Hunter's Run
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Kerry Shale
About this listen
A new benchmark in modern SF. A sharp, clever, funny morality tale that answers the biggest question of all: what makes us human?
A fight in an alley behind a bar: a visiting European is knifed by local thug Ramon Espejo and all hell breaks loose.
The dead man was a diplomat on an important mission to São Paulo, and next day Ramon is on the run heading north in his van toward land that no one has ever explored, or even thought of exploring, land so far only glimpsed from orbit during the first colony surveys.
There are women still alive on São Paulo who can recall the initial descent onto an untouched world. All the cities of the south have bloomed since then, like mould on a Petri dish.
Ramon was among the second wave of colonists. He’s gone from being nothing in the hills of Mexico to being nothing on this strange alien world. His only friend Griego tells Ramon God meant him to be poor, or he wouldn’t have made him so mean. Ramon’s rage has never deserted him. It was there in the alley behind the bar, but he can’t actually remember why he killed the European.
Leaving all the hell and shit and sorrow of Diegotown behind, Ramon’s plan is to look for minerals in the unmapped lands while the heat dies down. He’s made a bare living prospecting so far, expecting each trip to be the big one that’ll make him rich, and this one is no different. The first samples he blows out of the mountain, however, bring down the mountain upon him as well and a whole undiscovered alien race. Ramon is tethered to one of them and set to ‘perform his function’. Whatever that means, he’ll find out. And he’ll remember why he killed the European.
©2007 George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dezois, and Daniel Abraham (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UKListeners also enjoyed...
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- Andy Cooke
- 09-11-18
Involving read.
Excellent book with many fresh ideas backed up with superb narration. One of those books where you hope there will be a series to follow.
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- BrankoUK
- 17-10-16
Like a master's short story...
... that only gets better as you go. The beginning is a little clumsy. In fact, it took me a few tries of washing dishes and exercising to get into this book over some of the others in my collection, but this one turned out to be a gem. I won't give anything away but it has within it the most important tool sci-fi and literature should provide: a new set of eyes with which to view the world and yourself.
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- Lydia
- 28-07-10
Perfect
Wonderful story and exceptionally well told. The characterization of the narrator is fluent and believable, even when tackling accents, gender and, yes, species. This is one of the very best audio books I've heard and one of the best stories I've encountered.
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- Maureen O'Brien
- 28-08-15
Brill Adventure with surprising twists and turns
You don't always see what's coming bur when it happens it hits you like 'of course'.
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