Book Review: "Neon Leviathan" — T.R. Napper's Award-Winning Cyberpunk Short Story Collection
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A review of T.R. Napper's debut short story collection "Neon Leviathan," which features 12 gritty cyberpunk stories set in a dark near-future. The collection has won speculative fiction awards in Australia, with most stories originally appearing in major sci-fi magazines like Asimov's and Interzone. The reviewer notes they are late to discovering the work, as Napper has since published novels.
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· 3 pulledT.R. Napper's excellent debut collection of short stories, Neon Leviathan, brings us 12 gritty cyberpunk stories from a dark and desperate near future.
The first attractive feature of this work is, of course, that it's cyberpunk: perhaps the coolest literary genre, with its dark
Napper has won several speculative fiction awards in Australia (such as the Aurealis Award) and most of the stories in this collection originally appeared in major sci-fi magazines like Asimov's and Interzone.
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