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Narrated by:
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Sulin Hasso
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Written by:
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Seth Dickinson
About this listen
Michael Crichton meets Marvel’s Venom in award-winning author Seth Dickinson’s science fiction debut
"Viciously funny, vivid to the point of horror, and entirely profound."—Arkady Martine
"Magnificent. . . . A science fiction action juggernaut."—Tamsyn Muir
"Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. It’s very unlikely that you’ll die right now. It wouldn’t be narratively complete."
Anna Sinjari—refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker—has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. Enter Ssrin, a many-headed serpent alien who is on the run from her own past. Ssrin and Anna are inexorably, dangerously drawn to each other, and their contact reveals universe-threatening stakes.
While humanity reels from disaster, Anna must join a small team of civilians, soldiers, and scientists to investigate a mysterious broadcast and unknowable horror. If they can manage to face their own demons, they just might save the world.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com.
©2024 Seth Dickinson (P)2024 Macmillan AudioWhat the critics say
"Dickinson brings the same richness of characterization that made his Baru Cormorant series (The Traitor Baru Cormorant, 2015) so compelling, but this one reads like a Michael Crichton thriller on psychedelics—in a good way."—Booklist, starred review
"Seth! Jesus f***ing christ, Seth, you can't f--king keep doing this to me, I have a kid who's going to get up at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning no matter how late I stayed up reading, again, it's been days, I can see time."—Max Gladstone, co-author of the New York Times Bestselling This is How You Lose the Time War
"Exordia is an avalanche: an inevitable, overwhelming, pell-mell landscape-scale transformation of a book. Dickinson uses science fiction as an ethical scalpel, and the results are breathtaking: viciously funny, vivid to the point of horror, and entirely profound."—Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- 2025-06-15
Long, but worth it
The performance was fine, with the unideal but extremely typical issues of linguistic hiccoughs when a story makes use of too many different (real-world) languages.
Otherwise, this has been the most engaging sci-fi novel I've encountered this year (though I admittedly don't usually go for sci-fi). It is more importantly the first novel I've ever encountered to use metanarrative commentary in a meaningful way with little to no self-gratifying "aren't stories *so* important to personhood?" type thematics (and I have encountered so many novels that attempt to make metamarrative commentary about the narrative nature of the novel that I'd all but given up on this topic ever being broached with any elegance whatsoever).
I would still prefer that the author focus on his Baru Cormorant series though. :P
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