Scott Bartlett Audiobooks

Sixty-eight hours in a single listing is a proposition of its own kind. The Starship New Jersey Box Set collects a completed run of military science fiction into one continuous listen, close to a week of commutes, and it is a genuinely different experience from following a sequence as it appears. Nothing has to be waited for, and nothing is forgotten in between.

Scott Bartlett works in the shipboard tradition of the genre, where the vessel is effectively a character, the crew is the community, and the plot advances through engagements, repairs and command decisions. Our catalogue files the work under science fiction and fantasy alongside general fiction, and a second sequence, Starship Omega, opens with Infinite Warship.

Mark Boyett narrates both, which matters more here than it might elsewhere. A listener settling in for a run of this length needs a voice that holds its character distinctions steady across dozens of hours without strain.

The box set carries a perfect average from a modest number of ratings, which is worth noting even allowing for the size of the sample. Infinite Warship is the newer arrival and has yet to gather scores of its own.

Where to start depends on appetite. The collected Starship New Jersey run is the deep end, whereas Infinite Warship offers a twelve-hour way in at the start of a fresh sequence. Both are on the shelf below.