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At Long Last! The AudioBookaneers Favorite Audiobooks of 2013!

Yes, it’s been a looooooooong wait. But 2013 was a pretty good year, and we have the audiobooks to prove it! In our wrap-up of 2012 in audiobooks, we had a consensus pick for best new audiobook, The Amazing Adventures of … Continue reading

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The 2014 Audie Award finalists have been announced

Via Booklist Online, the 2014 Audies Finalists have been announced. My first thoughts are 1. that I’m thrilled to see Kim Stanley Robinson’s Shaman named as a finalist in the Science Fiction category. And 2, I can’t recall a previous year … Continue reading

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Whispersync Daily Deal: Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson

I knew it, I just knew I should have checked earlier in the day, but, well, I was stinking busy. Still, it’s not too late to snap up one of the best books and audiobooks of the year. Shaman: a … Continue reading

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Release Week: Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam, Kim Stanley Robinson’s Shaman, Toby Barlow’s Babayaga, and Seanan McGuire’s Chimes at Midnight

AUGUST 28-SEPTEMBER 3, 2013: September kicks off with two of my most anticipated titles of the year, Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Shaman. It also brings news from The Hugo Awards at this weekend’s World Science Fiction Convention … Continue reading

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Listening report: June 2012

After six audiobooks in May (though KSR’s 2312 went on well into the first week of June) I listened to eight in June, with Tim Powers’s On Stranger Tides and Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay being … Continue reading

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Listening Report: May 2012

April’s claim of 9 audiobooks was a bit of a “cheat”; I included the late Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 although I had actually read it in (very) early May. Here, things were going to again a bit stretched as it … Continue reading

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Release Week: KSR’s 2312; Anne Lyle; Rob Ziegler; Lev AC Rosen; David Brin; Tim Akers; and the conclusion to The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The absolutely mammoth release week for Tuesday, May 23, is led for me by the much-anticipated and well-regarded 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson, narrated by Sarah Zimmerman for Hachette Audio, out concurrently with its publication in hardcover and e-book by Orbit. At 19 hrs … Continue reading

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Received: from Blackstone Audio, two MP3-CD audiobooks: HAMLET’S FATHER by Orson Scott Card, read by Stefan Rudnicki (published May 1); and A SHORT, SHARP SHOCK by Kim Stanley Robinson, read by Paul Michael Garcia (published April 1).

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Release Week: Triggers, David Drake, Kim Stanley Robinson, Girl Genius, and more

The release week for Tuesday, April 3 is led by the release of Triggers By Robert J. Sawyer, Narrated by Jeff Woodman for Audible Frontiers: ”On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin’s bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where … Continue reading

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