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Demons

By: John Shirley
Narrated by: John Shirley, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir
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Publisher's summary

In a future uncomfortably close to the present day, the apocalypse has surpassed all expectations. Hideous demons roam the streets in an orgy of terror, drawing pleasure from torturing humans as sadistically as possible. Ira, a young San Francisco artist, becomes involved with a strange group of scientists and philosophers desperately trying to end the bloody siege. But the most shocking revelation is yet to come.
©2002 John Shirley (P)2002 Fantastic Audio

Critic reviews

"Exciting, vigorously original¿" (Publishers Weekly)
"The narrator delivers his tale of a demonic invasion of our world with masterful power. Moving at a breathless pace, he evokes all the terror of that event..." (Booklist)

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Just not very good.

I was kind of hoping that this book would be a bit of dark fluffy fun, but it was just way too trite for me to get into. I mean c'mon people, this story deserves a made for tv movie on the sci-fi channel.

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Poorly written and overly political

I could not finish this audio book (a first for me). The book is like some hippies romantic daydream where all the time they have wasted is suddenly vindicated. By hanging out and not working or barely working they attain enlightenment and thus save the world from corpratism.

The worst part is (spoiler) they don't actually seem to do anything to save the world. Much like before the demons arrival, the hippies combat the demons by walking around to demon sites waking people, protected by their lack of ambition err I mean enlightenment.

If you are living in your mom's basement smoking pot all day and want a feel good story justifying this I suspect you will like this book.

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Good story - fabulous reading


I don't usually buy books read by the author but made an exception because Harlan Ellison was one of the readers.

Demons has the feel of old fashioned science fiction story and the narration is a scream. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

One of the other reviews said that it was too political -- I didn't see this at all. I'd recommend this book.

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