

A Spy in Time
Author: Imraan Coovadia
Narrator: Korey Jackson
Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 11/13/2018
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Imraan Coovadia
Narrator: Korey Jackson
Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 11/13/2018
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Imraan Coovadia has become one of the most prominent and innovative writers in South Africa. He has won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, The University of Johannesburg Prize, the M-Net Prize and has been shortlisted for the Ama-Boeke Prize (2003) and the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award. He is the director of the creative writing program at the University of Cape Town and is a regular contributor to various newspapers, journals and magazines such as N+1, Agni, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Times of India, and South Africa’s The Mail and Guardian and Sunday Independent. His writing has been the focus of a 2016 special issue of the scholarly journal Current Writing.
A Spy in Time is a brilliant, thought provoking, engaging time tale spy saga by Imraan Coovadia that is a wholly original book that draws on afrofuturism and more cerebral spy fiction like Graham Greene, Anthony Burgess, and the best of John Le Carré. Enver Eleven is a new member of the Agency, a cov......more
A Spy In Time is a sci-fi book like I've never read before. There are some huge ideas in this novel that will tickle the fancy of even the MOST literate time travel enthusiasts. I personally loved Imraan Coovadia's super fun technical details about his version of time travel which, in this novel, is......more
Sci-Fi is one of the most difficult genres to write and I commend Mr Imraan Coovadia for the brilliant writing and fresh fictionally scientific world-building which fuses spies, space, time travel and contemplative philosophy. Coovadia managed to create a plot that was both thrilling and interdimens......more
Coovadia has a way with words, thoughts, time and concepts. This Electric Cool Aid Acid Test of a novel is a roller-coaster ride difficult to describe and more difficult still to put down.......more
A good novel. Well written and conceptually heavy. Perhaps too much so, as it packs secret agencies, time travel, the multiverse, and mankind's barbaric racially inspired history into one book. The first person narrator holds it all together though, with the protagonist being as perplexed as the read......more