The Shadow Hunter, Pat Murphy
The Shadow Hunter, Pat Murphy
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The Shadow Hunter

Author: Pat Murphy

Narrator: Richard Powers

Unabridged: 9 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/26/2009

Synopsis

The clash of prehistoric shamanic traditions with future technology makes for a gripping tale in this first novel by the Nebula Award–winning author.On a moonlit night thirty thousand years ago, a young Neanderthal boy dreamed a true dream. In his dream, the spirit of the cave bear commanded the boy to follow her. Transported to a distant future beyond our own, he entered a strange world of brilliant and terrifying possibilities, a world inhabited by people who did not know the nature spirits or even understand the spirits of their own technology.Guided only by memories, the young Neanderthal must recreate the shaman’s path. He must reconcile the powerful and capricious spirit of the cave bear with the realities of life in the new world and find a way to save his people, the animals, and their sacred relationship.

About Pat Murphy

Pat Murphy has won numerous awards for her science fiction and fantasy writing, including the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the World Fantasy Award. When not writing science fiction, she writes for the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s museum of science, art, and human perception. She lives in San Francisco.

About Richard Powers

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory, and Bewilderment was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary

In order to save his people from starvation, 10-year-old "Sam" must face a cave bear. Having dreamed of her, he must be the one to kill her and merge with her spirit. If he can complete this quest, the people will live. But, in the midst of the hunt, both boy and bear are pulled into the far future.......more

Goodreads review by Debbie

Well, I've been completely bitten by the "listen-to-audio-book-bug"! I got myself an Audible account as a late Christmas gift and began with this very intriguing tale of a Neanderthal boy mistakenly transported into a modern future (perhaps a bit beyond us now): kind of a Jurassic Park in reverse st......more

Goodreads review by coty ☆

like a lot of books i read, i picked this up just because i liked the cover. unlike the majority i read because of this, i really really loved this book. i think it's difficult to have a child as a narrator and then have it be believable and immersive, but pat murphy doesn't seem to struggle with th......more

Goodreads review by Peter

A re telling of Asimov's "An Ugly Child", this is a revision by the author of her first novel. The revision makes the world of the future seem less clunky - ie satellite phones and the Internet are present, something she didn't envisage when she write the novel in the dark ages of 1982. I did enjoy......more

Goodreads review by Betty

A Neanderthal boy is zapped from the past to the future. He keeps his beliefs and it's interesting to see how his life is changed and how he copes.......more

Quotes

“A young Neanderthal boy dreams that he is following the spirit of the she-bear, and he awakens in a future time. Having left his tribe behind, he remains faithful to the spiritual beliefs of his people and teaches himself the ways of a shaman. Paul Garcia’s flat undertone for the boy, called Sam within his new world, reflects the character’s quiet effort to maintain his equilibrium as he learns language and establishes deep bonds with some of those he meets. As Sam grows older…Garcia subtly shifts his speech to show his growing confidence.” AudioFile

“Paul Garcia’s flat undertone for the boy, called Sam within his new world, reflects the character’s quiet effort to maintain his equilibrium as he learns language and establishes deep bonds with some of those he meets. As Sam grows older…Garcia subtly shifts his speech to show his growing confidence.” Audiofile

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