Sci-Fi & Fantasy

I have listened to a lot of fantasy this year, but I keep circling back to the one book that started it all for me. That is the setup; now the Hobbit audiobook itself. The Hobbit was the first “grown-up”…

I have lost count of how many times I have opened Dune, but this was the first time I let a full cast carry me across Arrakis, and it turned a book I already loved into something closer to a…

I have lost whole evenings to the A Game of Thrones audiobook, and I regret none of them. This is the opening volume of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, and in audio it becomes something closer…

Some books you read; a few you want to be told, out loud, by a fire. I’ve spent real hours with the Name of the Wind audiobook, so here is the verdict. Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind is…

This is the fantasy audiobook I hand to people who swear they don’t like fantasy. What follows is my honest read on the Mistborn: The Final Empire audiobook. Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn: The Final Empire drops you into a world where…

The book is colder, smarter, and scarier than the movie—and that shouldn’t be a surprise, but somehow it is. I went in expecting a more detailed version of what I already knew from Spielberg’s 1993 adaptation, and instead found something…

I pressed play on Project Hail Mary expecting a fun space romp and got something that kept me sitting in my parked car long after I’d arrived home. Here’s what the Project Hail Mary audiobook is really like. Andy Weir’s…

I went into Dark Matter expecting a tidy sci-fi puzzle and came out an hour late for dinner because I could not take my headphones off. Let me walk you through the Dark Matter audiobook. Blake Crouch writes the kind…

Smoke, gunpowder, and the metallic tang of a war that never quite lets up — that is the world Rin drags you into within the first hour of The Poppy War. Settle in for my take on the Poppy War…

Some books grab you by the collar in the first chapter, and Snow Crash grabs you with a pizza delivery. Here’s my honest, spoiler-free take on the Snow Crash audiobook. I went into this one half-expecting a dusty 90s relic…