Space Team - Barry Hutchinson

Zertex Audio, 2025, 7.9 hours

Read by Phil Tron

Listened to: August 2025, age 47

 

Space Team book 1

 

Humour is hard.  I'm sure there are people who resonate with this style of farce, but I just found it too much.  The characters - all of them - were just so incredibly stupid through the whole book, and I didn't find that funny.  As a result, I didn't much like the book. 

 

Rating: 3- 

Lost Talismans and a Tequila - Annette Marie (Audiobook)

Tantor Audio, 2020, 7.9 hours

Read by Cris Dukehart

Listened to: July 2025, age 47

 

Guild Codex: Spellbound book 7 

 

More of the same, which is fantastic.  Great series. 

 

Rating: 5
 

Shards of Honor - Lois McMaster Bujold (Audiobook)

Blackstone Audio, 2009, 8.6 hours

Original copyright 1986

Read by Grover Gardner 

Listened to: July 2025, age 47 

 

Miles Vorkosigan, book 2 

 

Or, how Miles' parents met.  Solid space opera & love story.  

 

Rating: 3+ 

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void - Mary Roach

W.W. Norton & Co., 2011, 334 pages, 

ISBN:  9780393339918 

Read: July 2025, age 47 

 

Very little to do with Mars, but all kinds of interesting tidbits about the space program that I hadn't heard anywhere else, and very well told.  Lots of fun.  I'll keep my eyes open for more from this author.

Rating: 4+ 

Rogue Ghosts and Other Miscreants - Annette Marie & Rob Jacobsen

Tantor Audio, 2021, 7.8 hours

Read by Iggy Toma 

Listened to: July 2025, age 45 

 

Guild Codex: Warped book 3 

 

This series is fantastic.  This, though, was a bit annoying - Our hero was very stuck on rescuing a kid, and it got tiresome hearing about it.  Still fun, but not as great as the rest.

 

Rating: 4
 

Druid Vices and a Vodka - Annette Marie (Audiobook)

Tantor Audio, 2020, 9.3 hours 

Read by: Cris Dukehart

Listened to: June 2025, age 47 

 

The Guild Codex: Spellbound, book 6 

 

I really like this series, especially the Tori books.  This one's no exception.

 

Rating: 5 

Falling Free - Lois McMaster Bujold - Audiobook

Blackstone Audio, 2009, 8.6 hours

Original copyright 1988

Read by Grover Gardner

Listened to: June 2025

 

Miles Vorkosigan, book 1 (by publication order) 

 

Well... no Miles, no characters that I remembered, hardly seems related to the Vorkosigan saga at all.  A good 'engineer with a wrench' story, though.

 

Rating: 3+