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A Man of Shadows

By: Jeff Noon
Narrated by: Toby Longworth
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The brilliant, mind-bending return to science fiction by one of its most acclaimed visionaries.

Below the neon skies of Dayzone, where the lights never go out and night has been banished, lowly private eye John Nyquist takes on a teenage runaway case.

His quest takes him from Dayzone into the permanent dark of Nocturna. As the vicious, seemingly invisible serial killer known only as Quicksilver haunts the streets, Nyquist starts to suspect that the runaway girl holds within her the key to the city's fate. In the end there's only one place left to search: the shadow-choked zone known as Dusk.

©2017 Jeff Noon (P)2017 Audible, Ltd Science Fiction Fiction
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Maybe it's because the wonderfully lyrical passages drive the story forward as much as the plot. It is Jeff Noon after all. In Virt the idea of colliding worlds feet both rational and dreamlike without conflict. Here, by contrast, there are concepts not elaborated on that jar against the storey. Timelines, in their myriad forms, create the basis for day zone. That and the ever present artificial day secluded from the real world, and from time itself. All time is made, and everywhere has it's own time. The time crash, chronostasis, seem like not fully formed notions. Luckily there is more to this work than a clever idea, and in many ways I would far rather read this book than one based on a smart and detailed understanding of physics at the expense of a good story with a fulfilling ending. Its just a shame that he didn't take the time to really explore his ideas before committing them to the world and the psyche of his readers.

Compelling, despite it's flaws

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The story is fab, really imaginative and gripping, full of twists and turns. I didn’t know where this was going to go, which I liked!It’s a huge shame that it was let down by very poor narration. The man sounded like a sat nav, with little inflection or expression.

Great story, appalling narrator

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Basically a hard boiled noir detective story with a weird fantasy wrapping. Too weird for me at times and didn’t really care for any of the characters.

Narration was good.

Weird

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This was a fascinating listen. A really absorbing story although very a very slow burn. The world in which the story is set is, quite frankly, ridiculous if you consider it in the harsh light (geddit?) of day but within the story it completely comes to life and both the setting and characters are totally believable and sympathetic.

I like Toby Longworth and he's does another good job on this book.

Slow but hugely absorbing

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I bought this because it had some rave revues but it was not for me. The 'story' went on and on but nothing really seamed to happen. A rather depressing journey to nowhere.

convoluted but little story

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