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36 Streets
- Author
- T. R. Napper
- Narrator
- Katherine Littrell
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 19 April 2022
- Run Time
- 11 hours 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this fast-paced, intelligent, action-driven cyberpunk, probing questions of memory, identity, and the power of narratives.
Lin “The Silent One” Vu is a gangster and sometime private investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider.
Through grit and courage Lin has carved a place for herself in the Vietnamese underworld where Hanoi’s crime boss, Bao Nguyen, is training her to fight and lead. Bao drives her hard; on the streets there are no second chances. Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory—a dangerously addictive immersive simulation of the US-Vietnam war.
When an Englishman comes to Hanoi on the trail of his friend’s murderer, Lin’s life is turned upside down. She is drawn into the grand conspiracies of the neon gods—of regimes and mega-corporations—as they unleash dangerous new technologies.
Lin must confront the immutable moral calculus of unjust wars. She must choose: Family, country, or gang. Blood, truth, or redemption. No choice is easy on the 36 Streets.
Critics Review
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“Raw and raging and passionate, this is cyberpunk literature with a capital fucken L. Get it while it’s hot!”
Richard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon
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“A fun, frenetic journey of neon-blasted streets…rendered in cutthroat prose.”
Jeremy Szal, author of Stormblood
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“High-octane, immersive SF at its best…Sure become a classic in the field.”
Kaaron Warren, Shirley Jackson Award–winning author
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“A fascinating interplay between advancing technology and wish fulfillment, 36 Streets is ambitious in scope while remaining deeply human.”
Tim Hickson, author of On Writing and Worldbuilding
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“Brutal, brooding, brilliant…This is cyberpunk with soul.”
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, author of The Salvage Crew
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Details
- Author
- T. R. Napper
- Narrator
- Katherine Littrell
- Duration
- 11 hours 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 April 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200910694
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Science fiction: cyberpunk / biopunk, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Science fiction, Adventure fiction
Synopsis
Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this fast-paced, intelligent, action-driven cyberpunk, probing questions of memory, identity, and the power of narratives.Lin “The Silent One” Vu is a gangster and sometime private investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider.Through grit and courage Lin has carved a place for herself in the Vietnamese underworld where Hanoi’s crime boss, Bao Nguyen, is training her to fight and lead. Bao drives her hard; on the streets there are no second chances. Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory—a dangerously addictive immersive simulation of the US-Vietnam war.When an Englishman comes to Hanoi on the trail of his friend’s murderer, Lin’s life is turned upside down. She is drawn into the grand conspiracies of the neon gods—of regimes and mega-corporations—as they unleash dangerous new technologies.Lin must confront the immutable moral calculus of unjust wars. She must choose: Family, country, or gang. Blood, truth, or redemption. No choice is easy on the 36 Streets.
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