About the Author

One of the greatest authors of the 20th century, with a career spanning 3 decades and 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film; notably: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly. Dick won the Hugo Award in 1963 and was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2005, and in 2007 he was the first science fiction to be published by the Library of America. Jeff Cummings, AudioFile Earphones Award winner for Melina Marchetta's Finnikin of the Rock and Alan Hruska's Wrong Man Running, brings over twenty-five years of acting experience to his narration, including a seven-year run as a company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and appearances at major regional theatres across the country. Jeff cites James Mason's reading of Doyle's The Lost World as a major inspiration to his work as a narrator. Patrick Lawlor is a classically trained stage actor, with over two hundred seventy-five audiobook narrations to his credit, including works by T. Jefferson Parker, W.E.B. Griffin, and Robert Crais. He has done countless plays, readings, and radio plays throughout the country. He can be seen in several feature films and television series.