Charles Tan, of Bibliophile Stalker (and SFFaudio) is asking a cool question over on his blog… sez Charles:

I just finished with my SFFaudio duties and while I don’t really listen to audiobooks or fiction podcasts, I’m always looking for people overlooked in the industry and in this case, it’s people reading the stories in audiobooks and podcasts (in the sense that they’re not as popular as authors or editors unless they’re celebrities in the first place or the authors themselves).

So my question is, who are your favorite readers? Stephen Eley? Mur Lafferty? Or the author of the piece?

Personally, I’ve got a whole lot of favorites – to name just a few:

-the gravitas of George Guidall
-the Englishness of Simon Vance
-the joviality of William Dufris
-the sexy Samantha Eggar (oh how I miss her)
-the gravel voiced compassion of Bruce Weitz

There are newcomers too – gotta love that Mark Douglas Nelson (formerly Mark Nelson). But if you pinned me down to just one, I think I’d have to say my favorite narrator is Pat Bottino – he’s got this quavering immediacy that’s almost otherworldly. There are lots more too. I do like author read books, William Gibson’s reading of Neuromancer is awesomeness, but all-in-all I think I prefer the professional actors (especially the stage trained ones). So who’s on your list?

Posted by Jesse Willis