Audiobook Reading List 2017
Another year gone by, Another Reading list completed. Not as many as last year, but quite empressive all the same in my opinion.
Here goes!
Michael Phillip Cash Monsterland
Larry Correia Grunge
Larry Correia Sinners
Carrie Fisher Postcards From The Edge
Melinda DuChamp Fifty Shades of Alice in Wonderland
Terry Goodkind Nest
Mark Cain Hell's Super
Mark Cain A Cold Day in Hell
Mark Cain Deal with the Devil
Mark Cain The Reluctant Demon
Kevin J. Anderson Resurrection, Inc
Joseph John The Eighth Day
Jonathan Ryan 3 Gates of the Dead
Andr Alexis Fifteen Dogs
Michael McDowel The Elementals
Clayton Smith Apocalypticon
Luke Smitherd Kill Someone
Luke Smitherd In The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You
Jonathan Mayberry Beneath the Skin
John K. Addis The Eaton
Jeremiah Knight Hunger
Jeremiah Knight Feast
Jeff Strand Pressure
Jason Arnopp The Last Days of Jack Sparks
James Patterson Zoo
James Patterson Zoo 1.5
James Hankins Drawn
Mary Roach Stiff
John G. Hartness Demon Hunter collection 1-4
John G. Hartness Heaven Sent
John G. Hartness Heaven’s Door
John G. Hartness Night at the Museum
John Cleese So, Anyway
Jack Ketchum The Girl Next Door
Ilsa J. Bick Draw the Dark
Paul Tremblay Disappearance at Devil's Rock
Mark Tufo Immortalitys Touchstone
Mark Tufo Marks Merry Mayhem
Neil Gaiman The View from the Cheap Seats
Misha Burnett Book of lost doors 1
Misha Burnett Book of lost doors 2
L. X. Cain Bloodwalker
Larry Correia Detroit Christmas
Larry Correia Hard Magic
Larry Correia spellbound
Larry Correia Warbound
Larry Correia Murder on the Orient Elite
Larry Correia Tokyo Raider
A. American Going Home
A. American Surviving Home
A. American Escaping Home
A. American Forsaking Home
A. American Resurrecting Home
A. American Enforcing Home
A. American Avenging Home
A. American Charlie's Requiem
Ania Ahlborn The Shuddering
Adam Vine Lurk
Alan Black Metal Boxes
Alan Black Trapped outside
Alan Black Rusty hinges
Alan Black At the edge
Ambrose Ibsen Transmission
Jenny Lawson Furiously Happy
Clifford D. Simak Way Station
Mark Tufo Those Left Behind
Mark Tufo Zombie fallout 0.5
A.R Wise Deadlocked 1
A.R Wise Deadlocked 2
A.R Wise Deadlocked 3
A.R Wise Deadlocked 4
A.R Wise Deadlocked 5
A.R Wise Deadlocked 6
A.R Wise Deadlocked 7
A.R Wise Deadlocked 8
Tony Vigorito Love and Other Pranks
Richard Kadrey Butcher Bird
Andrew Michael Hurley The Loney
John G. Hartness Midsummer
John G. Hartness Moon over Bourbon street
John G. Hartness Oh Bubba, where art thou
Richard Roberts I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence
Jim McDoniel An Unattractive Vampire
Jake Bible Stone Cold Bastards
David Rhodes Written in Stone
Neil Gaiman Norse Mythology
Alexander McCall Smith The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
Chris Bucholz Severance
Barry J Hutchison Space Team
David M. Salkin Forever Hunger
Drew Hayes Going Rogue book 3
JM Guillen The Herald of Autumn
Craig Spector The Light at the End
Ted Dekker Eyes Wide Open
Ted Dekker Water Walker
Robert Bevan Critical Failures IV
Richard Kadrey Dead Set
Richard Kadrey The Wrong Dead Guy
Thomas Olde Heuvelt Hex
Glenn Bullion Jack Kursed
Drew Hayes Super Powereds 01 - Year 1
Drew Hayes Super Powereds 02 - Year 2
Drew Hayes Super Powereds 03 - Year 3
Brett J. Talley That Which Should Not Be
Richard Kadrey The Everything Box
Jane Harper The Dry
Emma Geen The Many Selves Of Katherine North
Alan Dean Foster For Love of Mother Not
Alan Dean Foster The Tar Aiym Krang
Alan Dean Foster Orphan Star
Alan Dean Foster The End of the Matter
Alan Dean Foster Flinx in Flux
Alan Dean Foster Mid-Flinx
Alan Dean Foster Reunion
Alan Dean Foster Flinx's Folly
Alan Dean Foster Sliding Scales
Alan Dean Foster Running from the Deity
Alan Dean Foster Bloodhype
Alan Dean Foster Trouble Magnet
Alan Dean Foster Patrimony
Alan Dean Foster Flinx Transcendent
Stephen Kozeniewski Billy and the Cloneasaurus
Robert Jackson Bennett Mr Shivers
Richard Kadrey Sandman Slim
Richard Kadrey Kill the Dead
Richard Kadrey Aloha from Hell
Richard Kadrey Devil in the Dollhouse
Richard Kadrey Devil Said Bang
Richard Kadrey Kill City Blues
Richard Kadrey The Getaway God
Richard Kadrey Killing Pretty
Richard Kadrey The Perdition Score
Joe Haldeman Buying Time
D. M. Pulley The Buried Book
M. R. Carey; The Boy on the Bridge
Sally Slater Paladin
J.R. Rain The Dead Detective
J.R. Rain Deadbeat Dad
Eric Padilla Unfurled Heroing Is a Tough Gig
Claire North The End of the Day
Alan Dean Foster Spellsinger
Alan Dean Foster The Hour of the Gate
Stephen King Gwendy's Button Box
Ron Ripley Berkley Street
Ron Ripley The Lighthouse
Ron Ripley The Town of Griswold
Ron Ripley Sanford Hospital
Ron Ripley Kurkow Prison
Ron Ripley Lake Nutaq
Ron Ripley Slater Mill
Tim Lebbon Predator Incursion
Tim Lebbon Alien Invasion
Tim Lebbon Armageddon
Emma Geen The Many Selves Of Katherine North
Jen Calonita Flunked
Will McIntosh Faller
Lincoln Child Deep Storm
Lincoln Child Terminal Freeze
Lincoln Child The Third Gate
Lincoln Child The Forgotten Room
Lincoln Child Full Wolf Moon
Diana Rowland Mark Of The Demon
Diana Rowland Blood Of The Demon
Diana Rowland Secrets Of The Demon
Diana Rowland Sins Of The Demon
Diana Rowland Touch Of The Demon
Diana Rowland Fury of the Demon
Diana Rowland Vengeance of the Demon
Richard Laymon Flesh
Elizabeth Anne Hull Gateways
The yellow wallpaper
Garth Nix A Confusion Of Princes
Diana Rowland Legacy of the Demon
Christopher Moore Bloodsucking Fiends
Christopher Moore A dirty job
Rick Gualtieri Bill the Vampire
Rick Gualtieri Scary Dead Things
Rick Gualtieri The Mourning Woods
Rick Gualtieri Holier Than Thou
Rick Gualtieri Sunset Strip
Rick Gualtieri Goddamned Freaky Monsters
Rick Gualtieri Half a Prayer
Rick Gualtieri The Wicked Dead
Rick Gualtieri Shining Fury
Rick Gualtieri The Last Coven
Ron Ripley Borgin Keep
Nick Cutter Litlte Heaven
Steve Alten The Loch
Steve Alten Vostok
Richard Kadrey The Kill Society
Dean Koontz The Silent Corner
Christopher Moore A Dirty Job
Joseph Fink Welcome to Nightvale 1-110
Peter Meredith The Apocalypse Revenge
Scott Meyer Run Program
A. G. Riddle Pandemic
Seanan McGuire Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Scott Sigler Earthcore
Peter Clines Dead Men Can't Complain
Keith C. Blackmore Breeds 3
Jeff Strand Cyclops Road
Eleanor Lerman Radiomen
Christina Raines Claimed by the Elven King
Jeff Strand Blister
Jeff Strand WolfHunt
Fanny Merkin Fifty Shames of Earl Grey
Angela Marsons DEAD SOULS
Tad Williams The Burning Man
Tad Williams The Dragonbone Chair
Tad Williams Stone of Farewell
Tad Williams To Green Angel Tower
Tad Williams The Heart of What Was Lost
Iain McKinnon Demise of the living
Eddie Izzard Believe Me
Brad Magnarella Demon Moon
Brad Magnarella Blood Deal
Brad Magnarella Purge City
Larry Correia Siege
Tom Perrotta The Leftovers
Al K. Line Black Spark
Al K. Line Evil Spark
Al K. Line New Spark
Al K. Line Guilty Spark
Al K. Line Neon Spark
Barry J. Hutchison The Wrath of Vajazzle
Charles Stross The Delirium Brief
Matthew Iden The Winter Over
John Langan The Fisherman
Mo Daviau Every Anxious Wave
Marcus Sakey Afterlife
Lou Cadle Gray
Gary McMahon Pretty Little Dead Things
Gary McMahon Dead Bad Things
Mark Tufo Victorys Defeat
Tess Gerritsen The Surgeon
Tess Gerritsen The Apprentice
Tess Gerritsen The Sinner
Tess Gerritsen Body Double
Tess Gerritsen Vanish
Tess Gerritsen The Mephisto Club
Tess Gerritsen The Keepsake
Tess Gerritsen Ice Cold
Tess Gerritsen The Silent Girl
Tess Gerritsen Last to Die
Tess Gerritsen Die Again
Tess Gerritsen I Know a Secret
Tess Gerritsen The Bone Garden#
Robert Bevan 4d6 Caverns and Creatures
James Acaster Classic Scrapes
Nicholas Sansbury Smith Trackers
Mike Evans Civil War
Nightingale
John Cleaver I am not a Serial Killer
John Cleaver Mr Monster
John Cleaver I Don't Want to Kill You
John Cleaver The Devil's Only Friend
John Cleaver Over Your Dead Body
John Cleaver Nothing Left to Lose
Ezekiel Boone Skitter
Barry J. Hutchison The Search for Splurt
Stephen King Sleeping Beauties
Stephen King It
Kevin Hearne Grimoire of the Lamb
Kevin Hearne Clan Rathskeller
Kevin Hearne Kaibab Unbound
Kevin Hearne Hounded
Kevin Hearne Hexed
Kevin Hearne Hammered
Kevin Hearne A Test of Mettle
Kevin Hearne Tricked
Kevin Hearne Two Ravens and One Crow
Kevin Hearne The Demon Barker of Wheat Street
Kevin Hearne Trapped
Kevin Hearne Hunted
Kevin Hearne Shattered
Kevin Hearne A Prelude to War
Kevin Hearne Staked
Kevin Hearne The Purloined Poodle
Stephen King The dark half
Stephen King Desperation
Larry Correia The Monster Hunter Files
Greig Beck The first bird
Greig Beck Book of the dead
Greig Bird The immortality curse
Sean Thomas Fisher Floodwater
Ryan Lockwood What Lurks Beneath
Stephen King The Regulators
S L Grey Mall
S L Grey Ward
S L Grey New Girl
Peter Clines Paradox Bound
Diana Rowland Unchained
David Wong John Dies at the End
David Wong This Book Is Full of Spiders
David Wong What the Hell Did I Just Read
David Wong Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
Aaron Mahnke The World of Lore
Brad Magnarella Book of Souls
Brad Magnarella Death Mage
A.I. Nasser Children to the Slaughter
A.I. Nasser Shadows Embrace
A.I. Nasser Copper's Keeper
Jon Hollins Fools Gold
Jon Hollins False Idols
Colin Dickey Ghostland
C.T. Phipps The Rules of Supervillainy
C.T. Phipps The Games of Supervillainy
C.T. Phipps The Secrets of Supervillainy
C.T. Phipps The Science of Supervillainy
Joseph Fink Welcome to Nightvale 111-116
Peter Brannen The Ends of the World
Anthologi Nights of the Living Dead
Jonathan Mayberry Joe Ledger Unstoppable
Alexander C. Kane Andrea Vernon
Josef Fink It Devours!
Joe Hill Strange Weather
Christopher Gray When the Dead Wake
Ron Ripley Amherst Burial Ground
Derek Landy Demon Road
Derek Landy Desolation
Derek Landy American Monsters
Joseph Fink Nightvale 117-118
Bentley Little The Handyman
David A. Simpson Zombie Road
Peter Meredith War of the Undead Day One
Peter Meredith War of the Undead Day Two
Peter Meredith War of the Undead Three
Peter Meredith War of the Undead Day Four
James Alan Gardner All Those Explosions Were Someone Elses Fault
Andy Weir Artemis
Bentley Little The Association
Kevin Hearne The Squirrel on the Train
John C. McCrae Worm 1-298
Chris Fox Deathless 1
Chris Fox Deathless 2
Chris Fox Deathless 3
rachel manija brown stranger
Peter Meredith The Apocalypse Sacrifice
J-F. Dubeau A God in the Shed
Drew Hayes The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales
Drew Hayes Undeath and Taxes
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The Second Sweep: Hard Theology, Shonen Manga, and Superscience
Criticism (Brian Niemeier) – Nonetheless, I can sympathize with the rocket scientists, engineers, and network admins who groan at authorial violations of physical laws. That’s because I contend that the single most hamhandedly misrepresented and abused science in all of fiction is mine, the queen and mistress of all sciences, theology.
Now, hard SF usually provides a respite from the relentless drumbeat of theological illiteracy pervading the rest of pop culture, if only because hard SF tends to studiously ignore theological questions. The worst you get is a Big Men with Screwdrivers Meet Scooby-Doo story like Star Trek V.
When any other genre deals with theology or a related discipline like ecclesiology, soteriology, pneumatology, etc., it subjects your local theologian to a trial of Christian patience.
Science Fiction (John C. Wright) – The basic limit of Hard SF is the writer cannot violate no known facts of science: Venus is a sulferic hell with a temperature to melt lead, for example, and if the daughter of a monarch of Mars is going to look like a nubile maiden from Europe or India, except with bright red skin, there had bettter be some explanation involving parallel evolution or mutual interplanetary ancestors.
Now, working within these limits is fun, and it is fun to do research and get all the details of travel times and distances to nearby stars correct, or to make sure that what you are saying about higher mathematics or exotic matter properties or Einsteinian frame-dragging effects of rotating black holes is correct according to the latest theory.
But it is also fun to write about a nubile space princess being saved from an evil dinosaur of Venus.
Anime (J. D. Cowan) – We talk a lot about forgotten traditions and warped ones, but how about those still holding the line? You would be surprised just how well following a formula that works could hold tight for so long but as those in Generation Y know, Japan had managed it for an absurdly long time. Nowhere is this more obvious than in their most popular export: the shonen story.
In March a milestone was hit for two of Japan’s most popular magazines. While much was made about Weekly Shonen Jump reaching its 50th year of creating hits in 2018, this year marks the 60th anniversary for both Weekly Shonen Magazine and Weekly Shonen Sunday. It is hard to imagine from our perspective how a tradition could go for so long. These magazines started well after their format had all but went extinct overseas and yet they are still going to this day and running series that continue to get exposure all over the world. If you know Japanese entertainment then you know at least some of them.
Gaming (SEGA) – The Total War franchise pays homage to Predator with the latest Total War: Warhammer II DLC trailer.
Awards (The Emperor’s Notepad) – Commenting on my last post, where I gave a harsh beating to the previous Hugo short story finalist, Alexandru Constantin mentioned that he “can’t get past the stupid titles.” Yes, I have thought about that too, and it’s a common issue with these award-worthy stories or those that give off some kind of literary aspiration: they usually have humongous titles. It’s like they are trying to compensate for something, or perhaps it’s a way to mark the story as one of their own. It reminds me of that amusing observation about the length of a country’s official names correlating with how undemocratic it is (e.g., People’s Democratic Republic of Something or Other.)
Pulp (Hollywood in Toto) – Even if you’ve never read any of Leigh Brackett’s stories, or if the name sounds unfamiliar, you probably know her work.
Try “The Big Sleep” for Bogart fans, “Hatari” and “Rio Bravo” for John Wayne addicts and “The Empire Strikes Back” for everyone else.
Brackett’s career spanned several decades as a screenwriter, but to the science fiction crowd (George Lucas included), she was the Queen of Space Opera.
Brackett began making a name for herself in the pulp magazines of the ’40s. While you might sometimes hear these days that Brackett skated as a woman in a men’s field with her “masculine sounding name,” it was common knowledge among scifi readers that Brackett was a woman.
Criticism (Misha Burnett) – Superscienceis something that is impossible in our world, but which follows definite and consistent rules within the story. Superpowers in comic books, the abilities of vampires and werewolves, magic spells in urban fantasy series like The Dresden Files and The Rivers Of London, warp drives and phasers in Star Trek.
Superscience can be a lot of fun. Writers often construct scenarios where one superscience power is pitted against another one, or a hero must use his ability creatively to solve a problem. These are the kinds of plot elements that make for great late night drunken conversations at cons. Could the Hulk beat a sandworm? What would happen if Rogue from X-Men touched Sylar from Heroes? Could a Dalek become a vampire? (Exsanguinate! Exsanguinate! Exsanguinate!)
And while Superscience is often defined as (small m) magic in the story world, it is really just a variant form of technology in terms of how it works in the plot.
Amazon Woes (John Van Stry) – So, once again Amazon screws up at the end of March, deleting all new releases for a sizeable number of Authors. My last two books are now gone and there’s no way to get them back until Amazon figures out how to restore a backup.
The Second Sweep: Hard Theology, Shonen Manga, and Superscience published first on https://medium.com/@ReloadedPCGames
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