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The 33 most missing audiobooks of 2014

Three thousand two hundred sixty-seven. That’s how many science fiction and fantasy audiobooks were added to Audible.com’s US listings alone in 2014, and the larger number of new speculative fiction audiobooks — which include GraphicAudio, independent (for example The Maze … 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

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: Tad Williams, Steven Erikson, Iain M. Banks, and The Lord of the Rings

What the second release week in October lacks in the staggering numbers department, it makes up for with three absolutely stellar titles: urban fantasy from Tad Williams, the latest Iain M. Banks “Culture” novel, and the long-awaited first audio installment … Continue reading

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Another peek overseas at Audible UK and the digital divide

Early last month, I wrote a bit about the regional digital divide, which sees Audible UK members having some excellent sf/f titles which Audible US members don’t have access to, from Elspeth Cooper’s debut Songs of the Earth, to The … Continue reading

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