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The Time Traveller’s Almanac: Mazes & Traps

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The Time Traveller’s Almanac: Mazes & Traps

ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Head of Zeus, 2014)

audiobook read by Jeff Harding, Andrew Wincott & Antonia Beamish (W F Howes, 2014)

Book cover: “The Time Traveller’s Almanac: Mazes & Traps” ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Head of Zeus, 2014); audiobook read by Jeff Harding, Andrew Wincott & Antonia Beamish (W F Howes, 2014)

Name authors are prioritised over quality of story (though all receive perfunctory, unpolished biographies). There are some nice ideas poorly executed, some truly tedious offerings, and only a few standouts: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Mouse Ran Down’ and Eric Frank Russell’s ‘The Waitabits’.

Neuromancer

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Neuromancer

by William Gibson (Ace, 1984); audiobook read by Jeff Harding (Bolinda, 2014)

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Though ground-breaking, Neuromancer in retrospect seems more a writers’ guide for cyberpunk than a fully-fledged work, its constituent parts being 5% plot, 35% characterisation and 60% overlay. Appreciation of the audiobook will depend largely on one’s tolerance for Harding’s hardboiled noir drawl.

 

 

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