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Release Week(s): Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem, Tobias Buckell’s The Apocalypse Ocean, Stephen King’s Revival, V Wars: Blood and Fire, Bitter Waters, Amanda Palmer’s The Art of Asking, and Jeff VanderMeer’s “Area X”

NOVEMBER 5-18, 2014: A Chinese science fiction blockbuster translated into English by one of the world’s best new writers, a new novel from Stephen King read by actor David Morse, Amanda Palmer’s self-help advice/memoir book, an anthology series sequel to V Wars, … Continue reading

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Audible’s “Thrills and Chills” sale through October 31

Just in time for Halloween, Audible is having a Thrills and Chills sale, with a goodly pile of audiobooks on sale for $6.95 through October 31. (Meanwhile, today’s Daily Deal is The Amityville Horror for $2.95, so there’s that, too.) … Continue reading

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Release Week: Six-Gun Snow White, The River of Souls, The Dark Between the Stars, Prince of Fools, The Science of Discworld, and Mr. Mercedes

MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2014: June got off to a big start, with star-spanning sf (Kevin J. Anderson’s The Dark Between the Stars), epic fantasy (Mark Lawrence’s Prince of Fools), historical almost-supernatural thriller (Robert McCammon’s The River of Souls), a fairytale recast in the Wild West … 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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Review: Joyland

Joyland By Stephen King, read by Michael Kelly Length: 7 hours, 33 minutes Sometimes, I feel like fun is a dirty word. Especially when it comes to entertainment, we’ll put words like “cheap” or “Junk” or “Trash” in front of … Continue reading

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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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Release Week: Doctor Sleep, The Incrementalists, Every Boy Should Have a Man, and North American Lake Monsters

SEPTEMBER 18-24, 2013: Well, I warned you last week that this week would be big. Huge. The list of excellent audiobooks that fall into the “also out this week” would make for a stellar set of release week picks: V.E. … Continue reading

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World Fantasy Awards 2012 nominees announced

The nominees for the 2012 World Fantasy Awards have been announced, and all five of the novels on the final ballot are available in audio. Let me run them down for you:       Those Across the River, Christopher Buehlman … Continue reading

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Release Week: King of Thorns; Laird Barron’s The Croning; Neal Stephenson’s Some Remarks; David Tennant narrates a new sequel to Treasure Island; apocalypses and ghosts; more Stephen King; and more

The first release week of August packs a pretty big whallop, though it doesn’t bring a couple of the titles I was most looking forward to (Jim C. Hines’s Libriomancer and T. Aaron Payton’sThe Constantine Affliction— Payton is a new … Continue reading

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