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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

Posted on 2014-10-24 by montsamu

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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Release Week: The Doubt Factory, Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, The Lottery and Other Stories, and As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

Posted on 2014-10-17 by montsamu

OCTOBER 8-14, 2014:  October continues to be a month of bountiful harvests in terms of audiobooks, as my first pass for picks came up with 16 titles to strongly consider. So! After the four picks, do check out the “also … Continue reading →

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September Whispersync Deal Roundup

Posted on 2014-09-12 by montsamu

Out with the deals of August and in with the deals of September! As usual, the daily #WhispersyncDeal posts on Facebook/Twitter cover the more ephemeral deals, but here’s some titles to check out all September long — but first, some deals … Continue reading →

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Release Week: Bears Discover Fire, The Quick, Rogues, The Fever, high-end sf sequels, and Luke Daniels, Luke Daniels, Luke Daniels

Posted on 2014-06-21 by montsamu

JUNE 11-17, 2014: There is an absolute avalanche of outstanding audio this week, comprised mostly of audiobooks we’ve been anticipating for a good while now, but led by a breathtaking surprise: Terry Bisson’s 1993 collection Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories. There’s … Continue reading →

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Release Week: Jeff VanderMeer’s Authority, Laline Paull’s The Bees, Charlie Fletcher’s The Oversight, Michael Cunningham’s The Snow Queen, and Stefan Rudnicki reading Silverberg, Lansdale, and John Joseph Adams

Posted on 2014-05-12 by montsamu

APRIL 30-MAY 6, 2014: May is here, and the first release week brings with it a massive haul of audiobooks to kick off a month just packed with highly-anticipated titles. It was hard cutting to limit my PICKS to just seven … Continue reading →

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Release Week: Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon, Geoff Ryman’s The Warrior Who Carried Life, Michael J. Sullivan’s Hollow World, Ben Bova’s Transhuman, Jay Lake’s collection The Sky That Wraps, and Cory Doctorow’s Homeland

Posted on 2014-04-17 by montsamu

APRIL 9-15, 2014: After two massive release weeks in a row, we get a bit of a breather here in terms of overall numbers, but a half-dozen fantastic titles make for another week of hard choices for those without infinite time … Continue reading →

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Release Week: Words of Radiance, Ghost Train to New Orleans, Tropic of Serpents, Half Bad, The King in Yellow read by Stefan Rudnicki, and Seth MacFarlane’s A Million Ways to Die in the West performed by Jonathan Frakes

Posted on 2014-03-06 by montsamu

FEBRUARY 26-MARCH 4, 2014: And here I thought that last week was packed. This week saw almost 200 titles released on March 4 alone, with another 100 on March 3. My picks of this avalanche include an epic fantasy sequel from … Continue reading →

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The 2014 Audie Award finalists have been announced

Posted on 2014-02-19 by montsamu

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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Release Week: Shovel Ready, The Emperor’s Blades, Alex Bledsoe’s Eddie LaCrosse, Shawn Speakman’s The Dark Thorn, Gateways, and Clive Barker’s The Books of Blood

Posted on 2014-01-15 by montsamu

JANUARY 8-14, 2014: This week the name of the game is “fantasy”, though near-future noir (Shovel Ready), the latest Peter Clines (Ex-Purgatory, read by Jay Snyder), classic sf from Asimov (read by Scott Brick) and Vonda McIntyre (read by Gayle … Continue reading →

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Release Week: Nicola Griffith’s Hild, Lewis Shiner’s Collected Stories, and Simon Vance narrates John Harwood’s The Ghost Writer and Clive Barker’s collection of First Tales

Posted on 2013-12-18 by montsamu

DECEMBER 11-17, 2013: Finally! Amidst one of the quietest weeks yet on the year, Nicola Griffith’s Hild is in audio at last, along with a multi-voiced production of Lewis Shiner’s magnificent Collected Stories and enough chilling tales to send you … Continue reading →

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