Audiobook release day: The Folded World by Catherynne M. Valente (and many more)
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Audiobook release day: The Folded World by Catherynne M. Valente (and many more)
Posted on 2011-11-01 at 15:42 by Sam
On a busy day to start November, my most-anticipated title is without question The Folded World: A Dirge for Prester John Volume Two By Narrated by
Book 2 in her A Dirge for Prester John series after 2010’s The Habitation of the Blessed — also narrated by Lister and out from Brilliance Audio. In book 2, “Mythopoeic Award winner Catherynne M. Valente continues to re-imagine the legends of the Middle Ages” and we’ll see the armies of Prester John come to Constantinople’s aid in Jerusalem. Count me in.
ALSO OUT TODAY:
- Out of Oz: The Wicked Years, Volume 4 By Narrated by
- Firebird: An Alex Benedict Novel By Narrated by
- Late Eclipses: An October Daye Novel and One Salt Sea: An October Daye Novel, Book 5 by Seanan McGuire and narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal from Brilliance Audio — numbers 4 and 5 in the October Daye Series
- A Fighting Chance: Legion of the Damned, Book 9 By Narrated by
- Young readers: The Outcasts: Brotherband Chronicles, Book 1 By Narrated by
- Young readers/Short: The Adventures of Tintin: The Chapter Book By arrated by
- Non-genre: The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel By Narrated by
MISSING IN ACTION:
- The Other by Matthew Hughes (Underland Press, Nov 1, 2011) — Underland Press got onto my radar by publishing Jeff VaderMeer’s Finch, and I’m hopeful that an audio publisher somewhere will take a look at Hughes’s latest, sooner or later. (If they’re not already working on it.)
- Anthology: Alien Contact edited by Marty Halpern (Night Shade Books) — with stories from Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow, …
- Anthology: Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka by John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly (Tachyon, Nov 1, 2011)
- Collection: At the Mountains of Madness: And Other Works of Weird Fiction (Tomb of Lovecraft) by H.P. Lovecraft and D M Mitchell (Nov 1, 2011)
- Amnesia by Dwayne Harris (Nov 1, 2011)
- Collection: Unpossible and Other Stories by Daryl Gregory (Nov 1, 2011)
- I, Robot: To Protect by Mickey Zucker Reichert (Nov 1, 2011)
- Stone Spring: The Northland Trilogy by Stephen Baxter (Nov 1, 2011)
- The Ninth Circle: A Novel of the U.S.S. Merrimack (Tour of the Merrimack) by R. M. Meluch (Nov 1, 2011)
- The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Outspoken Authors) by Cory Doctorow (Nov 1, 2011)
NEXT WEEK:
- Seed by Rob Ziegler (Night Shade Books, Nov 8, 2011) — no audio news
- Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle) by Christopher Paolini (Nov 8, 2011)
- Wild Cards I by George R. R. Martin from Brilliance Audio — “After the Alien Virus Struck Humanity in the Wake of World War II, a Handful of Survivors Found They Possessed Superhuman Powers. Here Are Their Stories.”
- The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick by Philip K. Dick, Edited by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem from Brilliance Audio
- Darkness Falling by Peter Crowther from Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio, in the Forever Twilight Series
- The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel by Brandon Sanderson, narrated by Michael Kramer (Macmillan Audio) — from Library Journal: Brandon Sanderson, one of fantasy’s hottest writers, will try a new experiment, bringing his successful “Mistborn” series forward several generations for a new trilogy set in the industrial era
- Endurance by Jay Lake — sequel to Green (Tor, November 8, 2011)
- Stands a Shadow by Col Buchanan — sequel to Farlander (Tor, November 8, 2011)
- When the Saints by Dave Duncan (Tor, November 8, 2011)
- YA: Tiger’s Voyage: Tiger’s Curse, Book 3 By Narrated by
- Non-genre? The Prague Cemetary by Umberto Eco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 8, 2011)
- Collection: The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo (Scribner, Nov 8, 2011
- Anthology: Bearded Women Stories by Teresa Milbrodt (ChiZine, Nov 8, 2011)
- Enter, Night by Michael Rowe (ChiZine, Nov 8, 2011)
- 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King (Scribner, Simon & Schuster Audio, November 8, 2011)
- Scholar (Imager Portfolio) by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
- After the Apocalypse: Stories by Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer Press)
- Non-Fiction: And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields (Nov 8, 2011) and Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut’s Life and Novels by Gregory D. Sumner (Nov 8, 2011)
- Them or Us (Hater Trilogy) by David Moody (Nov 8, 2011)