Elsewhere

by Dean Koontz

Overview

Suavidad-Bich, malen'kij provincial'nyj gorodok v Kalifornii. Dzheffri Koltrejn i Emiti, ego odinnadcatiletnyaya doch', zhivushchie zdes', nikak ne mogut perezhit' bol' utraty — uzhe bez malogo kak sem' let propala bez vesti Mishel', zhena Dzheffri. Odnazhdy k nim v ruki popadaet zagadochnyj artefakt neizvestnogo naznacheniya, tak nazyvaemyj «klyuch klyuchej», i zhizn' Dzheffri i Emiti menyaetsya kardinal'no. V dom k nim prihodyat s obyskom, ih presleduyut strannye lyudi v chernom, beda sleduet za bedoj, i, kazalos' by, uzhe nikuda ne det'sya... Vot togda-to i vstupaet v dejstvie «klyuch klyuchej», otkryvaet otcu i docheri dver' v inoj mir, i, glavnoe, oni obretayut nadezhdu na to, chto Mishel' najdetsya.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785389209725
Publisher:	Azbooka
Publication date:	03/04/2022
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	426
Sales rank:	312,508
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	16 Years
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Internationally bestselling author Dean Koontz was only a senior in college when he won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition. He has never stopped writing since. Koontz is the author of seventy-nine New York Times bestsellers, fourteen of which rose to #1, including One Door Away from Heaven, From the Corner of His Eye, Midnight, Cold Fire, The Bad Place, Hideaway, Dragon Tears, Intensity, Sole Survivor, The Husband, Odd Hours, Relentless, What the Night Knows, and 77 Shadow Street. He’s been hailed by Rolling Stone as “America’s most popular suspense novelist,” and his books have been published in thirty-eight languages and have sold over five hundred million copies worldwide. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he now lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirits of their goldens Trixie and Anna. For more information, visit his website at www.deankoontz.com.

Hometown:

Newport Beach, California

Date of Birth:

July 9, 1945

Place of Birth:

Everett, Pennsylvania

Education:

B.S. (major in English), Shippensburg University, 1966

Website:

http://www.deankoontz.com

Editorial Reviews

A New York Post “Best New Books” Selection

“Ballerini (a Koontz veteran) is tremendous, and Parks makes strong choices in diction, pronunciation, and pacing to bring Amity Coltrane to life. The collaborative effect of Ballerini and Parks' narration works as a deliberate “all-in” to the production, making the audio version even more of a standout.” —Booklist

“[A] spectacular, action-packed, character-driven adventure…Koontz remains white hot with another certain bestseller.” —Booklist (starred review)

“Colorful, imaginative…a lively, offbeat novel.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A terrifying new tale…A fast-paced, hold-your-breath thriller with a heart.” —AARP

“Vivid…” —Associated Press

“Dean Koontz is the master of this kind of story. His imagination has no limits and with each book he seems to top himself. It makes you wonder what traveling to other worlds might truly be like.” —Red Carpet Crash

“Some authors have used the sci-fi genre to create other worlds and critique the current world politics or realities. Koontz’s interests lay elsewhere. He’s more concerned with the human condition that remains the same across time and space and that cannot be remedied by ideology.” —The Big Thrill

“This is a genre-busting work that happily will appeal to readers who enjoy thrillers, horror, sci-fi or just a flat-out well-told story with a breakneck pace that never lets up.” —Bookreporter

From the Publisher

Edoardo Ballerini and Imani Parks unevenly narrate this high-fantasy adventure. Father-and-daughter Jeffy and Amity are living a peaceful life when Spooky Ed comes and entrusts Jeffy with a device that allows travel between parallel universes. That’s when their lives take a turn for the worse. The various plot threads of this work can be bewildering, but Ballerini’s strong voice takes charge and commands attention. In contrast, Parks misfires as Amity by narrating sluggishly and out of sync. Still, listeners who are looking to be enthralled by alternate dimensions and faraway worlds will be swept away. A bonus audio-only short story titled “Parlor Trick,” performed by an ensemble of narrators, concludes this high-stakes fantasy audiobook. A.C. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

DECEMBER 2020 - AudioFile

2020-07-29
California man Jeffy Coltrane and his 11-year-old daughter, Amity, discover the wonders and horrors of multiverse travel after an inventor entrusts them with a special device.

The inventor, on the run from dark government forces, instructs Coltrane to put this $76 billion "key to everything" into safekeeping and never use it. But when Amity's pet mouse strolls across its controls, the device activates, whisking father and daughter—and mouse—off to an alternate Earth. Danger greets them in the form of a nasty creature that is half boy and half chimp, and there are other threats. But Amity is in no rush to return to normalcy after Googling her long-missing mother and determining she is alive and well on Earth 1.13. However, re-connecting with Mom, who walked out on her family seven years ago, saying she felt "empty," proves problematic: In this parallel world, Jeffy and Amity were both run over by a car—seven years ago. For all the other scary things there are across the multiverse, including genocidal robots marching up the Pacific Coast Highway, none is more frightening than the neo-fascist enforcers now operating back home on "Earth Prime." As heavy-handed as Koontz is in nailing down this timely theme, it's disappointing to see him pull back from its broader implications and invest his villainy in a rather predictable sociopathic bad guy who will do anything to lay his hands on the special device. And it is not always easy to keep all the multiple Earths and versions of people straight. But otherwise, this is a colorful, imaginative spin into SF by the prolific, wide-ranging writer.

A lively, offbeat novel.

Kirkus Reviews