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Joe Mahoney

Autor de A Time and a Place

2 Obras 16 Miembros 6 Reseñas

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Obras de Joe Mahoney

A Time and a Place (2017) 14 copias
Other Times and Places (2019) 2 copias

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Joe Mahoney
Nombre legal
Mahoney, Joseph Thomas
Fecha de nacimiento
1965-03-02
Género
male
Nacionalidad
Canada
Lugar de nacimiento
Perth New Brunswick
Lugares de residencia
Plasterrock New Brunswick
Summerside Prince Edward Island
Antigonish Nova Scotia
Toronto Ontario, Canada
Aix-en-Provence France
Whitby Ontario
Educación
Bachelor of Applied Arts Ryerson Polytechnical University
Universite d'Aix Marseille
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
Ocupaciones
Writer
Broadcaster
Relaciones
Lynda Mahoney (spouse)
Organizaciones
SF Canada
Premios y honores
Mark Time Award for Best Science Fiction Audio Production of the Year 2005 for Steve the Second
Biografía breve
Joe Mahoney works full-time for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where he's helped make many radio shows over the years, including Writers and Company, Quirks and Quarks, and Q. He's produced documentaries on science fiction for The Arts Tonight and The Current. He produced Six Impossible Things, a compilation of short fantastical fiction, curated by Nalo Hopkinson, for Between the Covers, and wrote and produced Faster Than Light, hosted by Robert J. Sawyer, for Sunday Showcase. He spent a decade making radio plays, working on productions such as The Merchant of Venice, The Handmaid's Tale, and Afghanada, with some of the finest actors, directors and writers in Canada. He engineered and story-edited Steve the First, a post-apocalyptic science fiction radio play mini-series, and its sequel, Steve the Second, which won a silver Mark Time Award. He produced and directed the pilot of Canadia: 2056, and story-edited all subsequent episodes. He is responsible for all the funniest bits. In 2007, Joe left production to join the CBC management team. These days he's Director of Production Support. Joe's short fiction has been published in Canada, Australia and Greece. He's been nominated twice for an Aurora Award, one of Canada's top awards for science fiction and fantasy, for his work on CBC Radio. Joe lives in Whitby with his wife and two daughters, and their golden retriever and Siberian forest cat

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Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.
More than once I picked this up to read and simply could not do it. It's too much like too many other books and it is also very slow. I received this book from LibrarayThing.com.
 
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Dokfintong | 5 reseñas más. | Jan 15, 2019 |
It was the demon Ugertha that drew me in. S/he is a complex character with murky motives. Barnabus must save his nephew, Ridley. He has no idea how he will do it nor what it will cost him. For the first half of the book, my attention was firmly held. There’s these sentient cat-like aliens, the T’Klee, and the evil & dangerous Necronians, who have many tentacles. Barnabus will find allies and enemies around every corner.

The second half of the book got a bit muddled for me. I felt I needed a diagram to keep track of it all. There’s some mind-muddling going on so I was never sure how much of what was simply in Barnabus’s head and how much was happening real time. Plus, there’s the time travel bit. So we have multiple copies of some characters interacting with all of it.

The T’Klee were my favorite bit. I love the idea of large cats with opposable thumbs, their own language & culture, and having to fight the technologically advanced Necronians. Also Swipe was a clever young T’Klee caught up in a bad situation. I was rooting for her the entire time even though I knew things would never be all rainbows and butterflies for her again.

There were few female characters. Besides Swipe, there’s Barnabus’s dead sister (who provides emotional fuel for him and Ridley to get stuff done), and then the scientist Sara (who is always described by her awesome looks first and second and her mental abilities third). Perhaps we can count Ugertha as a female character, but she’s really a mix of all the people she’s absorbed over the years. It would have been nice to have a bit more from the ladies.

The ending rallies a bit. I was still confused about Ugertha who I think becomes known as Jacques… but then there’s also Jack, right? These seem to be all the same ‘demon’ (or alien) at different points in time. But I’m not sure, which is it what bothered me. I want to be sure about such things by the end of a book. Speaking of that ending, it gets rather sentimental and strives for deep thoughts. I found it a little sappy. I wanted a more definitive ending, perhaps following a rousing action scene. All together, it has some fun ideas, a few great scenes, and the T’Klee are most memorable. 3.5/5 stars.

The Narration: Joe Mahoney has narrated his own story. He does a decent job but needs a little polishing all around. He had distinct character voices for all the characters (yay!). There were a few mouth noises here and there. The pacing was just a touch slow but the narration was also clear. The female voices were pretty good though sometimes they could have used a little more femininity. 3.5/5 stars.

I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Joe Mahoney. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.
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DabOfDarkness | 5 reseñas más. | Nov 30, 2018 |
Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.
I enjoyed A time and a place. It encompasses interesting original concepts and had me hooked from the beginning. My apologies to Mr Mahoney, this review comes a few months after reading it, my lasting impression is I enjoyed the imaginative new worlds created, and await with interest for further books by the author.
 
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TinaC1 | 5 reseñas más. | Jan 5, 2018 |
Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.
Not kindle unlimited, pretty sure got it as one of my here's a free book, no strings, but really hope you find the time to read and review it things.

No idea of the genre, very odd space opera, maybe; .Doctor Who on acid? {Thus begins an existential romp across space and time, trampling on Barnabus' assumptions.}

Too much going on in the book to pick any one thing or event, and don't like risking spoilers anyway. Liked it but didn't luv it, BUT NOT saying it was bad, just not totally my type or maybe the mood, but seemed as if in places it dragged a bit {although that could just be because have to use a vocal reader}.

reviewed back in july but because of delay getting book for some reason and this site got lost in the shuffle, having to go through all of them AGAIN to see what's still messed up
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Key_Largo | 5 reseñas más. | Dec 3, 2017 |

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