Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
We had a pretty good turnout for our first book of the month vote. To be honest I did not anticipate the problem of there being a tie. I took the liberty of flipping a coin which came out heads for Project Hail Mary. In the future I might have to come up with a better method of tie breaking. I'm figuring this out as I go and it is all just for the fun of it anyway so please don't take this too seriously.
I intend to read this book over the month of September and then near the end of the month I will create a discussion thread for it where people can discuss it without worrying about spoilers. Follow along if you want to.
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- Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir - 20 votes
- Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky - 20 votes
- Neuromancer - William Gibson - 17 votes
- Hyperion - Dan Simmons - 13 votes
- Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey - 13 votes
- A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine - 11 votes
- Wool (Silo Series Book 1) - Hugh Howey - 10 votes
- Red Rising - Pierce Brown - 4 votes
- 22/11/63 - Stephen King - 1 vote
Don't make the mistake of making this your first audio book, it will ruin all other audio books for you.
Ray Porter (the narrator of this one and the Martian) is a freaking treasure. Easily the best I've stumbled across.
After PHM I just listened to other Ray porter audiobooks for awhile, it was ok. And yes, the audio book is very very very good.
There's 2 versions of the Martian, but IIRC Porter didn't do either. I think it's r c bray and the star trek kid, is it whedon?
Just started listening to it as a wind down. It's Wil Wheaton.
I only read the book, so I'm very interested: How does the audio book deal with the main foreign language?
It's so good. It's mostly just little happy musical chords that are inserted into the dialog. The tones give Rocky a great depth of character.
Major spoilers for anyone that hasn't read the book. >!It does it all with what sounds like a synthesizer. It really, really brings the character to life. You get used to short notes for quick things he says, but then the longer expressions are amazing.!< If you loved the book and haven't heard the audio book, I highly recommend giving it a shot.
Haha, I made this exact mistake when I started with audiobooks recently.
Went with The Martian as #2, and currently on the Bobiverse books, but so far they just aren't as amazing.