Commentary: Where are all the Charles Stross audiobooks?

March 6, 2009 by Jesse Willis
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Charles StrossHere’s a question nobody’s been asking (but should have). Where are all the Charles Stross audiobooks?

Seriously, the guy is super talented. There have only been three commercially released Charlie Stross audiobooks (all from Infinivox). The were terrific, but they’re not enough.

If Saturn’s Children and Halting State were available as audiobooks they’d shoot up to the top of my listening stack.

Forget individual testimony for a minute, let’s just look at the awards…

Stross’ novella The Concrete Jungle won the Hugo award for its category in 2005. Accelerando won the 2006 Locus Award for best science fiction novel.Glasshouse won the 2007 Prometheus Award. The novella Missile Gap won the 2007 Locus Award for best novella. His novels Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise garnered back to back Hugo Award nominations in 2004 and 2005. Am I missing something here? Is Stross not due for some more professionally made audiobooks?

In anticipation of a big flood of Strossian goodness over the next couple of years I’ve just now made a CHARLES STROSS author’s page, where I’ll put up details of all the Strossian audio we know about.

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8 Comments on Commentary: Where are all the Charles Stross audiobooks?

  1. Jesse Willis on Fri, 6th Mar 2009 1:05 pm

    2. And speaking of audiobooks we want to see made… Tim says… he wants to see The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie audiobooked.

  2. Scott on Fri, 6th Mar 2009 1:33 pm

    3. Iron Sunrise is due from Recorded Books in June.

    On the top of my audio want list: The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.

  3. Jesse Willis on Fri, 6th Mar 2009 2:59 pm

    4. Iron Sunrise but not Singularity Sky?

  4. Scott on Sat, 7th Mar 2009 3:19 pm

    5. I did a Google for “Singularity Sky” and “Recorded Books”. There was a link there on Google to a publication that requires payment to see, but the fragment displayed was:

    Charles Stross’s SINGULARITY SKY, IRON SUNRISE, ACCELERANDO, GLASSHOUSE, … HALTING STATE, and SATURN’S CHILDREN, to Troy Juliar at Recorded Books…

    Who knew you had such power? Here it is, merely one day after your request, and the rights have been acquired by Recorded Books. Amazing!

  5. File 770 » Blog Archive » Snapshots XX on Thu, 12th Mar 2009 12:45 am

    6. [...] (1) Hear, hear! SFFaudio asks an excellent question: Where are are the Charles Stross audiobooks? [...]

  6. Robert Ian Mackenzie on Fri, 21st May 2010 3:22 pm

    7. I recorded Halting State by Charles Stross a couple of months ago for Recorded Books, I do not know when the release date is.

  7. Jesse Willis on Fri, 21st May 2010 3:40 pm

    8. Great! We will have to follow up with a list of all the releases since this post!

  8. James on Fri, 9th Jul 2010 6:07 pm

    9. There is now a copy of “Singularity Sky,” Charles Stross, as read by George Guidall. The recording is from Recorded Books, and was released in 2009.

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