Posts tagged: RA Salvatore

The AudioBookaneers pick their favorite audiobooks of 2014

Posted on 2015-03-02 at 15:15 by Sam

Well, it's (past) that time of year again: time for Dave and I to look back on a year in listening. We laughed, we cried, we cheered, we jeered, we stayed up well into the night for these audiobooks. It seems like every year calls for a slight wrinkle in presentation, but this year it's a familiar one: our audiobooks of the year, runners up in both new audiobooks of new books and new audiobooks of previously published books, and our favorite "new to us" listens of the year. (And, mostly because it helps

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Release Week(s): Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, Graham Joyce's The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit, Robin Hobb's Fool's Assassin, Charles Gannon's Fire With Fire, Ekaterina Sedia's Heart of Iron, John Shirley's Everything is Broken, Jacob Cooper's Circle of Reign, and just a ridiculous all-star cast reads R.A. Salvatore's Drizzt stories (for free)

Posted on 2014-08-26 at 3:17 by Sam

AUGUST 6-19, 2014: Another two-weeks-worth of roundup here, with new books from Murakami, Joyce, and Hobb, backlist Sedia, Shirley, and Gannon, and highly notable epic fantasy audio from the completely unexpected to the completely unprecedented. Yup. And there's a long list of "also out this week" titles of note including (at least) Sean Platt and David Wright's Yesterday's Gone from Podium Publishing, Melissa Scott and Lisa Barnett's Point of Dreams, J.G. Ballard's The DroughtThe Atrocity Exhibition, and

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Posted in Release Week, Uncategorized | Tagged al yankovic, bruce locke, charles e gannon, cirlce of reign, colorless tsukuru tazaki, david duchovny, dreamscape media, ekaterina sedia, elliot hill, everything is broken, felicia day, fire with fire, fool's assassin, gildart jackson, graham joyce, haruki murakami, heart of iron, ice-t, jacob cooper, john shirley, kevin pariseau, michael chiklis, michael kramer, prime books, RA Salvatore, robin hobb, sean astin, the ghost in the electric blue suit, the legend of drizzt, wil wheaton

Release Week: Three, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, The Crown Tower, The Companions, Dragonwriter, and the New Space Opera

Posted on 2013-08-14 at 2:48 by Sam

JULY 31-AUGUST 6, 2013: Debuts, prequels, sequels, and anthologies, oh my! You can't throw a dart without hitting something worth listening to in the first release week of August. Post-apocalyptic debut sf? Check. A prequel to a bestselling adventure fantasy series? Check. The latest in R.A. Salvatore's beloved, long-running series of Drizzt books? How about an all-star-studded anthology reflecting on the influence of Anne McCaffery? Check, and check. Enjoy:

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Three: Legends of the

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged jay posey, michael j sullivan, RA Salvatore, three

Release Week: Chuck Wendig's Mockingbird, Adam Christopher's Seven Wonders, and Lee Battersby's The Corpse-Rat King

Posted on 2012-08-29 at 14:29 by Sam

Monday’s haul easily crossed the threshhold to put together the “earlier this week” releases, including several Stanislaw Lem novels (including Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age), the much-lauded self-published sf series Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 - 5) By Hugh Howey, and Briarpatch By Tim Pratt (narrated by this blog’s own Dave Thompson). Meanwhile it’s a big Tuesday (August 28, 2012) for Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio.

Mockingbird By Chuck Wendig, Narrated by Emily Beresford for Angry Robot on

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Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged adam christopher, angry robot, chuck wendig, graphicaudio, RA Salvatore, release week, the corpse-rat king