Firewalkers

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

FIREWALKERS ARE BRAVE. FIREWALKERS ARE RESOURCEFUL. FIREWALKERS ARE EXPENDABLE.

The Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor; not without water and power. But the ultra-rich, waiting for their ride off the dying Earth? They can buy water. And thanks to their investment, the sun can provide power.

But someone has to repair the solar panels when they fail, down in the deserts below.

Kids like Mao, and Lupé, and Hotep; kids with brains and guts but no hope.The Firewalkers.

(P) Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing 2020

Teenagers tryng to save the world

In Adrien Tchaikovsky's Firewalkers, a group of teenagers set out to cross vast tracts of overheated equatorial Africa to find out where a sizeable power drain is going. Their employer wants them to find what's illegally using all the power. What they find is almost more interesting than the wealthy evacuating Earth for giant spaceships the poor and disadvantaged have been forced as forced labor to build (that concept doesn't surprise anyone). The book looks at what it means to be human and who deserves to survive.

Narrator was too good.

Loved the story! Couldn't understand what they were saying half the time because she did the accents so well. The French accent in particular was almost impossible to comprehend, but maybe that's just me, I've always hated the way French sounds.

So much depth in so little time!

This is now one of my favorite books.. I've listened to it at LEAST 5 separate times. The characters, the concept, all of it amazing!

Reading about a future so far gone from us but still so close is eerie in the absolute best way. The moral questions, the 2nd hand embarrassment, the chaos all packaged up.. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book and VERY MUCH SO recommend!

I loved this novel

I must say that I enjoyed this novel more than I expected I would.

One of his best!

I've read most everything he's written, and that's a lot! I love his creativity and originality and depth of meaning in his writing.
As usual, in this book the listener is plopped, immersed into the world of his imagining with no preamble and no apology.
This is an all too credible story of what if, told from the perspective of three unlikely allies just trying to survive.
It's definitely worth the listen. The performer's grasp of the patois spoken by the characters is beyond incredible.