Page 21 of posts by: Sam

Release Week: Ellen Datlow's Tails of Wonder and Imagination, Scott Sigler's Nocturnal, Faith Hunter's Cat 'O Nine Tales, Dean Koontz's Innocence, How to Train Your Dragon, and more

Posted on 2013-12-11 at 21:56 by Sam

DECEMBER 4-10, 2013: We're well into the quietest weeks of the year in terms of the publishing schedule, but still a few stellar audiobook picks for you this week from anthologies to collections to children's books and a classic short novel as well as the latest from Dean Koontz and Scott Sigler. In 'audiobook news' my eyebrows went up to finally see Nicola Griffith's Hild on pre-order listings, though under narrator Pearl Hewitt instead of the previously-announced Anne Flosnick. It appears I have been

Posted in Release Week | Tagged dean koontz, ellen datlow, faith hunter, phil gigante, scott sigler

Release Week: Dangerous Women, Ian Tregillis' Something More Than Night, Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, and John Gwynne's Malice

Posted on 2013-12-06 at 21:04 by Sam

NOVEMBER 27-DECEMBER 3, 2013: While there's still no sign of Nicola Griffith's Hild -- read like the wind, Ms. Flosnick! -- we still get another fantastic week of audiobooks, including the latest GRRM/Dozois anthology, a Kirkus year's-best-listed new standalone novel from Ian Tregillis, Helen Marshall's creepy ChiZine collection Hair Side, Flesh Side, and the Gemmell-winning epic fantasy Malice by John Gwynne. In the "also out" listings this week, even more epic fantasy than you can shake a stick at, space

Posted in Release Week | Tagged carrie vaughn, cecelia holland, dangerous women, diana gabaldon, diana rowland, emily rankin, gardner dozois, george rr martin, helen marshall, iain glen, ian tregillis, inna korobkina, jasin ian, jim butcher, joe abercrombie, joe r lansdale, jonathan frakes, lev grossman, nancy kress, pat cadigan, sam sykes, scott brick, stana katic

Release Week: Sofia Samatar's A Stranger in Olondria, Gene Wolfe's The Land Across, Kate Maruyama's Harrowgate, Dr. Who: Eleven Stories (including Neil Gaiman's Nothing O'Clock), and a big stack of sf by Greg Egan

Posted on 2013-11-27 at 17:40 by Sam

NOVEMBER 20-26, 2013: Not one but (at least) two absolute must-listens this week, along with more new Dr. Who and new-to-audio hard sf than you can shake a stick at -- and more besides. The picks include concurrent new audio for Gene Wolfe's highly-anticipated The Land Across, and another pair of my "most missing audiobooks of 2012" which come off the list as Sofia Samatar's A Stranger in Olondria and Kate Maruyama's Harrowgate were also released this week. In "also out" there's yet more, including Joan

Posted in Release Week | Tagged dr who, gene wolfe, greg egan, harrowgate, neil gaiman, sofia samatar

Sam's Listening Report: February 2013

Posted on 2013-11-21 at 13:00 by Sam

Well... wow. I've really let these reports get way, way out of hand. It's mid-November! Anyway... I'm not really sure how it happened, but though February is the shortest month it was a huge month of listening for me after quite a start to the year in January as well. I also threaded in John Scalzi's episodic The Human Division (which I won't review myself here, since Dave covered these magnificently through his Listen-a-Long). Wonderful books and in a splendid variety, from a crazed serial killer in New

Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged ben aaronovitch, clay and susan griffith, gun machine, james marsters, jl-hilton, justine eyre, karen lord, kobna holdbrook-smith, leviathan chronicles, midnight rio, mur lafferty, patricia mccormick, reg e cathey, robin miles, sold, stefan kiesbye, stellarnet prince, the best of all possible worlds, vampire epire, warren ellis, your house is on fire your children all gone

Release Week: Tim Powers' Hide Me Among the Graves, Lewis Shiner's Slam, Report from Nuremberg, and Krista D. Ball's Tranquility's Grief

Posted on 2013-11-20 at 19:29 by Sam

NOVEMBER 13-19, 2013: As happened last week, amidst a fairly quiet week overall there's still a pair of fantastic audiobooks from my "most missing in audio" list: Tim Powers' Hide Me Among the Graves and Lewis Shiner's Slam. Additionally, this week brings one of the most fantastically-produced non-fiction titles I've ever had the occasion to come across, an Audible-published Skyboat Media full cast production of Report from Nuremberg, complete with archive audio from the source material. The "also out

Posted in Release Week | Tagged fiona hardingham, hide me among the graves, iamik audio, lewis shiner, report from nuremberg, stefan rudnicki, tim powers

And the winner is...

Posted on 2013-11-18 at 19:39 by Sam

Thanks everyone for your comments on the "most overlooked" sf/f novel of 2013 as part of this year's cross-examination of the Publishers Weekly, Amazon.com, and Goodreads Award lists. We ended up with seven valid entries for the free six-month subscription to audiobooks.com, in order:

1. "Damon" for The Daedalus Incident
2. "D. Sharer" for Kill City Blues
3. "Joel" for Wolfhound Century
4. "Arren" for The Rithmatist
5. "David Graybeard" for Great North Road
6. "ficticious1" for The Dream Thieves
7. "Ash" for The Tyrant

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Cory Doctorow audiobooks now available at Downpour.com

Posted on 2013-11-17 at 15:08 by Sam

While I wasn't looking, a quartet of Cory Doctorow's audiobooks showed up at Downpour.com -- they aren't available on Audible.com due to Audible's DRM-only format and Doctorow's anti-DRM stance. I don't know when they arrived, but it's a welcome sight and one I've been asking for since Downpour's launch as a DRM-free multi-vendor alternative to Audible.com. So, as promised in a quick update on this week's Release Week write-up, here's some more links and pictures and verbiage about Doctorow's audiobooks

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged cory doctorow, downpour, drm

Release Week: Marie Brennen's A Natural History of Dragons, Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, S.M. Wheeler's Sea Change, Teresa Frohock's Miserere, Samuel Sattin's League of Somebodies, E.C. Myers' Fair Coin, and The Ship of Theseus

Posted on 2013-11-14 at 21:13 by Sam

NOVEMBER 6-12, 2013: A fairly quiet week in overall numbers -- and nearly absent in concurrent new releases -- is thunderously punctuated by some fantastic new audiobooks, taking big bites out of my "most missing in audio" list: Marie Brennan's A Natural History of Dragons, Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, S.M. Wheeler's Sea Change, Teresa Frohock's Miserere, Samuel Sattin's League of Somebodies, and E.C. Myers' Fair Coin. Though it's not all good news, as my "seen but not heard" list this week is

Posted in Release Week | Tagged ancillary justice, ann leckie, ec myers, fair coin, jj abrams, marie brennan, miserere, samuel sattin, sea change, ship of theseus, teresa frohock

Received: October 2013

Posted on 2013-11-12 at 13:00 by Sam

Well, we had been taking it a bit slow in terms of review copies over the summer, a few each month. But we pretty much gorged as October rolled around. Something in the air? So, in that ongoing interest in full disclosure and all that, here are:

RECEIVED, OCTOBER 2013

The Bone Season By Samantha Shannon, Narrated By Alana Kerr for Audible for Bloomsbury (Sam).

Joyland By Stephen King, Narrated By Michael Kelly for Simon & Schuster Audio (Dave).

Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and Poems of the

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Running down the Lists: 2013 early edition; and! a contest!

Posted on 2013-11-11 at 13:59 by Sam

One of the most popular posts of all time here at The AudioBookaneers is last year's rundown of the lists of the best books of the year, and who am I to argue against what the people want? So, while there are quite a few more lists that will come out over the coming weeks, I'll run down 3 of the bigger lists so far of "the best books of 2013" and, at the end, ask for your input as part of a contest with the prize being a free six month subscription to Audiobooks.com. First! The sources so far:

• PW's 101

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