When adapting text to a full cast production, the writer doing so irretrievably changes the source. Though you could just listen to this instead as I’ll detail shortly. I’m not discussing the novel because I’m reasonably sure that you’ve got more than a passing familiarity of it if you do not, trust me and go read it after you read this review it is without doubt of one of the finest novels ever written and certainly is in my top ten sf novels I’ve experienced. (Digression: I adore downloads for review copies of audiobooks as, if I remember correctly this came on some two dozen audiobook discs!) I admit that I was nervous that it wouldn’t live up up to my memories of the novel as a reading experience.

I consider it one of the finest sf novels ever written, so I was delighted when the publicist for the Macmillan Audio sent me this some years back. I first encountered this novel in the late seventies and have read it maybe a half dozen times since then. Snark by me notwithstanding, this is a superb production well worth the time to listen to it. astronaut thrown into that weird setting spoke with a variety of Australian accents? Well welcome to the Macmillan Audio full cast adaptation of the Hugo Award winning novel where everyone has a British accent. Did you watch Farscape? If you did, you’ll remember that everyone save the U.S. Urn:oclc:224406746 Scandate 20110826052040 Scanner ’m assuming that you know about Dune, so I’ll not detail it here. OL893415W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 97.26 Pages 550 Ppi 350 Related-external-id urn:isbn:8484504085

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