Cage of Souls

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrated by: David Thorpe

The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts and into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will meet with monsters and mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?

Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth.

Epic, far-future science fiction from an award-winning author.

©2019 Adrian Tchaikovsky (P)2019 Head of Zeus

Just enough

Bit of a slow burn book for me. Narration was excellent. I was unsure for the first quarter if the book would hold my attention. It did. The main character and narration probably the main reasons.

Absolute cracker

Great story, great narration. Best book I heard in 2022. Deep, thought provoking story that I couldn’t get enough of.

Great yarn with some fresh ideas.

I liked the Olde language style and the cast of characters. Almost Swift-ish in style. Solid narrator . Worth re-reading

Very good, some personal issues exist though.

Very cool worldbuilding, if not that original. left too many unanswered questions for me. Worth multiple listens, I think. WTF is Gaki?

Perfection

I love sci-fi and this is a Pearl of it's genre.
The 'timeless' world build here by the author, is most i spiring. Perfectly open.