Audible.com 24-hour 2-for-1 sale

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Audible.com 24-hour 2-for-1 sale

Posted on 2012-02-29 at 15:17 by Sam

Starting this morning and lasting until Thursday March 1 at 11 AM Eastern Time (US), Audible.com is promoting a 2-for-1 sale. This is one of the “special shopping cart” mini-site sales, and there is a tab for both Fantasy and (separately!) for Sci-Fi titles, though some titles of sf interest lurk on the Fiction, Young Adult, and other tabs as well. The titles include books from Fforde, Vonnegut, Tim Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, and more, and here are the ones which most caught my eye when scanning through this morning:

FICTION:

  • A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
  • Watership Down by Richard Adams
  • One of Our Thursdays is Missing: A Novel by Jasper Fforde
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Jane Austen and Steve Hockensmith
  • Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut — PICK
BIOS and MEMOIRS:
  • The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time by Douglas Adams
CLASSICS:
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
  • Adventure: The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy and The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
FANTASY:
  • Hard Magic: Book I of the Grimnoir Chronicles (read by Bronson Pinchot) and Monster Hunter Vendetta (read by Oliver Wyman) by Larry Correia
  • Ex-Patriots by Peter Clines
  • Wizard’s First Rule: Sword of Truth, Book 1 by Terry Goodkind
  • The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez
  • Swords and Ice Magic: The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser by Fritz Leiber, read by Jonathan Davis — PICK
  • The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers, read by Simon Vance — PICK (review by Dave Thompson here on Audible SF/F blog)
  • The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson, read by Oliver Wyman — PICK
  • The Sum of All Men: The Runelords, Book One by David Farland
  • A Shadow on the Glass: The View From the Mirror Quartet, Book 1 by Ian Irvine
  • Anthology: Down These Strange Streets edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, with stories by Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Diana Gabaldon, Simon R. Green, S. M. Stirling, and Carrie Vaughn
  • Anthology: Strange Brew by Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Karen Chance, P. N. Elrod, Charlaine Harris, Faith Hunter, Caitlin Kittredge, and Jenna Maclane
  • Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit (A Novel of King Arthur) by Mercedes Lackey
  • … and several sequels and books later in series
NON-FICTION:
  • Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human by Grant Morrison
  • Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos by Michio Kaku
  • The Science of Supervillains by Lois H. Gresh and Robert H. Weinberg
HISTORY:
  • The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
  • The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen
  • The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
SCI-FI:
  • A Beautiful Friendship: Star Kingdom, Book 1 by David Weber
  • Endymion by Dan Simmons
  • WWW: Watch and Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer
  • House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
  • Coyote Rising: A Novel of Interstellar Revolution by Allen Steele
  • Moonrise and Mars by Ben Bova
  • Pandora’s Star by Peter F. Hamilton
  • Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross — PICK
  • The Moon’s Shadow: A Novel of the Skolian Empire by Catherine Asaro
  • Starship: Pirate by Mike Resnick
  • Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Blackout by Connie Willis
  • Sundiver: The Uplift Saga, Book 1 by David Brin
  • Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut — PICK
  • … and several sequels and books later in series
YOUNG ADULT:
  • The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
  • Pathfinder: Book 1 by Orson Scott Card
  • Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne Jones
  • Eona: The Last Dragoneye by Alison Goodman
  • Everlost by Neal Shusterman
  • Ashes: Ashes Trilogy, Book 1 by Ilsa J. Bick
  • Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole: Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Books One, Two, and Three by Kathryn Lasky
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