Nicky Drayden
Paperback | Pages: 381 pages Rating: 3.81 | 2182 Users | 551 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Prey of Gods |
| Author | : | Nicky Drayden |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 381 pages |
| Published | : | June 13th 2017 by Harper Voyager |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fantasy. Fiction. GLBT. Queer. LGBT |
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In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. The government is harnessing renewable energy to provide infrastructure for the poor. And in the bustling coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming thanks to the genetic engineering industry which has found a welcome home there. Yes--the days to come are looking very good for South Africans. That is, if they can survive the present challenges:A new hallucinogenic drug sweeping the country . . .
An emerging AI uprising . . .
And an ancient demigoddess hellbent on regaining her former status by preying on the blood and sweat (but mostly blood) of every human she encounters.
It's up to a young Zulu girl powerful enough to destroy her entire township, a queer teen plagued with the ability to control minds, a pop diva with serious daddy issues, and a politician with even more serious mommy issues to band together to ensure there's a future left to worry about.
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| Original Title: | The Prey of Gods |
| ISBN: | 0062493035 (ISBN13: 9780062493033) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2018), Compton Crook Award (2018), Lambda Literary Award Nominee for LGBTQ SF/F/Horror (2018) |
Rating Out Of Books The Prey of Gods
Ratings: 3.81 From 2182 Users | 551 ReviewsCritique Out Of Books The Prey of Gods
3.5 starsI loved the energy of this story. Drayden does a wonderful job with her characters, who all have their demons but also irreverent moments. (Can you get a better horrific image than the furious demigoddess living her mundane life at the nail salon and stuck in traffic, then coming home to the captive man she's slowly torturing to death?).This is also a very good attempt at a mosaic novel, building the stories of individuals, which then coalesce into a unifying story for the book as aThe Prey of Gods is a book which explores a unique mixture of science fiction and fantasy ideas. It is set in a future version of Africa, with genetic modification and personal assistant robots part of everyday life. Yet this is also a version of Africa in which old gods from African mythology also tread. In many respects this is a novel which explores the concept of the human genome. It focuses on the interesting idea of humanity as gods, while also exploring a vision of the future that
The author has LOTS of ideas, but I don't think she's figured out how to make them into a coherent story. I like the South African setting & people, and it is a first novel. I'd read more by her, but I'm closing out this one as DNF, a chaotic mess, not for me. Very cool cover art courtesy of Tor's savvy art director, whose name escapes me.Best review I've seen here is Lindsay's:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."This book is mad. Fun, but totally mad. The characters are brilliant and
UPDATE 27 November 2017Hey! Guys! Even the LA Times agrees with me about this book!!I am not going to pretend this is a review. I read this book at least three times in different incarnations before it was accepted by Harper Voyager because Nicky's my bud. I was knocked on my fat spreadin' butt by her warm, deluded thanks addressed to me in the Acknowledgments. But I can tell you the simple, god's-honest truth: If I didn't like this book, I'd send her a nice email thanking her as prettily as
This was wonderfully bizarre.The Prey of Gods is a sci-fantasy novel set in South Africa and possibly the weirdest books I've ever read, so weird it's difficult to review it properly.If you think I'm exaggerating, this book contains: weird hybrids, including whippet/iguana and rhionhawks (rhino/lion/hawk) combinations a demigoddes running on bot belief implied crab/porpoise drug-induced sex an invasion of dik-diks and a lot of dik-dik jokes also, circumcision AI uprising, but in a religious way
In future South Africa, theres a demigoddess. Not a powerful demigoddess, but a washed-up demigoddess: Sydney has lost all her magic and now works in a salon doing nails, but she has a plan to regain her original status: kill lots of people for their blood. (That always works for me.) Hoping to keep Sydney from achieving her goal is a pop diva, a queer teen with powers, a politician, and a young Zulu girl who has also recently discovered she has a little magic in her. Now add robots, genetic
Nicky Drayden answered a few questions about her debut novel in this awesome Q and AThere are time when all the pieces come together. Sometimes that is because the pieces are made to be together; a dark lord chasing the orphaned farm boy and the like. But to make all the pieces come together when said pieces are a virtual grab bag of randomness takes a bit more skill. Robot uprising, pissed off demi-god, young girl with the power to naturally nuke a town, hallucinations that are real and not
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