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High Tech / Low Life
- An Easytown Novels Anthology
- Narrated by: Michael Soma, Samantha Vega
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Publisher's Summary
Easytown is the city of a thousand stories; tales of betrayed trusts, tarnished virtues, easily obtained vices, and street justice are common.
Treat yourself to a glimpse into the dark future world of New Orleans, where humanity's base desires have overshadowed common decency, and very few are willing to stand in the way. With 10 stories by seven well-known independent authors, High Tech/Low Life is guaranteed to please.
It's a gritty world, full of murky choices where the line between good and evil is smeared with blood. Welcome to Easytown.
With stories by Martin Allen, Chris Philbrook, Valerie Lioudis, Joseph Hansen, C.T. Phipps, J.B. Havens, and Brian Parker.
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- timj26
- 2019-12-18
Excellent
As a big fan of the easytown novels I was pumped for this
The authors did their research making this a worthy addition to the series
Well narrated and highly recommended
I received a free review audiobook and voluntarily left this review
4 people found this helpful
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Lonnie-The GreatNorthernTroll-Moore
- 2019-12-29
I was a bit disappointed...
After tearing through the Easytown trilogy, I wanted more... I Needed More! As a result, I was more than happy to find this book, and snatch it up, even though it's written by several writers that I don't know. I figured it would be Okay (like minded people, and all that), but wait a moment, at least two of the stories in this collection were written by Brian Parker, the original author of the Easytown trilogy! Score!!!
The stories were pretty good, but they didn't bring the magic as much as I'd hoped, just more Droids, Gangsters, Hookers, and how bad it was to live in Easytown, once known as the French Quarter in this futuristic New Orleans...
The real problem for me, though, was the narration, while Michael Soma was ok, he simply wasn't Daniel Penz ( who'd narrated the original trilogy), and then there was Santha Vega! The production value of her work was flat-out lousy! I found it very hard to hear her, almost as if her microphone had been wrapped in a dense, fuzzy blanket... really badly muffled. I believe that I may have even liked her voice acting and accent, if only I'd been able to hear her. So, yeah, I was a bit disappointed with this collection, when I'd wanted to Love it so.
3 people found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- NV Cefalo
- 2020-07-16
Awesome Collection That Rounds Out Easytown Story
*This book was given to me by the author at my request, and I provided this voluntary, unbiased review.*
4/5
I loved the stories, as they rounded out the characters and interactions in the main series. There was a particular story I did not like in the series, which is why I took off a star. It's otherwise a masterpiece of a collection of Easytown stories!
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Kayla Krantz
- 2020-04-09
Interesting Cyberpunk
Solid collection of cyberpunk short stories.
Set in the world of Easytown, it was interesting to see just how people coped in the futuristic society. Though I haven’t read the original Easytown novels, I am tempted to after seeing what this collection had to offer.
Narration was well done by the male narrator, but the female narrator had points where it was difficult to understand/hear her.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
1 person found this helpful
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- Sarah
- 2020-01-24
A good set of short stories
these stories were pretty good. I didn't like the female narrator as much, but all of the stories were interesting.
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- Brian M
- 2020-01-21
Exploring a Dystopian New Orleans
After listening to the Easytown novels I was definitely interested in digging deeper into the town and this certainly satisfied that itch. Each author lends their particular style to a story about the town and it's obvious they understood the town before writing as they all fit into that universe. A pretty even collection, it was consistently great throughout.
I received the review code for this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this honest review.
1 person found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Rayc
- 2020-01-15
A glimpse of a seedy future?
High Tech Low Life.
The Easy Town world opened up to other authors. This is a collection of short stories set in Easy Town. And as such you'll probably love some and be uninspired by a couple.
The narration is more than excellent and the narrators carry the book in places.
Overall it is a good read/listen , and if you haven't already listened to the original stories this is a good place to dip in to Easy Town.
I received a free copy of this audio book at my own request and voluntarily leave this honest review . .
1 person found this helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Fixer
- 2020-01-14
This is a love story to the cyberpunk genre
This is a love story to the cyberpunk genre I think it's a fantastic anthology Michael Soma is ok as a reader but I preferred Samantha Vega. I cannot wait for more.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
1 person found this helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- Randall
- 2020-01-14
Gritty, Enjoyable Anthology
This book is an anthology of short stories in the Easytown universe, written by guest authors with a few by the main author.
This collection of stories helps give Easytown some needed depth. Just a word of warning: this is Easytown. Don't expect nice happy endings. Out of the collection of stories, my favorites were The Cigar Prince by Martin Allen, and Throw Aways by Brian Parker.
The only issue I could find in this collection was with the audio narration. The female narrator was difficult to understand at times.
Disclaimer: I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
1 person found this helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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- BT
- 2019-12-23
Stick to the main novels.
I received a free review copy of this audio book, at my request, and am voluntarily leaving this unbiased review.
I loved the Easytown books 2 & 3 (I haven't had a chance to read/listen to book 1 yet) and I was excited to read this anthology. I was, however, severely disappointed.
There are a couple stories in this collection that are worth reading, the ones by Brian Parker. The fact that he created the Easytown universe is not lost on me. He has a couple entries in this collection that serve as origin stories for a couple of characters we meet in other books. They are well written and fit easily into the existing lore, the way an original author would be expected to.
The other entries are mostly bland with little connection to Easytown, apart from lawlessness. Few stories deal with the cyberpunk world that they exist in and seem to more a outlet for violent story telling. I once heard a "dark" comedian who said other comedians would come up with mean jokes they couldn't use in their act, so they would offer them to him. While I don't know the other authors of this anthology I wonder if they just wanted to write awful things, and bad things happening to innocent people, but didn't have a story of their own to put it in. For example, of of the stories ended with a first person POV of someone being stabbed to death.
The other thing that brings this collection down was the truly poor voice work of Michael Soma and Samantha Vega. Michael's work was truly bad as all the characters sounded the same, there was little inflection in his voice and the audio quality was terrible. There was even a few times that he coughed or cleared his throat that made it into the finished work. Samantha was better, but not by much. She tried different voices, but in the end it mostly all sounded the same and her accent sounded very fake. The audio quality on her work was no better, however she at least had cleaner takes.
All in all, I was disappointed. I thought so highly of the other Easytown audio books, and this was such a let down. The couple of good stories in this book could not overcome the weight of the many more bad ones and terrible voice acting.
I'm looking forward to another mainline Easytown book, but I do not recommend this anthology.
1 person found this helpful