![]() ![]() Ellen actually wrote new dialogue for the crowd scenes, so the actors aren't just mumbling "rhubarb rhubarb" to simulate speech. Several key scenes are fully dramatized, and throughout the entire book's soundscapes you will hear the cadences of the marketplace, the music of the drawing rooms, and of course the ring of steel drawn from the scabbard. "What really makes this production of Swordspoint unique, though, is the supporting cast in this special "illuminated production". couldn't think of a better performer for Swordspoint than Ellen, and her reading is polished, intimate, and – since Riverside is of her creation – wholly authentic. Ellen Kushner casts her sharp eye over them all, but with great affection and lavish detaiI. an imaginary world where the characters are real people: a Vanity Fair of aristocrats, rogues, orphans, and heroes a book where the best swordsman in the land can make far more money dueling at private parties than he can as a knight-errant. ![]() ![]() ![]() Get this audiobook free when you try Audible:Īward-winning author, narrator, and screenwriter Neil Gaiman personally selected this book, and, using the tools of the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), cast the narrator and produced this work for his audiobook label, Neil Gaiman Presents.Ī few words from Neil on Swordspoint: "It's as if Jane Austen wrote fantasy. ![]()
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