Firewalkers

De: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh

Firewalkers are brave. Firewalkers are resourceful. Firewalkers are expendable.

The Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor, not without water and power. But the ultra-rich, waiting for their ride off the dying Earth? They can buy water. And thanks to their investment, the sun can provide power.

But someone has to repair the solar panels when they fail, down in the deserts below.

Kids like Mao, and Lupé, and Hotep, kids with brains and guts but no hope. The Firewalkers.

©2020 Adrian Tchaikovsky (P)2020 Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing

Teenagers tryng to save the world

In Adrien Tchaikovsky's Firewalkers, a group of teenagers set out to cross vast tracts of overheated equatorial Africa to find out where a sizeable power drain is going. Their employer wants them to find what's illegally using all the power. What they find is almost more interesting than the wealthy evacuating Earth for giant spaceships the poor and disadvantaged have been forced as forced labor to build (that concept doesn't surprise anyone). The book looks at what it means to be human and who deserves to survive.

Narration Didn’t Work for Me.

In my opinion, narrator’s accent did not add to the story and made the storyline difficult to follow. Because of this I returned the book it two chapters in. It’s too bad because Tchaikovsky is one of my favorite SF writers and I love the plot of this book. I’ll just read this one in print.

Narrator was too good.

Loved the story! Couldn't understand what they were saying half the time because she did the accents so well. The French accent in particular was almost impossible to comprehend, but maybe that's just me, I've always hated the way French sounds.

I loved this novel

I must say that I enjoyed this novel more than I expected I would.

One of his best!

I've read most everything he's written, and that's a lot! I love his creativity and originality and depth of meaning in his writing.
As usual, in this book the listener is plopped, immersed into the world of his imagining with no preamble and no apology.
This is an all too credible story of what if, told from the perspective of three unlikely allies just trying to survive.
It's definitely worth the listen. The performer's grasp of the patois spoken by the characters is beyond incredible.