Virgil Knightley Audiobooks

Star Thrust: science fiction romance with a fantasy streak, in one long listen

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 5.0/5 average

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Who is Virgil Knightley?

Star Thrust is the whole of what we hold under the name Virgil Knightley, and the title tells you a fair amount before you press play. The shelving spans science fiction, fantasy and romance, which in practice tends to mean a story that takes the furniture of space opera and points it at a relationship rather than at a war.

Nothing else about the writer sits in the public record in a form we could responsibly summarise, so we will not pretend otherwise. What the work suggests is an author comfortable in the long form. Close to twelve hours is a substantial commitment for a standalone, and it leaves room for a slow burn rather than a sprint.

Virgil Knightley in audiobooks

The audiobook runs to roughly eleven and three quarter hours and is narrated by Aurora Bliss. A single voice across that span is a particular kind of relationship: you either settle into it early or you never quite do, and the sample is the honest test of which it will be.

There is no series ladder to climb, which keeps the decision simple. Begin at the beginning and let the length do its work. It suits listeners who want their science fiction with feeling attached, and anyone who treats one long recording as a week’s companion rather than a weekend’s errand. The listing is below, and the opening chapters will settle it faster than any summary.