Where to Start with Jack Campbell
- Best entry point → Swords and Saddles
- Best standalone → Borrowed Time
- What fans keep coming back to → Rip-Off!
- Best narrator for Jack Campbell → Ad Astra
- Highest rated by listeners → The Servants of the Storm (The Pillars of Reality #5)
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The Servants of the Storm
The Pillars of Reality • Book 5
by Jack Campbell, MacLeod Andrews
Narrated by MacLeod Andrews
★ 4.03 ABR Score (2.0K ratings)★ 4.25 Goodreads (2.0K) ★ 4.7 Audible (71)11h 53m listening time • Released 2022 -
Swords and Saddles
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.89 ABR Score (522 ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (354) ★ 4.49 Audible (168)6h 54m listening time • Released 2016 -
Borrowed Time
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.73 ABR Score (379 ratings)★ 3.93 Goodreads (297) ★ 4.27 Audible (82)7h 10m listening time • Released 2016 -
Ad Astra
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.73 ABR Score (838 ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (588) ★ 4.15 Audible (250)7h 9m listening time • Released 2016 -
Rip-Off!
by Gardner Dozois, John Scalzi, Jack Campbell, Mike Resnick, Tad Williams, Elizabeth Bear, Mary Robinette Kowal, Robert Charles Wilson, Allen M. Steele, Daryl Gregory, Lavie Tidhar, Nancy Kress, Paul Di Filippo, James Patrick Kelly, David Marantz, Dina Pearlman, Allyson Johnson, Marc Vietor, Ilyana Kadushin, Nicola Barber
Narrated by Wil Wheaton, Scott Brick, Christian Rummel, Jonathan Davis, Stefan Rudnicki, L. J. Ganser, Khristine Hvam
★ 3.29 ABR Score (2.5K ratings)★ 3.39 Goodreads (914) ★ 3.7 Audible (1.6K)11h 58m listening time • Released 2012A stellar cast of narrators elevates this clever anthology where top sci-fi writers hijack famous opening lines and spin them into wildly inventive original stories that feel both playful and genuinely surprising.
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