Audiobook release day: The Folded World by Catherynne M. Valente (and many more)

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 Catherynne M. Valente Narrated by Ralph Lister:

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 Gregory Maguire Narrated by John McDonough
• Firebird: An Alex Benedict Novel By Jack McDevitt Narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck
• 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 William C. Dietz Narrated by Donald Corren
• Young readers: The Outcasts: Brotherband Chronicles, Book 1 By John Flanagan Narrated by John Keating — the author of the Ranger’s Apprentice series takes a look at some other characters
• Young readers/Short: The Adventures of Tintin: The Chapter Book By Stephanie Peters Narrated by Nick Sullivan — based on the new feature film
• Non-genre: The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel By Anthony Horowitz Narrated by Derek Jacobi

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 Colleen Houck Narrated by Annika Boras
• 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)