Audio Book Review: The Zones are shifting.

Terminal World

Written by Alistair Reynolds.

Narrated by John Lee.

 

 

Quillon is an odd bird in more ways than one.  As a medical examiner for District 3 of Neon Heights he gets to check out all weird brain teaser corpses collected by sanitation.  Somebody who cares about him is relying on that to deliver him a message.

 

Meroka starts out being Quillon’s bodyguard and guide until she evolves into a partner in his realized save the species mission.  Their travels bring them in into contact with ghouls, Angels, Carnivorgs, Skullboys, the outcast Military organization of Dirigibles called Swarm and beings with nanomachine infused brains called Tectomancers.

 

It’s a full book.  There is a character, Tulwar, in here that reminds me of the metal guardian from Logan’s Run only this one is Steampunk and greedy. Since we’re tossing genres around get your brain around this work of: Steampunk, Cyberpunk, Dieselpunk, Transhumanist, interdimensional travel.

 

Excellent crafting and narration throughout get this work four out of five entertainment award units of your choice.  Stock up on Zone shift sickness meds and get moving.  Enjoy!

https://mobile.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Terminal-World-Audiobook/B003OFR65K

Audio Book Review: Ultimate closing to Proxima in Ultima.

Ultima: Proxima Book 2

Written by Stephen Baxter.

Narrated by Kyle McCarley.

Uri Eden, the main protagonist from Book 1, has just barely made it through the hatch with Steph Kalinsky and the Col-U. As their brains wrap around the idea that in this version the Roman Empire didn’t fall and became space faring, Uri begins to succumb to what he calls Freezer Burn. Apparently when you’ve been subjected to Cryo sleep for a large portion of your life cancers run amok when you are thawed.

Back in the Sol system Penny Kalinski, Lex Macgregor, and Beth Eden Jones Narrowly escape distaster in a Hulk-kernel ship test platform as the Chinese Hedgemony crash a bundle of kernel ships moving at near relativistic speed into Mercury. The result propels them to the Roman-Bricante-Sheen Universe without the use of a hatch. One other person is with them…Earthshine. One of the three deep core artificial intelligences. He has an agenda.

There is yet two more Universes visited in this book but I will leave those for you to discover. The story is gripping and in this form excellently told through the vocal ranges of the narrator. It did not disappoint and I’m giving it four out of five entertainment points.

http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Ultima-Audiobook/B012E5EORI/ref=a_series_c2_2_saTtl?ie=UTF8&pf_rd_r=00RR8E1ET8QB6F5WC9XC&pf_rd_m=A2ZO8JX97D5MN9&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=series-detail&pf_rd_p=1374482202&pf_rd_s=center-2