Posts published in: 2013/03

Release Week: Neil Gaiman Presents returns, Ariel Djanikian, Red Planet Blues, Wolfhound Century, David Drake, and more

Posted on 2013-03-27 at 15:46 by Sam

It's another big release week with multiple must-listen titles. I've already gotten started on the return of Neil Gaiman Presents, the John Hodgman-narrated Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley, and I expect to get to a few more from this week -- including a literary dystopia, a sf noir set on Mars, and an espionage novel of alternate Russia -- before summer comes around. And, of course, John Scalzi's The Human Division marches on with Episode 11, A Problem of Proportion.

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Dave Reviews The Hobbit

Posted on 2013-03-27 at 05:51 by Dave

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Narrated by Rob Inglis (for Recorded Books) Length: 11 hours, 8 minutes

I have a confession to make. I was never been head over heels in love with Tolkien's writing. I've loved fantasy and science fiction literally as long as I can remember anything, but reading Tolkien didn't do that much for me. I could tell that the stories were interesting, but the dryness of the prose and plot didn't fire up my imagination the way other fantasies did. I read The Hobbit in high school and

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The Human Division Listen-A-Long, Episode 10: This Must Be the Place

Posted on 2013-03-22 at 05:49 by Dave

The Human Division, Episode 10: This Must Be the Place by John Scalzi, read by William Dufris Length: 44 minutes

Hello, and welcome back (you missed me, right?) to the Human Division Listen-A-Long! This week, come hang out with the family for the holidays. So pass the spoilers before they dry out, and let's get going!

Recap!

Staying with our structure, we step away from the B-Team proper, but this week - we spotlight one of my favorite characters - Hart! I dig that the last two episodes we've segued

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Sam's Listening Report: December 2012

Posted on 2013-03-21 at 17:36 by Sam

After two months in a row with seven audiobooks, I closed out 2012 with a quite a run, with several titles making it into my best-of-the-year choices, including several unique and thoroughly enjoyable books -- such a good month that I hardly know where to begin, so I'll just run 'em down in chronological order, like I always do:

REVIEWS:

Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone, read by Claudia Alick for Blackstone Audio (review copy) -- A fantastic debut fantasy novel, one part secondary world urban

Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged a sudden outbreak of magic, legion, monthly listening report, the last policeman, the testament of jessie lamb, the white forest, three parts dead

The Human Division Listen-A-Long, DOUBLE FEATURE - Episodes 8 and 9!

Posted on 2013-03-21 at 04:57 by Dave

The Human Division, Episode 8: The Sound of Rebellion, and Episode 9: The Observersby John Scalzi, narrated by William Dufris Length: 41 minutes; 1 hour and 9 minutes

Hello, and welcome back to another listen-a-long for the Human Division. Apologies for missing all you cats the last two weeks - my wife and I just had a new baby, and it kept me pretty busy! So, I'm gonna play catch-up with this post, and then hit you up with the brand-spanking new episode: "This Must Be the Place" on Friday.

So drink

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Release Week: The Rift Walker, The Leviathan Effect, The Clockwork Princess, and more

Posted on 2013-03-20 at 19:37 by Sam

While it's a busier week for young adult titles, not too much really strikes my ears in terms of concurrent new adult releases this week. Meanwhile, John Scalzi's The Human Division chugs along with This Must Be the Place: The Human Division, Episode 10. The big eye-opening audiobook news for me this week was the announcement that Neil Gaiman Presents is set to release another title next week, Robert Sheckley's Dimension of Miracles, read by John Hodgman. To celebrate, Audible is holding a NYC Comicon trip

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Release Day: The Rift Walker: Vampire Empire, Book 2, by Clay and Susan Griffith

Posted on 2013-03-17 at 13:18 by Sam

The Rift Walker: Vampire Empire, Book 2 By Clay and Susan Griffith Narrated By James Marsters for Buzzy Multimedia Publishing

Also available in MP3-CD, The Rift Walker, book two after The Greyfriar in Clay and Susan Griffith's Vampire Empire trilogy, is a worthy successor in story, narration and production for the Audie-nominated The Greyfriar. As in the first book, James Marsters as a cast of vampires could not be more perfect, and here the production is if anything even cleaner and more crisp. (The

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Release Week: Bitterwood, Sister Mine, Intermusings, and Morlock Night

Posted on 2013-03-13 at 19:36 by Sam

MARCH 6-12, 2013: Well it's a fairly quiet second release week in March, though not without a few audiobooks very much worth checking out. (It's even quieter on the "seen but not heard" front, as it really appears that both book and audiobook publishers had some manner of aversion to the Ides of March... though there is an intriguing anthology and a slowly picking up buzz novel from a small press to check out.) Meanwhile, John Scalzi's The Human Division marches on with episode 9, The Observers.

PICKS OF

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Release Day: Bitterwood by James Maxey, read by Dave Thompson

Posted on 2013-03-08 at 14:22 by Sam

Ah, the joys of a long, long, long-awaited audiobook finally arriving. Since meeting author James Maxey a few years ago, I've been pestering him about bringing Bitterwood to audio. Now, via ACX and narrator (and fellow AudioBookaneer!) Dave Thompson, it's finally here:

First published in print by Solaris in 2007 and later brought to ebook formats by Maxey himself, Bitterwood begins a 3-book series chronicling the efforts of the titular Bitterwood, dragon hunter: "Bitterwood has spent the past twenty

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bitterwood, dave thompson, james maxey

Release Week: Joyce Carol Oates, Zachary Jernigan, M. John Harrison's Empty Space, Brian Francis Slattery, and more

Posted on 2013-03-06 at 16:11 by Sam

FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 5, 2013: And here we are in March, and when you include the titles from my midweek wrapup it is quite a week indeed, with a 23-hour Joyce Carol Oates novel of possession in early 20th-Century Princeton, another entry in what is shaping up to be quite a run of debut fantasy novels, the conclusion of M. John Harrison's Kefahuchi Tract trilogy, and (of course) The Sound of Rebellion which continues John Scalzi's The Human Division, now in its 8th episode.

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

The Accursed By

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