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Release Week: The Word Exchange, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Strange Bodies, The End is Nigh, Steles of the Sky, The Dragon Business, Black Moon, NOD, The Vanishing, No Lasting Burial, King Maker, and David Gerrold’s When HARLIE Was One

Posted on 2014-04-15 by montsamu

APRIL 2-8, 2014: Well, the April 1 avalanche was followed up with an April 8 landslide, with a long, long! list of titles to check out, which took me a good long while to finally make sense of. (Seeing as this … Continue reading →

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Whispersync Daily Deal: Hugh Howey’s Sand and Susanna Kearsley’s The Firebird

Posted on 2014-04-06 by montsamu

Sunday, April 6, 2014: Today’s Kindle Daily Deal listings bring both sf and paranormal historical fiction Whispersync deals, starting with Hugh Howey’s Sand Omnibus, his first new novel since his best-selling Silo Saga, on sale for $1.99 Kindle with a $1.99 Whispersync … Continue reading →

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Release Week: Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others, Glen Duncan’s By Blood We Live, Iain Banks’ Matter, and Octavia Butler’s Patternmaster and Imago

Posted on 2014-02-14 by montsamu

FEBRUARY 5-11, 2014: While much more quiet in terms of quantity — in particular in concurrent new releases, as apparently every publisher had the same “FEBRUARY 4 OR BUST” idea this year — there’s some absolutely exquisite quality in this week’s … Continue reading →

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Release Week: David Niall Wilson’s Killer Green, Martha Wells’ Razor’s Edge, Hugh Howey’s Dust, and Tim Lebbon’s London Eye

Posted on 2013-10-02 by montsamu

SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1, 2013: After two weeks of huge releases to end September, October tiptoes in with a quieter slate, though with a quite loud (to me) “missing in audio” title, Ann Leckie’s space opera Ancillary Justice. Still, some intriguing … Continue reading →

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Release Week: Mur Lafferty’s The Shambling Guide to New York City, Chuck Wendig’s The Blue Blazes, Emma Newman’s Any Other Name, and Hugh Howey’s Shift

Posted on 2013-05-29 by montsamu

MAY 22-28, 2013: It’s a mammoth release week to (more or less) close May, ahead of a gigantic release day Wednesday (today) which I’ll cover both in a post of its own and of course in a bit lesser detail … Continue reading →

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Revisiting the regional digital divide, again

Posted on 2013-05-22 by montsamu

It’s been a year since I last turned too much attention to the regional digital divide, and it’s high time to give the bee’s nest another poke. There’s still! no sign of a US release for China Mieville’s Un Lun … Continue reading →

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Wool by Hugh Howey

Posted on 2012-09-27 by montsamu

I started hearing good things about Wool quite some time ago. Then Ridley Scott bought the film rights, and still I didn’t read it. Then Random House UK bought in, and still I didn’t read it. But now that The … Continue reading →

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Release Day: Stanislaw Lem, Wool, and Tim Pratt’s Briarpatch

Posted on 2012-08-27 by montsamu

Well, it’s another off-Tuesday release day well worth a post, as Audible Frontiers has released a long list of science fiction from Stanislaw Lem, including The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age and Mortal Engines Narrated by Scott Aiello and … Continue reading →

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