Black Leviathan

Name: Black Leviathan
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Bernd Perplies
ISBN: 9781250264282

Author: Bernd Perplies, Lucy Van Cleef

Narrator: Raphael Corkhill

Unabridged: 13 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 02/25/2020

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic, Dragons

Synopsis

Melville’s Moby Dick unfolds in a world of dragon hunters in Black Leviathan, an epic revenge fantasy from German award-winning author Bernd Perplies.

Beware! A shadow will cover you, larger than that cast by any other dragon of this world. Black as the lightless chasm from whence it was born at the beginning of time.

In the coastal city Skargakar, residents make a living from hunting dragons and use them for everything from clothing to food, while airborne ships hunt them in the white expanse of a cloud sea, the Cloudmere.

Lian does his part carving the kyrillian crystals that power the ships through the Cloudmere, but when he makes an enemy of a dangerous man, Lian ships out on the next vessel available as a drachenjager, or dragon hunter.

He chooses the wrong ship. A fanatic captain, hunts more than just any dragon. His goal is the Firstborn Gargantuan—and Adaron is prepared to sacrifice everything for revenge.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

About Bernd Perplies

BERND PERPLIES has a great reputation in Germany for a very wide variety of writing in several genres. He has written the first Star Trek tie-in trilogy allowed by CBS outside the U.S. Black Leviathan (Drachenjäger in Germany) was a finalist for Seraph Award, RPC Fantasy Award, and Deutscher Phantastik Preis, which it won in 2018. Black Leviathan is his first novel translated for the U. S.

About Lucy Van Cleef

LUCY VAN CLEEF is an American writer and translator based in Berlin. After more than ten years as a professional dancer, she writes about arts and culture. Bernd Perplies' Black Leviathan is her debut novel translation.

About Raphael Corkhill

Raphael Corkhill is an award-winning stage, screen and voice actor. Born and raised in the UK, Raphael graduated from Princeton University then gained his MFA in acting from the University of Southern California. Raphael’s film and television credits include the Warner Bros. feature The Goldfinch, independent TV pilot Manny, and Burning at Both Ends alongside Cary Elwes. His extensive voice credits include billion-dollar video game franchises: Uncharted 4 (BAFTA “Best Game” winner), The Elder Scrolls Online and Titanfall 2, as well as the recent blockbuster ESO: Morrowind. Raphael has narrated numerous titles for Macmillan including The Fallon Trilogy and his audiobook performances have been described by Publisher’s Weekly as “terrific.”

Reviews

Goodreads review by Traveling on February 29, 2020

Synopsis In Skargakar, dragons are a way of life. Their uses are endless: food, clothing, weapons, pets, etc. They are so essential to the community that people called drachenjagers build giant airships to hunt them in the Cloudmere – a vast area above the clouds where dragons preside. It is a danger......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on April 15, 2020

Some mild spoilers below (although none that majorly spoil the plot), so proceed with caution. Black Leviathan is a novel with a very straightforward premise: "What if Moby Dick was a dragon?" That's one hell of a premise, and it convinced me to give this a go. After all, who doesn't like the idea of......more

Goodreads review by Peter on February 11, 2020

German award winning author Bernd Perplies writes a fantasy-version of Moby Dick. I really like his writing here, the story is straight and thrilling. I expecially love those Dogpeople with the strange names and the scene, when the young hero kills his first - Spoiler Spoiler - dragon :).......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on January 25, 2020

4.5*, rounded up. Its packaging describes it as "MOBY-DICK...in a world of dragon hunters," and that's technically accurate. Eccentric, mysterious captain of a hunting ship goes on lifelong, obsessive quest for revenge on a massive monster, and all that. I've never read Moby Dick, and I don't think I......more

Goodreads review by Sammie on February 29, 2020

You can read my full review on my blog, The Writerly Way, here. Many thanks to Edelweiss and Tor Books for an eARC in exchange for an honest, unbiased review. Okay, look, y’all had to know I was going to read this, because not only is it about dragons, but it’s got a giant, intimidating looking dr......more