Posts tagged: tim pratt

February Whispersync Deal roundup: PKD, Marie Brennan, Walter Mosley, Ken MacLeod, Theodore Sturgeon, Robin Hobb, and more

Posted on 2015-02-17 at 20:55 by Sam

Well, February's well past half over, so as usual it's beyond past time to get this month's Whispersync deal roundup put together. So here we go!  [UPDATE: Since this series has drawn some new readers/listeners who may be unfamiliar with Whispersync for Voice, in brief: after (or at the same time as) buying the Kindle edition you can add on the narration if an enabled Audible edition exists, often for a steep discount on even the member/credit price.]

First, from the Monthly Deals for $3.99 or less listing

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Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged aj hartley, dave duncan, devon monk, harlan ellison, ian macleod, kevin j anderson, marie brennan, octavia butler, philip k dick, ralph lister, richard kadrey, robin hobb, stefan rudnicki, tanya eby, theodore sturgeon, tim pratt, walter mosley

October Whispersync Deal Roundup: Octavia Butler's Kindred, Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising, Jenni Fagan's The Panopticon, Tim Pratt's Heirs of Grace, James Blaylock's The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs, and more (UPDATED!)

Posted on 2014-10-02 at 14:22 by Sam

October is here, and so a new crop of monthly e-book deals are live. While quite a lot of the September roundup remains live as well (outside of the specifically monthly price drops) here's what's new:

NOTE: Updated on Tuesday Oct 7 with a pile of new listings! And again on Oct 15!

Kindred | [Octavia E. Butler] The Dark Is Rising: Book 2 of The Dark Is Rising Sequence | [Susan Cooper]

Octavia Butler's Kindred ($2.09+$3.49) -- Narrated by Kim Staunton for Recorded Books, this is one of the all-time-great novels of any genre in my opinion, and a fantastic audiobook: "The first science-fiction written by a

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Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged james blaylock, kindred, octavia butler, susan cooper, the dark is rising, tim pratt

Review: Rags and Bones

Posted on 2014-07-01 at 5:36 by Dave

b7ac-square-240 Rags & Bones Edited by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt, Read by Mark Cabus, Bernard Setaro Clark, and Reay Kaplan Length: 10 hours, 58 minutes

Reboots and remakes get a bad rap. I know - that’s a controversial stance to take. For instance, let's look at Star Wars, which has Death Star levels of angst aimed at it as if it were Alderaan, because Disney and Lucasfilm are wiping out the expanded universe. But here’s the thing – those beloved stories don’t cease to exist. A lot of those old stories and characters

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Posted in reviews | Tagged melissa marr, neil gaiman, rags and bones, saladin-ahmed, tim pratt

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

Posted on 2014-05-29 at 15:27 by Sam

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 down a notch, though with blockbuster series releases from Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files continues with Skin Game, read by James Marsters), Elizabeth Moon (Crown of Renewal in her  Paksennarion: Paladin's Legacy series), and Ian Douglas (Dark Matter in his

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged artemis awakening, glen hirshberg, heirs of grace, james marsters, jane lindskold, jim butcher, jo walton, john lee, leslie hull, motherless child, skin game, the dresden files, tim pratt, tooth and claw, xe sands

Interview: Tim Pratt, interviewed by Dave Thompson

Posted on 2012-09-19 at 2:35 by Sam

Briarpatch By Tim Pratt Narrated by Dave Thompson via ACX for Timothy Pratt c/o Curtis Brown, LTD Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins Release Date: 08-27-12 
Article and Interview by Dave Thompson

For the general public, Tim Pratt is one of the best kept secrets in fantasy fiction. I say this not just as someone who loves to read (and listen!) to Tim’s work, but as someone who who has bought his stories to be featured at PodCastle, a podcast run by Anna Scwhind and myself. Tim creates interesting characters who

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Posted in regular | Tagged dave thompson, interviews, tim pratt

Dave Thompson to narrate Tim Pratt's Briarpatch

Posted on 2012-05-21 at 20:37 by Sam

Link: Dave Thompson to narrate Tim Pratt's Briarpatch

Quoth Dave: “I get to read the audiobook for Tim Pratt’s amazing fantasy novel Briarpatch! … I am so stoked beyond words about this, I don’t even know what else to say! I keep expecting people to email me that they’ve changed their minds. I love this book. I loved it immediately - as soon as I started reading it when it came out last year.”

This is absolutely awesome news all around: 1. An audiobook for Briarpatch 2. I get to make Dave interview himself

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Posted in link | Tagged acx, briarpatch, dave thompson, tim pratt