The Einstein Intersection

By: Samuel R. Delany

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of Earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The deeper tale concerns, however, the way those who are "different" must deal with the dominant cultural ideology.

The tale follows Lobey's mythic quest for his lost love, Friza. In luminous and hallucinated language, it explores what new myths might emerge from the detritus of the human world as those who are "different" try to seize history and the day.

©1967 Samuel R. Delany. © 1967 by Wesleyan University Press. Foreword © 1998 by Neil Gaiman. © 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers (P)2018 Blackstone Publishing and Skyboat Media, Inc.

Great story, great voice

Excellent speculative fiction read in a an expressive bass voice. The only nit I have to pick with the performance is that sometimes the narrator will shift into a character’s voice for dialogue and not shift out of it for narration, or even for another character’s dialogue.

An instant SF Classic

Read this book a few times. I think it’s my favorite Delany. My vintage Ace paperback of this book is easily one of my most prized possessions.

great story

A little confusing a times but just keep in mind these are none humans taking over after humans transcend earth. Great story worth a listen

I'm confused...

...but I did enjoy this book. I wouldn't recommend it if you want a straight forward plot. What Delany does here, instead, is gradually take the reader through a very interesting reality without stopping very often to explain anything.
At the end there aren't many clear answers.
I think I'd like to look at a print version because I have some big questions about the book that are much harder to answer with an audio version.

Very well written

It is very well written. Now will someone tell me what I just listened to? The narrative felt disjointed. Ouch my brain hurts.