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Narrated by Wil Wheaton
Fantasy, science fiction or pure absurdist literature? You’ll need to make your own mind up about that. It’s probably all three. The premise is that the moon, all of a sudden, turns to cheese. What kind of cheese? Not sure, but because cheese is less dense than rock and because the moon’s mass has not altered, it’s suddenly bigger and brighter and everyone notices. Rather than following one main character this book works as a series of interspersed stories as people from different walks of life react differently. First we meet the staff of a museum which holds a piece of moon rock; rock until it isn’t. Then there’s an academic turned pop-science author, a bunch of NASA astronauts whose dreams have been shattered, three retirees who meet in a diner to put the world to rights, a young girl who simply wants to write her great fantasy novel, and a tech-bro billionaire who manages to stowaway on his own rocket -- not to mention the American top-brass and the president of the United States. This is quirky and absurd. Wil Wheaton’s reading is at once serious and funny. Maybe this isn’t for everyone, but I enjoyed the listen.
Narrated by Wil Wheaton.
When a human diplomat creates an international incident by killing an alien diplomat in a highly unusual way, the government of Earth must scramble to find a way to placate the Needu. They agree to find and provide a rare breed of sheep – the Android’s Dream – which is an essential component in the Needu coronation ceremony for their new ruler. It should be simple, but it isn’t. It turns out all the sheep in question have been (illicitly) killed and the nearest DNA sample that can be found is part of the ‘junk’ DNA in a human woman – Robin Baker. The job of sorting the mess falls to Harry Creek, war hero, hacker, and ex-cop, together with his dead friend, now a computer intelligence, Brian Javna, Harry goes up against both government departments and alien antagonists, not to mention the acolytes of a weird religion invented by a science fiction author. Harry has to not only protect Robin and a boat-load of veterans on a tourist trip, but also save Earth and humanity. Wil Wheaton (yes, that Wil Wheaton – once Wesley Crusher in Star Trek TNG) narrates Scalzi’s books with just the right amount of dry humour.
