I’ve just been checking out an interesting project over at Audible.com. It’s an audiobook called The Chopin Manuscript and is being billed as the first-ever audio serial book. It’s written by 15 successful thriller writers; Jeffery Deaver conceived of the characters, story and wrote the first chapter, with 14 other writers including David Hewson, Lisa [...]
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Are audiobooks the same as reading?
Posted by cjlevinson on February 12, 2008
http://cjlevinson.com/2008/02/12/are-audiobooks-the-same-as-reading/
Startide Rising by David Brin
David Brin’s Uplift series is one of the most beloved of science fiction series. The Uplift Saga is populated by an array of strange aliens, characters and worlds, set in a future universe where no species can reach full sentience without the help of a patron race. The sequence began in 1979 with Sundiver, but [...]
Posted by cjlevinson on November 29, 2007
http://cjlevinson.com/2007/11/29/startide-rising-by-david-brin/
Now this is how to accept an award
Here’s a question for you. You’ve just been told that you’ve won one of the most prestigious awards in the world. How do you react? Are you overwhelmed? Are you gracious? Is it one of the most amazing moments in your life? Or is your first thought, “Oh Christ…”? That was Doris Lessing’s reaction when [...]
Posted by cjlevinson on October 22, 2007
http://cjlevinson.com/2007/10/22/now-this-is-how-to-accept-an-award/
Quantico by Greg Bear
Greg Bear has written some of my favourite SF novels in the past but for the last few years has been moving more into the mainstream with his fiction. That’s fine with me as I’ll read anything I can get my hands on and Bear’s thrillers are different to most, but I admit I’m looking [...]
Posted by cjlevinson on October 3, 2007
http://cjlevinson.com/2007/10/03/quantico-by-greg-bear/
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