Page 13 of posts by: Sam

Whispersync Daily Deals: Regarding Ducks and Universes, The Seeing Stone, and The Hangman's Daughter

Posted on 2014-04-23 at 18:56 by Sam

Wednesday April 23, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal haul is a pretty hefty one, with six books across three series to check out with inexpensive Whispersync for Voice upgrades to their audiobook editions.

Neve Maslakovic's 2010 novel Regarding Ducks and Universes predates her bestselling "The Incident" series, offering a stand-alone taste of her penchant for "weaving together physics, philosophy, and wry humor" (Booklist) and, at $1.99 Kindle today with a $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged alexander cendese, grover gardner, holly black, mark hamill, neve maslakovic, oliver potzsch, regarding ducks and universes, the hangman's daughter, the spiderwick chronicles, Tony DiTerlizzi

Whispersync Daily Deal: The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers, read by Simon Vance

Posted on 2014-04-18 at 14:46 by Sam

Friday, April 18, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal listings includes Tim Powers' 1989 novel The Stress of Her Regard for $1.99 with a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Simon Vance for Blackstone Audio, a fantastic audiobook which Dave calls "without a doubt one of the most terrifying and disturbing books I've read or listened to" and which I reviewed as "a wonderful and dark novel of a fictionalized Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Keats, and of the more completely fictional

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged simon vance, the stress of her regard, tim powers

Release Week: Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon, Geoff Ryman's The Warrior Who Carried Life, Michael J. Sullivan's Hollow World, Ben Bova's Transhuman, Jay Lake's collection The Sky That Wraps, and Cory Doctorow's Homeland

Posted on 2014-04-17 at 19:35 by Sam

APRIL 9-15, 2014: After two massive release weeks in a row, we get a bit of a breather here in terms of overall numbers, but a half-dozen fantastic titles make for another week of hard choices for those without infinite time for listening. The ALSO OUT listings have a few items of interest as well, particularly Frank Herbert's Direct Descent read by Scott Brick, Matthew Costello's post-apocalyptic horror novel Home, Shae Ford's Slight and Shadow, and a wide selection of teen and middle grade titles

Posted in Release Week | Tagged ben bova, cory doctorow, geoff ryman, hollow world, homeland, jay lake, jonathan davis, lagoon, michael j sullivan, nnedi okorafor, stefan rudnicki, the sky that wraps, the warrior who carried life, transhuman, wil wheaton

Release Week: The Word Exchange, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Strange Bodies, The End is Nigh, Steles of the Sky, The Dragon Business, Black Moon, NOD, The Vanishing, No Lasting Burial, King Maker, and David Gerrold's When HARLIE Was One

Posted on 2014-04-15 at 18:38 by Sam

APRIL 2-8, 2014: Well, the April 1 avalanche was followed up with an April 8 landslide, with a long, long! list of titles to check out, which took me a good long while to finally make sense of. (Seeing as this is coming a full week late, and the "next" release week is already here!) Just... so many good books that even after cutting beyond the comfort point, I had more than a dozen "picks". Which does nobody any good, now, does it? So I cut further, and it hurts a bit, but the audiobooks that remain really

Posted in Release Week | Tagged adrian barnes, alena graedon, black moon, celeste ciulla, claire north, david gerrold, elizabeth bear, hugh howey, james langton, john joseph adams, kenneth calhoun, kevin j anderson, marcel theroux, maurice broaddus, neil shah, nod, peter kenny, stant litore, steles of the sky, strange bodies, the apocalypse triptych, the dragon business, the end is nigh, the eternal sky, the first fifteen lives of harry august, the vanishing, the word exchange, the zombie bible, wendy webb, when harlie was one, xe sands

Whispersync Daily Deal: H. Paul Honsinger's Man of War series

Posted on 2014-04-14 at 12:53 by Sam

Monday, April 14, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal listings includes H. Paul Honsinger's Man of War series, originally self-published and recently published in new (updated, edited, etc.) editions by 47North, each $1.99 in Kindle with a $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible editions, read by Ray Chase for Brilliance Audio. The first book, To Honor You Call Us (Man of War, Book 1), introduces "The Terran Union", which  "is engaged in a vast interstellar war against the Krag, ruthless aliens

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged h paul honsinger, man of war, ray chase

Whispersync Daily Deal: Stanislaw Lem's Solaris read by Alessandro Juliani

Posted on 2014-04-09 at 13:23 by Sam

Wednesday, April 9, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Bill Johnston's "definitive" 2011 translation of Stanislaw Lem's classic 1961 sf novel Solaris. "Telling of humanity's encounter with an alien intelligence on the planet Solaris, the 1961 novel is a cult classic, exploring the ultimate futility of attempting to communicate with extra-terrestrial life." On sale for $0.99 and offering a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Battlestar Galactica's Alessandro Juliani for

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged alessandro juliani, solaris, stanislaw lem

Whispersync Deals: Pierce Brown's Red Rising and Sarah Fine's Guardians of the Shadowlands series

Posted on 2014-04-08 at 15:17 by Sam

Tuesday, April 8, 2014: While it's not in the Kindle Daily Deal listings, Pierce Brown's Red Rising has been on sale for $1.99 in Kindle for at least the past day or so, with a $4.49 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Tim Gerard Reynolds for Recorded Books. Released in late January 2014 and a NY Times bestseller, the book is pitched as "Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow" by Scott Sigler. Well, now. The first in a new series: "Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged amy mcfadden, pierce brown, red rising, sanctum, sarah fine, tim gerard reynolds

Release Week: Dark Eden, Desert of Souls, Reign of Ash, Games Creatures Play, Tales of the Radiation Age, Salvage, and Ian McDonald's Desolation Road and Cyberabad Days

Posted on 2014-04-07 at 19:14 by Sam

MARCH 26-APRIL 1, 2014: A fantastic range of releases this week, from a 2012-UK-published novel of mind-bending interplanetary science fiction finally getting a US release, to epic fantasy, a big-name paranormal fantasy anthology, post-apocalyptic sf, to near-future sf for young/new adults, and some long-missing audiobooks from Ian McDonald's backlist. Also out this week: Scott Sigler's Galactic Football League, Steven Erikson's The Bonehunters (Book 6 in his Malazan Book of the Fallen), a new audiobook

Posted in Release Week | Tagged alexandra duncan, brandon sanderson, charlaine harris, chris beckett, cyberabad days, dark eden, desolation roads, gail z martin, howard andrew jones, ian mcdonald, jason sheehan, kate rudd, lemony snicket, nick podehl, peter ganim, reign of ash, salvage, seanan mcguire, the desert of souls, tim gerard reynolds

Whispersync Daily Deal: Hugh Howey's Sand and Susanna Kearsley's The Firebird

Posted on 2014-04-06 at 13:44 by Sam

Sunday, April 6, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal listings bring both sf and paranormal historical fiction Whispersync deals, starting with Hugh Howey's Sand Omnibus, his first new novel since his best-selling Silo Saga, on sale for $1.99 Kindle with a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Karen Chilton for Howey's Broad Reach Publishing. "We live across the thousand dunes with grit in our teeth and sand in our homes. No one will come for us. No one will save us. This is our

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged hugh howey, karen chilton, katherine kellgren, sand, susanna kearsley, the firebird

Whispersync Deals: Chuck Wendig's The Blue Blazes, Megan Miranda's Fracture, and Aric Davis' A Good and Useful Hurt

Posted on 2014-04-04 at 15:04 by Sam

Friday, April 4, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal list includes Chuck Wendig's standalone novel The Blue Blazes, for $1.99 Kindle plus $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Patrick Lawlor for Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio. "Meet Mookie Pearl. Criminal underworld? He runs in it. Supernatural underworld? He hunts in it. Nothing stops Mookie when he’s on the job. But when his daughter takes up arms and opposes him, something’s gotta give...."

Also there are two books in the

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged aric davis, chuck wendig, luke daniels, megan miranda, patrick lawlor, Therese Plummer