 In her review of the audiobook for Strange Horizons , <unk> Carroll called the story " gripping " and found the listening experience evocative of Orson Welles 's famous radio narration of The War of the Worlds ( broadcast October 30 , 1938 ) . Carroll had mixed opinions on the voice acting , commending it as " solid and understated , <unk> free of ' special effects ' and ' scenery chewing ' overall " , but lamenting what she perceived as undue <unk> on the part of Max Brooks and <unk> in Steve Park 's Chinese accent . Publishers Weekly also criticized Brooks ' narration , but found that the rest of the " all @-@ star cast deliver their parts with such fervor and intensity that listeners cannot help but <unk> with these characters " . In an article in Slate concerning the mistakes producers make on publishing <unk> , Nate <unk> used World War Z as an example of <unk> whose full casts contributed to making them " great listens " and described the book as a " <unk> @-@ than @-@ it @-@ has @-@ any @-@ right @-@ to @-@ be zombie novel " . The World War Z audiobook won the 2007 <unk> Award for Multi @-@ <unk> Performance and was nominated for Audiobook of the Year . 
