Never and Again

De: Justina Ireland

Narrado por: Lynnette R. Freeman

NEVER AND AGAIN combines the subversive critique of fascism in STARSHIP TROOPERS, the irreverent tone and horror of GIDEON THE NINTH, and the hard-hitting fictional war memoir format of THE THINGS THEY CARRIED.

In an all too imaginable future, where the privileged lead lives untouched by wars that have become a global pastime, disenfranchised young people who “volunteer” to become super soldiers are injected with nano technology that repeatedly brings them back from death.

In a race against time, one such soldier and an analyst struggle to understand strange phenomena that occur after too many resurrections: glitches known as nostalgia, which even in the midst of combat can hurtle a soldier into the past.

But after eight, nine, even ten resurrections lies something much worse than just glitches…

Intense, visceral, and disturbingly plausible, NEVER AND AGAIN explores America’s addiction to war, the myth of meritocracy, and the ethics of technology, all feeding into the ultimate question of what makes us human.

©2023 Justina Ireland (P)2023 Recorded Books Inc.

incredibly written

simply incredible. the author doesn't bring you into the story, crafting a world for you to imagine. YOU ARE THE STORY. YOU ARE THE MAIN CHARACTER.

Interesting concept/good story

Justina Ireland just does it! She draws the reader in and then mows you down with humanity.

Gripping, horrifying, Sci-fi dystopia at its finest.

Ireland is a masterful author, but this book really punches. The epic story is only heightened in intensity by Freeman’s delivery. Not an audiobook to relax to, it’s a wild ride and sick from start to finish.

the right kind of horrifying

Justina Ireland brings the (anti-) militarism, racialised/classed ethical questioning, and politics of reanimation together again in an entirely new fashion. This is the dystopic future-current, with tons of body horror, that exposes our interrelationality. I think it's particularly useful right now to question complicities, small acts of intervention, dehumanisation and trauma. This book delivers all of that while remaining super compelling, scientific, and retaining the necessary strangeness of sci-fi. The narrator offers a strong performance, too! 5/5

Well told sci-fi story

Justina is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. The prose she uses to tell this dual tale is brilliant, consistently kept me on my toes. Freeman did a wonderful job as well telling the tale and making sure it was easy to determine which characters were which.