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Hybrid Heart
By: Iori Kusano
Narrated by: Sarah Skaer
Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-30-24
Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Audio



Publisher's summary
A pop idol in near-future Japan. Her every move controlled in the present and haunted by the past.

The stage is the surveillance society of near-future Tokyo. In order to become an idol, Rei has sacrificed her private life as she focuses on her solo activities. Haunted by guilt, the insidious manipulations of a controlling talent manager, and the corporate bioapps colonizing her body, Rei must find a way to reclaim her discarded anonymity and autonomy within a cyberpunk society where Vocaloids and V-singers flourish.

©2022 Iori Kusano (P)2024 Tantor
Thriller & Suspense
Cyberpunk



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Read By: Sarah Skaer
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Listen Time:
4.00 hours at 1.0x Speed
2.67 hours at 1.5x Speed
2.00 hours at 2.0x Speed
Release Date: January 2024
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Delivery: Instant Download
ISBN: 9798765057087



Quick Stats About this Audiobook
Total Audiobook Chapters:
8
Longest Chapter Length:
40:52
minutes
Shortest Chapter Length:
17:20
minutes
Average Chapter Length:
30:05
minutes
Audiobooks by this Author:
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Hybrid Heart
Author Iori Kusano

Narrated by Sarah Skaer

Publication date Jan 30, 2024

Running time 4 hrs



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Hybrid Heart by Iori Kusano
$13.99
Publication Day: March 28 2023. An 8” x 5” novella.

Rei is a pop idol in near future Japan trying to push past middling success despite competition from Vocaloid-style digital singers. Haunted by both guilt and the insidious manipulations of a controlling talent manager, Rei is forced to question what parts of herself—and those around her—she will sacrifice on the path to top billing.

Cover by Natsujirushi 夏じるし.

PRAISE

"A near-future but all too contemporary story of how young women are exploited and manipulated, this searing and ultimately hopeful story is an absorbing read."

— Martha Wells, NYT Bestselling author of the Murderbot Diaries

“Kusano brings the vibrant world of J-Pop into stunning clarity in their near-future debut novella…Rei makes for a fascinating protagonist held captive in a glittering world. The author holds readers in a similarly tight grip, immersing them in imagined future Japanese pop culture. Kusano shows real promise.”

— Publishers Weekly

“Kusano pulls no punches in this portrayal of a rotten entertainment industry, where an idol’s privacy is violated with technology until one has to wonder just how much of themselves they are willing to lose in order to achieve their artistic goals. Touching on themes of self-acceptance, friendship, and reclaiming your own artistic agency, Hybrid Heart will move you like only your favorite song can, by leaving you a sobbing mess.”

—Francesca Tacchi, author of Let the Mountains Be My Grave

“Never has the Faustian bargain been so corporeally rendered as in the glossy, ruthless Hybrid Heart. Kusano paints a high wire portrait of a talented singer making herself into a candy-colored ghost. By turns wryly incisive and emotionally devastating, Kusano creates an unflinching world where the demands of the idol machine are as simple as they are severe: give us everything, or you will be nothing.”

—Bendi Barrett, author of Empire of the Feast

“Lavish and claustrophobic, Hybrid Heart ruthlessly scrutinizes its pop idol protagonist’s world as she turns that same scrutiny on herself, her dwindling choices, her compressed life, and slowly reclaims her dreams from the nightmare they’ve become.”

—Kat Weaver, co-author of Uncommon Charm

“Iori Kusano’s Hybrid Heart is a story of fame and deep, abiding loneliness. It defies expectations and offers us exactly what we need. Kusano’s prose is gorgeous, precise, and controlled. Their great gift is to show us what lies beneath the lure of fame and the policing of female-assigned bodies, to reveal, with perfect tenderness and unflinching honesty, the scars, the blood, the imperfect, essential core. Hybrid Heart may break yours—or resuscitate it.”

—Izzy Wasserstein, author of All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From

“Hybrid Heart is a gorgeously rendered story about power, control, and breaking yourself out of a cage made out of false dreams. Kusano slams the reader right into the messy heart of the idol industry and then surgically proceeds to rip the reader’s own heart open.”

—Isabel J. Kim, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author

“Shimmering, crystallised paranoia. Idolmaster meets Perfect Blue in this stunning tale of panic-infused pop. Kusano is one to watch out for.”

—Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Nebula, Hugo, Sturgeon & Locus-nominated author

ISBN: 978-1-952086-58-8



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Cover
Advance Praise for
Copyright
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
壱
弐
参
肆
伍
陸
漆
捌
About the Author
About the Press



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Hybrid Heart

Iori Kusano

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of any license permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency.

This novella is entirely a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Cover Illustration by Natsujurishi

Cover/Interior Design by dave ring

Edited by dave ring

Print ISBN-13: 978-1-952086-58-8

Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-952086-65-6



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