I am having an interesting listening experience. John Scalzi’s Lock In series (2 books so far) is about a post-pandemic FBI agent named Chris Shane. The pandemic was not COVID but a flu/meningitis thing that has some people trapped in their bodies and using robot shells to get around. (There’s more to it that that. But, you can read it if you want to know more.)

The stories are good. Scalzi writes well.

Bonus cool thing is that both books are read by 2 different narrators. It happens fairly often that audiobooks are reissued with new narrators on occasion. But both of these came out at the same time which I found odd.

And usually the gender of the reader matches the gender of the main character. So, that puzzled me.

You aren’t shocked to know that I got one of each. I have the first one read by Wil Wheaton and the second by Amber Benson.

What I found was that as I listened to the second book, the MC has turned from a man into a woman as I visualize the character. There has never been enough description of the character to force me to stick to a particulr visualization. So, it shifted with the voice.