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New Found Land: The Long Haul

By: Austin Grossman, Neal Stephenson, Sean Stewart
Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans, Elizabeth Jasicki, Graeme Malcolm, Jay Snyder, John Pirkis, LJ Ganser, Marc Vietor, Amber Reauchean Williams, Gregory Connors, Izabel Mar, John Zdrojeski, Steve Routman, Dash Katz
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Publisher's summary

Imagine two worlds at war. In one, citizens with jetpacks and ray guns have colonized Venus. In the other, magic reigns supreme, and history turns on swords and spells. Now imagine they have just discovered a third world.

Our world.

Our timeline of rideshare apps and strip malls is about to become the newest battlefield in the long war between science fiction and fantasy.

In Florida, assassins are hunting down optical scientist Felicia Scurry. Her only chance of survival lies with long haul trucker Bucephalus Troy, who has stumbled into a world he calls Bamalot, a swords and sorcery version of today where magic works and science never happened. In Seattle, YouTube blogger Charity Kong is on the trail of a jetpack-wearing secret agent who broke her heart. And in a sinister secret college deep under Oxford, a failed comic book artist just might have started a Three Worlds War.

Legendary science fiction writer Neal Stephenson teams up with World Fantasy Award-winning author Sean Stewart (Galveston; Cathy’s Book) and Austin Grossman (Soon I Will Be Invincible) to present New Found Land: The Long Haul, a thrilling, hilarious, and mind-bending audio drama in the tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Fast-paced, funny, and deeply weird, The Long Haul is a warm-hearted, rollicking adventure about ordinary people rising to an extraordinary moment.

New Found Land: The Long Haul is performed by Amber Williams, Jay Snyder, Gregory Connors, Izabel Mar, John Zdrojeski, Steve Routman, Graeme Malcolm, John Pirkis, Elizabeth Evans, LJ Ganser, Marc Vietor, Elizabeth Jasicki and features the voices of Allyson Johnson, Carrie Seim, Josh Hurley, Kevin T. Collins, Khristine Hvam, Lauren Fortgang, Nick Sullivan, Raphael Corkhill, and Steve Rimpici.

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About the Creator

Neal Stephenson is the author of several novels, including Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and the upcoming climate change techno-thriller Termination Shock. He has also written nonfiction, generally in a scientific/technical vein. He has worked for technology companies such as Blue Origin, Intellectual Ventures Labs, and most recently Magic Leap, where he served as chief futurist until April 2020. In that capacity he headed up a small R&D squad bringing engineers and artists together to produce original content for augmented reality devices, and to investigate anomalies.

About the Creator

Austin Grossman is an award-winning game designer and the author of three novels: Soon I Will Be Invincible, You, and Crooked. None of these came to him in recurring dreamlike visions of an alternate reality. Why would you even ask that?
Photo credit: Carla Wilson

About the Creator

Sean Stewart has won a World Fantasy Award, an Emmy, a Cannes Gold Lion—all sorts of things. Google "I Love Bees" or "Cathy's Book" or "Mockingbird" or "The Beast." Those things really happened. The point is, if he were to suddenly disappear, people would notice. The picture on his Wikipage isn't actually a picture of him, which he finds unnerving. No, scratch that. Maybe it's better this way.

About the Performer

Gregory Connors is an actor, playwright, and mechanical engineer born in Cleveland, and based in New York. A graduate of New York University's Tisch MFA Graduate Acting Program, recent projects include: The Blacklist (NBC), FBI: Most Wanted (CBS), Coriolanus (The Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park), New Found Land: The Long Haul (Audible), Starfinder (Amazon), We Are (ESPN 30 for 30).

About the Performer

Izabel Mar (she/they) is an actor and intimacy coordinator based in New York. She made her off-broadway debut in the Drama Desk and Lortel Award nominated Mac Beth and she will be seen as "Maya" in the A24 Kelly Reichardt film Showing Up. Mar loves to play a Dolly Parton song on her ukulele and is always ready to impress with her Aubrey Plaza impression.

About the Performer

Steve is an award-winning actor that has appeared on Broadway and across the country in more than 35 regional theaters. He's done Shakespeare, Chekhov, Stoppard, Odets, Moliere, as well as dozens of musicals and comedies. Film and television work includes The Wolf of Wall Street, Inside Llewyn Davis, Fosse/Verdon, The Irishman, and The Trial of the Chicago Seven. In addition to stage and film work Steve has made appearances with the NYC Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, and New Haven Symphony. He was an award-winning member of the BMI Lehman Engel Writers Workshop, creating lyrics for musical theater. Additionally, he has appeared in commercials for Apple, Microsoft, E*Trade, and Geico among others.

About the Performer

Jay is an actor/director who’s been fortunate enough to appear on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional theatre and TV, and has been doing voiceovers for over ten years. He has voiced for feature films and has been heard on Nickelodeon, WB, Cartoon Network, Fox TV, the SciFi Channel, EWam, and the new CW4Kids. Best known for his work on Saturday morning cartoons like Yu-Gi-Oh! (lead), Viva Pinata (lead), Sonic X, and Pokemon, he has also worked on many other animations and can currently be heard in Gogoriki, Pat and Stan, and Chaotic. His other voiceover work includes several audiobooks, documentaries, promos, and commercials and he continues to be grateful not to have to have a "real job".

About the Performer

Actor and writer, Amber Reauchean Williams, is a Philadelphia native and current Brooklynite. She received her B.F.A. in Theatre Arts at Boston University's School of Theatre and since leaving Boston, she has graced the big and the small screen as well as performed in theaters around the world from New York City to Oslo, Norway. Her audiobook credits include Miss Muriel and Other Stories by Ann Petry and Feminist Fairy Tales by Ellen Haun and Laura Lane. Be sure to catch Amber co-hosting the upcoming Wondery podcast True Love.

About the Perfomer

John Zdrojeski is an actor and singer/songwriter based out of New York City. Off-Broadway: Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons, Special Citation Obie); Before We’re Gone (13th Street Theatre); Monster (Potomac Theatre Project). Regional: Romeo and Juliet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Huntington Theatre Company); 10x10 (Barrington Stage Company); The Kite Runner (New Repertory Theatre). Film/ TV: Evil (upcoming), The Breakdown Parables (upcoming), Billions, The Code, Madam Secretary. His debut EP Primitive is available on all streaming services. Education: NYU (MFA) and Boston University (BFA).

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Why did we decide to share this story?
"It started in 2018. We were working at an augmented reality startup when scientists upstairs noticed some glitches on the device. Some claimed these looked too coherent to be mere noise in the system. Of course, it couldn’t actually let you see parallel worlds. That's crazy talk. Still, we got curious. Some digging led us to Charity Kong’s YouTube videos and TheYarnies.com, a fan group for the golden age comic book company Stupefying Yarns, which they claim has been erased from history. In spring 2020 we suggested distributing the "New Found Land" material. The fact we were all laid off at this time is probably a coincidence. The scientists who noticed the "glitches"were long gone. Also, TheYarnies.com is now an Indonesian travel site. We are now independent agents sitting on a thumb drive whose contents may have profound implications across three worlds. The podcasts, the jetpacks, the Oracle of Delphi, and the lewd animatronic unicorn—it’s all here. We can't vouch for any of this stuff, but since we seem to be the sole custodians, we felt a responsibility to put it out there. Audible has bravely shared the risk of making this material public. Update: None of the foregoing should be construed to mean that The Long Haul is anything other than a work of fiction." –Austin Grossman, Neal Stephenson, and Sean Stewart, authors of New Found Land: The Long Haul

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Great fun!

Quite enjoyable for a long road-trip! Only one request— would ask the producers to downplay the road and engine noises as they often drowned out the voices and to balance the voices so if someone is whispering I can hear them without turning up the volume and then getting blasted by the next voice 😀

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A fun ride

Needed something a little different to cleanse my palate. Worked for a background story while working. I really enjoy the ‘radio show’ productions.

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quirky

interesting storyline. definitely hope the way it ends is a precursor to another book. I will be looking out for it

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A "radio show" for the twenty first century!

I loved every minute!
The performance was like listening to an old fashioned radio show.
Well done!!!

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quite enjoyable

a well done bit of fiction. I do hope a second book is in the works

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More Firesign Theatre than HGTTG

Intriguing backstory presented in a format reminiscent of Firesign Theatre. I look forward to additional episodes.

But please, do something about the recording quality; the sound levels jumped around, making it difficult to listen to with earphones.

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Refresh light on social justice crap

Refresh light on social justice crap

Man splaining and girl Power comes up and the guys are never equal with the girls both its not in you're face

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Fine story to pass the time

I really wanted this to be great. It was okay. Everyone put in good effort and the result is a diverting listen to pass the time.

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Fun, frivolous

Well acted. The story is fun, twisted and entertaining. Story is well written. Found it engaging.

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it's really fun

I wouldn't say it's the best thing in the world but it's a really really fun lark and it really doesn't get boring and it's really well produced and acted

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