Ymir

Name: Ymir
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Rich Larson
ISBN: 9781668608036

Author: Rich Larson

Narrator: Alan Medcroft

Unabridged: 12 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 07/12/2022

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

A gripping, far-future retelling of Beowulf from an award-winning author, perfect for fans of Richard K. Morgan. Yorick never wanted to see his homeworld again. He left Ymir two decades ago, with half his face blown off and no love lost for the place. But when his employer's mines are threatened by a vicious alien machine, Yorick is shipped back home to hunt it.

All he wants is to do his job and get out. Instead, Yorick is pulled into a revolution brewing beneath Ymir's frozen surface, led by the very last person he wanted to see again—the brother who sent him off in pieces twenty years ago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on October 22, 2022

4.0 Stars This was such an incredibly fresh and unique novel. I understand that this story is inspired by Beowulf. I cannot comment on the similarities because I have not read the original work or seen any adaptation. Yet I can attest that readers do not need to understand the classic in order to lov......more

Goodreads review by karen on July 14, 2022

"I contain multitudes," Yorick says. "And most of them are shitbags." oh, Ymir, it's not you, it's me. this is a fantastic book for a different reader—one with an appetite for cyberpunk/near future stuff. i consistently struggle with SF because i have no imagination, and even the smallest bit of tech......more

Goodreads review by Khalid on September 08, 2023

A bleak and cold far future cyberpunk smash! Rich Larson's Ymir hasn't lived up to my expectations but it's surpassed many others at the same time even though I found it a bit unnecessarily boggy and convoluted when it comes to the execution of its plotline but it was still quite enjoyable. Neverthele......more

Goodreads review by Chantaal on February 11, 2025

It's really hard to put my thoughts together on this one because it's such an odd, dark sci-fi novel. Ymir is one of those novels that delights me and makes me wonder how some authors create worlds like this. Worlds that are wildly fun to learn about, and allow me to suspend all disbelief and just r......more

Goodreads review by Ed on May 31, 2022

I received a copy of this novel from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Yorick is a company man with so much love to give. After nearly twenty years in torpor (think suspended animation but more dead than frozen) he’s back on his home planet of Ymir. It is far from a happy homecoming as......more

Quotes

“An astonishing SF thriller with whiplash surprises and an ending that resonates…Ymir gets all over you and won’t come off.”—James Patrick Kelly, winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards

“Larson is a writer who can do just about anything, and in his second novel he splices Iain M. Banks with Alastair Reynolds…This is brain-busting sci-fi for the hardcore crowd.”—Nick Wolven, author of "Snowflake"

“Original, unpredictable, and starkly beautiful. A screaming dirge of a story.”—Ted Kosmatka, author of The Flicker Men

“Cyberpunk as fuck…I loved every gritty, punishing page of it.”—Tim Miller, director of LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS and Deadpool

“Endlessly inventive, richly textured, and pricked with poignant beauty. If Alien met Neuromancer, and the mutant progeny was birthed in the amniotic fluid of pure myth, Ymir would be the result.”—Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Hugo and Locus finalist

"[Ymir] hurtles forward at dizzying speeds on an engine of jagged gorgeous writing. I adored Yorick, with his broken heart and his bad attitude and worse decisions...I ached with every twist and turn of his hideous beautiful journey."
-Sam J Miller, Nebula-award-winning author of Blackfish City—Sam J. Miller, Nebula award-winning author of Blackfish City

"Phenomenal, visceral, high-octane scifi... Altered Carbon unsleeves in a dystopian Beowulf."—Derek Künsken, Aurora-award-winning author of The Quantum Magician

“Icy, dangerous, yet darkly hopeful. An exhilarating journey that left me awed.”—Hugo finalist Sheree Renée Thomas, author of Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future

“Sci-fi thriller at its ice-cold coolest... Propulsive, terrifying, and human.”—Tamsyn Muir, New York Times best-selling author of the Locked Tomb series