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Ray Sawyer
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By:
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Tom Holt
About this listen
An Orc on the Wild Side is the latest comic masterpiece from one of the funniest writers in fantasy.
Winter is coming, so why not get away from it all?
Being the Dark Lord and Prince of Evil is not as much fun as it sounds, particularly if you are a basically decent person. King Mordak is just such a person. Technically he's more goblin than person, but the point is that he is really keen to be a lot less despicable than his predecessors.
Not that the other goblins appreciate Mordak's attempts to redefine the role. Why should they when his new healthcare program seems designed to actually extend life expectancy, and his efforts to end a perfectly reasonable war with the dwarves appear to have become an obsession? With confidence in his leadership crumbling, what Mordak desperately needs is a distraction. Perhaps some of these humans moving to the Realm in search of great homes at an affordable price will be able to help?
For more from Tom Holt, check out:
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The Outsorcerer's Apprentice
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Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends. Instead of playing hopscotch or combing her dolls' hair, she studied martial arts with sensei masters and dismantled explosives with special-ops retirees. Her father prepped her well to carry on the family business. Now a striking beauty with fierce skills, the prodigy has surpassed the master.
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Cliffhanger!!!
- By Jan M on 03-25-18
By: Karen Robards
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Will Save the Galaxy for Food
- By: Yahtzee Croshaw
- Narrated by: Yahtzee Croshaw
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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Space travel just isn't what it used to be. With the invention of quantum teleportation, space heroes aren't needed anymore. When one particularly unlucky ex-adventurer masquerades as famous pilot and hate figure Jacques McKeown, he's sucked into an ever-deepening corporate and political intrigue. Between space pirates, adorable deadly creatures, and a missing fortune in royalties, saving the universe was never this difficult!
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Great
- By K. F. on 03-09-17
By: Yahtzee Croshaw
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The Queen's Road
- By: R. S. Belcher
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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Ramon “Ray” Cosa’s life is not what he expected it to be. Living in a small Texas town ravaged by Hurricane Harvey, Ray has suffered many losses in his young life, and he has little hope left that anything will ever change or get better. That is, until the vintage Ford Galaxie and its strange, dying owner enters Ray’s life. Given a jeweled ring he cannot remove and a desperate mission, Ray is plunged into a universe of secrets, wonders, and terrors he never dreamed exists. Now, he travels the Queen's Road - a hyper-space highway that connects all the planets in creation.
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Hopefully the start of a new series.
- By Alex Sumner on 01-26-20
By: R. S. Belcher
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The Death of Captain America
- By: Larry Hama, Marvel
- Narrated by: Richard Rohan, Tara Giordano
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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In the aftermath of the superhuman Civil War, Captain America was shot down in cold blood. In the aftermath of his death, Cap's longtime partner the Falcon makes revenge his first order of business. Sharon Carter finds herself spiraling out of control, a captive of the Red Skull's minions. And Bucky Barnes, a.k.a. the Winter Soldier, must reconcile his own sordid past with the calling to become...the new Captain America!
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Terrific adaptation!
- By Amazon Customer on 12-13-19
By: Larry Hama, and others
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The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5
- By: Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, John P Murphy, and others
- Narrated by: Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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Short novels are movie-length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This audio collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form of storytelling.
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Narrator sounds like Tony Danza
- By Sean on 03-05-16
By: Cory Doctorow, and others
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Guardians of the Galaxy
- Collect Them All
- By: Corinne Duyvis, Marvel
- Narrated by: Scott McCormick, full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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When the Guardians attempt to evacuate a Kree prison planet and end up in a fight for their lives - what else is new? - they discover their old pal Groot is stretched a little thin. Someone is planting stolen branches of the monosyllabic hero and selling the saplings across the galaxy! The search to find Groot's missing pieces forces the Guardians into an alliance with the unscrupulous Collector, but the real problem is more complicated than he wants them to believe.
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Same old same old
- By B. Williams on 06-14-21
By: Corinne Duyvis, and others
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88 Names
- A Novel
- By: Matt Ruff
- Narrated by: Ewan Chung
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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John Chu is a “sherpa” - a paid guide to online role-playing games. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor. Chu’s new client, "Mr. Jones", claims to be a “wealthy, famous person” with powerful enemies, and he’s offering a ridiculous amount of money for a comprehensive tour. For Chu, this is a dream assignment, but then he begins to suspect that Mr. Jones is really North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. But Chu also has to worry about “Ms. Pang”, and his angry ex-girlfriend, Darla Jean Covington....
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I love this author... didn’t love this book.
- By Anonymous User on 03-30-20
By: Matt Ruff
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Hypertek
- Skiptracer, Book 1
- By: Micky Neilson
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Blake Harley is a Skiptracer - a kind of bounty hunter - on the faraway construct world of Concourse Prime. Hired by a corporate client to secure an overdue product, he'll make some quick cryp and be on to the next job. Easy. Except, this job is anything but simple. The product is tied to the immensely powerful and ultra-secret Hypertek, leaving Blake with a choice: be a good soldier, or refuse to help MagnaCorp become the most powerful entity in the system. Another problem: everyone else in Concourse Prime is gunning for the product as well.
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Unfortunately, the book wasn't for me!
- By Lonnie-The GreatNorthernTroll-Moore on 04-13-20
By: Micky Neilson
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The Automatic Detective
- By: A. Lee Martinez
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it's hard for a robot to make his way. It's even harder for a robot named Mack Megaton, a hulking machine designed to bring mankind to its knees. But Mack's not interested in world domination. He's just a bot trying to get by, trying to demonstrate that he isn't just an automated smashing machine, and to earn his citizenship in the process. It should be as easy as crushing a tank for Mack, but some bots just cant catch a break.
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SOME DAYS, I WISH I HAD BEEN MADE A TOASTER
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 02-11-18
By: A. Lee Martinez
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Once a Spy
- A Novel
- By: Keith Thomson
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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Drummond Clark was once a spy of legendary proportions. Now Alzheimer's disease has taken its toll and he's just a confused old man who's wandered away from home, waiting for his son to fetch him. When Charlie Clark takes a break from his latest losing streak at the track to bring Drummond back to his Brooklyn home, they find it blown sky high - and then bullets start flying in every direction.
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Off beat thriller
- By Jen on 05-16-10
By: Keith Thomson
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Terminator 3
- Rise of the Machines
- By: David Hagberg
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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In the third installment of the film that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name, John Connor is older and is still a target for killer machines from the future. The human resistance sends back the Terminator who saved his life when he was just a boy to protect him from an even more lethal Terminator model: the Terminatrix - in the shape of a woman and capable of making all previous Terminators seem slow and stupid. If Connor doesn't survive, the future is lost...
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All of what a movie can not offer
- By J. Locke on 08-10-03
By: David Hagberg
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- Zel Shivertail
- 09-17-21
Mr. Bullfrog for the win
People from our world invade Middle-Earth for cheap real estate. Lot's of little clever things that Tolkien fans will appreciate. Would of rated it higher but I found a few of the voices took away from the enjoyment.
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- tony
- 01-28-20
Loved it!
After one listen, I have become a fan of both Tom Holt and Ray Sawyer.
The author is VERY funny, the narration excellent, and I cannot recommend highly enough.
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- Carrie
- 11-08-21
Fun
I loved this light hearted romp through another realm
I especially liked some of hidden bits of humor, such as she called the large pan Peter.
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- William Coyne
- 09-17-19
LORD of the RINGS, after the movie...
The Audio version is a must,.. every voice, every inflection of all the Lord of the Rings charectors is captured. But now there magic world meets Humans from our present earth, moving there for cheap real estate,,, someone buys the Black Castle to retire to and the laughs keep coming.
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- Kevin Barney
- 10-15-19
Tom Holt is a genius!
So much fun, such a marvelous blend of satire and fantasy, he takes your mind in hilarious ways!
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- Ian Wallis
- 08-07-23
Brilliant! Another very witty novel.
Tom Holt's humor is English and thus very dry. He gently mocks and upends Tolkien and other fantasy writers with current cultural themes - in this case second home owners and lawyers - and a deep appreciation of Tolkienian characters. Some readers may not like his brand of intelligent, wry, and absurd writing but that is their loss. Personally I detest 'humorous' books that try too hard to be funny. This is not one of them.
Highly recommended for the intelligent reader/listener.
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- Jeulian
- 03-06-23
Like listening to a shopping list.
Apart from the last hour or so, Which was OK, the book was scattered, Mind numbingly Tedious And Not fun at all. Felt like a formula book by a very tired Writer.
The narrator was fine.
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- Stephen Algernon
- 11-02-22
Lord of the rings little brother
I think it’s hilarious that it was outlined from lord of the rings! I’m laughing at every word I hear!
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- Sadie
- 02-23-22
Was supposed to be funny, but just wasn't.
Was trying really hard to be funny, but this wasn't. Also every character had the same exact mannerisms.
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- Melisa
- 11-06-19
Disappointed Holt fan
If I'd realized this was part of the YouSpace series, I wouldn't have bothered, but it wasn't labeled as such. I love Tom Holt but the YouSpace books have not been as good as I've come to expect from him. If you've enjoyed the previous ones in the YouSpace universe, you'll probably like this one. Holt has many series that are much better, although Audible doesn't seem to carry much by him anymore. That's why I was so excited to finally see a new one on here. It wasn't awful, but just okay. Sawyer's narration was excellent, as usual.
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