Zachary Quinto – best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes – brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi.
One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone – 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don’t know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life.
Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher – a licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those whose circumstances put them in death’s crosshairs, so they can have a second chance to avoid the reaper. But when a fellow Dispatcher and former friend is apparently kidnapped, Tony learns that there are some things that are worse than death and that some people are ready to do almost anything to avenge a supposed wrong.
It’s a race against time for Valdez to find his friend before it’s too late…before not even a Dispatcher can save him.
Terrific, fun story with a new idea that just works. Quinto is a very good narrator This is a review of the Audible audio book narrated by Zachary Quinton – I actually had no clue who Quinto was and didn’t particularly care, because I am a fan of the author, John Scalzi. If he writes it, it’s on my must read/listen list and I am rarely dissatisfied. Quinto did a superb job as the narrator – bringing Valdez to life with believable emotions, calm and humor. His intonation and voices for the other characters are clear and easy to distinguish. Especially difficult is pacing in a…
Quinto Is A Perfect Narrator To An Awesome Story John Scalzi is an author that’s been in my to-read pile for a while, but I somehow have been unable to get around to reading his work. Thankfully, he and Audible teamed up to produce The Dispatcher, an audiobook that runs a bit shy of two and a half hours, and which fit nicely into my daily commute.Â
Fantastic Fantastic story. Normally I don’t like audio books but this one is extremely well-narrated. The voice of the protagonist sounds the way I think I’d imagine it if I read this in book format. It was thoroughly engrossing–sci-fi, murder mystery (double murder mystery?), love story, and ethical dilemma all in one. It’s short but thorough, with a well-developed main character (which is hard to do in a novella), thought-provoking enough that after the first half I couldn’t wait to talk to my husband…