As audiobooks have grown in popularity publishers have come to realize that the narrator is almost as important to the series as the author. I can’t imagine the Dresden books without James Marsters or the Rivers of London books without the guy with the weird name. For me as well as many others Christopher Price IS Repairman Jack ( despite his odd pronunciation of the word :room” :-)

While I realize that Dick Hill has following he makes me wish that I was deaf. I cannot imagine a worse person called upon to narrate any book. But regardless of one’s opinion of his work, it is a jarring transition when one gets to Bloodlines.

What are the chances of getting Bloodlines and By The Sword re-released on audiobook with Christopher price as the narrator? there is precedent for this. Jim Butcher’s Ghost Story created such an outcry that James Marsters went back and recorded in a few years after the initial release.

The fact that The Last Christmas was not read by Price does not give me encouragement however. I can handle that one and I can handle The Tomb but the two Dick Hill books have got to go.

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It’s still popular on TV as evidenced by the acclaim for The Mandalorian on Disney+. John Favreau, the writer and showrunner, has dipped into both the western bounty-hunter genre and the Japanese ronin films for inspiration. The title character is a masked bounty hunter who does a good imitation of Clint Eastwood’s voice and wears a cape instead of a serape.[/FONT]
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In the first three of the eight episodes we’re treated to a saloon shootout, some alien bronco busting, a desert town shootout, and the successful capture of the objective: a fifty year-old alien child you have no recourse but to call “Baby Yoda” (he’s not) who is terminally cute. By the end of chapter 3 the Mandalorian has decided to take the child under his wing, which lands a price on his head and sets all the other bounty hunters after him. (John Wick, anyone?) I watched him stride along with the floating basinet beside him and said, “Lone Wolf and Cub.” My daughter and grandson were watching with me but had no idea what I was talking about.[/FONT]
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Episode 4 is a cut-down version of The Magnificent 7 (or Seven Samurai). I say “cut down” because there are only two gunslingers (The Magnificent Duo?) – the Mandalorian and the hot but very scary Gina Carano. I could go on but I won’t. I must, however, mention the arrival of Gus Fring in the guise of Mof Gideon, and the very cool salute to the finale of The Wild Bunch in episode 8.[/FONT]
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I’m not complaining about the homages (?) because I had fun identifying them, but going forward I hope for more original plotting. I do see a problem with the Mandalorian religion forbidding him to show his face to another human being. It’s a big drawback in that it’s so distancing. This character is carrying the series but the helmet makes it very difficult to engage with him. Even old Mount Rushmore Eastwood gave us something as the Man with No Name (he could do a lot with a squint). [/FONT]

This came up in a Reddit forum today.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProRevenge/comm...e_tore_up/

I am super excited for signalz. Any chance you’ll do a gauntlet edition? A paperback will look out of place next to all of the hardcovers

It’s been a long time since I read Healer. It’s time.

I see a new addition to the Secret History list, what have we here?

I saw from your newsletter that the final book from the Nocturnia Chronicles was actually released back in 2018 - at least that is what the link to Gauntlet Press implied.
I have the first two book as ebooks (sorry but I am not a collector and gave up on paper/hard cover books years ago) and have held off reading them till I knew the third volume was coming.
Any idea if it will be released as an ebook in the near future?
Thanks

Interesting article about whether Rakshasas (basis of Rakoshi?) were really Denisovans. https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-his...na-0012974

I was not expecting another RJ book so imagine my delight, no, my ecstasy, in finding The Last Christmas at the airport bookstore. Thank you Mr. Wilson for letting us have another peek into Jack's life. As usual, the story was enthralling and Jack was at the top of his game.

Now having said that, I still want to know what happens after the events of Nightworld. Will we ever find out? How has the world changed, how has Jack's world changed? Where are Gia and Vicky and Abe? Answers, I need answers!

The Age of the Triffids is the official sequel to the classic British sci-fi plantpocalypse, The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. Unfortunately, the novel is only for sale in Canada and New Zealand for weird international copyright law reasons.