Posts published in: 2015/01
January Whispersync Deal roundup: Frontera, The Thirteenth Step, Bitterwood, Katia Fox, The Lives of Tao, Embedded, and much, much more
Posted on 2015-01-22 at 22:4 by Sam
With less than 10 days left in the month, perhaps it's time to finally get the January Whispersync Deal roundup out into the world. [UPDATE: Since this post has drawn some new readers who may be unfamiliar with Whispersync for Voice, in brief: after (or at the same time as) buying the Kindle edition you can add on the narration if an enabled Audible edition exists, often for a steep discount on even the member/credit price.]
First, a handful of currently running Kindle Countdown Deals that will bump back
Read more...Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged frontera, gabrielle de cuir, james langton, james maxey, joel ohman, justine eyre, kate rudd, katia fox, kevin j anderson, lewis shiner, luke daniels, meritropolis, michele w miller, robert brumm, rudy rucker, simon vance, stefan rudnicki, the thirteenth step, victor bevine, wendigo soul
The 33 most missing audiobooks of 2014
Posted on 2015-01-17 at 6:12 by Sam
Three thousand two hundred sixty-seven. That's how many science fiction and fantasy audiobooks were added to Audible.com's US listings alone in 2014, and the larger number of new speculative fiction audiobooks -- which include GraphicAudio, independent (for example The Maze of Games and Eric Flint's "Islands"), and other titles not available at Audible (for example Cory Doctorow's Homeland and Information Doesn't Want to Be Free), physical-only releases, podiobooks, and English-language audiobooks released
Read more...Posted in The Arrrdies | Tagged adam roberts, alex dally macfarlane, am dellamonica, american neolithic, ben aaronovitch, blake butler, broken river books, bryan allen carr, dave hutchinson, david edison, david james keaton, diana wynne jones, elysium, emmi itaranta, fred venturini, gemma files, greg van eekhout, hilda hilst, iain m banks, james l cambias, jay lake, jennifer marie brissett, jenny erpenbeck, jm mcdermott, joanne m harris, john hornor jacobs, jonathan carroll, josh weil, julia elliott, kerry howley, laila lalami, lavie tidhar, maze, naomi foyle, neil williamson, nick mamatas, nina allan, our lady of the islands, peter liney, rajan khanna, richard house, rjurik davidson, sam sykes, shannon page, simon ings, stephen baxter, stuart rojstaczer, terence hawkins, the great glass sea, the last projector, ultima, unwrapped sky, ursula jones, will mcintosh, wu ming-yi
My Top 10 Audiobooks of 2014
Posted on 2015-01-09 at 2:15 by Sam
Always look forward to The Guilded Earlobe's picks:
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Pulling the Future Toward Me
Posted on 2015-01-06 at 14:41 by Sam
Congrats to Dave (and co-editor Anna) on 5 amazing, ridiculously amazing and wonderful years of PodCastle fantasy stories:
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Release Week: Rudy Rucker's Software, Michael Underwood's The Younger Gods, Daniel Abraham's The Price of Spring, Shae Ford's Dragonsbane, Mary Rickert's The Memory Garden, Russell H. Greenan's It Happened in Boston?, Multiverse, and Rick Wilber's Field of Fantasies
Posted on 2015-01-03 at 4:38 by Sam
DECEMBER 17-31, 2014: I went ahead and extended this pair of weeks one extra day to give a clean cutoff to 2014. It was a fantastic year of audiobooks (and of course Dave and I will be here with some best-of-the-year picks in due course) and 2015 looks every bit as packed as we consider a preview of what's to come. In the meantime, the last half of the last month of 2014 had some surprises, with all eight picks again coming off the "seen but not heard" listings -- though a few of them are from just a few
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