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Category Archives: Release Week
What ever happened to Sam’s “Release Week” roundup posts? They’re on reddit!
I’ve realized that I never made any kind of “formal” post or announcement here on the blog, when I moved the “Release Week” roundup posts from here to reddit‘s /r/audiobooks… So… Yeah… Sorry about that. I’ve been a moderator there … Continue reading
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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
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged chris sorensen, daniel abraham, derek perkins, dragonsbane, fate's forsaken, field of fantasies, gardner dozois, greg bear, luke daniels, mary rickert, michael underwood, multiverse, neil shah, poul anderson, rick wilber, robert fass, rudy rucker, russell h greenan, shae ford, software, tavia gilbert, the price of spring, the younger gods
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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
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 … Continue reading
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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
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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”
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 … Continue reading
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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
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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
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 … Continue reading
Release Week(s): Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem, Tobias Buckell’s The Apocalypse Ocean, Stephen King’s Revival, V Wars: Blood and Fire, Bitter Waters, Amanda Palmer’s The Art of Asking, and Jeff VanderMeer’s “Area X”
NOVEMBER 5-18, 2014: A Chinese science fiction blockbuster translated into English by one of the world’s best new writers, a new novel from Stephen King read by actor David Morse, Amanda Palmer’s self-help advice/memoir book, an anthology series sequel to V Wars, … Continue reading
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Tagged amanda palmer, area x, bitter waters, chaz brentley, daniel abraham, jeff vandermeer, johannes cabal, ken liu, liu cixin, luke daniels, prentice onayemi, revival, robin miles, sarban, stephen king, the apocalypse ocean, the art of asking, the three-body problem, tobias s buckell, v wars, xenowealth
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Release Week: Kameron Hurley’s The Mirror Empire, Steven Erikson’s Willful Child, Daryl Gregory’s Pandemonium, and Tad Williams’ Otherland
OCTOBER 29-NOVEMBER 4, 2014: Breathtakingly imaginative epic fantasy, sarcastic star-crossing science fiction, a demon possession pandemic, and multiverse-spanning virtual realities make for a fantastic release week of concurrent and backlist new audiobooks this week to start November. It’s a packed week … Continue reading
Release Week: Gibson, Faber, Rothfuss, Martin, Rice, Shiner, and! Mieville
OCTOBER 22-28, 2014: What was already an absolutely packed release week for concurrent new releases (Gibson, Faber, Rothfuss, Martin, Rice) and already with one back-list gem (Lewis Shiner’s Frontera) includes the magnificent surprise of China Mieville’s The Scar and Iron Council finally coming to US … Continue reading
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Tagged anne rice, china mieville, frontera, george rr martin, gildart jackson, josh cohen, lewis shiner, lorelei king, michel faber, patrick rothfuss, prince lestat, roy dotrice, simon vance, stefan rudnicki, the book of strange new things, the peripheral, the slow regard of silent things, the world of ice and fire, william-gibson
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Release Week: Manly Wade Wellman’s The Old Gods Waken, Eric Flint’s Islands, Peter F. Hamilton’s The Abyss Beyond Dreams, Daniel Abraham’s A Shadow in Summer, Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, and Tim Robbins reads Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
OCTOBER 15-21, 2014: Appalachian folk magic from the legendary Manly Wade Wellman, a full cast radioplay adaptation of an Eric Flint novella, new space sf, backlist epic fantasy from Daniel Abraham, Pynchon’s postmodern epic Gravity’s Rainbow, and Ray Bradbury’s classic dystopian tale … Continue reading
Release Week: The Doubt Factory, Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, The Lottery and Other Stories, and As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
OCTOBER 8-14, 2014: October continues to be a month of bountiful harvests in terms of audiobooks, as my first pass for picks came up with 16 titles to strongly consider. So! After the four picks, do check out the “also … Continue reading
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Tagged as king, as you rish, ben lerner, billy crystal, brian ruckley, bronson pinchot, cary elwes, cassandra campbell, chimpanzee, christine lakin, darin bradley, emma galvin, forrest aguirre, glory obriens history of the future, greg bear, heraclix and pomp, john shirley, paolo bacigalupi, shirley jackson, skyboat media, stefan rudnicki, the doubt factory, the free, the lottery, the princess bride, war dogs
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