Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone (Tor, 2019) audiobook read by Natalie Naudus (Dreamscape Media, 2019) Full marks to Gladstone for choosing long and self-contained over duology or trilogy. The story, however, is rather sprawling (even a batshit-crazy space opera should look beyond the moment and build towards emotional impact). Naudus’s audiobook reading adds significantly to the characterisation.
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This is How You Lose the Time War
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (Simon & Schuster, 2019); audiobook read by Cynthia Farrell & Emily Woo Zeller (Simon Schuster Audio, 2019) What seems at first a gimmicky homage to Spy vs. Spy turns out to be a serious piece of conceptual science fiction, greatly enhanced by the authors’ embracing of…