I listened to one of the Legacies books in the car but read the other two. I don't even remember which one it was. I'll probably listen to the Prey trilogy soon. Star Trek is perfect for listening to.
I admit the length of the newer audiobooks is a bit off-putting for me, I preferred the older, abridged versions
I'm buying all the new audiobooks but saving them until I can get caught up on the novels released before that. I have quite a few to still get through in the novel read through I've been doing for years now.
I have bought a few of the new unabridged digital. The first "Legacies" came with the choice to do the audio as an add-on, but the second one wasn't, and now Amazon USA won't deal with Australian orders for books (our government requested that they add Australian GST and Amazon US cut us off). I simply haven't found time to listen to unabridged novels, so I stopped stockpiling the files. I also wanted CDs for my collection, and was so pleased when they became available, but they are horrendously expensive when ordered through my local Australian bookshop, especially once international air-freight is added. My exception will be the forthcoming unabridged audio of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (announced by S&S yesterday)! https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/new-40th-anniversary-edition-of-st-tmp-novelisation.300080/
I am buying the digital versions. I am listening to the Discovery novels. I'm saving the main range TrekLit books until I get caught up with the older ones I'm reading that aren't on audio. . I'm currently 2/3 of the way through The Way to the Stars, and it's really excellent. I'm really looking forward to the Enterprise War coming out late next month. I love January LaVoy's narration. It is only slightly jarring at first as I am so familiar with her as the narrator of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books.
Dresden Files on audio? be right back... *goes to check Hoopla* EDIT: unfortunately not, but this talk of appreciating the actors did remind me that I love Richard Armitage's reading of audio books and found that he's done the audio book for The Tattooist of Auschwitz. So, thank you TrekBBS thread
I've said this before, and I may as well say it again: I have precisely zero interest in audio books, at least so long as my eyes don't give out. But I would be greatly interested in seeing ("hearing"?) more original audio dramas (i.e., like the "Captain Sulu" trilogy from so many years ago).
Funnily enough, I'm the opposite - I have no interest in audio dramas, but I do like to listen to a book being read by a single person. But I know there's a lot of interest in original audio dramas - Big Finish is a good example, let's hope they get a Trek license at some point
Simon & Schuster did not have a license for original audio drama, so the three Captain Sulu Adventures had to resemble log entries, ie. no back and forth dialogue between the characters. "Star Trek: Klingon" and "Star Trek: Borg" adaptated the video games. The best thing about the Sulu productions was the new "3D sound", which worked best in the CD format with headphones, rather than the audiocassettes. It was quite an uncanny effect, especially "Cacophony", which really did have a cacophony of voices coming from every direction.
Some of us are too sensitive for that. The shifting voices on Cacophony really made me uncomfortable over headphones -- my startle reflex, I guess, jumping at an unexpected sound from a new direction. I only found it tolerable over speakers.
Finally, I have updated/relocated my old "I Hear Star Trek" listings to include all the new audios. Whew! https://therinofandor.blogspot.com/p/i-hear-star-trek.html While doing so, I accidentally uncovered a mention of "The City on the Edge of Forever: 50th Anniversary of the Original Teleplay" by Harlan Ellison, read by Orson Scott Card, Bonnie MacBird, Richard J Brewer, Ryan C Britt, Richard Gilliland and Larry Nemacek, Skyboat Media, 2016, approx. 481 min. Curious now how interactive the voices are. Skyboat Media (founded by Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir in 2001) does rings a bell, but I had forgotten all about this audio production! There is also a brief Harlan video clip from Skyboat here: