Dennis E. Taylor Audiobooks

Dennis E. Taylor is a Canadian author and former computer programmer, and the second fact explains a great deal about the first. His fiction is large-scale hard science fiction – the kind built on working logic rather than hand-waving – and its abiding preoccupation is the meeting point between artificial intelligence and the human condition: what happens to minds, and to people, when the boundary between them starts to blur.

It is a rarer combination than it sounds. Plenty of writers borrow the language of technology; Taylor writes from inside it, and his stories carry the scale their ideas deserve, sprawling across books and worlds alike.

Taylor’s brand of science fiction is practically designed for audio: big ideas unpacked step by step, with the momentum of a serial. This catalogue carries For We Are Many, All These Worlds and Heaven’s River, listens that showcase exactly what he is known for – hard science fiction at genuine scale, wrestling with what artificial intelligence does to our sense of what a person is.

For UK listeners after something meatier than comfort-food space adventure, this is engineering-minded storytelling with a philosophical streak, and once one title lands, the others tend to follow in short order.