

The Company Man
Author: Robert Jackson Bennett
Narrator: Richard Poe
Unabridged: 16 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/16/2011
Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Contemporary, Gothic
Author: Robert Jackson Bennett
Narrator: Richard Poe
Unabridged: 16 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 09/16/2011
Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Contemporary, Gothic
Robert Jackson Bennett is the author of Foundryside and the Divine Cities trilogy, which was a 2018 Hugo Awards finalist in the Best Series category. The first book in the series, City of Stairs, was also a finalist for the World Fantasy and Locus Awards, and the second, City of Blades, was a finalist for the World Fantasy, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards. His previous novels, which include American Elsewhere and Mr. Shivers, have received the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Philip K. Dick Citation of Excellence. He lives in Austin with his family.
I'm not sure who gave me this book, but the premise seemed intriguing. A mystery that promises a bit of steampunk atmosphere set in an alternate America of 1919 where the McNaughton Corporation has become so powerful as almost be their own nation. Without giving away the plot, what I liked about the......more
I've been talking about this book a lot, because the premise is so utterly up my alley and I pretty much stan RJB's concepts. So, in a nutshell: In an alternate-universe dieselpunk 1919, a staggeringly powerful corporation named McNoughton has achieved prominence due to their world-changing inventio......more
I continue to be very hot and cold with Robert Jackson Bennett. In The Company Man, a sort of techno-futuristic mystery of sorts, I just wish the first 4/5ths of the book were as good as the last 1/5th. Instead, we get a lot of meandery worldbuilding with a drip-drip-drip of real detail until things......more