Posts published in: 2014/12

Release Week: Steve Erickson's Zeroville, Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders, Robert W. Chambers' The Maker of Moons, and Luisa May Alcott's A Whisper in the Dark

Posted on 2014-12-27 at 5:6 by Sam

DECEMBER 10-16, 2014: For the first time in (at least recent) memory, all four of my picks for the week come off the "never before in audio" list, with none of the books even being released this decade and some being well out of copyright in text, and all under some of the best narrators in the field. There's still more backlist audiobooks and even more concurrent new releases also out this week, from the 50-audiobook "The Saint" series in its mind-boggling entirety to David Drake's Skyripper to Jane Yolen

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged a whisper in the dakr, bronson pinchot, cassandra campbell, claire bloom, gabrielle de cuir, jane smiley, louisa may alcott, ralph lister, robert w chambers, skyboat media, stefan rudnicki, steve erickson, susan hanfield, the greenlanders, the maker of moons, zeroville

Release Week(s): Carbide Tipped Pens, The Godless, The Strange Library, Winterswim, The Martian Race, The Winter King, Ari Marmell's "Hot Lead, Cold Iron", and Cory Doctorow's "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free"

Posted on 2014-12-18 at 3:15 by Sam

NOVEMBER 26-DECEMBER 9, 2014: A fantastic and wide-ranging fortnight of releases for you to start December, including epic fantasy, hard sf, Arthurian legend, a whimsy from Murakami, a GraphicAudio magical noir, non-fiction, and more. Do check out some of the "also out" listings as well such as Kazuaki Takano's A Genocide of One, Richard Parks' Yamada Monogotari, and Felicia Hajra-Lee's The Niantic Project: Ingress for Google's Niantic Labs, and plenty of mysteries and thrillers besides, including Moriarty,

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged ari marmell, ben bova, ben peek, carbide tipped pens, chris sorensen, cory doctorow, eric choi, gabrielle de cuir, gregory benford, haruki murakami, information doesn't want to be free, kirby heyborne, paul michael garcia, ryan w bradley, the godless, the martian race, the strange library, wil wheaton, winterswim

9 Science Fiction and Fantasy Audiobooks by Women of Color You Must Hear

Posted on 2014-12-10 at 18:15 by Sam

Making the Internet rounds yesterday was a new list from Buzzfeed of 19 Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels by Women of Color You Must Read and as headline-bait listicles go it's actually pretty good. (Of course one may quibble, but those that I have read that are on this list are fantastic books.) Here's an audiobibliophile tour of the list:

9 ARE IN AUDIO:

Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, read by Lynne Thigpen for Recorded Books -- One of the absolute all-time best books and audiobooks I've ever

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December Whispersync Deal Roundup: Hurley, Jemisin, Walton, Rothfuss, Lawrence, Lynch, Sanderson, and much more

Posted on 2014-12-04 at 18:20 by Sam

I keep putting off compiling the December Whispersync Deal roundup, but (1) a good chunk of titles are only on sale through Dec 14 and (2) I already missed passing along both that Andy Weir's The Martian was on sale for $3 and that Rachel Aaron's The Spirit Thief was on sale as well as John Shirley's Everything is Broken, on and on... and since I've no idea when/if some of this deals will disappear, I had better get on it! In that frame of mind, first up here's some deals on some fantastic, highly

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Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged amanda hocking, bridget ladd, casaundra freeman, chuck wendig, clive barker, crossroad press, david niall wilson, davina porter, diana gabaldon, emily bauer, erik larson, gail z martin, james clamp, jo walton, kameron hurley, katherine kellgren, luke daniels, mark lawrence, michael page, nick podehl, nk jemisin, outlander, patrick rothfuss, prince of thorns, scott lynch, stant litore, stephen hoye, the lies of locke lamora

Release Week: Mira Grant's Symbiont, Brandon Sanderson's Legion: Skin Deep, Tobias Buckell's Mitigated Futures, and Bronson Pinchot reading David Drake's Grimmer Than Hell

Posted on 2014-12-03 at 6:43 by Sam

NOVEMBER 19-25, 2014: An overall very, very quiet week in publishing, but with a standout concurrent new release (Mira Grant's Symbiont), two glimmering backlist collections (Buckell and Drake), the return of Sanderson's Legion (for free! read by Oliver Wyman again!), and a few more titles well worth noting (an indie fantasy superstar in the making in Jacob Cooper, anthologies Robot Uprisings and Night Shift, Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest novels, Costello and Hautala's Star Road, and a huge pile of Akashic

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged brandon sanderson, bronson pinchot, christine lakin, david drake, grimmer than hell, legion, mira grant, mitigated futures, oliver wyman, symbiont, tobias buckell

Review: Copperhead

Posted on 2014-12-02 at 5:55 by Dave
Copperhead: Ironskin, Book 2 | [Tina Connolly]

Copperhead (Ironskin, Book 2) By Tina Connolly, read by Rosalyn Landor Length: 9 hours, 43 minutes

Appearances can be deceptive.

There are two sisters. Jane was wounded in an invasion by the fae, and now suffers from a disability in which she is cursed by a supernatural anger, and is a constant outsider, and goes to work as a governess in what appears to be a haunted house in the countryside. Helen is beautiful, married a wealthy aristocrat, and is obsessed with society and its balls and fashions.

If

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Posted in reviews | Tagged fantasy, romance, rosalyn landor, tina connolly