Feed Them Silence, Lee Mandelo
Feed Them Silence, Lee Mandelo
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Feed Them Silence

Author: Lee Mandelo

Narrator: Natalie Naudus

Unabridged: 4 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/14/2023

Synopsis

What does it mean to be-in-kind with a nonhuman animal? Or, in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a neurological interface to translate her animal subject’s perception through her own mind, Sean intends to chase both her scientific curiosity and her secret, lifelong desire to experience the intimacy and freedom of wolfishness: to see the world through animal eyes; smell the forest, thick with olfactory messages; even taste the blood and viscera of a fresh kill; and, above all, to feel the belonging of the pack. Sean’s tireless research gives her a chance to fulfill that dream, but pursuing it has a terrible cost. Her obsession with work endangers her fraying relationship with her wife. Her research methods threaten her mind and body. And the attention of her venture capital funders could destroy her subject, the beautiful wild wolf whose mental world she’s invading.

About Lee Mandelo

Lee Mandelo is a writer and critic whose fields of interest include speculative and queer fiction, especially when the two coincide. They have been a past nominee for awards including the Nebula, Lambda, and Hugo, and their work can be found in magazines such as Tor.com, Clarkesworld, and Nightmare. Aside from a brief stint overseas learning to speak Scouse, they have spent their life ranging across Kentucky, where they are currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Kentucky.

About Natalie Naudus

Natalie Naudus is an award-winning audiobook narrator. After receiving her master’s in music from the University of North Texas, she went on to become an opera singer. She has a passion for stories and characters and excels at unique character voices and passionate storytelling. She currently resides with her husband and two daughters on a mountaintop in Virginia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by taylor on August 01, 2022

this was fucked up. lee mandelo is the king of bad people doing bad things in a hot and sexy way. it also suddenly brought back the memory of this girl in my creative writing class in high school who read a short story to the class that she wrote in which she was a wolf that tracked down and brutall......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on March 12, 2023

4.0 Stars In a small number of pages, this sci fi novella offers a unique off kilter narrative. This story is built around such a strange premise… yet it worked. I enjoyed the main character of Sean and her fraying relationship with her wife. His workaholic tendencies feel believable. The work with th......more

Goodreads review by Emma Ann on February 22, 2024

I wanted this to get a lot weirder than it did.......more

Goodreads review by Chantaal on March 26, 2023

I genuinely don't even know if I have the ability to talk about how much I took away from this novella. I can't say I enjoyed it, because it's not fun, but it affected me greatly as I read and was as mired in the main character Sean's thoughts and feelings as Sean is in the wolf she's neurally linke......more

Goodreads review by Nicholas on February 24, 2025

In the somewhat distant future, where multiple corporations rule over the world and the environment is gradually collapsing, Sean, a butch scientist, is working with her team to connect her to a wolf she affectionally calls Kate. Sean and Kate are both implanted with a neural transmitter of sorts wh......more

Quotes

"The audiobook is exceptionally narrated by Natalie Naudus, who flawlessly conveys the growing feeling of unease as Sean becomes one with the wolf’s mind. - Library Journal"

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