James S. A. Corey Audiobooks

The Expanse and beyond: Leviathan Falls and The Faith of Beasts, read by Jefferson Mays

1 audiobook reviewed

Who is James S. A. Corey?

Nineteen hours, eighteen and a half hours, and the same voice across both: whatever else the name James S. A. Corey signals in our catalogue, it signals scale. This is not writing built to be finished on a short flight.

The listings place the work where science fiction meets fantasy and general fiction, a spread that fits space opera resting on politics and character quite as much as on hardware. Leviathan Falls is filed as part of The Expanse. The Faith of Beasts stands on its own in our records, with no sequence attached to it.

Long-form series fiction asks a particular kind of trust. Twenty hours is a considerable investment on a first encounter, and the writing has to earn it early or not at all.

James S. A. Corey in audiobooks

Jefferson Mays narrates both, and that continuity counts for a great deal: a single voice across nearly forty hours of listening builds a familiarity no amount of casting variety can replace.

Leviathan Falls carries an excellent early average, though from a slim number of verdicts, and it is catalogued here ahead of its arrival rather than available today. The Faith of Beasts is the newer of the two and has yet to gather any listener response at all.

If you are coming to The Expanse fresh, the sequence rewards being taken in order rather than dipped into. The current listings are below.