Going Underground eBook Chris Ward
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Rob knows the trains still run. He can hear them, down there in the dark beneath the fading grandeur of London. But the London Underground is just a memory now, replaced by the Monorail that caters only to the very rich while the poor cower in its shadow. So where do the trains go? Who is riding on them? Rob wants to find out, but some mysteries aren't meant to be uncovered...
Going Underground is a 3000-word dystopian short story set in the world of Chris Ward's Tube Riders Trilogy.
Chris Ward is the author of the Tube Riders Trilogy, The Man Who Built the World, and Head of Words.
Going Underground eBook Chris Ward
Great dystopian world short read! Once again Chris Ward takes you into a realistic future and this one even has a lesson. Two people from separate ages separate worlds that they grew up in, meet up and learn some of things they have only heard as rumors. When they start talking to each other they learn their lives are so different and yet so the same. This story gives you an insight into a world and life that could so easily happen and yet you pray it never does and still you have to wonder are the trains running are they going anywhere or just nowhere really fast. Poor versus the rich, weak versus the strong and good versus evil, but if there are no fine lines, how would you know if you crossed them? Great short story must read if you like any of Chris Wards stories.Highly recommended for all ages!!!
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Going Underground eBook Chris Ward Reviews
Short stories are like glimpses into character's lives and often into other world's entirely. Because they are just glimpses, I don't feel that every short story has to be tied up with a perfect bow (whether it's a happy or tragic bow) at the end. What makes a short story satisfying to me is that it feels authentic, like I am really getting an honest snapshot of the character's lives and the events in them.
When the short is set in another world, or in the case of Going Underground by Chris Ward, in a dystopian future, it is really important to me that it deliver a wholly realized version of that world. Ward's vision of the relatively near future of London is both realistic and disturbing. The main character, Rob, and his fascination with the myth that the trains of London's long defunct Underground might still be somehow secretly running serve as canvas on which Ward paints the details of his dystopian society. The writing is tight and visual and the story leaves you wanting more - in a good way. The little bits Ward lets us know about this world are fascinating and entrancing and capture the reader's imaginations.
I hope that in the future Ward gives us a longer look into this dystopian future.
I do have a soft spot it seems for this authors work.
As with his other stories in this setting it is visceral and grabs you! Well wort the read. It is a short, so if I pointed out plot, it would be a spoiler, so just give it a try and grab his other books if you like dystopian coming of age type tales.
Chris Ward this author also did the Tube Riders. See? That's how I got hooked! If you want to get into a whole weird dystopian world, this is the place to be! Some love (not graphic) hopes, dreams in a very short story. It's a great little intro to the trilogy.
Chris Ward has a really nice prose. The story was interesting and I liked the characters. I wish it would have told us what happened to Rob, though. At the same time, I liked the mystery of not knowing. I really enjoyed the ending regardless. I would definitely read another one of his short stories!
For me this short story is much too short. If I had not already been familiar with Chris Ward, I probably would not have read it.
Ward's version of our future world is all too realistic and, therefore, quite disturbing. The main character, Rob, and his fascination with trains is his undoing. In the end the story left me wanting more.
But it was free, after all.
Clearly, this story was written before the first Tube Riders book, as the London setting greatly differs. But, still, it is a good, stand-alone story. Most of it is told from the main character, Rob's, point of view, although the last couple off pages are from the old man's point of view. My only complaint is I wouldn't refer to it as part of the Tube Riders series, even though it is set in a dystopian London. The only thing this has the same with the Tube Riders books is a dystopian London and closed off stations.
The author tells enough about this dystopian society to showcase the two opposite societies. The affluent are the only ones, that are allowed to enjoy much of a life in the richer society above ground. The underground could be used like a metaphor for those who can't even enjoy the shadow societies above ground, and roam with fear from the those who are willing to take from the weaker. The society that can't enjoy access to the London Monorail. They would not be allowed to use it with the required dress code, and the high user fees they couldn't afford. Rob hears the sounds of the trains that used to run before, and he goes below to seek the ghosts of the past. The past was dead, and the previous life of being able to roam without restrictions along with being free went too. The difference was that the gangs of jobless kids weren't there in the past to roam the streets, and they take what they could find to survive. The world of the street scavengers live under the shadows of the London Monorails. I like the analogy of this stort story, and an old man to explain how, he had to make it in a dangerous above ground world. He has to carry various weapons just to do that existence. He runs into Rob, and we get his perspectives on the past and the trains underground. I will read some more from author Chris Ward on his Tube Riders novel and other novels, stort stories and collections.
Great dystopian world short read! Once again Chris Ward takes you into a realistic future and this one even has a lesson. Two people from separate ages separate worlds that they grew up in, meet up and learn some of things they have only heard as rumors. When they start talking to each other they learn their lives are so different and yet so the same. This story gives you an insight into a world and life that could so easily happen and yet you pray it never does and still you have to wonder are the trains running are they going anywhere or just nowhere really fast. Poor versus the rich, weak versus the strong and good versus evil, but if there are no fine lines, how would you know if you crossed them? Great short story must read if you like any of Chris Wards stories.
Highly recommended for all ages!!!
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