Today sees a pair of big non-genre titles, a pile of zombie novels from Audible Frontiers, along with a 3-book young reader collection that brings back fond memories of trips to the library, backpack in tow. But primarily it’s an opportunity to recount some interesting-looking sf titles which for one reason or another did not (yet?) make it to audio.
OUT TODAY:
- The Third Reich By Narrated by For Macmillan Audio — a German wargames player becomes engrossed in more than he bargained for in coastal Catalonia in this early novel discovered in Bolano’s notes and billed as “… a stunning exploration of memory and violence. Reading this quick, visceral novel, we see a world-class writer coming into his own—and exploring for the first time the themes that would define his masterpieces The Savage Detectives and 2666.”
- by Narrated by Harper Audio — completed by the science writer Richard Preston, a thriller of nanotech murders, pitting “nature against technology in vintage Crichton fashion”
- Young readers: The Ralph S. Mouse Audio Collection By Narrated by For Harper Audio — collecting previous standalone releases The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Ralph S. Mouse, and Runaway Ralph in a single, much more economical, audiobook
- … and a veritable pile of zombie novels from Audible Frontiers
Also out today are two new physical audiobooks for previously-released digital-only, Audible-exclusive audiobooks:
- The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke from Brilliance Audio — never before in (physical) audio, Hugo and Nebula winner in 1980 — this is Marc Vietor’s 2009 narrationfor Audible Frontiers
- All Tomorrow’s Parties by William Gibson from Brilliance Audio — never before in (physical) audiobook, this is Jonathan Davis’s 2009 narration for Audible Frontiers
MISSING IN ACTION:
- Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights by Ryu Mitsuse (Nov 15, Haikasoru) — more info about this important Japanese sf novel
- The Book of Heroes by Miyuki Miyabe (VIZ Media LLC)
- Anthology: Lightspeed: Year One (Prime Books)
- Automaton by Cheryl Davies (MP Publishing)
- The Griffin Mage by Rachel Neumeier (Nov 16, Orbit)
- Scotland as Science Fiction (Bucknell Apercus: Histori) by Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Nov 16, Lexington Books)
- The Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler (Nov 21, Razorbill)
- 20 Years Later by Emma Newman (Nov 22, Dystopia Press)
- Somewhere Beneath Those Waves by Sarah Monette (Prime Books)
- New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird edited by Paula Guran (Prime Books)
- Hearts of Smoke and Steam (Society of Steam, Book Two) by Andrew Mayer (Pyr)
- Young Readers: The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman (Small Beer Press) — recent subject of a “Big Idea” post at Scalzi’s Whatever blog and the bearer of some high praise from all over the map
- Anthology: Alien Contact by Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card and Cory Doctorow (Paperback, Night Shade Books) edited by Marty Halpern
- Theft of Swords (Riyria Revelations) by Michael J. Sullivan (Nov 23, 2011) — from Library Journal: Orbit brings Michael J. Sullivan’s self-published sensation, “The Riyria Revelations” series, to wider audiences, starting with the thieves-on-the-run adventure Theft of Swords
