Project Hail Mary

“Andy Weir is wonderful at preserving a surprise in the book… Essentially, a fellow named Ryland Grace wakes up completely disoriented, not knowing where he is, and in short order figures out that he’s on a spacecraft. Through the book, he has to piece together what is going on. Things start to come back to him slowly. And ultimately, it’s about saving the Earth, but it’s also about so many more things, and I don’t want to say anything more in case I give anything away! I will say that it is one of my favourites that I’ve gotten to narrate. It was one where I was running to the microphone every day, looking forward to recording, and I was deeply, deeply sad when it was finished.” Read more...

The Best Sci Fi Audiobooks

Ray Porter

“I’ve read it three times, I think it’s wonderful. It’s not a romance – it’s about friendship, and this is part of our theme of bringing human emotions to sci fi. The setup is that a new thing has been discovered that eats stars, and it’s been discovered in our sun, in the very near future. At first this doesn’t seem like a huge problem, but then it very much is. Scientists, including the main character, realise that the sun is going to go out unless they can find a way to kill these things – they’re called astrophages, a very cool name. The book opens with the main character, Ryland, waking up from a stasis sleep on a ship with no idea who he is or how he’s got there…As with all Andy Weir’s characters, he’s really funny and he responds to terrible bad luck and confusion with this endless good cheer.” Read more...

The Best Sci-Fi Romance Novels

Natasha Pulley, Novelist

“With Andy Weir, you’re always going to get a great story, and then a little bit of science. The reason I like his books is because they’ve also got a great sense of humor. It starts with someone who is a survivor in a spacecraft who doesn’t remember anything—what a great setup! Then you’ve got lots of characters involved in the tale. So Ray Porter, who narrates the book, gets to play and have fun with a great text with a sense of humor, and then do a lot of different characters.” Read more...

The Best Audiobooks: the 2022 Audie Awards

Michele Cobb, Publisher