East Coast grad students get recruited by a cutting-edge tech firm in Hawaii. They travel to Oahu for an interview and get snared in a jungle nightmare only Crichton could concoct. John Bedford Lloyd’s delivery is solid, but in some inexplicable way it fails to capture all the excitement and terror of the hapless victims, particularly when they enter extremis, which in this story is often beyond imagining. However, Lloyd compellingly voices the psychotic CEO at the heart of the horror. And one hears the cowardly, whining traitor of the group of victimized students with loathing right from the start. Female characters are well voiced and differentiated from the predominately male cast. Crichton’s fans and sci-fi junkies will love it. M.C. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
Most careers are ones you can, or get, to retire from at a certain age. Not writing! Authors get wiser and actually become better writers with the age and experience of a life well lived, and most keep writing up until the bitter end. And sometimes they were so, so close to finishing up just […]
Writing is often a long and difficult process, and, tragically, sometimes readers never get to see the fruits of an author’s labor. In compiling this list of a baker’s dozen SF/F books likely never to see the light of day, we’re discounting those long-overdue books that we’ve know are being written and will likely eventually be published (in other […]