Immobility
by Brian Evenson
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Critic Rating
67%
Critic Reviews: 13
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70%
Reader Ratings: 15
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Synopsis
A far-future thriller that looks at a post-human world struggling to stay humanYou open your eyes for what you know is not the first time and you remember nothing. You find out that a catastrophic event known as the Kollaps has destroyed life as we know it. Someone claiming to be your friend tells you that you’re needed. Something crucial has been stolen—but under no circumstances can you know what or why. You’ve got to get it back or something bad is going... more
About Brian Evenson
Published: April 10, 2012 by Macmillan Publishing
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy. Fiction. 256 pages
- All Critics: 13
- Positive: 10
- Negative: 3
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jmww | 30 Mar 2012
Immobility is a great book, showcasing a great writer at the height of his powers.
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Kirkus Reviews | 1 Mar 2012
Satisfying if not particularly surprising or original.
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The Guilded Earlobe | 6 Apr 2012
Evenson offers some brilliant visuals, compelling dilemmas and a gut punch ending, just don’t expect to go away completely satisfied.
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Guys Lit Wire | 14 May 2012
Brian Evenson’s Immobility is both a stirring post-apocalyptic thriller and a thoughtful meditation on faith and what it means to be human.
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Examiner | 12 Apr 2012
Immobility doesn't brim with brand new ideas, but it integrates two familiar ones in a powerful way--and, in the end, it seems to be asking the reader, "What would you do in this situation? Could you manage it any better?"
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Publishers Weekly | 13 Feb 2012
Grim and unrelenting, this compelling book will darken the mood of even the most lighthearted readers as Evenson drives it toward an inevitable but still surprising ending.
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Backlisted | 16 Feb 2012
From beginning to end, Evenson shows impressive restraint, never giving more than we need, never leaving the reader pissed off at what we aren’t told.
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SciFi Chick | 11 Apr 2012
This science fiction thriller is intensely dramatic, dark, and chilling.
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Chamber Four | 3 May 2012
In the end, this isn’t a masterpiece, but it’s a very solid little piece of sci-fi, a simple idea well-executed, and the most fun I’ve had reading in several months.
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Alternative Worlds | 14 Feb 2012
This grim ultra-dark Kafka like thriller hooks the reader from the start as Horkai slowly awakens to his condition and the horror of what has passed while he was sleeping
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Music and More | 11 May 2012
Both the characters and the plot are enigmatic and mysterious with the journey (superficially reminiscent to Cormac McCarthy's The Road) filled with trials and the outcome wholly unexpected.
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Bookgasm | 26 Apr 2012
IMMOBILITY plays with the main character’s perception through the whole, to the point readers will truly be surprised by the seriously dark ending to come.
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NPR | 12 Apr 2012
Evenson's prose is, as usual, perfect — intelligent but unpretentious, and perfectly evocative of a barren, brutal world that's been mostly given up for dead.
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