Harris, narrated by Allan Corduner (Orion, February) - “With his notorious reputation for trickery and deception, and an ability to cause as many problems as he solves, Loki is a Norse god like no other. Now in ULTIMA the consequences of this new freedom make themselves felt.” In PROXIMA we discovered ancient alien artifacts on the planet of Per Ardua – hatches that allowed us to step across light years of space as if we were stepping into another room. Ultima by Stephen Baxter, narrated by Kyle McCarley (Orion, December) - While US listeners did get Proxima this year, no sign yet of a US release for Ultima: “Fresh from his latest collaboration with Terry Pratchett on the Long Earth sequence Stephen Baxter now returns to the mysteries and challanges first hinted at in his acclaimed novel PROXIMA.

She must go to the island of Logra and rescue the kidnapped High Prince from the enemy, and Aileen must go with her.” Then one day her aunt is set a seemingly impossible mission. How are you supposed to turn into a Wise Woman if your powers just won’t show up? Aileen is convinced she’ll never become as magical as her Aunt Beck. The Islands of Chaldea b y Diana Wynne Jones, n arrated by Ursula Jones (HarperCollinsChildren’s UK, March) - “The brand new and final novel from the magical pen of ‘the Godmother of Fantasy’, Diana Wynne Jones co-authored with her sister Ursula Jones. Now, to escape the brutal reality of life in Auschwitz, Shomer spends his nights imagining another world – a world where a disgraced former dictator now known only as Wolf ekes out a miserable existence as a low-rent PI in London’s grimiest streets. An extraordinary story of revenge and redemption, A Man Lies Dreaming is the unforgettable testament to the power of imagination.” - available at Audible UK but sadly not (yet!?) in the US store - fantastically reviewed at Tor.com as “a sort of Holocaust noir or pulp that is at once as riveting as it is disturbing” among many, many other strong recommendations. His name is Shomer, and before the war he was a pulp fiction author. Second, before I get to those “most missing in audio” books which came out last year and did not make it into audio at all, I’ll start with highlighting a few that actually did come to audio, albeit overseas:Ī Man Lies Dreaming b y Lavie Tidhar, n arrated by Andrew Wincott (Hodder & Stoughton, October) - “Deep in the heart of history’s most infamous concentration camp, a man lies dreaming.

This article is a long over-wrought mess. (I tried, as usual, this year with the release week coverage, but even so missed quite a lot.) And, of course, while The AudioBookaneers focuses on science fiction and fantasy, there were quite a few fantastic books without dragons or spaceships in them this year, too.įirst, a warning. That’s how many science fiction and fantasy audiobooks were added to ’s US listings alone in 2014, and the larger number of new speculative fiction audiobooks - which include GraphicAudio, independent (for example The Maze of Gamesand Eric Flint’s “Islands”), and other titles not available at Audible (for example Cory Doctorow’s Homeland and Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free), physical-only releases, podiobooks, and English-language audiobooks released in other countries, to name a few, not to mention the many sf/f titles shelved under “Fiction” or “Mysteries and Thrillers” or of course young adult and young reader titles - is nearly impossible to catalog.

Labyrinth of lies 2014 torrent