Where to Start with Tim Lebbon
- Best entry point → Into the Void (Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi)
- Best standalone → Strange New Moons
- Start the Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe series → Predator: If It Bleeds
- What fans keep coming back to → The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Highest rated by listeners → Zombies: The Recent Dead
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Into the Void (Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi)
Star Wars Legends: Novels
by Tim Lebbon
Narrated by January LaVoy
★ 3.77 ABR Score (19.2K ratings)★ 3.65 Goodreads (15.0K) ★ 4.2 Audible (4.2K)More about this pick
Set 25,000 years before Luke Skywalker, this explores the ancient Je'daii order on Tython as siblings take opposing paths with the Force. LaVoy handles the vast timeline shifts with clarity.
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Predator: If It Bleeds
Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe
by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Holly Roberds, Steve Perry, John Shirley, Jeremy Robinson, Jonathan Maberry, Kevin J. Anderson, Weston Ochse, Mira Grant, Tim Lebbon, Larry Correia, Dayton Ward, Peter J. Wacks
Narrated by full cast, Tom Taylorson, Nicol Zanzarella, Traber Burns, Bradford Hastings, Bahni Turpin, Emily Sutton-Smith, Ulf Bjorklund, James Patrick Cronin, Andrew Eiden, Scott Brick, Feodor Chin, John Pruden, Mark Bramhall, various
★ 4.07 ABR Score (2.2K ratings)★ 4.01 Goodreads (917) ★ 4.62 Audible (1.3K)More about this pick
Seventeen stories spanning from 12th-century Japan to deep space get the full-cast treatment they deserve, with each narrator bringing their own energy to different Predator encounters across time.
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The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
by John Joseph Adams, Stephen King, Robert J. Sawyer, Michael Moorcock, Sharyn McCrumb, Stephen Baxter, Anne Perry, Barbara Hambly, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman, Rob Rogers, Naomi Novik, Anthony Burgess, Dominic Green, Laurie R. King, Barbara Roden, Tim Lebbon, Peter Tremayne, Bradley H. Sinor, Edward D. Hoch, Vonda N. McIntyre, Darrell Schweitzer, Mary Robinette Kowal, H. Paul Jeffers, Geoffrey A. Landis, Amy Myers, Chris Roden, Tony Pi, Chris Roberson, Mark Valentine
Narrated by Simon Vance, Anne Flosnik
★ 3.88 ABR Score (23.4K ratings)★ 4.39 Goodreads (22.7K) ★ 3.96 Audible (736)More about this pick
Twenty-five years of the best Holmes short fiction gets collected, featuring Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and other masters reimagining the detective across genres. Simon Vance and Anne Flosnik handle the varied styles with appropriate range.
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Zombies: The Recent Dead
by Paula Guran, Steve Duffy, Max Brooks, Nik Houser, Andy Duncan, David J. Schow, Joe R. Lansdale, Neil Gaiman, Alice Sola Kim, Gary A. Braunbeck, Francesca Lia Block, Tobias S. Buckell, David Wellington, Tim Waggoner, Kit Reed, Brian Keene, Kelly Link, Gary McMahon, Scott Edelman, Kevin Veale, Michael Marshall Smith, Tim Lebbon, David Prill
Narrated by Jonathan Davis, L J Ganser, Josh Hurley, Bahni Turpin, Marc Vietor
★ 3.29 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)★ 3.66 Goodreads (939) ★ 3.4 Audible (268)More about this pick
From voodoo thralls to viral victims, this massive anthology proves zombies are monumentally mutable monsters, with multiple narrators handling each imaginative interpretation.
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Strange New Moons
by Stephen Kozeniewski, Kayleigh Dobbs, Tim Lebbon, Mary SanGiovanni, Simon Clark, Rebecca Rowland, John Durgin, Somer Canon, Amanda Headlee, Matthew R. Davis, Keawe Melina Patrick, Ej Sidle, Rose Strickman
Narrated by Kenneth Murdock
★ 3.55 ABR Score (17 ratings)★ 4.23 Goodreads (13) ★ 4.5 Audible (4)More about this pick
Kenneth Murdock voices an anthology that deliberately subverts werewolf tropes, featuring bizarre and creative takes on lycanthropic transformation stories.
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