It’s done. Five years, working on this novel. Giving up on it, coming back to it, agonising, creating, drafting and re-drafting, and the bloody thing is done. Now – marketing BS aside – it’s out of my hands and up to you all. It’s available in bookstores in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US, the UK, Ireland, Vietnam, and parts of Europe. Do not feel shy about asking your bookseller to order it in if they do not have the novel in stock. This helps drive word-of-mouth. I’ve collated below links to the major online and live retailers.
Australia & New Zealand
United Kingdom
United States
Penguin (has usefully gathered all the links to retailers through which the novel can be ordered)
Rest of the World
36 Streets will appear in all your national Amazon listings.
Kinokuniya should also (I hope) stock the novel worldwide (they do in Japan)
“Raw and raging and passionate, this is cyberpunk literature with a capital fucken L.” – Richard Morgan (author of Altered Carbon)
“Brutal, brooding, brilliant . . . an angry vision of violence wrapped around a complex meditation of memory, trauma and hegemony. This is cyberpunk with soul.” – Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (author of Salvage Crew)
“Quintessential cyberpunk, hard-nosed, sharp edged and gleaming.” – Adrian Tchaikovsky (author of Children of Time)
This book is f***ing good. I mean, I’ve checked books out from the library before and liked them well enough, but liked them so much that I stop on page 60 or so to look you up and leave a comment on your website like this. I like it that much, probably more before I finish it. This book is fantastic. Thank you for writing it. I am now ordering my own copy so you can sign it someday if paths ever cross. Have a great day. I am looking forward to your future work. Anyone who loves to read should do the same.
Joseph – thank you. I sometimes take a while to get around to approving comments from moderation (I hadn’t seen yours), so apologies if my reply took some time. I really appreciate this, and would of course sign your book if we ever cross paths. Remind me of your comment, if you do.
I do love cyberpunk. Especially the gritty, down and dirty glimpses of a future we can only hope doesn’t come too soon. Neal Stephenson, Paolo Bigigalupi, William Gibson (of course) and now you, T R Napper.
I bought this book yesterday afternoon and finished it early this evening with a screen headache (ebook) but I just could not put it down.
Amazing first novel.
I have never been to Vietnam but I could smell it, taste it, feel the humid grime on my skin and I just know I will immerse myself again in this insanely addictive vision of a world that is somehow not too far from our current truth.
Thankyou kind sir.
A pleasure, Cameron. Your feedback is much appreciated (and I’m glad I could give you a headache, in this context). Hopefully you will see something more set in this world again soon (a novella and a novel).
Happened across a particular PhD paper as I am always looking for academic papers that intersect with the gaming that friends and I do. Looked deeper and discovered 36 Streets. As I prefer to support local brick and mortar retailers, especially for books and gaming products I was very happy to discover that Boffins in Perth has some copies in stock. Unable to make SuperNova in Perth this weekend but my wife is picking up a copy of 36 Streets when she’s in the city for work next.
As an aside, Helmgast games has a neo-cyberpunk role play game with a setting called Pearl River Delta, based in SE Asia. An English translation is currently being worked on, few of us are play testing it now. It’s returning to Pearl River Delta for the English version as well as writing a source book for parts of Africa. Developing Afro-Futurism a little more.
Was so happy to have located your paper as most of the academic papers I have been able to source looking at these alternative narratives were coming from the Nordic academic/gaming communities. Thank you very much for your works, both creative and academic.
Kind regards,
Ad
Ha. Don’t see that very often – someone coming to my work via my PhD. I will check out that game you’re playtesting. And I’m with you – I far prefer to support local bookstores whenever I can.
Shame you can’t make Supanova, but thank you, for reaching out here.