Book description
Anthropocene Rag Review
Alexander C. Irvine's Anthropocene Rag hits like a dust storm in the mouth of America's future-raw, disorienting, and strangely beautiful. This isn't your grandfather's Western, unless your grandfather dreamed of nanotech desperados and AI philosophers haunting the radioactive ruins of what used to be.
Jeffrey Ford calls it "a rare distillation of nanotech, apocalypse, and mythic Americana," and he's not wrong. Irvine brews together elements that shouldn't mix-traveling carnival barkers, sentient machines wrestling with existential dread, and landscapes that shift like fever dreams-and somehow creates something intoxicating.
The voice work here deserves special mention. Narrator Arthur Morey captures the cracked poetry of Irvine's prose perfectly, giving each character their own distinct flavor while maintaining that essential Americana twang that runs through the whole story. When Ed, the emergent AI protagonist, speaks about trying to understand his human creators through their myths and legends, Morey delivers those lines with just the right mixture of wonder and melancholy.
What makes this audiobook particularly compelling is how Irvine uses the Western framework to explore genuinely terrifying questions about identity, consciousness, and what happens when the stories we tell ourselves start telling us back. The monsters aren't just lurking in the wastelands-they're embedded in the very fabric of how we understand ourselves.
This is mythmaking for the digital age, narrated with the kind of authentic grit that makes you forget you're listening to an audiobook at all.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience