Merge  Disciple, Walter Mosley
Merge  Disciple, Walter Mosley
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Merge / Disciple
Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion

Author: Walter Mosley

Narrator: JD Jackson, Bernard K. Addison

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2012

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

MERGE
Raleigh Redman loved Nicci Charbon until she left him heartbroken. Then he hit the lotto for twenty-four million dollars, quit his minimum-wage job, and set his sights on one goal: reading the entire collection of lectures in the Popular Educator Library. As Raleigh is trudging through the eighth volume, he notices something in his apartment that at first seems ordinary but quickly reveals itself to be from a world very different from our own. This entity shows Raleigh joy beyond the comforts of twenty-four million dollars . . . and merges our world with those that live beyond.

DISCIPLE
Hogarth “Trent” Tryman is a forty-two-year-old man working a dead-end data-entry job. Though he lives alone and has no real friends besides his mother, he’s grown quite content in his quiet life, burning away time with television, the Internet, and video games. That all changes the night he receives a bizarre instant message. At first he thinks it’s a joke, but in just a matter of days Hogarth Tryman goes from a data-entry clerk to the head of a corporation. His fate is now in very powerful hands as he realizes he has become a pawn in a much larger game with unimaginable stakes.

About The Author

WALTER MOSLEY is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America today. He is the author of more than thirty-four critically acclaimed books, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Banner

Two novellas for the price of one. But you could also say in this case, one story told in two novellas. That is not a criticism, but an observation. Let me tell you what these have in common. Really weird aliens. I mean out of this world, other dimension, not humanoid, aliens. The kind I really, rea......more

Goodreads review by Ira

Before I was a science fiction geek, I was a mystery geek. I started with Conan Doyle, moved on to Christie and Stout and eventually read writers like Hammett and Chandler, among others. I still occasionally dip into the work of a mystery author whose writing seems interesting, which is how I discov......more

Goodreads review by Peter

These two short novels have basically the same central plot but play out in slightly different ways. In both cases a New York 25-45 year old black man is "chosen" by an alien force to help enact their plans for versions of global human genocide/transformation to fit in with a previously hidden world......more

Goodreads review by Amloid

Excellent. Excellent... I gave this book 5 stars, not for content or story that would rate 3 to 4 stars. 5 stars for making, creating a sci-fi book with an African-American as the main character. It's amazing to me how in the future or in some of authors of sci-fi and fantasy the world's they create......more

Its not often I encounter and author whose stories cross several genres such as Mosley. Its obvious his primary genre is crime/detective stories, though the two in this book are pure science fiction with a humanitarian bend. Merge I found curious due to the 'alien creatures' that morph into humans,......more