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The Electric Church

De: Jeff Somers
Narrado por: Todd McLaren
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Time is your curse. Lack of time. Everything requires time, and you have so little. This leads me to the fundamental question the Electric Church poses: How can you be saved when you have no time?

Avery Cates is a very bad man. Some might call him a criminal. He might even be a killer - for the right price. But right now, Avery Cates is scared. He's up against the Monks - cyborgs with human brains, enhanced robotic bodies, and a small arsenal of advanced weaponry. Their mission is to convert anyone and everyone to the Electric Church. But there is just one snag: Conversion means death.

©2007 Jeff Somers (P)2010 Tantor Ciencia Ficción Ficción Robótica

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Meet Avery Cates: semi-savvy gunner in a near-future world going increasingly cyborg. Jeff Somers has been cranking out a new novel in the Avery Cates series every year since 2007, when The Electric Church was first published. This introductory volley, told with noir precision by long-time radio personality and professional narrator Todd McLaren, is a pretty solid start for an increasingly popular character.

In a world where the cops crush everything and starvation is always around the corner, Avery manages to survive by his slightly above average wits as an assassin in the criminal underbelly of lower Manhattan. After killing a cop, Avery is on the run from the swarm of police with better guns and intel than he can even dream of until the king worm of the police force offers him a long shot at wiping the slate clean. All Avery has to do is assassinate Dennis Squalor, leader of the Electric Church.

McLaren is stunning as the voice of a dozen creepy, proselytizing monks: people who have had their brains transplanted into robot bodies so they can pursue eternal salvation. These monks have the protection of the cops, and their church is converting people so rapidly that the whole world will be cyborgs under Squalor's control within a few short years. To get to the inner sanctum of this mysterious cult, Avery recruits a motley gang of criminals. These include a semi-psychic sidekick for muscle, Irish twin sisters who finish each other's sentences for transportation, a tech guru with a knack for disappearing, and a fellow assassin who was either trained by Avery's idol or might actually be Avery's idol himself. McLaren is in particularly good form negotiating the comic timing of the twin sisters' Irish brogue and the snappy comebacks of the second assassin.

There is plenty of action to move the story along, but also a good bit of interesting moral inquiry. Should the team kill an innocent reporter who stumbled onto their plan? How much free will do the monks have under Squalor's religious regime? And of course, that staple question of any speculative fiction endeavor: how did we let the world go so much to hell that it could end up looking like this? The book finishes with a 30-minute appendix containing an analysis of the bible of the Electric Church in all its contradictory glory. McLaren is in fine poetic form, delivering Squalor's lunatic raving with a sober hindsight that will give contemplative listeners something lingering to chew on as they head into the second book, The Digital Plague, involving Avery's effort to combat a nanotech zombie epidemic, also narrated by Todd McLaren and already available on Audible. Megan Volpert
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Narrator was alright. Not very good with female voices. His ability to make the different characters sound different is a bit lacking.

Alright narrator

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This is the story of Avery Cates who lives in a not too distant version of New York. A New York and world that has been devastated and is run by the Haves; everyone, including Avery are little people. Avery is a killer for hire who is down on his luck, who by no fault of his own killed a System Cop and is now a hunted man. Make no mistake; Avery is a very bad man. Now Avery has been hired to kill the head of the Electric Church. The Electric Church is the fastest growing church in the world. The converts of the Electric Church must die; then have their brains transplanted into droid bodies; where they live forever.

The story is a good and fast moving; even with a couple of preposterous meetings/rescues that are eventually explained. I like the characters and the stories progression. I would have given this book four stars, except the last 33 minutes of the book are readings from what I will call the Bible of the Electric Church. Like most bible readings;I just couldn't finish it.

This book is read by Todd McLaren who I have listened to in the books Altered Carbon and Broken Angels. One of the reasons I choose the Electric Church is to listen to Todd again. If you like Todd McLaren you should like his rendition of the Electric Church.

Good Story....Bad Ending

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An imaginative and fantastic semi-post-Apocalyptic story, with cyberpunk tendencies. I really do not want to go into details, which would ruin anyone's first listening experience. I just want to note, in contradiction to the review who apparently wants pink unicorns and rainbows, yes this is not a "bright" children's novel, but if you take into account the series as a whole, it is absolutely amazing. The novels show character development and change of outlook, and all the while the development of sci-fi ideas and political machinations mature and develop with unexpected and fantastic results.

Fantastic beginning

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I don't know that there was anything groundbreaking or new in this book, but I still thought it was entertaining at least. If you liked any of Richard Morgan's Kovacs novels you might this one. I think I will probably check out the next one in the series when I get a chance. It seemed like if this book was just okay, it was at least setting the main character up for something potentially more interesting in the next.

Not bad

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I like this new twist on Pinocchio and look forward to the next one

good story line

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This book puzzles me. I'm not sure if I even liked it. I did find it entertaining and attention grabbing in a "bus full of nuns and children are in a violent bus wreck on a highway " sort of way. The horror of it's situations making it difficult to turn away from it.This book makes you feel filthy, like you need to take a shower afterwards. The setting is so depressing I felt like balancing myself out by watching a "Hello Kitty" marathon between listening sessions. The story is written well ,if not vulgar, but that's by no means a problem for me. The characters are gritty and troubled and disgusting, but we'll formed. The real gem of this is in the narration. The reader gives depth and emotions to the infinitely scarred and backward characters and in a whole this book will if anything leave a mark on your psyche for a while, like a vomit stain on a carpet that even though you can't see it, you can still smell it and with that are reminded of however it got there. I'm pretty sure I can't listen to the whole series back to back to back. There is a definite period of cleansing needed before I can digest this dystopian take on the future. But as bad as it sounded I'm sure I'll get around to them all.

Holy Dystopia

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The liner notes called this book cyber-noir. So, despite the weird cover, I took a chance and was pleasantly surprised. The Electric Church was a futuristic, but gloomy future world seen through the eyes of an unlikely anti-hero (Avery Cates) as he fights against a repressive "system". I liked it so much, I read it in a day, bought hardcopies of the next 3 books the next day, and purchased the whole series on audio the first month of my audible account.

If you like antiheroes, it's a great read

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Todd McLaren is the best narrator hands down. This book is written to capture you in to keep you on edge the entire time you're in it. This series with Avery Cates is an incredible series and you should listen or read each book.

having the time of my life

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this is.a distopian future. a significant part of anyone's day is complaining about fellow citizens who have perceived advantage relative to the narrator. boring, annoying, low stakes story

decent premise. TERRIBLE execution.

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