Narrator Andi Arndt makes the surreal seem absolutely real in this time-bending dystopian slow burn. In a near future, uniformity is mandated, free thought is discouraged, and history is scrubbed. Arndt portrays the confusion and terror of the reluctant heroine, who is flung back in time as punishment for questioning the status quo. As narrator, Arndt is so adept that she makes the lead character sound wistful for her former life in the present, where everyone is monitored and questions can get you killed. Plan on getting through this audiobook in one sitting. Once you start, you won’t be able to stop. A.R.F. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
No one wants to live in a dystopia, but we’re certainly living in the golden age of feminist dystopian novels. That fact probably (definitely) doesn’t speak well of the real world that’s given birth to all of these extraordinary and disturbing novels, but even the grimmest story can give us a hope of finding our […]
Legendarily prolific, multi-award winning author Joyce Carol Oates hasn’t left too many genre stones unturned in her long career, but her latest novel, Hazards of Time Travel, marks her first foray into dystopian science fiction. It’s also her most pointed work of social commentary in ages. It’s an unsubtle dystopia but, then, these are unsubtle times. […]