Meet Simon Vance

Vance’s performances have a pied piper quality, able to keep the listener
enthralled over the long haul, no matter the type of story.
Top Performances
Greatest Hits
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Dune
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, y otros
- Duración: 21 h y 2 m
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Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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This classic deserves better
- De Matthew Salvo en 07-01-21
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Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Nigel Hawthorne, y otros
- Duración: 35 h y 5 m
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The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head and curious mannerisms has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century - and, in his own humble opinion, is "probably the greatest detective in the world". In this complete collection of more than 50 stories, ranging from short tales to novellas, Poirot faces violent murders, poisonings, kidnappings, and thefts - all solved with his characteristic panache. Only Agatha Christie could have devised cases worthy of Hercule Poirot's skill and "little gray cells".
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Excellent! (List of Narrators)
- De Margaret C. en 02-25-22
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Dune Messiah
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Muad'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men. But the question is: DO all paths of glory lead to the grave?
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Good-not-great book, not as fond of the narration
- De Joel D Offenberg en 11-13-09
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North Woods
- A Novel
- De: Daniel Mason
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave—only to discover that the earth refuse to give up their secrets.
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An American Masterpiece
- De Psumissyh en 09-21-23
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Dune
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, y otros
- Duración: 21 h y 2 m
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Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
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This classic deserves better
- De Matthew Salvo en 07-01-21
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Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- De: Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Nigel Hawthorne, y otros
- Duración: 35 h y 5 m
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The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head and curious mannerisms has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century - and, in his own humble opinion, is "probably the greatest detective in the world". In this complete collection of more than 50 stories, ranging from short tales to novellas, Poirot faces violent murders, poisonings, kidnappings, and thefts - all solved with his characteristic panache. Only Agatha Christie could have devised cases worthy of Hercule Poirot's skill and "little gray cells".
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Excellent! (List of Narrators)
- De Margaret C. en 02-25-22
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Dune Messiah
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Muad'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men. But the question is: DO all paths of glory lead to the grave?
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Good-not-great book, not as fond of the narration
- De Joel D Offenberg en 11-13-09
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North Woods
- A Novel
- De: Daniel Mason
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave—only to discover that the earth refuse to give up their secrets.
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An American Masterpiece
- De Psumissyh en 09-21-23
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By Any Other Name
- A Novel
- De: Jodi Picoult
- Narrado por: Billie Fulford-Brown, Laura Benanti, Jodi Picoult, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 25 m
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Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn’t level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym.
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Shakespeare’s wealth of works penned by a female
- De Brendolynne en 08-27-24
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
- The Heirloom Collection
- De: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 58 h y 4 m
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction. Included in this collection are all four full-length Holmes novels and more than forty short masterpieces - from the inaugural adventure A Study in Scarlet to timeless favorites like “The Speckled Band” and more. At the center of each stands the iconic figure of Holmes - brilliant, eccentric, and capable of amazing feats of deductive reasoning.
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A Table of Contents & Audible Part/Chapter Notes
- De SantaFePainter en 11-18-13
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All the Seas of the World
- De: Guy Gavriel Kay
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 18 h y 4 m
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On a dark night along a lonely stretch of coast a small ship sends two people ashore. Their purpose is assassination. They have been hired by two of the most dangerous men alive to alter the balance of power in the world. If they succeed, the consequences will affect the destinies of empires, and lives both great and small.
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Guy is a master storyteller and I have told him so
- De The Tropical Cow en 04-07-23
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The Wolf of the North Trilogy
- Wolf of the North, Books 1-3
- De: Duncan M. Hamilton
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 32 h y 22 m
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Wolf of the North: It has been generations since the Northlands have seen a hero worthy of the title. Many have made the claim, but few have lived to defend it. Timid, weak, and bullied, Wulfric is as unlikely a candidate as there could be. Jorundyr's Path: Jorundyr's Path is walked only by the brave. As Wulfric pursues Adalhaid's Blood Debt, he soon learns that the path to revenge is never easy. The Blood Debt: A blade fit for a hero. An army for a tyrant. A reckoning long awaited, and a tale reaching its end.
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Could have been so much more, a classic even
- De Listener en 01-14-23
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A Slowly Dying Cause
- A Lynley Novel
- De: Elizabeth George
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 21 h
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Michael Lobb has just been found dead on the floor of his family’s tin & pewter workshop. It’s suspicious enough that his body was found by a representative of Cornwall EcoMining, a company keen on acquiring his family’s land, and it’s made even worse when he’s revealed to have been the majority owner of the business and the sole obstacle preventing a deal from being made. But it doesn’t take long for Inspector Beatrice Hannaford to unearth the layers of estrangement that surrounded Michael in his final days, pointing suspicions elsewhere.
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The Essential Lovecraft
- De: H.P. Lovecraft, Leslie S. Klinger - editor
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Marc Vietor, Scott Brick, y otros
- Duración: 50 h y 12 m
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Forty-eight of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important stories are brought together in this collection–available only from Audible–selected and with introductions by the award-winning, best-selling Lovecraft editor Leslie S. Klinger. Howard Philips Lovecraft was the early 20th-century genius who, almost singlehandedly, pioneered horror and scientific fiction, only to die in near-obscurity. Rediscovered by critics and scholars in the 1970s, Lovecraft’s work has influenced—by their own admission—every major horror or science-fiction writer of today.
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introductions ruined it
- De Heath Long en 10-23-24
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Written on the Dark
- De: Guy Gavriel Kay
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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Thierry Villar is a well-known—even notorious— tavern poet, familiar with the rogues and shadows of that world, but not at all with courts and power. He is an unlikely person, despite his quickness, to be caught up in the deadly contests of ambitious royals, assassins, and invading armies. But he is indeed drawn into all these things on a savagely cold night in his beloved city of Orane. And so Thierry must use all the intelligence and charm he can muster as political struggles merge with a decades-long war to bring his country to the brink of destruction.
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The Burning White
- Lightbringer, Book 5
- De: Brent Weeks
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 39 h y 4 m
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In the stunning conclusion to the epic, New York Times best-selling Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks, kingdoms clash as Kip must finally escape his family's shadow in order to protect the land and people he loves. As the White King springs his great trap, and the Chromeria itself is threatened by treason and siege, Kip Guile and his companions will scramble to return for one impossible final stand. In the darkest hour, will the Lightbringer come?
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An Actual Review, after I got done listening to it
- De The Story Adict en 10-26-19
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The Wages of Destruction
- The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
- De: Adam Tooze
- Narrado por: Adam Tooze, Simon Vance
- Duración: 30 h y 19 m
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An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period.
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Ties the story together in an amazing way
- De Philo en 08-23-21
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Chapterhouse Dune
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Euan Morton, Katherine Kellgren, Scott Brick, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 42 m
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The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world—and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. Chapterhouse Dune is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death: A stunning climax to the epic Dune legend that will live on forever.
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Great Story! Horrible way to compile a narration.
- De Chris Carl en 05-23-14
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God Emperor of Dune
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 48 m
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More than 3,000 years have passed since the first events recorded in Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species.
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Almost as good as the original
- De Joel D Offenberg en 12-03-09
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Fire & Blood (HBO Tie-in Edition)
- 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones
- De: George R. R. Martin
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 26 h y 24 m
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Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen - the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria - took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.
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150 years of Westeros history
- De Kingsley en 11-22-18
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Heretics of Dune
- Dune Chronicles, Book 5
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Simon Vance, Scott Brick
- Duración: 18 h y 4 m
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On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, 10 times 10 centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying, and the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilax struggle to direct the future of Dune. The children of Dune's children awaken as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love.
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Mixed Feelings
- De John en 12-11-08
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A Beacon in the Night
- The Secret Churchill Files, Book 2
- De: David Lewis
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h
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London, 1941. Britain has endured the relentless bombing campaign of the Blitz and emerged, scarred but unbroken. Caitrin, too, strives to weather each challenge that comes her way, though her ever-ready banter belies deep heartbreak and loss. But now the war has entered another phase. Instead of indiscriminate bombing, the Luftwaffe is pinpointing historic targets, including cathedrals and ancestral homes. It's as if Germany plans to erase Britain's very essence and culture, destroying morale as it does so.
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Children of Dune
- De: Frank Herbert
- Narrado por: Scott Brick, Simon Vance
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
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The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy.
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great story, more production problems
- De Ziya en 04-22-08
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Master of the Game
- Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy
- De: Martin Indyk
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 25 h
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More than 20 years have elapsed since the United States last brokered a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. In that time, three presidents have tried and failed. Martin Indyk - a former United States ambassador to Israel and special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in 2013 - has experienced these political frustrations and disappointments firsthand.
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Sad in its lack of creativity
- De Uri Pilichowski en 11-16-21
Editor's Pick
"A perfect match for the author and material."
"Sure, this is a great book with a phenomenal heroine, but set that aside—this is a truly special listen. Simon Vance’s delivery is that of a journalist letting you in on an incredible story over a beer, a perfect match for the author and material. He creates a range of subtly delineated voices for characters from all over Europe. And the way he pronounces Swedish names and places is so perfect, you’ll find yourself absentmindedly repeating them to yourself weeks after you finish listening."
More About Simon Vance
Awards and Accolades
Audie Award
Mystery, 2019
Audie Award
Best Male Narrator, 2017
Audie Award
Literary Fiction, 2015
AudioFile Golden Voice
Award Winner
