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Audiobook release day: The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells and The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham

Posted on 2011-11-05 at 01:35 by Sam

The Cloud Roads By Martha Wells Narrated by Christopher Kipiniak From Audible Frontiers:

This is a book I picked up earlier this summer at my local library when doing a little cover browsing of new hardcovers. (Along with Greg Egan’s The Clockwork Rocket and Col Buchanan’s Farlander — quite a haul!) I read the opening, found it interesting, and marked it as one to look for in audio. And here it is: “Moon has spent his life hiding what he is - a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature

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More audiobook news, from announcements both Little and Big (ha ha!) to today's new releases.

Posted on 2011-11-03 at 18:18 by Sam

First, Sarah Prineas (author of The Magic Thief series) announced via Twitter that “a while ago” audio rights for her forthcoming novel Winterling (HarperChildrens, January 3, 2012) were sold to Recorded Books.

Second, from the “how did I not know this was coming” department, John Crowley’s novel Little, Big will be coming out December 1 from Blackstone Audio! Crowley announced the deal in late September, revealing that he will be narrating the novel, which he did for a previous audiobook, Aegypt (also from

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Audiobook release day: Rule 34 by Charles Stross

Posted on 2011-11-02 at 19:26 by Sam

Today sees the release of Rule 34 By Charles Stross Narrated by Robert Ian Mackenzie from Recorded Books:

A “loose sequel” to Halting State, Rule 34 uses three interleaving first person perspectives to tell its story: ”Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross takes listeners into the near future for this breathtaking thriller. As head of the Rule 34 Squad, Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh keeps a close eye on Internet activity, monitoring whether people are participating in harmless fantasies or engaging

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Audiobook announcement: Brilliance Audio has purchased audio rights for Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon (DAW Books)

Posted on 2011-11-02 at 18:26 by Sam

Saladin Ahmed broke the news on Twitter last Thursday, retweeted by his publisher DAW Books, that Brilliance Audio had purchased the audio rights to his debut novel, Throne of the Crescent Moon (hardcover, Feb 7, 2012):

And a day later, Ahmed posted the first chapter of the novel on his blog. As a fan both of Ahmed’s short fiction (which I’ve enjoyed catching at PodCastle, and which garnered him enough votes to be a finalist for both a Nebula Award and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer) and of

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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 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

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