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S'està carregant… Travel by Bullet (2022)de John Scalzi
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. In Travel by Bullet, the third futuristic crime thriller novella in the Dispatcher series, John Scalzi assumes that his readers are already familiar with his uncanny world in which homicide victims have a good chance of being resurrected in a safe place. Dispatcher Tony Valdez works in trauma wards and ORs, giving victims of accident or muffed surgery another chance. Travel by Bullet opens with him supervising the saving coup de grace for a fellow dispatcher who threw himself out of a speeding car. The details involve organized crime and a cryptocurrency scam. The Dispatcher stories are not as good as the Locked In series, but they are still fun for high-tech whodunit fans. Unlike the first "Dispatcher" novella, I didn't love this one when I listened to it as an Audie judge. Production was sloppy (page noise? In 2022 AD?), Quinto seems to have checked out on characterization, and the I lost track of who all the players were by the end. Still, I like the sci-fi noir premise of these stories, and would listen to more if Scalzi writes them. John Scalzi understands that many people read fiction largely for its entertainment value. He gets me. This latest novella featuring Tony Valdez, The Dispatcher, is yet another entertaining story that I dispatched in just a few days (see what I did there?). Tony lives in an odd, parallel universe where almost everyone that is killed comes back to life, restored to some previous level of health and in a safe place. Tony is also our first-person narrator and he's just likable enough (despite being essentially a paid assassin, a dispatcher) and snarky enough to keep us engaged as he works his way through the latest mystery that came his way. This one begins with the arrival of another dispatcher at the emergency room of the hospital where Tony works. Mason's in bad shape and dying, having jumped out of a moving car and gotten run over, and would seem to be a good candidate for a dispatch. But he refuses the services of the on-duty dispatcher and asks for Tony. He just wants Tony to be with him, as the closest thing to a friend he believes he has. After Tony hears Mason's story, he whispers a suggestion to Mason and suddenly dispatches (kills) him. Mason disappears and we're off to the races to discover what secrets they shared and why Mason is on the run. Scalzi keeps the story lively, deftly introducing a wide variety of characters from all manner of social strata and brings the story to a quick and amazingly satisfying resolution. Even though this is the third entry in the series, reading the previous stories in unnecessary. Recommended. Disclosure: Thank you to Netgalley and Subterranean Press for providing a free copy of this book in return for my honest review. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Rom Hugo-winning author John Scalzi comes The Dispatcher: Travel by Bullet, which clocks in at over 40,000 words, the longest novella yet in the series. The world has changed. Now, when someone is murdered, they almost always come back to life--and there are professionals, called "dispatchers," who kill in order to save lives, to give those near the end a second chance. Tony Valdez is a dispatcher, and he has never been busier. But for as much as the world has changed, some things have stayed the same. Greed, corruption and avarice are still in full swing. When Tony is called to a Chicago emergency room by an old friend and fellow dispatcher, he is suddenly and unwillingly thrown into a whirlpool of schemes and plots involving billions of dollars, with vast caches of wealth ranging from real estate to cryptocurrency up for grabs. All Tony wants to do is keep his friend safe. But it's hard to do when friends keep secrets, enemies offer seductive deals, and nothing is ever what it seems. The world has changed...but the stakes are still life and death. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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An excellent book as always. ( )