Where to Start with Victor Bevine
- New to Victor Bevine? Start here → Hyperion
- What fans keep coming back to → The Fall of Hyperion
- Highest rated by listeners → Homeland
- Best narrator–author pairing → The Rise of Endymion
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Homeland
Legend of Drizzt • Book 1
Narrated by Victor Bevine
★ 4.39 ABR Score (117.1K ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (99.7K) ★ 4.6 Audible (17.4K)More about this pick
Bevine guides us through the dark elf city of Menzoberranzan as young Drizzt struggles against his people's evil nature.
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Endymion
Hyperion Cantos • Book 3
by Dan Simmons, Gary Ruddell
Narrated by Victor Bevine
★ 4.39 ABR Score (80.4K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (71.6K) ★ 4.63 Audible (8.8K)More about this pick
Raoul Endymion embarks on a quest to protect Aenea, the messiah-child from Hyperion's Time Tombs. Bevine navigates Simmons's complex universe as the story shifts from pilgrimage to space opera across multiple worlds.
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The Fall of Hyperion
Hyperion Cantos • Book 2
by Dan Simmons
Narrated by Victor Bevine
★ 4.38 ABR Score (165.0K ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (150.4K) ★ 4.53 Audible (14.6K)More about this pick
As the Time Tombs open on Hyperion, the fate of human civilization hangs in the balance between competing AIs and cosmic forces. Simmons concludes his space opera with universe-shaking revelations about humanity's destiny.
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The Rise of Endymion
Hyperion Cantos • Book 4
by Dan Simmons
Narrated by Victor Bevine
★ 4.35 ABR Score (74.5K ratings)★ 4.17 Goodreads (65.8K) ★ 4.6 Audible (8.6K)More about this pick
Nearly 30 hours of space opera as Raul Endymion protects humanity's new messiah against a genocidal Crusade threatening to enslave the galaxy forever.
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Hyperion
Hyperion • Book 1
by Dan Simmons
Narrated by Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, Jay Snyder, Victor Bevine
★ 4.31 ABR Score (328.7K ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (303.0K) ★ 4.37 Audible (25.7K)More about this pick
Seven pilgrims journey to meet the deadly Shrike in Canterbury Tales meets space opera. Multiple narrators handle each pilgrim's backstory, creating distinct voices for this sprawling, genre-bending epic about humanity's cosmic reckoning.
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Knaves: A Blackguards Anthology (3)
Tales of the Otori #4.9 - Wine, Knife, Sword
by Melanie R. Meadors, Alana Joli Abbott, Maurice Broaddus, Cullen Bunn, Toiya Kristen Finley, Shanna Germain, Lian Hearn, Walidah Imarisha, Mercedes Lackey, Dennis Lee, Cat Rambo, Linda Robertson, Clay Sanger, Anna Smith Spark, Kenny Soward, Anton Strout, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Howard Tayler, Linda Robertson Reinhardt
Narrated by Scott Aiello, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Raphael Corkhill, Jonathan Davis, Victor Bevine, Lauren Fortgang, Ryan Vincent Anderson, Kyla Garcia, Barrie Kreinik
★ 3.66 ABR Score (32 ratings)★ 3.5 Goodreads (30) ★ 3.5 Audible (2)More about this pick
Nine narrators tackle tales of medieval swindlers, AI heists gone wrong, and legendary bodyguards whose protection comes with deadly strings attached.
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D.C. Noir
D.C. Noir • Book 1
by George P. Pelecanos, Quintin Peterson, James Grady, Jim Beane, Rubén Castañeda, Jennifer Howard, Lester Irby, Robert Andrews, David Slater, Jim Fusilli, Robert Wisdom, Richard Currey, Laura Lippman, James M. Patton, Kenji Jasper, Norman W. Kelley
Narrated by Lisa Renee Pitts, Cassandra Campbell, William Dufris, Mirron Willis, Carol Monda, Ray Porter, Nick Sullivan, Victor Bevine
★ 3.56 ABR Score (636 ratings)★ 3.42 Goodreads (610) ★ 3.88 Audible (26)More about this pick
Sixteen authors explore Washington's criminal underbelly across neighborhoods from Dupont Circle to Southeast. Multiple narrators guide you through each district's distinct flavor of corruption.
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