Somewhere in Time – Richard Matheson Free Audiobook

Written by Richard Matheson
Read by Scott Brick
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Release date: November 12, 2010
Duration: 10:53:14

Written by one of the grand masters of modern fantasy, Somewhere in Time is the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose powerful love for a woman he has never met allows him to literally transcend time.

A painting of a beautiful stage actress from the previous century captivates a dying young playwright staying in a turn-of-the-century hotel. Obsessed, he begins to study everything he can about the woman and her time and becomes convinced he belongs with her. Through self-hypnosis, he transports himself to 1896, where he finds the soul mate he was fated to meet. But will he be able to stay?

Somewhere in Time won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and was the basis for the 1980 cult classic movie starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. The movie also has one of my favorite soundtrack scores.

A review – Narrator Scott Brick dives into the role of first-person narrator Richard Collier, a television writer dying of a brain tumor who either travels back from 1971 to 1896 to initiate a time-crossed romance or constructs an elaborate and pathetic delusion sparked by his illness. Brick is so convincing as Richard that listeners may feel claustrophobic spending all those hours trapped in the character’s obsessive psyche. A.B.G. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine