Posts published in: 2012/06
Rush's Neil Peart to narrate the Brilliance Audio production of Kevin J. Anderson's Clockwork Angels: The Novel (based in turn on the Rush album)
Posted on 2012-06-27 at 20:01 by Sam
Via his blog, author Kevin J. Anderson mentions (among other things) something he’d apparently previously announced:
The hardcover, full-color novel comes out from ECW on September to coincide with the launch of the Rush Clockwork Angels tour. The unabridged audiobook from Brilliance is narrated by Neil Peart himself.
And, well, that’s not something I’d heard yet. Anderson is also giving away a free booklet preview of the novel:
Very interesting… The audiobook listing at Brilliance Audio gives a release
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The Devourer of Books Audiobook Week, Wednesday: A short meme.
Posted on 2012-06-27 at 17:12 by Sam
Quoth The Devourer: “Here’s something quick and easy for the middle of the week, just a short meme. Just copy and paste to your own post (and, you know, obviously change the answers so they’re yours and not mine).”
Here’s something quick and easy for the middle of the week, just a short meme. Just copy and paste to your own post (and, you know, obviously change the answers so they’re yours and not mine).
Current/most recent audiobook:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, narrated
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Release week: The Age of Miracles, Logan's Run, and The Prince of Nothing
Posted on 2012-06-27 at 12:56 by Sam
The release week of June 26 brings a genre in the mainstream debut, a long-awaited classic read by one of my favorite narrators, and R. Scott Bakker’s Prince of Nothing series, among several other titles to check out.
That Genre-in-the-Mainstream debut is The Age of Miracles: A Novel By Karen Thompson Walker, Narrated by Emily Janice Card for Random House Audio — Length:9 hrs and 3 mins. A “coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world” sees the rotation of the Earth slowing down
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Review: Redshirts by John Scalzi, read by Wil Wheaton
Posted on 2012-06-26 at 19:10 by Sam
Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas By John Scalzi
Narrated by Wil Wheaton for Audible Frontiers
Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
Release Date: 06-05-12
Review by Dave Thompson: “Stay off the Bridge! Avoid the Narrative!”
“Is it just me…or is everyone on this ship monumentally fucked up about away teams?” asks one of the Redshirts early on in John Scalzi’s latest. Redshirts is funny, exciting, and gets emotional and pretty heartfelt in the most surprising places. But what’s really unique about this one is how
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The Devourer of Books Audiobook Week, Monday: My Audiobook Year
Posted on 2012-06-25 at 17:07 by Sam
The Devourer of Books is having an Audiobook Week this week, encouraging other audiobooks bloggers to join in. Bob Reiss at The Guilded Earlobe has already done so. So I’ll chip in with something short and take a stab at the topic.
It was actually about a year ago (June 20th to be precise) that I first started seriously blogging about audiobooks here — though I back-posted a few months of “best of the month” picks, a feature I only continued forward a few months. My biggest feature ended up being the 4-part
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Release Day: Ian McDonald's Brasyl and River of Gods
Posted on 2012-06-21 at 18:37 by Sam
I don’t generally post releases outside of the “release week” posts, but it’s a pretty big day for audiobooks as River of Gods (published 2004, winner of the BSFA Award, nominated for a Hugo, Arthur C. Clarke, and Locus, and here read by Brasyl (published 2007, winner of the BSFA Award, nominated for a Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell, and Locus, and here read by
“Ian McDonald’s River of Gods painted a vivid picture of a
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Release Week: David Brin's Existence and Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's The Long Earth
Posted on 2012-06-20 at 02:31 by Sam
Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged david brin, existence, release week, stephen baxter, terry pratchett, the long earth
Received: Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
Posted on 2012-06-19 at 15:24 by Sam
Received: Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, read by Stefan Rudnicki (and cast) for Macmillan Audio. Coming concurrent with hardcover and e-book release from Tor on July 17.
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Release Week: Chabon's Kavalier and Clay; Jemisin's Dreamblood; Brenda Cooper's Silver Ship; Novik's Temeraire; Joan D. Vinge's The Snow Queen; and more
Posted on 2012-06-14 at 14:17 by Sam
My most anticipated release this week comes from the fiction section: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay By Michael Chabon, Narrated by David Colacci for Brilliance Audio. FINALLY an UNABRIDGED recording! Colacci’s narration of the abridged version was a mere 8 hrs and 53 mins — about one third of the full 26 hrs and 20 mins of the unabridged recording. “It’s 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his
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Schedule of SYNC Downloads -- free audiobook downloads all summer
Posted on 2012-06-07 at 00:17 by Sam
Link: Schedule of SYNC Downloads -- free audiobook downloads all summer
The one I’m most looking forward to is for the week of August 2 – August 8, 2012: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, Read by Khristine Hvam (Hachette Audio):
Now to just set myself a weekly reminder…
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