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The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5
- Narrated by: Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 12-16-15
- Language: English
- Publisher: AudioText
Regular price: $34.99
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Short novels are movie-length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This audio collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form of storytelling.
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- Sean
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- 03-05-16
Narrator sounds like Tony Danza
Is there anything you would change about this book?
The reader
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Remove the reader
How did the narrator detract from the book?
He made it impossible to listen to. His accents are terrible particularly his "NYC" street accent from the first story. And let's not forgot Mr. Peabody (of Bullwinkle fame) from that same story. What kind of voice actor is this?
Did The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5 inspire you to do anything?
Never listen to the narrator again.
Any additional comments?
Redo this book with John Lee
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- Ivan
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4 out of 5 stories are excellent, couldn't get through 1
The anthology is worth it for 4 out of the 5 stories. The "Man Who Sold the Moon" is one of my all time favorites! However, I would recommend skipping "Each in His Prison, Thinking of the Key". I listened to an hour of it hoping it would go somewhere and it just never did. I believe it appears 3rd in order.
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- John
- Acworth, GA, United States
- 10-04-17
good stories the bad audio
the stories were all pretty good but the audio quality for half the books is intolerable. all of the ones read by the male readers were fine. but
I had to skip an entire book buy female reader