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Review: The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers, read by Simon Vance

Posted on 2012-01-17 at 14:00 by Sam

I’m pleased to welcome a new regular contributor to the Audible SF/F blog: Dave Thompson. While we have plans (a podcast? two-contributor reviews?) he’s starting out with a review of The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers, read by Simon Vance for Blackstone Audio. Out in April of 2011, the novel was originally published in print in 1989 by Ace Hardcover. A new book, Hide Me Among the Graves: A Novel is due out in March from William Morrow.

Review by Dave Thompson

There’s a tense scene early on in Tim

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Interview Monday: narrator Robertson Dean on William Gibson's Distrust That Particular Flavor

Posted on 2012-01-16 at 14:00 by Sam

Dear readers of Audible SF/F, you are in for a treat. Today’s installment of Interview Monday is a conversation with narrator (and stage, film, and TV actor) Robertson Dean.

Dean has narrated nearly 200 titles, from Beowulf to all manner of current fiction and non-fiction, and has become for all intents and purposes the voice of William Gibson in audio, having narrated 2007’s Spook Country, 2010’s Zero History, a 2011 unabridged production of Neuromancer, and the just-released essay collection Distrust That

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Jo Walton's Among Others, read by Katherine Kellgren

Posted on 2012-01-16 at 12:48 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Jo Walton's Among Others, read by Katherine Kellgren

“Quick Thoughts: Among Others is a novel full of that magical brilliance that I just cannot properly explain with words. It is the ultimate genre blending novel. It is a fantasy novel for science fiction fans, a character study for those who love well plotted tales. It is an adult novel that embraces the tropes of children and young adult literature, adding texture and created something totally unique.”

Wow. Now I

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Feature Friday: Ridiculously Huge Preview of 2012

Posted on 2012-01-13 at 18:03 by Sam

This one comes more than a week later than planned as we’re not just one but two release weeks into the year, but, hey, it’s really, really big. As always a big, big hat tip to Cybermage’s sf book calendar, along with Locus Magazine’s forthcoming books listing, a long list of ARCs offered for the Magick 4 Terri LiveJournal, io9, and a particularly fruitful thread on the ASOIAF forum. This is probably too big to be useful? Maybe. Probably. I got carried away. So much for my goal of keeping track of fewer

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The Guilded Earlobe continues its "Welcome to the Apocalypse" series with "My Favorite Post Apocalyptic Audiobooks of 2011: Zombies"

Posted on 2012-01-13 at 15:40 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe continues its "Welcome to the Apocalypse" series with "My Favorite Post Apocalyptic Audiobooks of 2011: Zombies"

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Audiobook release day: Velvet Dogma by Weston Ochse

Posted on 2012-01-12 at 17:59 by Sam

Velvet Dogma By Weston Ochse is a 2011 novel billed as “Philip K. Dick meets William Gibson.” Narrated by Arika Escalona for Crossroad Press, it is set in the year 2040 in a world of human-machine ocular nerve interaction and sanctioned organ theft, with paroled cyberterrorist Rebecca Mines on the run:

OUT YESTERDAY:

• Sixth Column By Robert A. Heinlein Narrated by Tom Weiner for Blackstone Audio — Heinlein’s 1949 novel of “six against six million in a brilliantly waged near-future war for nothing less than

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Release Week Wednesday: Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson

Posted on 2012-01-11 at 13:03 by Sam

My pick of the audiobooks out this release week is Distrust That Particular Flavor [Goodreads | not yet available at Audible.com] By William Gibson, Read By Robertson Dean for Tantor Audio:

Published last week in print, this collection of essays comes to us from, essentially, the voice of Gibson in audio, as Dean has narrated recent Gibson novels Spook Country and Zero History with more than aplomb, perfectly capturing the voices of Hollis Henry and (in particular) Milgrim, as well as last year’s new

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Interview Monday: narrator Gayle Hendrix on Stellarnet Rebel

Posted on 2012-01-09 at 16:44 by Sam

For the second Interview Monday of 2012, I’m very happy to welcome narrator Gayle Hendrix to talk about Stellarnet Rebel, the debut novel by J.L. Hilton released last week in e-book and audiobook by Harlequin e-imprint Carina Press. Stellarnet Rebel sees newsblogger Genny O’Riordan arrive on “Asteria, a corporate-owned deep-space colony populated by refugees, criminals, and obsessed online gamers”.

There she meets Duin, an alien speaking out against the invasion of his homeworld by the insect-like Tikati

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George Guidall's letter to the NY Times editor, on the "rise" of audiobooks

Posted on 2012-01-06 at 18:50 by Sam

Link: George Guidall's letter to the NY Times editor, on the "rise" of audiobooks

Referencing James Parker’s article, “The Mind’s Ear”. (Another letter to the editor, not quite as complimentary of audiobooks as “reading”, references John Schwartz’s article “Wired for Sound”.) Hat tip to narrator Simon Vance’s tweet today, to which I join my own: “How did I miss this?” — I did read Schwartz’s article, but missed both Parker’s and the letters to the editor.

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The Guilded Earlobe's favorite (non-zombie) post-apocalyptic audiobooks of 2011

Posted on 2012-01-06 at 18:32 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe's favorite (non-zombie) post-apocalyptic audiobooks of 2011

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