John Scalzi‘s Old Man’s War is now available as an audio book. The unabridged, 10-hour book, narrated by William Durfis, is available only as as download, and, so far as the author knows, only at Audible.com for $27.97. Scalzi asks rhetorically “Why is it available download only?” and then answers himself: “I suspect for two reasons: The first is that I think it’s assumed that readers of my stuff are fairly technically adept, so you can handle getting this in electronic format—indeed many of you would just get the CDs and rip the audio files to your iPods anyway. This will save you that intermediary step. The second is that it’s faster to get it to you all this way: You get the audio files without having to wait for the time it takes to create packaging and deal with shipping and whatnot, most of which I suspect most of you don’t give a damn about. Anyway, I know how all of you hate delaying your gratification. Well, delay no longer.”
The book was originally published as a Tor Books hardcover in 2004.