

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.
