New Reviews: Science Fiction

Frankie Corzo narrates a legendary hacker's attempt to prevent war from breaking out between two galaxy-spanning empires. Kee Illdez has many claims to fame, including military service and bounty hunting. Now she suspects that a former soldier has enacted plans to rekindle the war between humans and the Valovian Empire, and she sets out to stop him. Corzo imbues this romantic... Read More

Harry Myers gives a splendid narration of this work of science fiction/fantasy. The plot concerns Dr. Silas Coade, who is the physician on a sailing ship in the nineteenth century, on a zeppelin in the twentieth century, and on a spaceship in the far future. Each of these voyages of discovery ends with some sort of disaster, and Coade knows about this and tries to figure out... Read More

Hard science fiction will always give a workout to a narrator. This audiobook, packed with humans, cyborgs, and transhumanists, is an exciting example of that. Michael Kramer has plenty to juggle in this battle between humans, led by the Henry family, and cyborgs, led by the transhumanist royals of Eris. These rulers keep transferring their consciousnesses to new bodies and... Read More

This audiobook has an accomplished cast well suited to a story told from multiple points of view. Climate change has turned the Great Plains of the U.S. into a desert. A father and daughter's magic can make it rain--but the rain comes with complications. Curt Bonnem does double duty with the chapters told from the perspectives of the two major male characters. Hillary Huber... Read More