My 2007 top audio novel list
As much for research as pleasure, I have tasted a whole bunch of independent audio books in recent months. The majority I do not care for - a matter of personal taste regarding both content and style more than anything else - but some did stand out as being well worth the listening time.
In no particular order (apart from the first one). Descriptions are snagged straight from the authors’ blurbs, perhaps I’ll have the time to do some proper reviews in the new year.
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Crescent Some places are far darker than deep space. Places where the shadows smile. Where men go mad and lovers go missing. These stygian corners of existence are where reality is stretched thin and something hungry is waiting just outside the corner of your eye.Turn out the lights, take a deep breath, and dare to visit one of these places.Crescent is dark science fiction at it’s most visceral. Phil Rossi weaves a tale that is reminiscent of old school Stephen King but with a shiny, new set of tricks and an appetite to terrify. There’s sex. There’s corruption. There’s horror. And after you sweat your way through the first chapter, there’s plenty more to keep you awake at night. | |
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One among the Sleepless Is it Peter Reynolds, mild-mannered office clerk pouring petrol through his neighbour’s letterbox in the middle of the night? Is it Wayne Dolan, a man who discovers strange, unsociable uses for his own urine - and an even stranger desire for the lady upstairs with the whip? Or is it Dusty, a mysterious vagrant who views the world through a pair of 1966 Balorama wrap sunglasses? Mick Nixon wants to find out, because people are disappearing. And if he and Sally are ever going to share more than just sandwiches, he’d better hurry up, or they could be next. One Among the Sleepless is a novel set in a neighbourhood just like yours: noisy, angry, demented. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll throw it through your neighbour’s window tied to a house brick! |
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Scott Sigler’s Acestor Scientists struggle to solve the problem of xenotransplantation — using animal tissue to replace failing human organs. Funded by the biotech firm Genada, Dr. Claus Rhumkorrf seeks to recreate the ancestor of all mammals. By getting back to the root of our creation, Rhumkorrf hopes to create an animal with human internal organs. Rhumkorrf discovers the ancestor, but it is not the small, harmless creature he envisions. His genius gives birth to a fast-growing evil that nature eradicated 250 million years ago — an evil now on the loose, and very, very hungry.The most popular podcast novel of all time: #1 on iTunes and at Podiobooks.com, PodcastPickle.com and more. More from Scott at ScottSigler.com |
Got a fave audio novel? Let me know so I can check it out.
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Brilliant choices, have you heard the novels by Mike Bartlett The Terrible Business of Salmon & Dusk, and Electricity)
Hi Neil,
Thanks for posting the books you enjoy and helping to spread the word!
E.
WHAT? Rossi ranked ahead of me? Now I have to add him to “The List.” what is The List? Just know you don’t want to be on it when the Sigler Ascension hits …
Glad you liked ANCESTOR.
Uh oh… Sigler is not happy - that can’t be good!
Thanks Neil! I take great pleasure in Sigler’s….displeasure.
I’m happy to hear you enjoyed Crescent.