Posts tagged: anthony ryan

Review: Blood Song

Posted on 2014-07-14 at 6:29 by Dave

Blood Song (Raven’s Shadow: Book 1) [Downpour | Audible] By Anthony Ryan, Narrated by Steven Brand for Penguin Audio Length: 23 hours, 8 minutes

In a time where people are chomping at the bit for George R.R. Martin’s next installment in A Song of Ice and Fire, there’s no shortage of epic fantasy novels to choose from. Anthony Ryan’s debut novel Blood Song has seemingly come out of nowhere, and it’s easy to see why so many of Martin’s readers are devouring it: Blood Song feels a lot like the continuing

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Release Week: How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky, The String Diaries, Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners, Cat Rambo's Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight, and Clive Barker's Weaveworld read by Simon Vance

Posted on 2014-07-05 at 15:38 by Sam

JUNE 25-JULY 1, 2014: A fantastic crop of audiobooks this week, with picks from "nerd fiction" to Mulholland-published speculative thrillers, collections, and Clive Barker's 1987 novel Weaveworld. More great titles in the "also out this week" listings, including the latest in Charles Stross' Laundry Files, Peter David's vampiric retelling of Oliver Twist, and enough high-end epic fantasy to keep you busy for a hundred hours: Anthony Ryan's Tower Lord, Django Wexler's The Shadow Throne, Mark Smylie's The

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged anthony ryan, artful, cat rambo, clive barker, how to tell toledo from the night sky, kelly link, lydia netzer, magic for beginners, mark smylie, peter david, simon vance, stephen lloyd jones, the barrow, the string diaries, tower lord, weaveworld

Release Week: Hannu Rajaniemi's The Fractal Prince, Django Wexler's The Thousand Names, Anthony Ryan's Blood Song, Melissa Marr's The Arrivals, Matt Haig's The Humans, and Stephen Graham Jones' Zombie Bake-Off

Posted on 2013-07-09 at 3:32 by Sam

JUNE 26-JULY 2, 2013: July is off and running with a first release week to jump-start your summer listening plans. From hard-to-the-point-of-being-nearly-incomprehensible sf (Hannu Rajaniemi's The Fractal Prince) to a more The Hunger Games esque (with aliens!) book (Melissa Marr's The Arrivals) to first books in new epic fantasy series (Django Wexler's The Thousand Names and Anthony Ryan's Blood Song) to the latest in quite a string of literary authorial takes on sf (Matt Haig's The Humans), to... well, a

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged anthony ryan, django wexler, hannu rajaniemi, scott brick, stephen graham jones