{"product_id":"neon-leviathan-hardcover","title":"Neon Leviathan - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eT. R. Napper\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of stories about the outsiders - the criminals, the soldiers, the addicts, the mathematicians, the gamblers and the cage fighters, the refugees and the rebels. From the battlefield to alternate realities to the mean streets of the dark city, we walk in the shoes of those who struggle to survive in a neon-saturated, tech-noir future.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Twelve hard-edged stories from the dark, often violent, sometimes strange heart of cyberpunk, this collection - as with all the best science fiction - is an exploration of who were are now. In the tradition of Dashiell Hammett, Philip K Dick, and David Mitchell, Neon Leviathan is a remarkable debut collection from a breakout new author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Haunting and iridescent--combines the paranoid weirdness of the best Philip K Dick, the chilly but cool-as-fuck future gleam of cyberpunk, and an achingly beautiful literary inflection reminiscent of mainstream heavyweights like Murakami or Ishiguro. T. R. Napper's futures feel at once gritty and vertiginous and close-focus human in the way only the best SF can manage. Whatever roadmap he's working from, I can't wait to see where he's taking us next.\"\u003cbr\u003e Richard Morgan, author of \u003cem\u003eAltered Carbon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"It is easier to write about violence than to write about the aftermath--the grief, the guilt, the long-held trauma. It's easier to write about the shouted argument than the taut silence which follows it. It's easier to write about dreamlike unreality than it is to invest a reader in the mundane and the everyday. And yet the stories within Neon Leviathan balance all these competing demands with a deft and masterful hand.\"\u003cbr\u003e Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of \u003cem\u003eChildren of Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Heartbreaking... it evokes the depth of Chinese history, the successive wars, the poetry that expresses both the love of the landscape and the pain of the soldier leaving home, perhaps never to return.\" (\u003cem\u003efor Dark on a Darkling Earth\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e Lois Tilton, \u003cem\u003eLocus Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"T. R. Napper's cyberpunk story is a standout  in the collection], featuring a download with the tension of a high-speed chase\" (for \u003cem\u003eTwelve Minutes to Vinh Quang\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The story is by turns blackly funny, speculatively impressive, and bleakly moving.\" (for \u003cem\u003eA Strange Loop\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e Rich Horton, \u003cem\u003eLocus Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Wonderfully strange\" (for \u003cem\u003eAn Advanced Guide to Successful Price-Fixing in Extra-Terrestrial Betting Markets\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eSci Fi Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Darkly gonzoid\" (for A\u003cem\u003en Advanced Guide to Successful Price-Fixing in Extra-Terrestrial Betting Markets\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e Lois Tilton, \u003cem\u003eLocus Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Thrilling and Moving\" (for \u003cem\u003eGhosts of a Neon God\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eRocket Stack Rank\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The whole reads like a fever dream\" (for \u003cem\u003eGreat Buddhist Monk Beat Down\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eTangent Online\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 364\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710377594943,"sku":"9780648663591","price":49.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0933ec50e067cb6a928426b64b28a040.webp?v=1765054698","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/neon-leviathan-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}