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New Found Land: The Long Haul
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans, Elizabeth Jasicki, Graeme Malcolm, Jay Snyder, John Pirkis, LJ Ganser, Marc Vietor, Amber Reauchean Williams, Gregory Connors, Izabel Mar, John Zdrojeski, Steve Routman, Dash Katz
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Summary
Imagine two worlds at war. In one, citizens with jetpacks and ray guns have colonized Venus. In the other, magic reigns supreme, and history turns on swords and spells. Now imagine they have just discovered a third world.
Our world.
Our timeline of rideshare apps and strip malls is about to become the newest battlefield in the long war between science fiction and fantasy.
In Florida, assassins are hunting down optical scientist Felicia Scurry. Her only chance of survival lies with long haul trucker Bucephalus Troy, who has stumbled into a world he calls Bamalot, a swords and sorcery version of today where magic works and science never happened. In Seattle, YouTube blogger Charity Kong is on the trail of a jetpack-wearing secret agent who broke her heart. And in a sinister secret college deep under Oxford, a failed comic book artist just might have started a Three Worlds War.
Legendary science fiction writer Neal Stephenson teams up with World Fantasy Award-winning author Sean Stewart (Galveston; Cathy’s Book) and Austin Grossman (Soon I Will Be Invincible) to present New Found Land: The Long Haul, a thrilling, hilarious, and mind-bending audio drama in the tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Fast-paced, funny, and deeply weird, The Long Haul is a warm-hearted, rollicking adventure about ordinary people rising to an extraordinary moment.
New Found Land: The Long Haul is performed by Amber Williams, Jay Snyder, Gregory Connors, Izabel Mar, John Zdrojeski, Steve Routman, Graeme Malcolm, John Pirkis, Elizabeth Evans, LJ Ganser, Marc Vietor, Elizabeth Jasicki and features the voices of Allyson Johnson, Carrie Seim, Josh Hurley, Kevin T. Collins, Khristine Hvam, Lauren Fortgang, Nick Sullivan, Raphael Corkhill, and Steve Rimpici.
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- Andy Williams
- 11-07-21
Ambivalent I loved it and hated it
Drama was excellent. The story took a lot of getting going and I almost gave up a few times.
I have 2 kinds of stories, ones where I can’t get enough and the headphones are stuck all day and ones where I can have a nap for an hour here and there. Unfortunately this is more of a second variety. My guess is it reads better than it sounds. I love Neal and could almost tell by my interest in the story which bits he had written. I love dramatisations and cat wait for pat 2.
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- M. E. Birch
- 15-12-22
Didn’t quite come up to expectations
Not even quite sure why I listened to the whole thing, as it didn’t really get any better. Premise quite intriguing, but I’m still not sure what the eventual outcome was. Accents laid on with a trowel and pretty annoying. Not a winner in my book.
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- Patrick
- 21-03-24
The idea of multiple time lines
I enjoyed the chaos, especially the character of Beucephalos. but found the proliferation of characters and accent variation sometimes confusing. Good for a freebie, anything by Stephenson.
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- P
- 04-07-21
Wasted my credit
I like Neal Stephenson a lot but could barely notice any trace of his style in this.
Production & acting is fine but I just found the story silly & not at all well written, I persevered & hoped I'd get into it but couldn't finish it because I just couldn't give a stuff about the story or characters.
It's also quite hard to follow & extremely fragmented.
So disappointed.
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- Bob
- 13-10-21
Hard to hear
For a multi cast recording the quality was hard to understand. Some actors voices were faint or muffled even in the same scenes as other performers whose voices were clear. So I might turn up volume only to be deafened by the next speaker.
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- McLeod
- 20-11-21
Convoluted
This was difficult to get in to and to keep focus on. I found the story to be convoluted and boring.
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- Grant Denkinson (work account)
- 07-03-23
Ok but expected better, bad sound
I’ve loved Neil Stephenson’s work so thought I’d give this collaboration a go. Interesting premise and some witty asides and I liked the convolutions of the plot. However the characters were too heavily stereotyped for something this length - felt like crude satire. The sound was awful: whispers to loud noises meant keeping a finger on the volume at all times so as to not miss the plot or be deafened. Long gaps and pointless long fight scene noises with little clue as to what was going on. OK for a long journey but I’d otherwise not bother.
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- Ladycatfern
- 30-01-22
Dreadful sound editing
Some of the actors voices seemed to be whispering with next actor BOOMING. Hard to listen to with headphones so tried just on phone speaker. It was just as bad!! Pleased it was free. Had such potential too.
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