Audiobook release day: The Magician King by Lev Grossman, read by Mark Bramhall

Leading a 4-pack of interesting releases at Audible.com today is Lev Grossman’s The Magician King, read by Mark Bramhall:

It’s a wonderful novel, and already a few chapters into the audiobook … so very happy once again with Bramhall’s narration of this world. Several reviews have started showing up (last month The Guilded Earlobe reviewed the audiobook as an A+), yesterday CNN had a brief review along with an interview, and today includes a glowing review from NPR. On Tumblr, Grossman was recently featured at the excellent Write Place, Write Time. Also yesterday, Tor.com posted a “spoiler free” review and an excerpt of Chapter 4, which starts the “Julia chapters” of Julia’s backstory. Go read! Go listen!

Also out today: Machine Man by Max Barry (author of Jennifer Government) narrated by Sean Runnette (whom I last heard read David Halperin’s excellent Journal of a UFO Investigator: A Novel) as well as two novels from the late Kage Baker: The House of the Stag read by the incomparable Oliver Wyman (Finch, Gateway) and Empress of Mars read by Nicola Barber. Machine Man is a book I was expecting to hear, the two Baker novels are a very pleasant surprise.