Release Week Wednesday: The Curious Case(s) of Burton & Swinburne, Against the Light, KKR, PKD, and more

MISSING IN ACTION:

• Resurrection by Arwen Elys Dayton, read by Kate Rudd for Amazon.com’s Brilliance Audio (Jan 24) — originally published in June 2001 by Roc, being re-issued in paperback by Amazon.com SF/F imprint 47North — recently reviewed by The Guilded Earlobe and already available on CD and MP3-CD
• YR: Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener’s Bones By: Brandon Sanderson (Recorded Books) — originally published in October 2009, and following an audio version of the first book in the series (Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians) which was released in August 2011 — I thought I had seen a release date in the Recorded Books catalogue, but the listing there doesn’t seem to have one other than “first quarter”, though it does specify that narrator Ramon de Ocampo reprises his role from book one, and! there are listenings for both Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia and Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens
• Everything is Broken by John Shirley (Prime, Jan 24, 2012) — no audio news
• Non-genre: The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration by Alec Wilkinson (Knopf, Jan 24, 2012) — no audio news
• YR: The Next Full Moon by Carolyn Turgeon (Jan 24, 2012) — no audio news
• Hitchers by Will McIntosh (Night Shade Books, Jan 24, 2012) — no audio news

NEXT WEEK (Jan 31):

• Greatshadow: The Dragon Apocalypse by James Maxey (Solaris, Jan 31, 2012) — no audio news
• The Dread (The Fallen Kings Cycle) by Gail Martin (Orbit, Jan 31, 2012) — coming on Feb 1 from Tantor Audio, read by Kirby Heyborne
• Giant Thief by David Tallerman (Angry Robot, Jan 31, 2012) — no audio news
• The Great Game: The Bookman Histories, Book 3 by Lavie Tidhar (Angry Robot, Jan 31, 2012) — no audio news
• Chasing the Moon by A. Lee Martinez (Orbit, Jan 31, 2012)
• Sadie Walker Is Stranded: A Zombie Novel by Madeleine Roux (St. Martin’s Griffin, Jan 31, 2012) — no audio news
• Star Trek: The Original Series: The Rings of Time by G. Cox (Pocket Books, Jan 31, 2012) — no audio news
• Heir of Novron (Riyria Revelations) by Michael J. Sullivan (Orbit, Jan 31, 2012) — no specific audio news, but book 1, Theft of Swords, is coming to audio in 2012
• Shadow Ops: Control Point by Myke Cole (Jan 31, 2012)
• Collection: The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy: A Michael Bishop Retrospective by Michael Bishop (Subterranean, Jan 31, 2012) — no audio news
• YA: Article 5 [Goodreads] by Kristen Simmons (Tor Teen, January 31) — “New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned. The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes.”
• To Marry Medusa by Theodore Sturgeon, read by Stefan Rudnicki for Blackstone Audio (1 Feb 12)
• A Pleasure to Burn by Ray Bradbury (Blackstone Audio, 1 Feb 12)
• Them or Us by David Moody, read by Gerard Doyle for Blackstone Audio (1 Feb 12)
• Collection: Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub, from Brilliance Audio (2/1/2012)
• Non-fiction: The Titanic: Disaster of the Century by Wyn Craig Wade, read by Robertson Dean (February 1, Tantor Audio) — a re-release of The Titanic: End of a Dream
• The Daylight War by Peter V. Brett (Feb 4, 2012)

TWO WEEKS (Feb 7):

• Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel R. Delany (Magnus Books, Feb 7, 2012) — no audio news
• Throne of the Crescent Moon (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, #1) by Saladin Ahmed (Brilliance Audio, 7 Feb 2012) — concurrent with the DAW hardcover, Phil Gigante narrating
• City of Dragons: Volume Three of the Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb (Feb 7, 2012) — coming to audio from Harper Audio
• Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A. S. Byatt and read by Harriet Walter for Brilliance Audio (Feb 7, 2012) — concurrent with the US hardcover from Grove Press, out last year in the UK
• The Mirage: A Novel by Matt Ruff (Harper, Feb 7, 2012) — “11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers. The United Arab States declares a War on Terror.”
• Non-genre: Codex Written by Lev Grossman (Random House Audio, 7 February 2012) — this is likely the Random House UK production of Grossman’s 2004 thriller
• Non-genre: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (audiobook coming February 7, 2012)
• Anthology: Robots: The Recent A.I. edited by Rich Horton and Sean Wallace, with stories by Rachel Swirsky, Elizabeth Bear, Aliette De Bodard, Catherynne M. Valente, and Cory Doctorow (Prime, Feb 7, 2012) — table of contents — no audio news
• Shadow Light (Beautiful Beings #3) by Kailin Gow (Feb 7, 2012)
• The Order of the Scales: The Memory of Flames, Book III by Stephen Deas (Feb 7, 2012) — out in the UK last year, book IV should be out (in the UK) this year as well
• Anthology: Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom edited by John Joseph Adams, with stories by Peter S. Beagle, Jonathan Maberry, Catherynne M. Valente and Tobias S. Buckell (Feb 7, 2012) — no audio news
• Wild Thing: A Novel by Josh Bazell (Feb 8, 2012) — sequel to Beat the Reaper — confirmed coming to audio (on Audible’s coming soon)
• The Fourth Wall by Walter Jon Williams (Orbit, Feb 13, 2012) — third in a series

THREE WEEKS (Feb 14):

• When We Were Executioners by J. M. McDermott (Night Shade Books, Feb 14, 2012) — sequel to 2011’s Never Knew Another
• Non-genre: Available Dark by Elizabeth Moon (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne, 14 Feb 12) — no audio news
• Ashes of Candesce: Book Five of Virga by Karl Schroeder (Tor, Feb 14, 2012)
• Thief’s Covenant: A Widdershins Adventure by Ari Marmell (Pyr, Feb 14, 2012)
• YR: Above World by Jenn Reese (Candlewick on Brilliance Audio, Feb 14, 2012)
• The Stand Written by Stephen King, read by Grover Gardner for Random House Audio (14 February 2012) — an long-awaited unabridged recording of The Stand
• Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente, from Brilliance Audio on Feb 14 — the 2011 Audible production comes to physical media
• Mrs. God by Peter Straub, from Brilliance Audio, simultaneously released with the hardcover from Pegasus on Feb 15, 2012 — an older short novel being re-released
• From the Deep of the Dark (Jackelian 6) by Stephen Hunt (Harper Voyager, Feb 16, 2012)