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Title: The Soul Eater

Author: Mike Resnick

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Bounty hunter Nicobar Lane has traversed a thousand worlds searching for the mythic Dreamwish Beast. But after a close encounter with the creature, his motives turn from money to revenge and an obsession with his own death.

Members Reviews:

Good little story

I enjoy Mike Resnick's writing style, and this story in particular. I wouldn't say it is his best, but rather an interesting tale of obsession in all of it's incarnations. I don't like spoilers, so I find it hard to write an in-depth review, but I will say that the story didn't quite play out like I thought. The main character, Nicobar Lane, has his demons, (which I think he is unaware of at first), and the semi mythical Soul Eater eventually forces him to face them. Or does it introduce new ones? Read this story and see.

An oldie but a goodie

More and more, the shelves in bookstores designated science fiction are being stocked with fantasy books. It's becoming difficult to find many science fiction works. Readers like me have built up a collection over the years and perhaps have not yet read everything in their collection. Or in visiting used book stores, we find older works we haven't seen before or have meant to read and just haven't gotten around to it.

Soul Eater has been in my collection for a while. I can't really say how long. While in school, most of my reading was for research, etc., and I'd gotten way behind in my pleasure reading. Given the quality of this story, that's not a bad thing. When I finally got around to reading it, I found that Resnick had created characters and a situation that are still believable, a more or less "real" science fiction story that is powerful in its telling.

Far in the future, when space travel is an every day event, and Earth is fast becoming a memory, Nicobar Lane, a hunter of all species of creatures, has encountered a very rare creature during one of his trips. It is so unlike anything within his experience that at first he isn't certain that he actually saw it. Even his ship's instruments hardly registered it. But when he sees it again, he seeks out others who might have seen the same thing. Being a hunter, one of his first thoughts is to kill it -- its uniqueness should bring him a good amount of money. But the task proves more difficult than even he could imagine.

Lane becomes so obsessed with killing the creature that he forgets about making money, even about living. He becomes a rogue with only one goal in mind. There must be someone, somewhere who knows how to kill the creature he has come to call the Soul Eater, but which is known by many other names. He must seek out the one person who knows how to build the weapon, then search for the creature one last time. But in the end, who will die and who will live? And at what cost?

SF readers who might have missed this one when it was released in 1981 should think about finding a copy. It's a great read in spite of its small size. If you do, be prepared for an ending that might surprise you, and yet be uncomfortably satisfying.

This was your classic "Moby Dick" in space novel, ...

This was your classic "Moby Dick" in space novel, with a few twists as this "anti-hero" gradually becomes obsessed with catching this . . . well, read on!

Not the best RESNICK book I have ever read

This is not the best Resnick book I have ever read.