{"product_id":"the-escher-man-isbn-9781803368153","title":"The Escher Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eA cartel enforcer across South-east Asia must escape a world of paranoia and violence to save his family in this cerebral and multi-layered cyberpunk science fiction novel, from the award-winning author of 36 Streets. Perfect for fans of William Gibson's The Peripheral and Five Minds by Guy Morpuss.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour name is Endel ‘Endgame’ Ebbinghaus. It is Saturday, 3 September, 2101. You’re head of security for Mister Long, boss of the Macau Syndicate, a drug cartel. Your memories are being wiped and re-written. You keep this log because you’re hard pressed to remember what day it is. But today is a special day, mate. This is your last day on the job.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Endgame’ is a violent man, the perfect enforcer. But Endel is also a father and husband, haunted by the memories of his estranged family, and the life they once had. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEndel wants them back, and he wants out. But life in the syndicate isn’t one you can simply leave. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEndgame is a violent man. Or is he? In a world where memory manipulation is the weapon of choice for the powerful, Endel can’t tell friends and enemies apart anymore, can’t be sure if he’s a person or a tool. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrapped in a taut, twisting nightmare, Endel must find a way to escape the labyrinth they’ve made of his mind, and take revenge.\"An easily recommendable, intelligent, adrenaline-fueled genre blend.\" - Librayr Journal (Starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Escher Man is just completely unputdownable and a must read for cyberpunk fans.” - The best fantasy, horror, and Sci-fi books of 2024 - Grimdark Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Incorporating imagery and themes of cyberpunk and plenty of violence, The Escher Man is a thriller and a mind game for the characters and reader rolled into one.” \u003cbr\u003eScreen Rant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An incisive and self-assured voice in near-future fiction. One of those writers with an effortless grasp of the highs and lows of human nature. Always a joy to read.”\u003cbr\u003eAdrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A couple of years ago, I said I couldn’t wait to see where T. R. Napper’s science fiction would take me next. Turns out, it was worth the wait.\" \u003cbr\u003eRichard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If there is one author alive and writing today capable of picking up the cyberpunk banner and waving his fist at the future of our species whenever Richard Morgan hangs up his boots, I think it’s T.R. Napper. Rarely does a book so encapsulate its genre while also pushing the boundaries of its audience. The Escher Man is fucking brilliant.\"\u003cbr\u003eGrimdark Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Napper concocts a visceral toxic future set in an unforgiving world of rain, grime, and gangland turmoil. The stakes are high and the tech is fascinating. Cyberpunk fans are sure to get a kick out of this polished and exciting adventure.\"\u003cbr\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brace yourself, this is the future, but not as you remember it… it’s more badass.\"\u003cbr\u003ePat Cadigan, author of Synners and Fools\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“T. R. Napper shows true genius in his storytelling, with a compelling plotline, noirish setting, and characters of true depth.”\u003cbr\u003eKaaron Warren, author of The Underhistory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cyberpunk's most poetic assassin, gangsters with social media talking automated face detection, back-alley warlords on the vicious streets of Macau…\u003cbr\u003eAs with Napper's previous work, there is both a tremendous amount of violence, interspersed with loving, deliberate attention to the great melting pots of culture that he writes about, expressed in the subtle nuances of conversation, the movement of bodies, and the lives that lie wasted in the gutters.\u003cbr\u003eYou can read this as a book of many allegories; about how the politics of today shape the future of the world; about individuals trying their best to keep their loved ones safe and secure in a dark world that cares nothing for their loves and losses; about the fallibility of memory and the narrative of the self; or even about how the genre, envisioned in decades past, continues to evolve as reality catches up with it.\u003cbr\u003eBut however you read it, this is one hell of a read. T. R. Napper is back on his quest to be the reigning successor to Burning Chrome, Altered Carbon, Synners and Ghost in the Shell. And it's definitely working. The Escher Man gripped me from the very first scene and never let go. This is the new face of cyberpunk.”\u003cbr\u003eYudhanjaya Wijeratne, author of The Salvage Crew\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR T. R. NAPPER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBest Reads of 2022, Sydney Morning Herald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBest Books of 2022, Canberra Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"36 Streets glows bright and hallucinatory as tropical neon, goes down smooth as warm sake, cuts deep as a nano-steel blade. Napper honours classic cyberpunk with fresh perspectives and hot genre recombinations, a nasty new future gleam, the proverbial new coat of paint. But there are more austere echoes here too, of Graham Greene and Kazuo Ishiguro, of a whole post-colonial literary heritage banging to be let in. In a genre stuffed with facile hero narratives, 36 Streets consistently chooses something else – messy humanity, grey moral tones and choices, hard-edged geopolitical truth. Raw and raging and passionate, this is cyberpunk literature with a capital fucken L. Get it while it’s hot!\" Richard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Quintessential cyberpunk, hard-nosed, sharp edged and gleaming.\"\u003cbr\u003eAdrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[36 Streets] has things both novel and serious to say about the psychological effects of intrusive media. This is a kick-the-door-down account of how past traumas – personal and national – may one day be weaponised for social control.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brutal, brooding, brilliant… an angry vision of violence wrapped around a complex meditation of memory, trauma and hegemony. This is cyberpunk with soul.”\u003cbr\u003eYudhanjaya Wijeratne, author of The Salvage Crew\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Not since Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl have I been so utterly enthralled by a science fiction novel. 36 Streets is a cyberpunk tour de force – richly textured, nuanced, and shot-through with emotional depth. I could practically feel the sweaty, grimy, bloody, tropical heat oozing from the pages. One of the standouts of the year.\"\u003cbr\u003eRichard Swan, author of The Justice of Kings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"T. R. Napper understands not just the style of Cyberpunk fiction but the importance of style to the genre. That is not to stay that he stints on the substance, it’s there in spades. The writing is astonishing, seamlessly incorporating inspirations from as far afield as Graham Greene and Coppola, yet never being anything other than original and fresh. This is an important book, particularly at a time when our heavily mediated reality is becoming increasingly frangible.\"\u003cbr\u003eGavin Smith, author of The Bastard Legion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Intimately concerned with the little guy in a world of neon gods, Napper paints a prophetic and uncomfortably believable vision of the future. A fascinating interplay between advancing technology and wish fulfillment, 36 Streets is ambitious in scope while remaining deeply human.”\u003cbr\u003eTim Hickson, Hello Future Me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"High-octane, immersive SF at its best. 36 Streets is sure become a classic in the field.\" \u003cbr\u003eKaaron Warren,Shirley Jackson Award-Winning author of Slights\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Napper has made a remarkable character in the form of his protagonist Lin Thi Vu, subverting to some degree the conventions of the world of male power and violence. It's a great achievement. The set pieces, the interludes, of performed mastery with weapons and skill, are well poised and set the scene with ritualised violence.\" \u003cbr\u003eStephen Teo, author of Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: The Wuxia Tradition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An engrossing, intriguing action-packed duty tour of a tech-thick, violence-infused, neon-scorched near future gangland Vietnam, where unwinnable games run hot and wild. Highly recommended.”\u003cbr\u003eCat Sparks, author of Lotus Blue \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fun, frenetic journey of neon-blasted streets, sinister underworlds and oodles of brutal tech, rendered in cutthroat prose so tangible you can almost smell the grime and cigarette smoke. T. R. Napper’s cyberpunk world is a feral, back-alley brawl of a novel with real blood under its nails.”\u003cbr\u003eJeremy Szal, author of Stormblood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beautiful, shimmering, ghostly science fiction.”\u003cbr\u003eAnna Smith-Spark, author of the Empires of Dust series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A kick-the-door-down account of how past traumas – personal and national – may one day be weaponised for social control.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A lot to enjoy here.\"\u003cbr\u003eSFX Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Intricately plotted, using advanced biotechnology, a close investigation into Vietnamese history and culture, and a hard-edged, complicated lead character, Napper's fine first novel will draw in cyberpunk readers.\"\u003cbr\u003eBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A gripping near-future cyberthriller… Napper drives the brisk plot forward with plenty of action and intrigue. Cyberpunk fans will find much to enjoy in the noir tone, unique setting, and high stakes.\" Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"36 Streets is refreshing, and brilliantly realised SF noir.\"\u003cbr\u003eGrimdark MagazineT. R. Napper is the Aurealis and Ditmar award-winning author whose stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAsimov’s\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInterzone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Magazine of Fantasy \u0026amp; Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and others, and been translated into Hebrew, German, French, and Vietnamese. His first novel was the acclaimed \u003ci\u003e36 \u003c\/i\u003eStreets. Before turning to writing, Napper was a diplomat and aid worker throughout Southeast Asia, helping to deliver humanitarian programs.","brand":"Titan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305087946981,"sku":"NP9781803368153","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781803368153.jpg?v=1767739209","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-escher-man-isbn-9781803368153","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}