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The Vorrh
- Narrated by: Alan Corduner, Alan Moore
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh.
In B. Catling's twisting, poetic narrative, Bakelite robots lie broken - their hard shells cracked by human desire - and an inquisitive Cyclops waits for his keeper and guardian, growing in all directions.
Beyond the colonial city of Essenwald lies The Vorrh, the forest which sucks souls and wipes minds. There, a writer heads out on a giddy mission to experience otherness, fallen angels observe humanity from afar, and two hunters - one carrying a bow carved from his lover, the other a charmed Lee-Enfield rifle - fight to the end.
Thousands of miles away, famed photographer Eadweard Muybridge attempts to capture the ultimate truth, as rifle heiress Sarah Winchester erects a house to protect her from the spirits of her gun's victims.
In the tradition of China Miéville, Michael Moorcock and Alasdair Gray, B. Catling's The Vorrh is literary dark fantasy which wilfully ignores boundaries, crossing over into surrealism, magic-realism, horror and steampunk.
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- the_ms_riss
- 11-09-2020
Very Unusual
the storyline was very strange but in a way that made you want to hear more so that you could try to understand what was going on.
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- Kristin
- 14-09-2018
Descriptive but Flawed
Good Performance by the reader. The story itself is unsettling, with a sense use of descriptive language to enhance a creepy use of imagery. However, this book is presented through a heavy colonialist, often racist lense, that makes it deeply uncomfortable and difficult to enjoy. very few of the characters are likable or even relatable. I won't read the next one.
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