Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson on depicting gender in John Scalzi’s next audiobook

Next month, Audible will release the recorded version of John Scalzi’s upcoming novel Head On, a sequel to his 2014 thriller Lock In. Like Lock In — but unlike most audio editions — this release will come in two versions: one narrated by Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Wil Wheaton, and the other by Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Amber Benson, who are each popular audiobook narrators.

In Lock In and an accompanying novella Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden’s Syndrome, Scalzi depicts a world facing a unique medical crisis: a global flu pandemic that killed millions of people and left a small subset of the survivors suffering a condition known as Haden’s Syndrome, which left them fully aware, but paralyzed — or “locked in” to their bodies. In...

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