What intrigued me was a review I had read of the audible books saying that they had two different narrator's for the book -- BtVS's Amber Bensen and Will Wheaton. You can listen to either as the protagonist and because of the gender non-specific name, it's possible to have a female lead or a male lead and that this has something to do with theme of the story in the non-gendered robots or the elective gender of the virtual reality. The reviewer said he'd listened to the book twice with each narrator and was intrigued by the way his perceptions changed.
This is one where I'm actually then more intrigued to listen to the audible book, then.
... One edition features actor Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation) as narrator Chris Shane, and the other features actor Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Shane. {...}Both actors entered fully into the spirit of the experience and waxed philosophical about it during a videotaped interview. "It's very much about identity. What does a body mean? Does that define who we are as human beings or is it our consciousness?" Benson asked, while Wheaton pointed out that he and Benson “each bring certain choices to [the narration] that are informed by our lives and our genders.” And, he noted, “I’m sure we made different choices for how the other characters sounded.”
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Date: 2014-09-11 03:24 pm (UTC)What intrigued me was a review I had read of the audible books saying that they had two different narrator's for the book -- BtVS's Amber Bensen and Will Wheaton. You can listen to either as the protagonist and because of the gender non-specific name, it's possible to have a female lead or a male lead and that this has something to do with theme of the story in the non-gendered robots or the elective gender of the virtual reality. The reviewer said he'd listened to the book twice with each narrator and was intrigued by the way his perceptions changed.
This is one where I'm actually then more intrigued to listen to the audible book, then.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/audio-books/article/63811-audible-releases-two-editions-of-scalzi-novel.html
... One edition features actor Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation) as narrator Chris Shane, and the other features actor Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Shane. {...}Both actors entered fully into the spirit of the experience and waxed philosophical about it during a videotaped interview. "It's very much about identity. What does a body mean? Does that define who we are as human beings or is it our consciousness?" Benson asked, while Wheaton pointed out that he and Benson “each bring certain choices to [the narration] that are informed by our lives and our genders.” And, he noted, “I’m sure we made different choices for how the other characters sounded.”