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Sam reviews: The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens for Harper Audio
Posted on 2013-02-11 at 17:19 by Sam
![The Long Earth: A Novel | [Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mmsimDEGL._SL175_.jpg "The Long Earth: A Novel | [Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter]")
The Long Earth: A Novel by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter (2012) Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens (2012) for Harper Audio (review copy)
Review by Sam: I'm completely of two minds on this audiobook. First, and this is not one of those minds but rather a comment, there isn't quite the humor and wit as in Pratchett's Discworld books, but then again this isn't at all that kind of story. It's a story that's more earnest than that, not a send-up or pastiche of the kind of novel it pretends to be on the
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Dave Reviews: Dodger, by Terry Pratchett
Posted on 2012-11-30 at 17:11 by Dave
Dodger, by Terry Pratchett. Narrated by Stephen Briggs for Harper Audio Length: 10 hours, 30 minutes
Reviewed by Dave Thompson:
It starts with a brawl in the rain. When a young woman attempts to escape her captors, teenage Dodger pops up through a manhole and lays into them with a set of brass knuckles. Dodger finds the girl sanctuary with the help of journalist Charlie Dickens, then the two quickly begin an investigation to find out who the girl is, and what she’s trying to escape from. A rollicking
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Received: 3 titles from Harper Audio
Posted on 2012-10-15 at 17:49 by Sam
Received: More review copies from our fall requests are coming in, this batch includes three titles from Harper Audio:
- The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
- Some Remarks by Neal Stephenson
- Dodger by Terry Pratchett
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Best of September 2010 in Audible.com SFF: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
Posted on 2010-09-30 at 09:00 by Sam
Link: Best of September 2010 in Audible.com SFF: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic 1974 novel The Dispossessed is brought wonderfully to audio courtesy a Harper Audio production of an excellent Don Leslie narration. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, it is also (and much less impressively, I might add!) my pick for the best new science fiction and fantasy audiobook at Audible.com in September 2010.
The publisher’s summary is brief: “Shevek, a brilliant physicist
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