Phil Kane has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 54 ratings. The most-rated is The New New Thing.
The New New Thing
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In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics, then Netscape - which launched the Information Age - and now Healtheon, a startup that may turn the $1 trillion healthcare industry on its head. Despite the variety of his achievements, Clark thinks of himself mainly as the creator of Hyperion, which happens to be a sailboat - not just an ordinary yacht, but the world's largest single-mast vessel, a machine more complex than a 747. Clark claims he will be able to sail it via computer from his desk in San Francisco, and the new code may contain the seeds of his next billion-dollar coup. On the wings of Lewis' celebrated storytelling, the listener takes the ride of a lifetime through this strange landscape of geeks and billionaires. We get the inside story of the battle between Netscape and Microsoft; we sit in the room as Clark tries to persuade the investment bankers that Healtheon IS the new Microsoft; we get queasy as Clark pits his boat against the rage of the North Atlantic in winter. And in every brilliant anecdote and character sketch, Lewis is drawing us a map of markets and free enterprise in the 21st century.
©2001 Michael Lewis (P)2008 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year
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***One of Publishers Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018"***
A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fight to survive their descent; in the British countryside, hundreds of magpies ascend into the sky, higher and higher, until they seem to vanish into the heavens; a professor and his student track a zombie horde in order to research zombie behavior; an all-girl riding school has sinister secrets; a town rails in vain against a curse inflicted upon it by its founders.
For more than three decades, editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow, winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, has had her finger on the pulse of the horror genre, introducing readers to writers whose tales can unnerve, frighten, and terrify. This anniversary volume, which collects the best stories from the first ten years of her annual The Best Horror of the Year anthology series, includes fiction from award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Neil Gaiman, Livia Llewellyn, Laird Barron, Gemma Files, Stephen Graham Jones, and many more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction - Ellen Datlow
Lowland Sea - Suzy McKee Charnas
Wingless Beasts - Lucy Taylor
The Nimble Men - Glen Hirshberg
Little America - Dan Chaon
Black and White Sky - Tanith Lee
The Monster Makers - Steve Rasnic Tem
Chapter Six - Stephen Graham Jones
In a Cavern, in a Canyon - Laird Barron
Allochthon - Livia Llewellyn
Shepherds’ Business - Stephen Gallagher
Down to a Sunless Sea - Neil Gaiman
The Man from the Peak - Adam Golaski
In Paris, in the Mouth of Kronos - John Langan
The Moraine - Simon Bestwick
At the Riding School - Cody Goodfellow
Cargo - E. Michael Lewis
Tender as Teeth - Stephanie Crawford & Duane Swierczynski
Wild Acre - Nathan Ballingrud
The Callers - Ramsey Campbell
This Stagnant Breath of Change - Brian Hodge
Grave Goods - Gemma Files
The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine - Peter Straub
Majorlena - Jane Jakeman
The Days of Our Lives - Adam L. G. Nevill
You Can Stay All Day - Mira Grant
No Matter Which Way We Turned - Brian Evenson
Nesters - Siobhan Carroll
Better You Believe - Carole Johnstone
©2018 Ellen Datlow (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Lethal Pursuit
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Security Forces Lieutenant Maya Lopez is right at home in a war zone: she's been fighting all her life. A hard-won commission in the air force has brought her to Afghanistan, and if she plays her cards right, she could end up with an FBI job. It won't be easy, but that just makes her more determined. Jackson Thatcher is a protector in all senses of the word. A pararescue jumper with Southern-boy charm, he easily captures Maya's interest, but her trust is another story. He's sexy, strong and caring, but she makes it clear she's no damsel in distress. She's never relied on any man, and she's not about to start now. When Maya and Jackson become pawns in a radical warlord's deadly game, they find themselves on the run and must depend on each other if they want to make it out alive. Don't miss Deadly Descent and Tactical Strike, also by Kaylea Cross.
©2013 Kaylea Cross (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Tactical Strike
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Gunship pilot Captain Candace Bradford has worked long and hard to earn her rank and position within the male-dominated world of Air Force Special Operations. She's not about to let anything or anyone jeopardize that, let alone one sinfully tempting man who seems determined to cause her nothing but trouble. Even if she's starting to fall for him. As an elite Combat Controller, Staff Sergeant Ryan Wentworth is used to overcoming adversity in order to complete a mission. Breaking through Candace's prickly exterior and into her heart is a challenge he can't let go. But just when he's started to gain her trust, they're thrown together in the field facing an overwhelming enemy force. Candace and Ryan find themselves on the run, searching the skies for an emergency extraction. But one dangerous enemy has an agenda in mind and he'll use whatever means necessary to achieve it, including using American forces to do his dirty work. Don't miss Deadly Descent, also by Kaylea Cross.
©2013 Kaylea Cross (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
A Floating Life
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A Floating Life will delight lovers of Kafka, Murakami, and the magic realism of Gabriel Garca Mrquez. A nameless narrator awakens to the muddle of middle age, no longer certain who or what he is. He finds himself at a party talking to a woman he doesn't know who proves to be his wife. Soon separated but still living in the same apartment, he is threatened by a litigious dachshund and saddled with a stubborn case of erectile dysfunction in a world that seems held together by increasingly mercurial laws and elusive boundaries. His relationship deepens with an elderly Dutch model maker named Pecheur whose miniature boats are erratically offered for sale in a hard-to-find shop called The Floating World. Enlivened by Pecheur's dream to tame the destructive forces of nature, the narrator begins to find his bearings. With quiet humor and wisdom, A Floating Life charts its course among images that surprise and disorient, such as a job interview in a steam room with a one-eyed, seven-foot-tall chef, a midnight intrusion of bears, and the narrator’s breast feeding of the baby he has birthed.
©2012 Tad Crawford (P)2013 Audible, Inc.