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    A Fall In Autumn
    A Fall In Autumn
    A Fall In Autumn
    Audiobook9 hours

    A Fall In Autumn

    Written by Michael G. Williams

    Narrated by Archie Montgomery

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    About this audiobook

    WINNER of the 2019 Manly Wade Wellman Award - presented to the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novel by a NC writer by the NC Speculative Fiction Foundation! WELCOME TO THE LAST OF THE GREAT FLYING CITIES - It’s 9172, YE (Year of the Empire), and the future has forgotten its past. Valerius Bakhoum is a washed-up private eye and street hustler scraping by in Autumn. Late on his rent, fetishized and reviled for his imperfect genetics, stuck in the quicksand of his own heritage, Valerius is trying desperately to wrap up his too-short life when a mythical relic of humanity’s fog-shrouded past walks in and hires him to do one last job. What starts out as Valerius just taking a stranger’s money quickly turns into the biggest and most dangerous mystery he’s ever tried to crack – and Valerius is running out of time to solve it. Now Autumn’s abandoned history – and the monsters and heroes that adorn it – are emerging from the shadows to threaten the few remaining things Valerius holds dear. Can the burned-out detective navigate the labyrinth of lies and maze of blind faith around him to save the City of Autumn from its greatest myth and deadliest threat as he navigates his feelings for his newest client, the handsome golem Alejandro?

    Editor's Note

    Fateful mashup…

    A sci-fi and hardboiled detective story mashup. Set thousands of years from now and several thousand feet above Earth in the “last great floating city,” known as Autumn, this gorgeously rendered thriller follows a down on his luck private investigator/hustler who is hired by a mysterious stranger for a dangerous job that will determine Autumn’s future. A gripping exploration of a future where genetic makeup dictates people’s social fate.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverand Productions
    Release dateFeb 16, 2021
    ISBN9781094416311
    A Fall In Autumn
    Author

    Michael G. Williams

    Michael G. Williams writes wry horror and science fiction noir: stories of monsters, macabre humor, alienation, subverted expectations, and the families we forge out of friends and allies. He is the author of three series for Falstaff Books: The Withrow Chronicles, including Perishables (2012 Laine Cunningham Award), Tooth & Nail, Deal with the Devil, Attempted Immortality, and Nobody Gets Out Alive; a new series in The Shadow Council Archives, SERVANT/SOVEREIGN, featuring time travel, modern-day witches, and one of San Francisco’s most beloved historical figures, none other than Emperor Norton I; and a new sci fi detective series debuting in 2019 with the novel A Fall in Autumn. He also writes short stories and contributes to tabletop RPG development. Michael strives to present the humor and humanity at the heart of horror, science fiction, and mystery.

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    • 5/5
      Gripping noir story with unabashedly gay sex and romance and post-apocalyptic inventiveness.
    • 5/5
      The narrator absolutely nailed the presentation and delivery of this book! There is nothing that I didn't like, and my only regret is that I've listened to all of it in one day
    • 5/5
      Language, imagery, plot and characterisation were all so well done!! Looking froward to reading the sequel! And the Narrator was nothing short of a voice actor: Absolutely NAILED IT!! Great Job! I’ll be looking for more of his work, too!
    • 4/5
      Liked the style and use of metaphores. An interesting tale.
    • 5/5
      Well executed book. Loved the narrator. I found the pacing great. This is one of those books which manages to create a world which intrigues and leaves you both satisfied and wantng more.
    • 3/5
      Slow start. Strong finish. Challenges common perceptions re: roles and value of different classes of people.
    • 2/5
      Interesting, but so empty. A future dystopi were a detective who are one of few natural humans trying to live a pitiful existence as the world slowly dies.
    • 1/5
      It was too gay, the premise of animal human hybrids was also childish
    • 1/5
      The book is well written and well read (audio version). One star for a description clearly meant to lead the interested reader into a sci-fi detective novel, but delivers an LGBT romance instead.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A dark dystopian detective novel with an unapologetically gay protagonist.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Intriguing set up, and a world I'd be interested in exploring. But my lord-- the amount of grinding anger the reader brought was *way* over the top. Intensity, like seasoning, can work in moderation, but it became irritating AF before the book was half over.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Okay book, but the random gay sex in parks was disgusting. Really ruined the story.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      What a great story..interesting in its combination of Chicago noir detective and Dune ..the voiced over (the best version imho) Bladerunner comes to mind! Expertly narrated and voiced with a full range of emotions coming through. Congratulations to both writer and reader
    • 1/5
      Unfortunately I can't recommend this book. I couldn't find any sense in the plot full of contradiction, too much pseudo philosophical brooding and too much queer sex for my liking.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      It was a great classic gumshoe story with a Sci fi twist...until the end where it spun out into extreme monologueing. I wish the writer had edited this a bit better, as it mansplained the mystery and got a bit hysterical. Otherwise it was a great story with some beautiful writing.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Lots of details about how the main character prostitutes himself that does nothing to make the story to forward. Also uses a lot of new terminology which is never really defined

      4 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      The novelty of this story (detective noir) is interesting at times and annoying at other times. It pushes the story in places and drags it to an absolute crawl everywhere else.
      The story also sometimes forgets its own core logic in it's futuristic setting. For example, certain things are very much remembered about the past (as a convenient way to lure the reader back in), while plot dictates that other things be completely forgotten and lost to history. I really wish some of the futuristic normalities had been explained better, I think it would have made for a more complete and deeper story.
      In the end, it set out to tell a slightly different story than other sci fi novels and it didn't quite get all the way there for me.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Really tedious and half-baked. Too much time spent on the main character looking directly at the camera to lecture us, not enough world building that's actually meaningful.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Wow! What a fantastic book. Well written and just a delight to read. Very impressed with this author's world building and descriptions. Truly enjoyed his way of allowing the reader to use their imagination during the sexy scenes...not too much detail, enough to let you know the jist of it. Probably one of the best sci-fi books I have read in years. Will absolutely read his other books as well, no doubt about it.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      This would be a great book if the author wasn't so obsessed with sex. Constant comments from the narrator about who he's had sex with, who he wants to, how everyone just wants to get laid blah blah blah.

      Like, we get it bro you're horny and sex OBSESSED. It just makes ever "monologue" sound stupid and brings the value of the writing down. It wasn't bad at first but it gets old and annoying very quickly.

      6 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Very well written and perfectly read! The world created in this novel is filthy and complex and marvellous.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Great writing with narration to match. Really captures hard boiled detective genre in noir dystopian future. Goes beyond tropes to connect us to humanity in all its permutations -- including the progression to AI and genetic enhancements. As others have said, excellent world building, layer upon layer. And memorable three dimensional characters, even those only momentarily presented. Honest and insightful presentation of the intricacies comprising sex, intimacy and relationships. As a heterosexual reader the orientation made no difference to me.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Basically, it was very very disappointing. Action: Horrible! It took two to three chapters for any hint of action to occur. As for promotion of gay male sex, 100%. As for divergent non-story/paths.. which resulted in a waist of time.. 100%.

      The author took too much time just walking three steps forward. Truly a waist of time... unless you have been a gay man/ prostitute.

      4 people found this helpful