Posts published in: 2011/12

Audiobook release day: Hal Duncan's Vellum: The Book of All Hours and Douglas Hulick's Among Thieves

Posted on 2011-12-30 at 20:18 by Sam

I wasn’t planning on posting today, but then two books popped up which have been high up on my “where’s the audiobook?” list for a while. The first is Vellum: The Book of All Hours By Hal Duncan Narrated by Bernard Setaro Clark For Audible, Inc.:

Duncan’s acclaimed 2005 novel: “It’s 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human; now they are unkin, transformed by the ancient machine-code language of reality itself. They seek The Book of All Hours, the mythical tome within which the

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Audible's "Holiday Relief Sale" includes titles from Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Robert J. Sawyer, and more

Posted on 2011-12-29 at 16:08 by Sam

Audible’s $9.95 Holiday Relief sale goes through January 3, and while there’s a breakout for Fiction the list of 75 titles there isn’t broken down further into genre categories. So, along with a few others that catch my eye:

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In which I geek out over audiobooks on Episode 85 of The Functional Nerds podcast

Posted on 2011-12-28 at 17:48 by Sam

Link: In which I geek out over audiobooks on Episode 85 of The Functional Nerds podcast

Thanks again to John Anealio and Patrick Hester for having me on, and it was great to talk with John DeNardo as well.

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Audiobook release week, 27 December 2011

Posted on 2011-12-28 at 04:00 by Sam

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2011 in review, 4 of 4: My picks for the year's best in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks

Posted on 2011-12-23 at 13:24 by Sam

This is the last of four posts looking back at 2011 in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks, after my year in listening, what I missed, and the most missing audiobooks. Here, I lay out my picks for the year’s best in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks!

I already spilled the beans on my pick for the best new audiobook of the year, that being Glimpses By Lewis Shiner Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki:

This one I reviewed back in March, and my opinion of this 1994 World Fantasy Award winner hasn’t changed

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Isla J. Bick's Ashes (and offers some post-apoc survival advice)

Posted on 2011-12-23 at 12:57 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Isla J. Bick's Ashes (and offers some post-apoc survival advice)

Bob offers a “full service” review here, even adding some helpful tips to surviving a zombie apocalypse.

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2011 in review, 3 of 4: Where's the audiobook?

Posted on 2011-12-21 at 19:22 by Sam

This is the third of four posts looking back at 2011 in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks. I started with my year in listening and continued with a look into what I missed. Here, I’ll gripe at the world with my list of the most missing audiobooks of the year — those books I wanted to listen to but for which there was no audiobook. Lastly, I’ll lay out my picks for the year’s best in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks. But now: Where’s the audiobook?

• An Agreement with Hell by Dru

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The perils and rewards of having a public "where's the audiobook?" list

Posted on 2011-12-21 at 17:05 by Sam

I have done a terrible job of categorizing, sorting, and updating my list of missing audiobooks, as the arrival this year of several on my “where’s the audiobook?” list attests. But on the plus side, sometimes folks see the list and let me know that, hey, some of those books are coming. And I get to pass that info along, which is quite fun. So without further adieu, Audible contacted me to let me know about some of the titles they (or someone they know about) has in the works for 2012:

Glory Road by Robert

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Audiobook release Tuesday: Wild Cards II: Aces High; Eutopia; and Amanda Hocking's My Blood Approves

Posted on 2011-12-20 at 21:15 by Sam

A fairly quiet Tuesday, past the midway part of December. Still, there’s a great new title this week: Wild Cards II: Aces High by George R. R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Pat Cadigan, Lewis Shiner, and Walter Jon Williams, Narrated by Luke Daniels For Brilliance Audio:

This volume follows a more unified story arc, as The Swarm-Mother infestation approaches Earth, making for a more novel-like feel as opposed to a shared world short story anthology as in the first volume. Daniels does an excellent job on both

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Received: Burning Chrome by William Gibson

Posted on 2011-12-20 at 15:53 by Sam

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