The release week for Tuesday, April 3 is led by the release of Triggers By Narrated by On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin’s bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories. Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac arrest. He has a near-death experience – but the memories that flash through Jerrison’s mind are not his memories. It quickly becomes clear that the electromagnetic pulse generated by the bomb amplified and scrambled Dr. Singh’s equipment, allowing a random group of people to access one another’s minds.” Joining Triggers are four more novels from Sawyer’s backlist: Illegal Alien, Mindscan, Frameshift, and Factoring Humanity.
Also new Tuesday is The Road of Danger: RCN Series, Book 9 By Narrated by RCN series, also for Audible Frontiers: ”Captain Daniel Leary with his friend–and spy–Officer Adele Mundy are sent to a quiet sector to carry out an easy task: helping the local admiral put down a coup before it takes place.”
Out Monday was A Short, Sharp Shock By Narrated by 4 hrs and 18 mins — “A man tumbles through wild surf, half drowned, to collapse on a moonlit beach. When he regains consciousness, he has no memory of who he is or where he came from. He knows only that the woman who washed ashore with him has disappeared sometime in the night and that he has awakened in a surreal landscape of savage beauty—a mysterious watery world encircled by a thin spine of land.”
And out on Saturday was Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess: A Girl Genius Novel, Book 2 By Narrated by In a time when the Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare, Mad Science rules the world… with mixed success. With the help of Krosp, Emperor of All Cats, Agatha has escaped from the massive airship known as Castle Wulfenbach. After crashing their escape dirigible, Agatha and Krosp fall in with Master Payne’s Circus of Adventure, a traveling troupe of performers dedicated to staging Heterodyne shows – dramatizations of the exploits of Bill and Barry Heterodyne and their allies – who are unaware of Agatha’s connection to the Heterodyne line.”
ALSO OUT TUESDAY:
- Caine’s Law: The Third of the Acts of Caine (Act of Atonement, Book Two) By Narrated by Series: Acts of Caine, Book 4 — With quite the blurb from one John Scalzi, along with this praise: “if you are a fan of the meaty, bloody but smart fantasy of which authors like Joe Abercrombie and Richard K. Morgan currently traffic, you really do owe it to yourself to check out the whole Caine series.”
- Major Karnage (2010) By Narrated by It has been 20 years since The War, and Major John Karnage has finally settled into retirement: locked up in an insane asylum, with an explosive device embedded in the back of his neck to curb his violent tendencies.”
ALSO EARLIER THIS WEEK:
- The Fall Revolution 4: The Sky Road By Narrated by Length:11 hrs and 58 mins — books 1 and 2 are available, and now book 4, but no sign yet of book 3, The Cassini Division
- The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel, Book 3 By Narrated by Series: Thursday Next Novels, Book 3
- Kids: The Neverending Story (1979) By Narrated by Tantor Audio — At 13.5 hours, this classic book finally comes to unabridged audio: “In this classic fantasy novel from author Michael Ende, small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody’s idea of a hero, least of all his own. Then, through the pages of an ancient, mysterious book, he discovers the enchanted world of Fantastica, and only Bastian himself can save the fairy people who live there. Shy, awkward Bastian is amazed to discover that he has become a character in the mysterious book he is reading and that he has an important mission to fulfill.”
SEEN BUT NOT HEARD:
- Return Man by V.M Zito (Little Brown, 4/1) — Update: This audiobook did actually arrive on 4/1 but was shelved into the Fiction and Mysteries/Thrillers sections instead of Science Fiction and Fantasy (though it is a post-apocalyptic novel with zombies, go figure) — The Return Man By Narrated by
- Liminal States by Zack Parsons (Kensington, 4/1)
- Alien Diplomacy by Gini Koch (DAW, 4/3)
- After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall: A Novel by Nancy Kress (Tachyon Publications)
- Alchemist of Souls (Nights Masque Vol 1) by Anne Lyle (Angry Robot) — coming to audio June 1 from Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio
- Dog and Dragon (Dragon’s Ring) by Dave Freer (Baen 4/3)
- The Shining City: (Book Three of the Warriors of Estavia) by Fiona Patton (DAW 4/3)
- The Straits of Galahesh: Book Two of The Lays of Anuskaya by Bradley P. Beaulieu (Night Shade Books 4/3)
- Nocturnal by Scott Sigler (Crown 4/3)
- Omnibus: Ride the Star Winds by Bertrand Chandler (Baen, 4/3) — “Number four in the collected adventures of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series, including four novels.”
- YA: Black Heart (Curse Workers) by Holly Black (Margaret K. McElderry Books 4/3, Listening Library “April 2012”)
- YA: Above by Leah Bobet (Arthur A. Levine Books, April 1, 2012) — subject of Tuesday’s Big Idea on Scalzi’s Whatever blog
LATER THIS WEEK:
- Adrift on the Sea of Rains by Ian Sales (Whippleshield Books 4/6) — a novella praised by Jim Steel as “as fine an example of hard sf as you’ll find and I highly recommend it.”
NEXT WEEK (April 10):
- Anthology: Welcome to Bordertown (Bordertown) by Holly Black (Editor) and Ellen Kushner (Editor), Read by Cassandra Campbell, MacLeod Andrews, Holly Black, and Ellen Kushner for Brilliance Audio (4/10, originally published by Tor in 2011)
- Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith (Grand Central Publishing 4/10)
- Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman (Titan Books 4/10)
- Blue Magic by A.M. Dellamonica (Tor Books 4/10)
- Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor Books 4/10) — sequel to 2010’s Shades of Milk and Honey
- Immobility by Brian Evenson (Tor Books 4/10)
- Ison of the Isles by Carolyn Ives Gilman (ChiZine Publications 4/10, but in stock and shipping) — sequel to Isles of the Forsaken
- Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery (Tor Books 4/10)
- Voyage to the End of Time by Joe Fitzpatrick (Tate Publishing 4/10)
- Westlake Soul by Rio Youers (ChiZine Publications 4/10, but in stock and shipping)
- Omnibus: A Song Called Youth by John Shirley (Prime 4/10) — “An omnibus of all three novels-revised by the author-of the prophetic, still frighteningly relevant cyberpunk masterpieces: Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, and Eclipse Corona. With an introduction by Richard Kadrey and biographical note by Bruce Sterling.”
- Non-Genre: The Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O’Melveny (Little, Brown 4/10)
- YA: Radiant Days by Elizabeth Hand (Viking Children’s and Blackstone Audio, 4/12)
- Cataclysm Baby by Matt Bell (Mud Luscious Press, April 15)
TWO WEEKS (April 17):
- Deadfall Hotel by Steve Rasnic Tem (Solaris 4/17)
- Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders by Samuel Delany (Magnus, April 17, though it’s slipped again and again since last fall’s original date, and some places already just say May 1)
- White Horse: A Novel by Alex Adams (Atria/Emily Bestler Books and Blackstone Audio 4/17)
- YA: The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson (Margaret K. McElderry Books 4/17)
THREE WEEKS (April 24):
- Rage of the Dragon byMargaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (Tor Books 4/24)
- Shadow Blizzard by Alexey Pehov (Tor Books, 4/24)
- Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig (Angry Robot and Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio 4/24)
- Burning Man (Kingdom of the Serpent, Book 2) by Mark Chadbourn (Pyr 4/24, but in stock and shipping)
- Champion of Mars by Guy Haley (Solaris 4/24)
- Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural by Victoria Nelson (Harvard University Press 4/23, but in stock and shipping)
- Lance of Earth and Sky (The Chaos Knight, Book Two) by Erin Hoffman (Pyr 4/24, but in stock and shipping) — sequel to Sword of Fire and Sea
- Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod (Pyr 4/24, but in stock and shipping) — out a few years ago in the UK
- The Mongoliad: Book One (The Foreworld Saga) by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo et. al. (47North and Brilliance Audio 4/24)
- The Nekropolis Archives by Tim Waggoner (Angry Robot 4/24)
- The Nightworld by Jack Blaine (HarperCollins 4/24)
- The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel by Stephen King (Scribner and Simon & Schuster Audio 4/24)
- Tricked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four) by Kevin Hearne (Del Rey 4/24)
- Collection: Where the Summer Ends: The Best Horror Stories of Karl Edward Wagner, Volume 1 by Karl Edward Wagner & J.K. Potter (Centipede Press 4/30)
- Collection: Winter’s Dreams by Glen Cook (Subterranean 4/30)