He's obviously having a ball with Hard Magic, gruffing up his voice for the hardboiled Jake and the various G-men and employing a countrified voice for Faye, a young farm girl who can teleport across great distances and becomes vital to saving the world from destruction by the Geo-Tel. Far from his manic days as Balki on Perfect Strangers, Pinchot is a warm, imminently listenable narrator. Edgar Hoover (yeah, he's still around) would like to eradicate.Īctor Bronson Pinchot has become a regular go-to for audiobooks and the reason is obvious - the guy knows how to bring a story to life.
The hero here is Jake Sullivan, a detective and ex-con who is set free by the FBI to track criminal Actives, which J.
It's become commonplace for some people to defy gravity, teleport, manipulate animals, and heal by touch. Except this isn't quite the New York you might expect, but an alternate universe where zeppelins moor at the top of the Empire State Building, the Titanic never sank, and mad scientist Nikola Tesla has created a devastating weapon called the Geo-Tel. The world is a very different place.Larry Correia has already made a name for himself in the sci-fi/fantasy world with his Monster Hunter books, but now he's written the first in new series that takes place in New York in the 1930s, filled with dubious federal agents, hardboiled detectives, and dames with a whole lotta chutzpah. Doctors resent and admire Healers for being able to reattach limbs and cure cancer with a wave of the hand and Torches do most of their work putting fires out. Some German starving artist got himself killed rabble-rousing and zeppelins fill the skies. The Great War is over, the veterans are home and times are hard for the haves.
IN A WORLD where superpowered folks started showing up in the mid-1800s, the year is now 1932. Solid fun work with the best-written fight scenes I've seen since the Mistborn trilogy.Īside from the fact that the events of Hard Magic are made of rampant awesome, the setting is what really makes me tingle. Telekines are Movers, teleporters are Travelers, bricks are Brutes, gadgeteers are Cogs and so on.
Stars a big stolid smarter-than-he-looks hombre by the name of Jake Sullivan with gravity powers. It's Philip Marlowe meets X-Men with magic as the backstory instead of pseudoscience.
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