Glynn Stewart Audiobooks

Broken Prince: a long haul on the border between fantasy and science fiction

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Who is Glynn Stewart?

Genre boundaries do not always hold, and Broken Prince is shelved in a way that cheerfully admits as much: our catalogue files the book under fantasy, general fiction and science fiction at once. Glynn Stewart works in that territory where the machinery might be arcane or technological and the story is not especially anxious about which.

What the work makes plain is an appetite for scale. Fourteen hours is not the length of a self-contained adventure; it is the length of a world being built on the assumption that listeners will want to stay in it. The listing also attaches the book to House Adamant, which points to a wider body of work around it.

Glynn Stewart in audiobooks

Nick Cracknell handles the narration across better than fourteen hours, and a book of that scale lives or dies on the reader’s stamina and range: distinct voices for a large cast, and the patience to let the quieter chapters stay quiet.

Too few listeners have rated it for any score to mean much yet, so judge it on the sample and on the opening hour, which in long fantasy is where an author either earns your evenings or does not. Set aside a proper stretch of time before starting. Explore the audiobooks listed below.