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The Night Mayor Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Kim Newman (Author), Mark Meadows (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)

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Welcome to the City made from a dream. But this isn't any dream; it is the dark and haunting nightmare of a killer.

It is the near future, and old-fashioned movies, or flatties, have been replaced by Dreams, virtual reality scenarios written by professional Dreamers. When infamous criminal Truro Daine escapes imprisonment, he flees into the City, an artificial world of his own creation, where he rules as the all-powerful Night Mayor.

Now, detective Dreamer Tom Tunney and Susan Bishopric, author of romance Dreams, must join forces to track him down. But how do you hunt the Night Mayor in a city populated by a dense crowd of strangely familiar characters, where it's always 2.30 a.m., shots never kill and the creator is omnipresent in every drop of falling rain...?

Kim Newman is a well-known and respected author and movie critic. He writes regularly for Empire Magazine and contributes to The Guardian, The Times, Time Out and others. He makes frequent appearances on radio and TV. He has won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy and British Science Fiction Awards and been nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

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Listening Length	8 hours and 42 minutes
Author	Kim Newman
Narrator	Mark Meadows
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	21 January 2016
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B019FYHZ72
Best Sellers Rank	209,379 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 5,736 in Cyberpunk Science Fiction 14,708 in Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)

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jcmacc

Great re-issue of the original novella and 4 other short stories

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2019

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The Night Mayor is an interesting short novel, set in a world based on detective noir films of the 1930s where it is always raining and always 2:30am. The world works like this as it is a dream - in this future dreams have replaced films and there are dream-makers who "script" the experiences. Not all are good people......It would help your enjoyment if you are a fan of early gangster films and Bogart detective movies, but no special knowledge is required to understand what's going on.

This re-issued version of the Night Mayor novella comes with 4 additional short-stories.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 November 2015

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As a rule I really enjoy KN's books. All the way through this I just couldn't make up my mind. It's one of those tomes set in a dream world with real people chasing each other. He's great at listing movie star names and evoking atmosphere but none of it felt like his style. By the end I just didn't care and the whole thing just fizzled out. The bonus short stories, set in the same world, are all filler no killer. Sorry.

Bonnie

So Fun it's Probably Fattening

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 October 2016

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"The Night Mayor" is everything you want from a Kim Newman book. It's jaw-droppingly original, clever, dark and outrageously funny. And as an added bonus, this particular title acts as an excellent guide to the best old timey movies, especially Film Noir detective stories.

Honestly, it's so enjoyable I felt guilty after reading it.

Peter S. Bradley

Cyberpunk and Film Noire

Reviewed in the United States on 20 September 2015

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The Night Mayor by Kim Newman.

I haven’t read anything by Kim Newman previously. I know that he writes “vampire historical” novels, but this seems to be set in a completely different world than that one. In this world, the popular entertainment media consists of Dreams, the world seems to be run by an artificial intelligence known as Yggdrasil, and people can be “resurrected.”

The book opens with hardboiled private detective Tom Tunney standing in the rain of the City. It always rains in the City and it is always night. And Jimmy Cagney is murdering someone again as Frank Bellamy is the good cop and Tony Curtis is being beat up and John Carradine is quoting Shakespeare…. The clichés and canards of film noire are piled on deep and heavy, and if you have a liking for that genre, this book can be a master’s course in movies to see. (Hmmmm….I’ve never seen “The Sweet Smell of Success”; perhaps it is time.) Tunney is looking for super-criminal Truro Daine, and then weird things happen.

We are then introduced to Susan Bishopric, a Dreamer of great reputation, who is conscripted into going after a criminal named Truro Daine who has locked himself away in a high security prison in his own private Dream, a dream which he has fashioned on film noire movies of the 20th century.

We don’t get much information on Dreaming or the society that Daine, Tunney and Bishopric come from. There are odd allusions to an insanely high level of personal security that the characters use, as if murder was a constant reality, but this is not important to this story – although in the following short stories, it does become important.

Night Mayor is generally entertaining. There seem to be some false moves and unnecessary duplications of plot points, but for the most part Newman moves the story forward at a decent pace. As a character, Tunney is fairly two dimensional – but, then, he’s playing a two-dimensional film noire detective. Susan Bishopric has more depth, but it is a depth in a society that is alien and not part of the main story. The reality of Dreams means that there are jumps in internal logic and setting, and absurdity is part of the setting and plot, and the characters can deus ex machina, i.e., Dream, to resolve the plot, which actually works in the context of this story, which is about a Dream, after all.

If you are opposed to illogic and absurdity , then this is not going to be your book. On the other hand, the value added for me was Newman’s constant homage to detective movies and film noire. You might find that to be too small a pay-off for a book set in a world that is nothing but a cliché.

This book also offers four short stories set in the same world. What we see is that resurrection and dream technology has created a culture of sociopaths. Murdergrams are sent, husbands and wives hunt each other in murder games, and dream technicians create works of art that have permanent results. This is a very dark future that Newman is imagining and one wonders if he isn’t making a statement about how removing death and providing more and more direct forms of entertainment creates an addiction for experience that can never be satisfied. The stories were well-written and disturbing.

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Lila Richards

Dark fantasy with wry humour

Reviewed in the United States on 14 September 2018

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Another great outing from Kim Newman, whose seemingly boundless ability to create disturbing, yet oddly familiar, environments and characters never disappoints. Here, his encyclopaedic knowledge of films is used to great effect.

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