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Apocalypse Nyx
Written by Kameron Hurley
Narrated by Mia Barron
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Move over Mad Max?here comes Nyx. Ex-government assassin turned bounty-hunter, Nyx, is good at solving other people's problems. Her favorite problem-solving solution is punching people in the face. Then maybe chopping off some heads. Hey?it's a living. Her disreputable reputation has been well earned. To Nyx's mind, it's also justified. After all, she's trying to navigate an apocalyptic world full of giant bugs, contaminated deserts, scheming magicians, and a centuries-long war that's consuming her future. Managing her ragtag squad of misfits has required a lot of morally-gray choices. Every new job is another day alive. Every new mission is another step toward changing a hellish future?but only if she can
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Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley is the author of the novels God's War, Infidel, and Rapture a science-fantasy noir series which earned her the Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer and the Kitschies Award for Best Debut Novel. She has won the Hugo Award (twice), and been a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the BSFA Award for Best Novel. She writes regularly for Locus Magazine.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nyx is one of my fave fictional characters in the last 50 years. She's so awful and perfect.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Apocalypse NyxAuthor: Kameron HurleyPublisher: Tachyon PublishingPublishing Date: 2018Pgs: 283 pgsDisposition: Interlibrary Loan - Richardson Public Library - Richardson, TX via Irving Public Library - South Campus - Irving, TX_________________________________________________REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERSSummary:Nyx is a mercenary and assassin. Nyx’s world is a Middle Eastern based alien world where humanity came from somewhere else to settle. Here women rule. Men are fodder for the front lines and the wars that rage between the major powers of this world. Bounty hunting is good. Not the way Nyx does it, but it’s profitable enough that it isn’t going away. Whiskey, sex, and a good fight. ...and threatening to run off her team, though she stands by them...even if she doesn’t want to. _________________________________________________Genre:Hard Science FictionScience FictionGenetic EngineeringBugpunkGodpunkDesertpunkApocalypsepunkWhy this book:Cause I love Nyx and her team. And Kameron Hurley writes them awesomely. _________________________________________________Favorite Character:Nyx is a walking weapon...when she’s not blind drunk.Favorite Scene:Damn the heart. Of course now I wonder... Hmmm, eww.Favorite Quote:“You don't have to be mean about it. How long have you been in Nasheen? Of course, I have to be mean about it.” Nyx is a product of her world. Broken...drunk...honorable, in her own way...badassed. “God doesn't go away, even if you do.” Great line.Favorite Concept:Bugpunk is awesome.Hmm Moments:The hanging head of a man whose body littered the street below who was supposedly killed more than a hundred miles away. That a helluva hook.When your paranoid bug magician tells you that something may be a trap, maybe you should listen to him.So, not only do they rebuild and reanimate bodies...if bodies are left alone, they get up on their own zombie style. Great. Great place. Wouldn’t want to visit. Wouldn’t want to live there. But awesome worldbuilding. Juxtaposition:In the second story, Nyx begins to remind me of Clint Eastwood from A Few Dollars More.Nyx can't make up her mind who she wants to have sex with and who she wants to kill. Of course, sometimes, she almost seems to want to do both.Life is cheap in Nyx’s world. The bodycount the heroes, antiheroes, run up is huge. Are they heroes or just survivors?Missed Opportunity:I like Rhys and Nyx. She seems more broken than him but he's hiding something. Course they all are. And if the author answered all the questions where would the next story go? Dreamcasting:Gal Gadot as Nyx.Chris Hemsworth as Khos. Though it might be too small a part for as big a star as he’s become. _________________________________________________Pacing:These books are crunchy. You read a little bit, you think about it, and, then, you read a little bit, and you think about it. _________________________________________________
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Surprisingly fun. It's pretty dark sf, and it turns out this collection of short stories is set in a universe the author's written a trilogy of novels around, but even so they stand on their own. The setting isn't ever fully described but seems to be a dispersed humanity has settled various planets, with different race/religions have dominance on others, and some planets still being contested. We're on a contested one, mostly barren desert with small communities. It's not clear where the technology came from, or how widespread it is, but this planet is mostly run on a bio-tech basis, insects being the prime replacement for chemistry. The bugs serve as fuel, bullets, comms and everything else, it hasn't always been fully thought through, but in short stories the imagination is enough to carry it.As always the rich manage not to be drawn into the war while the rest are drafted, men for 30 years but women for only 2 which has some repercussions on society. Our heroine is on Nyx, done her war duty, been caught and served her time in prison, and now leading a small team of mercenaries for whatever jobs they can find, mostly killing people. These are some of her team's assignments. It's a fractious bunch, Nyx only employees them because she needs their skills to earn her money for rent and whisky, she has no interest in their history or personalities, and although she often considers it she won't sleep with them either. The stories came to me as part of a 'noir' collection and there is something of that about them, even though they're all basically about shooting people rather than moody detectives, Nyx's permanently grouchy attitude fits in well. The first story features a little more of a mystery too, as Nyx discovers a severed head floating in a window. I enjoyed these more than I expected and will look out for the trilogy that features Nyx.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
More Nyx, more bugpunk and less compromise than...um.. something that doesn't compromise a lot. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oh, a review is coming, believe me. What a book. What a character. How freaking glad I am that I don't live in Nyx's universe! And how precisely Hurley draws the unreliable and mostly unlikable Nyx so that I couldn't put the book down, story to story. This is not to be missed.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nyx is great. No, Nyx is horrible. She really is. But she's fascinating. If she were a male character in some other author's book all she'd need to change would be the love of a good woman, but she's in Kameron Hurley's hands and Nyx is a good woman (for varying degrees of good) so she's her own responsibility. And thank gods for all that.
I went into this book not having read the Bel Dame Apocrypha series and knowing nothing at all about it. No more than an hour after finishing it I'd bought the first book in that series because I had to have more. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5One online source says this book is suitable for people who aren't familiar with this series so I gave it a try. I had no idea what was going on and I quit reading.I received a review copy of "Apocalypse Nyx" by Kameron Hurley (Tachyon) through NetGalley.com.