News: Blackstone Audio to release two Lewis Shiner audiobooks later this year
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News: Blackstone Audio to release two Lewis Shiner audiobooks later this year
Posted on 2013-07-16 at 15:04 by Sam
I’m very pleased to report that later this year, Blackstone Audio will release two audiobooks by Lewis Shiner, the author of the World Fantasy Award-winning (and my favorite new audiobook of 2011) Glimpses.
First up, to be released November 15, is Slam, Shiner's 1990 novel of a paroled tax evader, anarchist skateboarders, and, well, 23 cats. Called "An unqualified delight." by Publishers Weekly and re-released in 2011 by Subterranean Press in the series of "Definitive Editions" of Shiner's works:
Narrator Stefan Rudnicki, who narrated Shiner’s Glimpses, said that he “recorded Slam, and it was a blast!”
Next up, due out December 15, is Shiner’s Collected Stories, the “definitive collection” of Shiner’s short fiction in the form of 41 stories.
Rudnicki produced an earlier 3-story audio collection of Shiner’s works, Missing Persons, in 2006, and returns to helm this collection as well, along with returning narrators Rex Linn (“Prodigal Son”) and David Birney (“Lizard Men of Los Angeles”). According to Rudnicki: “For Collected Stories, Rex Linn read the rest of the appropriate stories, and we still have David Birney. Other narrators include John Rubinstein, Janis Ian, Scott Brick, Kimberly Farr, Arthur Morey, Roxanne Hernandez Coyne, Kristoffer Tabori, Gabrielle de Cuir, and myself. Also, of course, Karen Joy Fowler reads her introduction.”
So! Exciting news for later this year, whether you’re a fan of Shiner, Rudnicki, or just good stories, well told.