The Sword and Laser discussion

It's bugging me to distraction that I can't place who the narrator of the audiobook reminds me of, especially when he's depicting Dreyfus. It's a little Matt Berry, a little Clark Gable, a little Captain Zapp Brannigan. But who he actually sounds like is on the tip of my mind....
I know this isn't a very literary or thoughtful question about the book itself, so I suppose to make up for it...
I'm only on chapter 12. Do we get any certainty regarding where old Earth is in the whole scheme of civilization? Or how far into the future it is?

Wikipedia says it's in the 25th century. Earth doesn't seem to get mentioned much in the Revelation Space universe.

I think Earth was mentioned maybe twice. I didn’t really notice because lots of SF doesn’t talk about Earth, sometimes only in passing. Becky Chambers, for instance, or that last space opera by Scalzi, about the space rivers running dry or whatever.

Although in this case it’s hard to tell since so many of the place names were from Earth, especially Yellowstone. Naming the planet that seemed odd to me, since Reynolds had such cool names for everything else. It just kept evoking images of the park for me.

Yeah, I didn't think it was a great reading - I actually thought he veered towards a bit of Cary Grant at times. Definitely Zapp Brannigan!


Also, were some of the other accents nudging toward racist stereotypes? He clearly chose them to suit the surname and they were hella generic.


I'm currently listening to Steven Pacey read Abercrombie's The Heroes and he does such a great job; a wide variety of mostly UK accents, absolutely no bleed over between them - even two brothers who he does as Welsh are distinct.