

Martian Sands
A Novel
Author: Lavie Tidhar
Narrator: Keith Szarabajka
Unabridged: 6 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 12/25/2018
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Lavie Tidhar
Narrator: Keith Szarabajka
Unabridged: 6 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 12/25/2018
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Lavie Tidhar is an acclaimed author of science fiction, fantasy, and graphic novels, as well as middle grade fiction. He has won the British Science Fiction, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy awards, among others. He is editor of the Apex Best of World Science Fiction series and a columnist for the Washington Post. His speaking appearances include Cambridge University, PEN, and the Singapore Writers Festival. He has been a guest of honor at book conventions in Japan, Poland, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, China, and elsewhere. He is a visiting professor and writer in residence at the American International University.
Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit. Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins’s Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.
In Martian Sands (PS Publishing, hb, 224pp), Mars has been settled. The New Israelis are governed by a succession of simulacra, Jewish leaders of the past recreated to act as figurehead prime ministers, but their new Golda Meir isn’t sticking to her programming. “Something is fundamentally flawed wi......more
An homage to P.K. Dick and especially his book UBIK. You can almost feel the pulp paper through the e-reader screen (ha! wouldn’t PKD have liked THAT?!?). Disturbing and disorienting in its deconstruction of reality - that is obviously a euphemism for "I'm not sure if I was able to follow the plot"......more
Totally bizarre. Totally riveting in places. Tidhar is one of the best writers writing today, but he's also a little all over the place. If I was going pick one of his 2013 books to read, it would the brilliant VIOLENT CENTURY. This one not quite to my tastes.......more
Well that was fantastic. The writing was excellent and the characters well drawn and likable. The world it was set in was really interesting: a far future Mars barely tied to the Earth at all and having developed its own cultures and religions alongside the legacy cultures from Earth. It was a surpr......more
“Martian Sands crackles with energy and life while poking at some big questions about the nature of reality.” Locus