Posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Release Week: 10 November 2026
Posted on 2026-11-10 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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PICKS:
The Fist of Memory by Wole Talabi, read by Precious Mustapha and Michael Obiora for Recorded Books -- "A strange alien spacecraft suddenly appears in the sky in this electrifying, action-packed first contact novel set in near-future Nigeria from award-winning author Wole Talabi."
The Better Animal: A Novel by Ken Ballen and Wu Ming, read by Andrew Gibson for Dreamscape -- "A gripping and ultimately hopeful tale of a future America on the cusp of electing the most unusual president in its
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Release Week: 3 November 2026
Posted on 2026-11-03 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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FICTION WATCH:
Monsters of Ohio by John Scalzi, read by Wil Wheaton for Audible -- "Welcome to Richland, Ohio. Things aren't great. The town’s biggest employer is closing shop, and Richland's on the brink. It's where Mike Boyd, with his own set of problems, finds himself returning to after decades away. He's not planning to stay. But Richland has other plans for Mike, his old friend Dave, and a newcomer Andi. They're caught in a swirl of local troubles, private equity, executive theft… and something
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Release Week: 27 October 2026
Posted on 2026-10-27 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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FICTION WATCH:
Code and Codex by Yoon Ha Lee, read by Greta Jung -- "Three-time Hugo Award finalist Yoon Ha Lee returns to science fiction with a swashbuckling space opera about fighting against an evil empire trying to erase history."
Public Access Afterworld: A Novel by Jane Schoenbrun, read by the author -- "A mysterious realm on the other side of our screens. A dark force that draws victims into its static. The unlikely hero called to save them and herself from this electric hell. The profound
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Release Week: 13 October 2026
Posted on 2026-10-13 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
* The End of Everything: A Novel by M. John Harrison, read by Russ Bain for Penguin -- "A haunting apocalyptic adventure, and a formidable exploration of what it means to be human in a shifting world."
* Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones, read by a full cast for Simon and Schuster -- "A ragtag group of activists sets out to repatriate the bones of a Blackfeet boy taken to the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School in author Stephen Graham Jones’s return to the Blackfeet reservation of
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Release Week: 6 October 2026
Posted on 2026-10-06 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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FEATURED PICKS:
Other Worlds Than These: A Talisman Novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub, read by Patton Oswalt for Simon and Schuster -- "The story of Jack Sawyer, whom readers first met when he was twelve, crossing America and “the territories” to save his mother’s life, and met again in Black House, where Jack faces a child killer and the Crimson King (among other evils). In Other Worlds Than These, Jack must stop a rampaging gang of infected teenagers from America-side, and the forces
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Release Week: 29 September 2026
Posted on 2026-09-29 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Mazywood by Tananarive Due, read by Joniece Abbott-Pratt for Simon and Schuster -- "All the Sinners Bleed meets Erasure in this literary thriller from the award-winning author of The Reformatory following the grandson of a famous Black actress who returns to his grandmother’s cabin retreat in the California mountains only to encounter the legacy of her rage born in Old Hollywood."
Ply: A Novel by Hernan Diaz, read by Imani Jade Powers -- "Centuries from now, at the dawn of a historical epoch filled
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Release Week: 15 September 2026
Posted on 2026-09-15 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
FICTION PICKS:
* The Rouse by China Miéville, read by Colin Mace, Emma Spurgin Hussey, and the author for Random House -- " From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making—a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of personal grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy."
* Our Noble Selves: A Novel by Kate Atkinson, read by Rupert Penry-Jones and the author for Books On Tape -- "When crime correspondent turned war reporter Harry Flynn
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Release Week: 1 September 2026
Posted on 2026-09-01 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
The Disappearers by Marlon James, read by a full cast for Books On Tape -- "In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. Though strangers to one another, they share an inescapable truth: All of them are gay. And they live in a world that refuses to accept them. One night the men are savagely beaten and one of them is killed. As their bodies heal, the survivors begin to face the hatred and contempt that the violence laid bare. Some try to ignore what happened
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Release Week: 25 August 2026
Posted on 2026-08-25 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
FICTION PICKS:
- Fruits of Our Labor by Ian Patterson, read by Robin Miles for Shiraki Press -- "In a near-future America where women have just gained access to asexual reproduction, Samara yearns for freedom from her dying relationship, and a child of her own—fully her own."
- Ghost Cities: A Novel by Siang Lu, read by Keith Brockett for Simon and Schuster -- "A dazzlingly inventive novel, spanning ancient and modern China, that interweaves stories of romance and showbiz."
- Everybody's Perfect by Jo Walton
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Release Week: 18 August 2026
Posted on 2026-08-18 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
FICTION PICKS:
The Calamities by Chuck Wendig, read by Dani Martineck, Nicole Cash, MacLeod Andrews, and Xe Sands for Random House -- "The heir to one of the world’s most influential families reckons with the demonic secret of their power in this contemporary dark fantasy that melds occult magic with shocking family drama."
They Can't Burn Us All by Cathryn Kemp, read by Melkorka Oskarsdottir for Transworld -- "A dark, feminist retelling of the most famous witch trial in 17th-century Iceland."
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