Tag: Jeff Cummings

American Prometheus

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)

audiobook read by Jeff Cummings (Blackstone, 2006)

Book cover: “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005); audiobook read by Jeff Cummings (Blackstone, 2006)

A huge biography, manifestly thorough in detailing Oppenheimer’s life and times (though the authors’ commitment to prefiguring and then detailing Oppie’s security hearing becomes a bit much). Oppenheimer’s flaws are acknowledged. American political and military figures sink still further in history’s estimation.

Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams

Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams

by Philip K. Dick; stories read by Tanya Eby, Luke Daniels, Peter Berkrot, Jeff Cummings, and Patrick Lawlor (Brilliance Audio, 2017)

Dick_Electric Dreams

Dick was an ideas man and a prolific writer. He may have outshone his pulp era contemporaries, yet the end product smacks of an imagination employed piecemeal, in lieu of craft. The stories in this collection have the lustre of early drafts.

 

 

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