Martian Sands
A Novel

Name: Martian Sands
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Lavie Tidhar
ISBN: 9781982575069

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

Synopsis

1941. An hour before the attack on Pearl Harbour, a man from the future materializes in President Roosevelt’s office. His offer of military aid may cut the war and its pending atrocities short and alter the course of the future.The future. Welcome to Mars, where the lives of three ordinary people become entwined in one dingy smokesbar the moment an assassin opens fire. The target: the mysterious Bill Glimmung. But is Glimmung even real? The truth might just be found in the remote FDR Mountains, an empty place, apparently of no significance, but where digital intelligences may be about to bring to fruition a long-held dream of the stars.Mixing mystery and science fiction, the Holocaust and the Mars of both Edgar Rice Burroughs and Philip K. Dick, Martian Sands is a story of both the past and future, of hope, and love, and of finding meaning—no matter where—or when—you are.

About Lavie Tidhar

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.

About Keith Szarabajka

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephen

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

Goodreads review by Konstantinos

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

Goodreads review by Justin

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

Goodreads review by Robbie

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

Quotes

“Martian Sands crackles with energy and life while poking at some big questions about the nature of reality.” Locus