Today We Choose Faces, Roger Zelazny
Today We Choose Faces, Roger Zelazny
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Today We Choose Faces

Author: Roger Zelazny

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Unabridged: 6 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/19/2024


Synopsis

Organized crime magnate, Angelo Di Negri, is a man out of time and place. He'd been gunned down more than a century ago. But through the wonders of cryogenic storage his body had been preserved until such a time as his "family" had need of him and he could be safely revived. That time had arrived. But Angela discovered that not everything was as it seemed and that the fate of mankind would be determined by his success or by his failure.

About Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny was a science fiction and fantasy writer, a six-time Hugo award winner, and a three-time Nebula award winner. He published more than forty novels in his lifetime. His first novel This Immortal, serialized in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the title "...And Call Me Conrad," won the Hugo award for best novel. Lord of Light, his third novel, also won the Hugo award and was nominated for the Nebula award. He died at age 58 from colon cancer. Zelazny was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig

This is one of Zelazny's most over-looked novels, a quasi-experimental piece in which no one is quite what they seem to be when they are introduced. It's a short book that covers a long time, a deeply character driven study with a taut and crackling plot, a crime caper set rigidly in a science-ficti......more

Goodreads review by Jim

A Mafia hit man gains immortality through freezing his body & cloning. He then guides the human race toward a more peaceful existence. When trouble strikes, he is forced to confront pieces of himself that he thought were no longer needed & face down the enemy. Very well done & uniquely Zelazny. An in......more

Goodreads review by Jim

DNF......more