Runner

Name: Runner
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: William C. Dietz
ISBN: 9781452689296

Author: William C. Dietz

Series: Run Duology #1

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 13 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/28/2014

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

In a crumbling futuristic society, Earth is only a myth, the technological advances of centuries have faded into distant memory, and space travel depends on a fleet of run-down, unreliable ships. Only the brave—or foolhardy—undertake such risky journeys. The brave, the foolhardy—and the runners . . .

Jak Rebo is one such runner, whose current job is to deliver a future religious leader to his people, while avoiding assassins. If that's not enough, he gets involved with a very beautiful woman who holds the secret to instantaneous travel between star systems—a secret that some would kill for.

With death waiting at every port, Jak soon realizes that this time he is running for his life . . .

About William C. Dietz

New York Times bestselling author William C. Dietz has published more than fifty novels, some of which have been translated into German, French, Russian, Korean, and Japanese. Dietz also cowrote the script for SONY's Resistance: Burning Skies video game.

Dietz grew up in the Seattle area, spent time with the Navy and Marine Corps as a medic, graduated from the University of Washington, lived in Africa for half a year, and has been to six continents.

His wife and he live near Gig Harbor, Washington, where they enjoy traveling, kayaking, and reading books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dirk on March 23, 2024

Interesting setting alert. Runner is set in a far, far future. After the fall of a big star faring empire (following the assassination of the emperor) planets are isolated when the sentient A.I. governing the star gates disappears (absconds, if you will). With planets cut off from the historical seat......more

Goodreads review by Rom on August 16, 2013

A bit of a hidden gem. Good characters are lightly traced here, but its entirely forgivable since they only serve as pleasant vehicles for the real star: a hi-tech future skidding irretrievably into barbarism. Managing to parse fantasy and cyberpunk (with a well crafted Buddhism in space plot) the A......more

Goodreads review by Joyce on July 03, 2019

It's hard to beat an entertaining space opera, and this one fits the bill. Jak Rebo is the eponymous runner, a courier, who travels interstellar routes on ships that are falling apart as the technology decays and no one knows how to replace it. His latest job seems straightforward--just get a young......more

Goodreads review by Paul on April 17, 2009

In the far future, mankind has spread throughout the galaxy, via a system of portals between star systems. Now their location has been forgotten, so mankind is reverting back to a state where magic becomes very important, and each star system is on its own. The little interstellar travel that is lef......more

Goodreads review by Mark on January 01, 2014

An enjoyable action-adventure sci-fi novel situated in a post-intergalactic period where folks live in an increasingly medieval society where some of the technology still works but nobody can fix it. Otherwise more of an intrigue/spy/escape from the establishment novel centered around a courier deli......more