Dare to Know by James Kennedy audiobook

Dare to Know: A Novel

By James Kennedy
Read by Bradford Hastings

Blackstone Publishing 9781683692607

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9781665087032

  • ISBN: 9781665087025

  • ISBN: 9781665087049

  • ISBN: 9798200954025

Runtime: 8.58 Hours
Category: Fiction/Science Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

The #1 London Times Pick for Best Science Fiction Book of the Year

A London Guardian Pick of Best Recent Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction

A London Financial Times Pick of Best New Science Fiction

A Gizmodo Pick of September SSF Books

The Chicago Reader Pick of September Books

A Library Journal Pick of Best Books Out This Month

An Indie Next List Pick of the Month

Dark Matter meets Annihilation in this mind-bending and emotional speculative thriller set in a world where the exact moment of your death can be predicted—for a price.

Our narrator is the most talented salesperson at Dare to Know, an enigmatic company that has developed the technology to predict anyone’s death down to the second. Divorced, estranged from his sons, and broke, he is driven to violate the cardinal rule of the business by forecasting his own death day. The problem: his prediction says he died twenty-three minutes ago.

The only person who can confirm its accuracy is Julia, the woman he loved and lost during his rise up the ranks of Dare to Know. As he travels across the country to see her, he is forced to confront his past, the choices he has made, and the terrifying truth about the company he works for.

Wildly ambitious and highly immersive, this mind-bending thriller explores the destructive power of knowledge and collapses the boundaries between reality, myth, and conspiracy as it races toward its stunning conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“A voraciously readable page-turner of a novel, part creepypasta, part thought-experiment.” Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author
“A fascinating, compulsively readable thriller.” The Guardian (London)
“[An] enjoyable slipstream thriller.” Publishers Weekly
“Prompts readers to consider the philosophical implications of life and death itself.” Booklist
“A razor-smart sci-fi corporate noir nightmare…A heartbreaking, time-bending, galactic mindbender delivered in the mordantly funny clip of a doomed antihero.” Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling author
“Entertainingly mindbending.” Financial Times (London)
“Audaciously clever…vivid, thought provoking, and unsettling.” SFX Magazine (5 stars)
“A fresh and morbid twist on the old sci-fi/occult idea of hacking the universe’s mathematical source code." Geek Wisdom
“[A] genre-bending thriller…Good pacing and clever plotting keep the pages turning.” New York Journal of Books
“Hastings’s sarcastic narration is a fantastic complement to the nameless narrator’s tone as he’s prone to snark…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” AudioFile
“Essential reading for the gathering dark.” Times Saturday Reviews (London)
“A wholly original novel that’s bound to frustrate just as many as it entrances.” Esquire
“A fast-paced, existential, mind-expanding thriller—a thoroughly enjoyable read.” Shelf Awareness

Reviews

Reviews

Author

Author Bio: James Kennedy

Author Bio: James Kennedy

James Kennedy is the author of the adult horror thriller Bride of the Tornado, the science fiction novel Dare to Know, and the young adult fantasy novel The Order of Odd-Fish. He is the founder of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival, an annual video contest in which kid filmmakers create short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books in about 90 seconds, with yearly screenings in New York, Chicago, Boston, and numerous other cities. In addition, he co-hosts the Secrets of Story podcast with Matt Bird.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD, Playaway
Category: Fiction/Science Fiction
Runtime: 8.58
Audience: Adult
Language: English