5 stellar writing duos in sci-fi & fantasy
Sometimes the best way to gain inspiration from others is to literally work with them. It’s one of the most challenging ways to create something—and yet the payoff is usually pretty spectacular. Here’s a compilation of tales from writing duos that prove that teamwork really does make the dreamwork.—Sam, Audible Editor
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Leviathan Wakes
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31,626
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 28,194
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28,112
From a New York Times best-selling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Started a love affair with hard sci fi
- By NH on 07-30-17
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Leviathan Wakes
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Series: The Expanse, Book 1
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 06-30-17
- Language: English
- James S. A. Corey
- Yep, the best-selling writer of the mega-hit series is actually two! Which, to me, makes the consistently compelling eight-title series all the more impressive.
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
- By: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,835
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,380
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,374
From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes an enthralling, romantic novel spanning time and space about two time-traveling rivals who fall in love and must change the past to ensure their future....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Flowery poetic word salad
- By Austin on 02-11-20
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 07-16-19
- Language: English
- Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- What do you get when two prolific and multiple award-nominated authors join forces to write an epistolary time travel novel? One of the most unique and beautiful listens I've heard in a long time.
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The Tangled Lands
- By: Paolo Bacigalupi, Tobias S. Buckell
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 375
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 342
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Story4 out of 5 stars 340
Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic until it became toxic. It is run by a tyrant known as The Jolly Mayor and his devious right hand....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Repeat of Alchemist with Unsatisfying Additions
- By Orwell on 02-28-18
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The Tangled Lands
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 02-27-18
- Language: English
- Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell
- I love stories that effortlessly weave together to form one epic tale, and Bacigalupi and Buckell employ this technique with skill in this World Fantasy Award winner.
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The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek
- By: Rhett McLaughlin, Link Neal
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,092
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,812
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,807
At first, high school freshmen Rex McClendon and Leif Nelson believe what they’ve been told - that the students’ strange demises were all tragic accidents....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Does it hold up beyond the R&L fandom?
- By BrettM on 12-01-19
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The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 10-29-19
- Language: English
- Rhett & Link
- YouTube sensations Rhett & Link are lifelong friends and clearly have no shortage of chemistry, it's little surprise they collaborate so well together in this fun, twisty horror tale.
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Good Omens
- By: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40,684
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35,540
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35,517
The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies....
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5 out of 5 stars
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At long last!!
- By Mike From Mesa on 11-21-09
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Good Omens
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 11-10-09
- Language: English
- Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
- With two legendary genre-bending writers Pratchett & Gaiman, is there any wonder Dark Omens became a cult favorite, followed by a hit TV series?
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