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Cage of Souls

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Narrated by: David Thorpe
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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

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Excellent narration

This book was full of nteresting ideas, enjoyable prose, and had fantastic narration. Highly recommended.

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Wow.

I loved every second of this. What a story. Great narration too. All around superb.

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End of the world as you've never seen it before.

Enjoyed this different take on the end of the world. The use of technology andthe survivors social structure were different to anything I've read before. A fun listen.

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Best in a long time!

Fantastic In all regards! Both performance and story a fun engaging and thoroughly refreshing listen

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Among the best of the best.

The narrator brings it to life in the best way, the story is a fresh retelling of familiar ones in a clever, charming and witty style.
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I have a great respect for this author's work, he always has something going on that puts humanity in its place.

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A great story telling

Always interesting, no annoying over description. Truly easy to enjoy. I would easily recommend to anyone who wants a great classic story

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good

a petty good story teller, dragged out abit but a good story for light listening

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I loved this book!!!

Part jungle adventure story, part sci fi, part prison story, part criminal underworld, what’s not to like! This is now up there as one of my favourite books!

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Great original novel

Great original novel, each part is distinctly different. It kind of loses its way in the middle but brings it back. Worth a listen.

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Another amazing novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Somehow dark but funny, meandering yet fascinating, CoS is worth more than one listen.

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