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Posted on 2012-02-19 at 18:8 by Sam

neil-gaiman:

How to Write a Novel.

And you know, this is pretty much everything you need to know. The rest is detail, most of which is irrelevant…

(Stolen from http://www.nicalderton.com/blog/HowToWriteANovel/)

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Posted on 2012-02-02 at 20:12 by Sam

Received: Six (6!) audiobooks from Blackstone Audio:

• Mr g: A Novel about the Creation
• Little, Big: or, The Fairies’ Parliament
• The Hum and the Shiver: The Tufa Novels, Book 1
• A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Immortality, Inc.
• The Sum of All Men: The Runelords, Book One

I’ve started onto Mr g already, and hope to fit the others in over the next month or so. I’m really excited about Little, Big and The Hum and the Shiver, and look forward to hearing how one of my all-time favorite novels, A Canticle for Leibowitz

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Posted on 2012-01-18 at 18:53 by Sam

Received: Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card, read by Stefan Rudnicki, Scott Brick, and a full cast for Macmillan Audio. Out January 17.

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Received: Burning Chrome by William Gibson

Posted on 2011-12-20 at 15:53 by Sam

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Posted on 2011-12-10 at 1:31 by Sam

Received: Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, narrated by Scott Brick for Macmillan Audio, Jan 3, 2012: “83 years after the last thinking machines were destroyed in The Battle of Corrin, great changes are brewing that will shape and twist all of humankind. … [A] riveting science fiction epic that explores the growing contest between Reason and Faith.” Audio excerpt available at the link.

Also pictured: Link, stoically observing the desert that is an area rug.

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Posted on 2011-11-16 at 19:55 by Sam

The Thirteen Hallows - front w/postcard

The Thirteen Hallows - back w/postcard

Audiobook received: The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott and Colette Freedman, read by Kate Reading for Macmillan Audio. 9 CDs. “The Hallows. Ancient Artifacts imbued with a primal and deadly power. But are they protectors of this world, or the keys to its destruction?” Scott is the author of bestselling series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, and Reading is the award-winning narrator of The Wheel of Time, Bo

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Posted on 2011-11-10 at 1:20 by Sam

Audiobook received: Anthology: Wild Cards I edited by George R. R. Martin, with stories from Walter John Williams (pretty sure they mean Walter Jon Williams here…), Melinda Snodgrass, Carrie Vaughn, and David Levine (and more not listed in the product description at Audible.com, such as Lewis Shiner, Roger Zelazny, Howard Waldrop, Michael Cassutt, and Martin himself) Narrated by Luke Daniels From Brilliance Audio — “In the aftermath of WWII, an alien virus struck the Earth, endowing a handful of

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Posted on 2011-10-28 at 18:13 by Sam

Zoo City audiobook: front cover

Zoo City audiobook: back cover

Audiobook received: Zoo City By Lauren Beukes Narrated by Justine Eyre From Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio. Currently on sale for $5.24 at Audible.com. I would say more, but I already have my review drafted, and, really, why would I repeat myself? Back cover principle text: ”Zinzi December has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops

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Posted on 2011-10-20 at 18:12 by Sam

Audiobook received: Reamde by Neal Stephenson read by Malcolm Hillgartner from Brilliance Audio. Upon starting the audiobook (it being on sale for $13.64 made it worth buying rather than ripping in the 32 discs of the review copy, and I’d actually started even earlier thanks to Reamde: Free First Chapter) I discover that the title is pronounced “reamed”. I enjoy wordplay, and so the title having 3 one-letter transposition re-spellings (reamed, readme, remade) tickles my brain in the right places. Now

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Posted on 2011-10-12 at 16:12 by Sam

Audiobook received: The Alloy of Law (A Mistborn Novel) by Brandon Sanderson, read by Michael Kramer. Out November 8, 2011 from Macmillan Audio. “Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.” Continuing Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy: The Final Empire: Mistborn Book 1, The Well of

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