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March Whispersync Deal Roundup: Pierre Grimbert, Oz Reimagined, The Palace Job, Invisible Cities, Libba Bray, Anne McCaffrey, Diana Gabaldon, Harry Turtledove, Ursula K. Le Guin, and more

I was planning to hold off posting this until March 13, because I know of a nice set of books that will be going on sale, but I’ll have to settle for updating it after March 13 instead, due to some nice deals … Continue reading

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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

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Top 25 most-anticipated books of June 2014

Everyone has their own lists, but here’s ours: what we’re most looking forward to this month, in chronological order of release, with audiobook information if we know about it. (I tried holding the list to 10 as I managed for last month’s … Continue reading

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Release Week: Jim Butcher’s Skin Game, Jane Lindskold’s Artemis Awakening, Glen Hirshberg’s Motherless Child, Jo Walton’s Tooth and Claw, and Tim Pratt’s Heirs of Grace

MAY 21-27, 2014: Well, crap. I should have snatched up Nick Harkaway’s Tigerman before Audible (US) realized that it couldn’t sell it to me, but hopefully that’s a “not yet” and not an “ever”. So, a release week I was over-the-top excited about is taken … Continue reading

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Whispersync Daily Deal: Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Kate Danley’s The Woodcutter

Thursday, March 20, 2014: Today’s Kindle Daily Deal listings bring a pair of fantastic Whispersync deals, led by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, the Cuban-born Italian author’s Nebula Award-nominated 1972 novel of Marco Polo’s describing to Kublai Khan of the cities he … Continue reading

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Whispersync Deal Roundup: Night Shade Books, the Baen Free Library, and The Shambling Guide to New York City

Thursday, February 27, 2014: I didn’t see a particular Kindle Daily Deal title to feature today, so I’ll take the time to write up a few more “general” cases. First up, because I understand this to be a limited time … Continue reading

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Release Week: One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Secret of Magic, Red Rising, Hang Wire, Dominion, Love Star, The Crane Wife, Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis, and Janis Ian’s Stars

JANUARY 22-28, 2014: Another huge week of releases, from the old and long missing (One Hundred Years of Solitude and Xenogenesis), to the new (The Secret of Magic, Red Rising, and Hang Wire), to alternate history and other bits around the edges, to a fantastic … Continue reading

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Release Week: Niven and Harrington’s The Goliath Stone, Christopher Priest’s The Adjacent, Madeline Ashby’s iD, Paul S. Kemp’s A Discourse in Steel, Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and Ballard’s The Drowned World

JUNE 19-25, 2013: June goes out with quite a bang — limiting the picks to even the four pairs below still leaves titles of interest in the “also out this week” listings, such as a literary historical fantasy from Andrew … Continue reading

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