Release Week: Lost and Found, When Worlds Collide

Release Week: Lost and Found, When Worlds Collide

Posted on 2012-02-01 at 13:40 by Sam

A fairly quiet release week to end January, with the most interesting titles for me being previously released books.

The first is Lost and Found: The Taken Trilogy, Book 1 By Alan Dean Foster, Narrated by Oliver Wyman for Audible, Inc.:

Originally published in 2004 by Del Rey: “Not so long ago Marcus Walker was just another young commodities trader in Chicago, working hard and playing harder. But that’s all in the past, part of a life half forgotten-a reality that vanished when he was attacked while camping and tossed aboard a starship bound for deep space.”

The second (and third) are two classic sf novels from the 1930s by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer, When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide:

Read by Peter Ganim for Audible Frontiers, the first book details the cataclysmic approach of a rogue planet, bound for impact with earth; the second with the life of the survivors.

ALSO OUT THIS WEEK:

LATER THIS WEEK:

• The Dread (The Fallen Kings Cycle) by Gail Martin (Orbit, Jan 31, 2012) — coming on Feb 1 from Tantor Audio, read by Kirby Heyborne
• To Marry Medusa by Theodore Sturgeon, read by Stefan Rudnicki for 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) — no audio news

MISSING IN ACTION:

• Down Here In The Dark by Lee Thompson (Delirium Books, Jan 30, 2012) — no audio news
• Greatshadow: The Dragon Apocalypse by James Maxey (Solaris, Jan 31, 2012) — no audio news
• Giant Thief by David Tallerman (Angry Robot, Jan 31, 2012) — coming to audiobook on May 1, 2012 from Brilliance Audio!
• 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) — 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) — subject of a recent “Big Idea” piece on Scalzi’s Whatever blog
• 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.”

NEXT WEEK (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

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