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Here’s another recent collection from the good people at LibriVox.org. I’ve made a few notes on just a few of these tales. Feel free to add your own as comments (we all should do more of that). So here are… Read moreLibriVox: Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 013
Imager (The First Book of the Imager Portfolio) By L.E. Modesitt, Jr.; Read by William Dufris 2 MP3-CDs – 18 hours – [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Tantor Media Published: 2009 ISBN: 9781400161805 Themes: / Fantasy / Magic / Politics / Coming of… Read moreReview of Imager by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
Dune By Frank Herbert, Performed by Simon Vance 18 CDs – 22 hours – [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: 2007 ISBN: 9781427201430 Themes: / Science Fiction / Politics / Space travel / Culture / Ecology / Dune. Arrakis. Desert Planet…. Read moreReview of Dune by Frank Herbert (Macmillan Audio)
Daemon By Daniel Suarez; Read by Jeff Gurner Audible Download – approx. 16 hours [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks Published: 2009 Themes: / Science Fiction / Cyberpunk / Techno-Thriller / Virtual Reality / Online Gaming / Politics / Daemon‘s success as a… Read moreReview of Daemon by Daniel Suarez
Attentive readers of Alan Moore’s The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen may have noted this panel… …according to Jess Nevins, of The Fourth Rail, it depicts a “giant beetle in [a] vacuum tube.” and asserts that it “is the Beetle, from… Read moreLibriVox: The Beetle by Richard Marsh
Lamentation By Ken Scholes; Read by Scott Brick, William Dufris, Maggi-Meg Reed, and Stefan Rudnicki 12 CDs – 15 Hours [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: 2009 ISBN: 9781427206251 Themes: / Fantasy / Epic Fantasy / Religion / Politics / A… Read moreReview of Lamentation by Ken Scholes