TANGENT KNIGHTS audiodrama trilogy still on sale! (Annotations updated)
I just finished re-listening to the Tangent Knights audiodrama trilogy I did for GraphicAudio in 2021-22, my homage to Japanese tokusatsu superhero series with a hard science fiction twist. It’s still one of my favorite things I’ve ever written, the only trilogy I’ve ever done as a continuous, more or less pre-planned whole so that I could build an intricate, evolving narrative with things set up in one book and paying off in a later one. And emulating the rich character drama of toku shows let me achieve some marvelous complexity and depth with the characters and their evolving relationships, alongside the big, wild action and the balance of intense, dark drama and zany humor — and meanwhile I had fun thinking up relatively grounded scientific justifications for the fantastic powers of transforming heroes and the monsters they fight. I feel I outdid myself with this one. Now that I was able to listen to GraphicAudio’s adaptation of my story with a bit more distance from my occasional “Oh, that’s not quite what I expected/intended” reactions, it’s easier to hear that they captured what I was aiming for quite well overall. Hearing my stories brought to life by a talented cast of actors is a thrilling experience.
As of this writing, all three individual volumes and the series set are on sale at GraphicAudio at a 40% discount: https://www.graphicaudio.net/tangent-knights-series-set.html Meanwhile, Audiobooks.com has discontinued the half-off offer on Caprice of Fate that was supposed to run through October 11, but you can still get any individual volume or the trilogy set for free if you sign up for a 30-day trial of their service, and Audible has an equivalent trial offer of its own.
As I listened, I went back over the annotations I posted for the trilogy, which can be accessed from the main Tangent Knights page here. I’ve made some updates and corrections here and there, as well as fixing a few dead or broken links. I’ve actually made a couple of other updates in the past that I didn’t announce at the time, including an update of the spoilery Forms and Powers Index page to add color codings to the headings based on the characters’ armor colors, emulating the format that RangerWiki and Kamen Rider Wiki use for their character lists.
I would still love the chance to do a second “season” of Tangent Knights. Now that its main inspiration, Kamen Rider, has finally begun streaming internationally, I’m hoping it will spawn a larger Western audience for tokusatsu and maybe improve the odds of GraphicAudio asking me to do another trilogy. But the main thing that will make a difference is getting the word out about Tangent Knights and improving sales for the existing trilogy. So if you haven’t already bought it, please consider giving it a try. And if you’ve listened and enjoyed it, please don’t hesitate to spread the word in online fan communities.
