Short-listed
2022, Time Magazine Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
2022, The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
2022, NYPL Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
2022, NPR Best Book of the Year, Long-listed
2023, Locus Awards, Nominee, Short-listed
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- The Anonymous Listener
- 13-01-23
A struggle to read
Poor start to end. There is no real story the characters are all bitter people with a chip on there shoulder and it all feels like this is the author venting frustration about something they really don’t under stand under the guise of a sci-fi tale with a lack of scope for imagination. A brutal read.
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