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Audiobook review: Welcome to Bordertown

Posted on 2012-09-21 at 18:14 by Sam

Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and Poems of the Borderlands
Edited by: Holly Black and Ellen Kushner
Performances by: MacLeod Andrews, Cassandra Campbell, Ellen Kushner, and Holly Black
Length: 18 hours and 8 minutes
Release date: 10 April 2012

Review by Dave Thompson: Bordertown Lives!

I feel in love with Welcome to Bordertown well before I actually read any of the stories. In her introduction, Terri Windling explains how Bordertown came to be: In the 80s, fantasy meant epic – primarily riffs on

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Interview: Tim Pratt, interviewed by Dave Thompson

Posted on 2012-09-19 at 2:35 by Sam

For the general public, Tim Pratt is one of the best kept secrets in fantasy fiction. I say this not just as someone who loves to read (and listen!) to Tim’s work, but as someone who who has bought his stories to be featured at PodCastle, a podcast run by Anna Scwhind and myself. Tim creates interesting characters who

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Audiobook review: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Posted on 2012-07-12 at 15:8 by Sam

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Narrated by David Colacci for Brilliance Audio

Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins

Release Date: 06-12-12 

Review by Dave Thompson: “Why don’t you figure out where we’re going to put all your goddamn comic books!”

This is going to be something of a departure from the other reviews I’ve done here, and I hope you all will indulge me. 

Memory is a funny thing. I first read Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay when it came out in

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Review: Redshirts by John Scalzi, read by Wil Wheaton

Posted on 2012-06-26 at 19:10 by Sam

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas By John Scalzi

Narrated by Wil Wheaton for Audible Frontiers

Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins

Release Date: 06-05-12 

Review by Dave Thompson: “Stay off the Bridge! Avoid the Narrative!”

“Is it just me…or is everyone on this ship monumentally fucked up about away teams?” asks one of the Redshirts early on in John Scalzi’s latest.  Redshirts is funny, exciting, and gets emotional and pretty heartfelt in the most surprising places. But what’s really unique about this one is how

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Audiobook review: Osama by Lavie Tidhar

Posted on 2012-06-05 at 16:32 by Sam

Osama by Lavie Tidhar

Narrated by Jeff Harding for Audible Ltd

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Release Date: 05-14-2012 [PS Publishing | Goodreads | Audible UK]

Review by Dave Thompson: “Life Isn’t a Pulp Novel”

Lavie Tidhar’s Osama is not an easy or light novel. However, it is a very thought provoking one, and I suspect it’s one that’s going to stay with me for a long time.

What if Osama bin Laden never existed? What if his acts of terror were confined solely to pulp novels, the kind that are published

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Dave Thompson to narrate Tim Pratt's Briarpatch

Posted on 2012-05-21 at 20:37 by Sam

Link: Dave Thompson to narrate Tim Pratt's Briarpatch

Quoth Dave: “I get to read the audiobook for Tim Pratt’s amazing fantasy novel Briarpatch! … I am so stoked beyond words about this, I don’t even know what else to say! I keep expecting people to email me that they’ve changed their minds. I love this book. I loved it immediately - as soon as I started reading it when it came out last year.”

This is absolutely awesome news all around: 1. An audiobook for Briarpatch 2. I get to make Dave interview himself

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Review and Interview: The Witches of Lublin

Posted on 2012-03-26 at 14:51 by Sam

REVIEW and INTERVIEW: The Witches of Lublin By Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Schwartz, and Yale Strom, Narrated by Ellen Kushner, Miriam Margolyes, Neil Gaiman, Simon Jones, and Barbara Rosenblat for SueMedia Productions:

Review and Interview by Dave Thompson: “Music Bridging our Profane World to the Holiness of the World to Come”

I stumbled across The Witches of Lublin when I was browsing what had been nominated for the Audie Awards - saw that it had been co-written by Ellen Kushner (of Swordspoint fame) and

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Audiobook review: Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory

Posted on 2012-03-09 at 18:40 by Sam

Reviewed by Dave Thompson: “The Undead Have Never Been So Fresh (or Funny)”

The living dead seem to be rising just about everywhere you turn, and these days the zombie apocalypse is feeling a bit run of the mill. Do not let this keep you from checking out Raising Stony Mayhall — one of the most delightful zombie books I’ve read.

There’s a trope in zombie fiction of a loved one being infected, and instead of

Posted in regular | Tagged audible frontiers, daryl gregory, dave thompson, david marantz, raising stony mayhall, review

Audiobook review: Viriconium by M. John Harrison, read by Simon Vance

Posted on 2012-02-16 at 14:2 by Sam

Last month the blog welcomed contributor Dave Thompson with his review of Tim Powers’s The Stress of Her Regard, read by Simon Vance. Today he returns with another review, setting his ears on Viriconium by M. John Harrison, read by Vance for Neil Gaiman Presents:

Review by Dave Thompson: “A Not As Young Man’s Return Journey to Viriconium”

I have been to Viriconium once before – and appropriately – I find that the landscape of the city seems to have shifted since the last time I was here. Sometimes, it’s a

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Review: The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers, read by Simon Vance

Posted on 2012-01-17 at 14:0 by Sam

I’m pleased to welcome a new regular contributor to the Audible SF/F blog: Dave Thompson. While we have plans (a podcast? two-contributor reviews?) he’s starting out with a review of The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers, read by Simon Vance for Blackstone Audio. Out in April of 2011, the novel was originally published in print in 1989 by Ace Hardcover. A new book, Hide Me Among the Graves: A Novel is due out in March from William Morrow.

Review by Dave Thompson

There’s a tense scene early on in Tim

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