Page 20 of posts by: Sam

Jeff VanderMeer's forthcoming "Annihilation: a novel" to be narrated by Carolyn McCormick

Posted on 2013-12-30 at 22:51 by Sam

I've been refreshing Blackstone Audio's site every week or so for months now, looking for news on the narrator and release date confirmation. And lo and behold on their new Blackstone Library website is an even shinier new listing for Annihilation, the first novel in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy.

And the narrator is listed as Carolyn McCormick, whose work on The Hunger Games audiobooks I absolutely adored. This is a big-time casting for a big-time novel, and I'm very excited to see what

Posted in news | Tagged annihilation, carolyn mccormick, jeff vandermeer, southern reach trilogy

Whispersync Daily Deal: Joe Hill, Guillermo del Toro, Joyce Carol Oates, Clive Barker, Neal Stephenson, and more

Posted on 2013-12-29 at 15:23 by Sam

Sunday, December 29 has quite a few Kindle Daily Deals on offer with Whispersync for Voice upgrades to Audible editions, among them books by Joe Hill, Guillermo del Toro, Joyce Carol Oates, Clive Barker, and Neal Stephenson.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Daily Deal is The Mongoliad Series by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, and Joseph Brassey among other co-authors, with each of the 4 books available for $1.99 in Kindle and with $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrades to the tour-de-force-of-accents

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged guillermo del toro, joe hill, joyce carol oates, neal stephenson, nos4a2, the accursed, the mongoliad, the strain

Whispersync Daily Deal: Brilliance by Marcus Sakey, Into the Black by Evan Currie, and five books by Raymond Feist

Posted on 2013-12-26 at 17:35 by Sam

Wednesday, December 26 brings a few Kindle Daily Deals with inexpensive Whispersync upgrades to consider, starting with Marcus Sakey's Brilliance, on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and $0.99 more via Whispersync for the Audible edition narrated by Luke Daniels. "In Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They’re called

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged brilliance, evan currie, marcus sakey, raymond feist

Whispersync Daily Deal: Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season

Posted on 2013-12-25 at 16:02 by Sam

Wednesday, December 25 brings Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season as a Kindle Daily Deal for $1.99, which along with a $1.99 upgrade via Whispersync for Voice brings you the excellent Audible edition narrated by Alana Kerr.

Kerr perfectly brings a subtle Irish flavor to Shannon's protagonist, 19-year-old dreamwalker Paige Mahoney in London of 2059. "The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged samantha shannon, the bone season

Sam's Listening Report: March 2013

Posted on 2013-12-24 at 14:25 by Sam

So. Since I let these "monthly" reports get so completely out of hand -- note that the February report was just posted in mid-November -- I'm changing the format up a lot. I'm going to just run down what I listened to and maybe, maybe one quick comment; that way actual reviews don't have to be held up while I write a month's worth at a time. So, with that in mind, here's what I listened to in March:

NOTES:

The City of Devi by Manil Suri, read by Vikas Adam and Priya Ayyar for Blackstone Audio (review

Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged bitterwood, c robert cargill, dave thompson, dimension of miracles, dreams and shadows, fade to black, francis knight, james maxey, john hodgman, manil suri, neil gaiman presents, paul thornley, priya ayyar, robert sheckley, the city of devi, vikas adam

Whispersync Daily Deal: Death with Interruptions by José Saramago

Posted on 2013-12-20 at 15:03 by Sam

Bright and early today so plenty of notice to check out Death with Interruptions by Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago (Blindness), translated by Margaret Jull Costa, available for $1.99 today on Kindle; and through a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition narrated by Paul Baymer.

"Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged jose saramago

Whispersync Daily Deal: Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson

Posted on 2013-12-20 at 00:28 by Sam

I knew it, I just knew I should have checked earlier in the day, but, well, I was stinking busy. Still, it's not too late to snap up one of the best books and audiobooks of the year. Shaman: a novel of the Ice Age by Kim Stanley Robinson is today's sf/f Kindle Daily Deal at $2.99, and offers a $4.99 Whispersync upgrade to the absolutely masterful Graeme Malcolm narration at Audible.

I bought this DRM-free on its release day from Hachette Audio via Downpour, but for those shopping at Audible this is a no

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged kim stanley robinson, shaman

Release Week: Nicola Griffith's Hild, Lewis Shiner's Collected Stories, and Simon Vance narrates John Harwood's The Ghost Writer and Clive Barker's collection of First Tales

Posted on 2013-12-18 at 20:40 by Sam

DECEMBER 11-17, 2013: Finally! Amidst one of the quietest weeks yet on the year, Nicola Griffith's Hild is in audio at last, along with a multi-voiced production of Lewis Shiner's magnificent Collected Stories and enough chilling tales to send you even closer to the fire this winter, with Simon Vance reading both John Harwood's The Ghost Writer and Clive Barker's First Tales, and (in the also out listings) a pair of Spokenworld/Ladbroke productions have excellent narrators reading classic tales from Ambrose

Posted in Release Week | Tagged clive barker, hild, janis ian, john harwood, lewis shiner, nicola griffith, simon vance, stefan rudnicki, the ghost writer

Whispersync Daily Deal: Hillary Jordan's When She Woke and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior

Posted on 2013-12-14 at 14:46 by Sam

Another day, another glance over the Kindle Daily Deal list for Whispersync deals. Here's two of interest today:

When She Woke By Hillary Jordan, Narrated By Heather Corrigan for HighBridge. A dystopian novel where the line between church and state has blurred, a "Scarlet Letter" for the 21st century: "Hannah Payne awakens to a nightmare. She is lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move to millions at home. She is now a convicted criminal, and

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged barbara kingsolver, flight behavior, heather corrigan, hillary jordan, when she woke, whispersync

Whispersync Daily Deal: Jonathan Lethem's Gun, With Occasional Music (meanwhile Neil Gaiman's Stardust is still on sale as well)

Posted on 2013-12-13 at 14:53 by Sam

Jonathan Lethem's Gun, With Occasional Music is a Kindle Daily Deal today at $1.99, and offers a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Nick Sullivan-narrated audiobook from AudioGO on Audible. "Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems - not the least of which are the rabbit in his waiting room and the trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is an ominous place where evolved animals function as members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such

Posted in Uncategorized, Whispersync Deals | Tagged jonathem lethem, kindle daily deal, neil gaiman, stardust, whispersync for voice