Audiobook release day: Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs (and a whole lot more)

Audiobook release day: Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs (and a whole lot more)

Posted on 2011-08-16 at 15:42 by Sam

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With front cover praise from David Drake (“Southern Gods is scary, smart, and effective both as Lovecraftian fiction and as a Southern Regional novel set in 1951”) and a recent “Big Idea” feature on Scalzi’s Whatever blog, Southern Gods is John Hornor Jacobs’s debut novel from Night Shade Books. Out in print late last month, Brilliance Audio has produced an Eric G Dove narration of the novel which is out today.

It’s not showing up in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy section (it’s slotted into Fiction/Horror), which, well, whatever, OK. Also out today:

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline narrated by Wil Wheaton and which is the subject of today’s “Big Idea” feature over on Scalzi’s Whatever blog (and I’m looking forward to the Guilded Earlobe review…)
• The Dervish House by Ian McDonald narrated by Jonathan Davis is one of the great sf novels of 2010, now in audio
• Two novels from M. K. Hobson both narrated by Suehyla Et-Attar: The Native Star (2010) and The Hidden Goddess
• The Omen Machine: A Richard and Kahlan Novel by Terry Goodkind narrated by Sam Tsoutsouvas
• The Moon Maze Game: A Dream Park Novel by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes narrated by Stefan Rudnicki
• Low Town: A Novel by Daniel Polansky narrated by Rob Shapiro — author interview at FantasyLiterature — author podcast interview with Skiffy and Fanty
• Collection: The Little Black Bag and Other Stories by C. M. Kornbluth narrated by William Coon
• Non-genre: Lieutenant Hornblower by C. S. Forester narrated by Christian Rodska is one of the classics of adventure fiction

And added yesterday, both an anticipated non-fiction title (Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon narrated by Ray Porter) and and anthology: The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 which collects short stories by Damien Broderick, Yoon Ha Lee, Ian R MacLeod, Sean McMullen, Allen M Steele, Robert Reed, and Peter Watts and is narrated by Tom Dheere, Nicola Barber, and Kate Baker:

I’ve heard Kate Baker’s reading of “The Things” and the others are a list of some of the stories I’ve been looking forward to hearing for a long time — particularly Rajaniemi’s Elegy for a Young Elk, the Aliete de Bodard story, the Yoon Ha Lee story, … OK, OK. All of them.

Whew. What a packed mid-August audiobook calendar. A bit of a meta update: now a week into its release, Lev Grossman’s The Magician King (2009’s The Magicians) are topping the Audible.com SF/F bestseller list, displacing George R.R. Martin’s epics at long last. Perhaps more interestingly, they’re also climbing the overall Audible charts, passing “Go the F to Sleep”, “Full Black”, “Mockingjay”, and Tina Fey’s “Bossypants”. Though “The Help” will take some moving.

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