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Audie Award, Audio tracks Drama, 2013 Award-winning author, narrator, and screenwriter Neil Gaiman personally selected this booklet, and, using the various tools of the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), cast the narrator and produced this work with his audiobook label, Neil Gaiman Presents. A few words from Neil on Swordspoint: "It's as though Jane Austen published illusion... an imaginary world where the individuals are real people: a Vanity Good of aristocrats, rogues, orphans, and heroes; a booklet where the best swordsman in the land can make far more money dueling at private gatherings than they can as a knight-errant. Ellen Kushner casts her distinct eye over them all, but with great devotion and luxurious detaiI.... couldn't think of a much better performer for Swordspoint than Ellen, and her reading is refined, close, and - since Riverside is of her creation - wholly authentic. "What really makes this creation of Swordspoint unique, though, is the accommodating solid in this special "illuminated production". Several key moments are totally dramatized, and throughout the complete book's soundscapes you will hear the cadences of the marketplace, the music of the drawing rooms, and undoubtedly the diamond ring of steel drawn from the scabbard. Ellen actually published new dialogue for the group scenes, so the celebrities aren't just mumbling "rhubarb rhubarb" to simulate speech.... You can hear shows from acclaimed and award-winning celebrities, including Dion Graham, Katherine Kellgren, Robert Fass, Nick Sullivan, and the amazing Simon Jones." In this interesting new "illuminated creation", the author herself reads her own work, reinforced by a full cast. Writer Ellen Kushner is also a favorite performer and Country wide Public Radio number (Sound & Heart). For a long time, lovers have been requesting her to track record her own audiobook of Swordspoint. To tag the 25th anniversary of the book's publication, Ellen teamed up with Sue Zizza of SueMedia Productions, known on her behalf signature details of soundscapes and sound effects, multi-voiced dramatizations, and everything the techniques of "illuminated production". Jointly they have made Swordspoint a brand-new music experience, where the full supporting cast dramatizes and illuminates key moments from Ellen's persuasive narration. On the avenues of Riverside, a guy lives and dies by the sword. Even the nobles on the Hill use duels to stay their disputes. And in this city, the swordsman Richard St. Vier is the undisputed grasp, as skilled as he is ruthless - until a loss of life by the sword is fulfilled with outrage rather than awe, and the town discovers that the lines between hero and villain can be altered in the blink of an vision. Because every man lives at sword's point, when you can only find his weakness. And the best swordsman in Riverside has one thing he cares for deeply. Hailed by critics as "a bravura performance, a joy from start to complete" (Locus), "wise, humorous and dramatic" (Publishers Regular) and "witty, beguiling and ingenious" (Interzone) , Kushner's "Melodrama of Manners" has turned into a classic, a favorite not only of Neil Gaiman but a host of distinguished co-workers, including George R. R. Martin ("unforgettable!"), Orson Scott Greeting card ("powerful") and Gene Wolfe ("as though Noel Coward had written a vehicle for Errol Flynn!"). The artwork used for the audiobook model of Swordspoint is dependant on the artwork and design by Thomas Canty for the initial first US model of the booklet.
