Satire – The Audiobook Review

Discordia

18 March 2025

Max Barry’s Discordia is a satirical and rather fast-paced audiobook novella that blends dark humour, social commentary, and science fiction into a whirlwind of absurdity. Barry delivers a story that is both ridiculous and alarmingly relevant. With a resurgence of […]

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Year Zero

2 April 2023

I took a chance on this one after it popped up in a two-for-one sale. I’ve thought about giving this one a go, almost from when it came out as an ebook but never made the plunge. The premise of

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Son of a Liche

16 July 2022

It had been some time since I’d listened to the first book in this series (Orconomics), and after listening to the first five minutes of this book, I stopped and went back and re-listened to all of book one because

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Orconomics

25 August 2021

Orconomics: A Satire, written by J. Zachary Pike, lives up to its title! A humorous satire of orc, dwarves, elves and other fantasy folks in a world where the world of heroes and monsters is being run into the ground

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QualityLand

7 December 2020

QualityLand, by Marc-Uwe Kling. Where you can only talk in superlatives – hence the subject line for this review! Where machines don’t make mistakes. A world where who you are is governed by algorithms who know you better than you

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Nuns with Guns

30 August 2020

This is the second audiobook I’ve read by Seth Kaufman and enjoyed this possibly even more than the first. It had been sitting in my “to read” list in my library since I picked up a promo code for it

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The King of Pain

1 July 2020

I grabbed a copy of The King of Pain by Seth Kaufman and narrated by George Kuch, mostly because of the blurb and call-outs on the cover which promised me it was “riotously funny”. Perhaps it wasn’t to my sense

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