Audible.com’s latest “Win-Win” sale, with $4.95 audiobooks until March 13

As the 200+ books are listed by section by author last name, though there’s an Editors’ Picks section as well, this doesn’t make it that easy for the sf/f listener to get a glance at all the titles. (Though what I generally do is check my wish list, sorted by price, to see what sorts up at $4.95.) So, here’s my glance-through (not every sf/f title, particularly in the urban fantasy and paranormal romance side of things you’ll want to check the listings for yourself) of Audible.com’s latest “Win-Win” sale, which ends March 13.

TOP PICKS:

• Anthology: METAtropolis By Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, John Scalzi, and Karl Schroeder, Narrated by Michael Hogan, Scott Brick, Kandyse McClure, Alessandro Juliani, Stefan Rudnicki, and hosted by John Scalzi — a fantastic near/medium future shared world anthology of post-collapse, narrated by an all-star cast from Battlestar Galactica and featuring stories from fantastic authors
• The Alchemist and the Executioness By Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell, Narrated by Jonathan Davis and Katherine Kellgren — another shared-world multi-contributor work, this time two novellas in a fantasy milieu where magic comes at a cost, illustrated with two excellent stories

 

NEXT PICKS:

• Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel By Austin Grossman, Narrated by Coleen Marlo and Paul Boehmer — superhero fiction done quite well, with alternating storylines from narrators Marlo (a cyborg who has just joined an elite superhero group) and Boehmer (a megalomaniacal supervillain)
• Leviathan Wakes By James S.A. Corey, Narrated by Jefferson Mays — this well-received 2011 space opera continues with a sequel later this year
• The Once and Future King By T. H. White, Narrated by Neville Jason — this includes all of The Sword in the Stone, The Witch in the Wood’ &’The Ill-Made Knight’, and The Candle in the Wind and The Book of Merlyn, making it quite the deal for one of the truly foundational fantasy/mythopoetic stories — here is Lev Grossman’s appreciation of the novel for NPR in last 2010
• Brave New World By Aldous Huxley, Narrated by Michael York — I’ve listened to this one and it’s a solid production of one of the classics of dystopian sf
• I Am Legend By Richard Matheson, Narrated by Robertson Dean — while the film starring Will Smith is based on the novel, there was a large, large amount of departure in both setting, plot, and ending
• The Lies of Locke Lamora By Scott Lynch, Narrated by Michael Page — Series: Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book 1
• The Sparrow By Mary Doria Russell, Narrated by David Colacci — breathtaking sf novel of first contact, sociology, biology, and faith
• The Lost Gate: Mithermages, Book 1 By Orson Scott Card, Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki and Emily Janice Card — Series: Mithermages, Book 1 — author Card creates an Ender-esque hero in young Danny North in a pantheistic contemporary fantasy in the American Gods milieu of all gods existing simultaneously

MORE PICKS:

• Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book 13 By Jim Butcher Narrated by John Glover — Series: The Dresden Files, Book 13
• Dune: House Harkonnen: House Trilogy, Book 2 By Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Narrated by Scott Brick — Series: Prelude to Dune, Book 2 — Series: Dune Saga, Book 8
• All Clear By Connie Willis, Narrated by Katherine Kellgren — Series: Oxford Time Travel, Book 4 — the second half of the Blackout/All Clear duology which won both the Nebula Award and Hugo Award for best novel last year
• Dragons of the Dwarven Depths: The Lost Chronicles, Volume 1 By Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Narrated by Sandra Burr
• Journey to the Center of the Earth: A Signature Performance by Tim Curry By Jules Verne, Narrated by Tim Curry
• Way Station By Clifford D. Simak, Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer
• The Sheriff of Yrnameer: A Novel By Michael Rubens, Narrated by William Dufris
• Little Fuzzy By H. Beam Piper, Narrated by Peter Ganim
• The Mote in God’s Eye By Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Narrated by L J Ganser
• Thirteen By Richard K. Morgan, Narrated by Simon Vance
• The Cat Who Walks through Walls By Robert Heinlein, Narrated by Tom Weiner
• Variable Star By Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson, Narrated by Spider Robinson
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! By Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen, Narrated by Katherine Kellgren
• Lost in a Good Book: A Thursday Next Novel By Jasper Fforde, Narrated by Emily Gray — Series: Thursday Next Novels, Book 2 — but, alas! I have been waiting for Book 1 to go on sale to tempt me into this series…
• A Kingdom Besieged: Book One of the Chaoswar Saga By Raymond E. Feist, Narrated by John Meagher — Feist’s long-running storyline which began with Pug and Krondor and the Riftwar continues; book two of this series has already been released in audio in the UK
• Pawn of Prophecy: The Belgariad, Book 1 By David Eddings, Narrated by Cameron Beierle — Series: Belgariad, Book 1
• The Magician’s Guild: The Black Magician Trilogy: Book One By Trudi Canavan, Narrated by Richard Aspel
• Mirror Dance: A Miles Vorkosigan Novel By Lois McMaster Bujold, Narrated by Grover Gardner — Series: Vorkosigan Saga (chronological), Book 10
• YR: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass By Lewis Carroll, Narrated by Michael Page
• YR: The Little Prince By Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Narrated by Humphrey Bower