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Release Week: Never Knew Another, Burning Paradise, Fortune's Pawn, Sea Hearts, and Once Upon a Time

Posted on 2013-11-06 at 17:39 by Sam

OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 5, 2013: I've been excited about this week since I first learned that J.M. McDermott's "Dogsland" books Never Knew Another and When We Were Executioners were coming to audio, and! here they are, along with: a new novel by Robert Charles Wilson, Rachel Bach's new military sf novel Fortune's Pawn, Margo Lanagan's glimmering 2012 selkie fantasy, and the Paula Guran-edited Once Upon a Time anthology, and! plenty more besides in the "also out this week" listings including: Terry Pratchett's T

Posted in Release Week | Tagged burning paradise, eileen stevens, jm mcdermott, margo lanagan, never knew another, once upon a time, paula guran, rachel bach, robert charles wilson, scott brick

Release Week: The Violent Century, The Necromancer's House, Parasite, Dead Set, Zendegi, Two Serpents Rise, The Prince of Lies, and Shadow's Lure

Posted on 2013-11-04 at 00:59 by Sam

OCTOBER 23-29, 2013: An absolutely packed release week so I'll spare some of the usual dithering up here to make room. Briefly: new novels from Lavie Tidhar and Christopher Buehlman would be quite a week alone, but add a new novel from Mira Grant and bring Greg Egan's Zendegi to audio -- for starters -- and there's something for everyone this week. In the "also out this week" listings: Katabasis, continuing the Mongoliad saga (sans Neal Stephenson); Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens narrates Mary Shelley's Franke

Posted in Release Week | Tagged anne lyle, christopher buehlman, greg egan, jon sprunk, lavie tidhar, max gladstone, mira grant, richard kadrey

Release Week: The Republic of Thieves, Lost Cantos of the Ouroboros Caves, Cemetery Plot, and The Book(s) of Cthulhu

Posted on 2013-10-23 at 19:41 by Sam

OCTOBER 16-22, 2013: Roughly a half hundred new audiobooks in the roundup this week, headlined by the briefly-delayed audiobook for the long-awaited third book in Scott Lynch's acclaimed The Gentlemen Bastards series, The Republic of Thieves. The remainder of my picks this week probe the corners of the audiobook world a bit, finding another fantastic production from Skyboat Media, an ACX-published tale of overcrowded cemeteries, and a pair of Lovecraftian anthologies. In the "also out" listings, Audible has

Posted in Release Week | Tagged acx, alex granadaos, cemetery plot, michael page, ross lockhart, scott lynch, skyboat media, stefan rudnicki, the book of cthulhu

Release Week: METAtropolis: Green Space, Tina Connolly's Copperhead, K.W. Jeter's Fiendish Schemes, and Lemony Snicket's "When Did You See Her Last?"

Posted on 2013-10-16 at 17:44 by Sam

OCTOBER 9-15, 2013: Audible's audio-original METAtropolis series returns, along with new sequels from Tina Connolly, K.W. Jeter, and (primarily for younger listeners but hey, it's) Lemony Snicket, along with (in the "also out" this week listings), Anne Rice's The Wolves of Midwinter, the four books of R.A. Salvatore's Legacy of the Drow series, along with the conclusion of Stephen R. Donaldson's Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant and Emma Newman's The Split World. And! Some fantastic recently-announced

Posted in Release Week | Tagged jay lake, justine eyre, kw jeter, lemony snicket, metatropolis, rosalyn landor, tina connolly

The AudioBookaneers turns one!

Posted on 2013-10-14 at 12:01 by Sam

When I started basically keeping track of what I was already obsessing over -- the weekly piles of choices of new audiobooks -- as "The Audible SF/F Blog" back in the summer of 2011, I wondered if anyone else would come along for the ride. Well, hundreds of posts and a rename later, with my co-blogger Dave Thompson and a huge thank you to our readers, I'm happily celebrating a year of The AudioBookaneers, as of yeseterday, October 13, 2013. Hooray! Huzzah! Long live The AudioBookaneers! Arr!

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Release Week: James Gunn's Transcendental, Dave Eggers' The Circle, Gordon Van Gelder's Welcome to the Greenhouse, and Brenda Cooper's The Diamond Deep

Posted on 2013-10-09 at 20:26 by Sam

OCTOBER 2-8, 2013: A very welcome Recorded Books release of a sf legend's new novel, a new Dave Eggers "very near future" dystopian satire of a culture devoted to selling their privacy for convenience, an anthology of climate change stories, and book two in Brenda Cooper's Ruby's Song all make for a delightful set of release week picks. Meanwhile in the "also out" listings you can find collections from Connie Willis and Nancy Kilpatrick, a Shakespearean Star Wars riff, Chuck Palahniuk's Doomed, the first of

Posted in Release Week | Tagged brenda cooper, dave eggers, gordon van gelder, james gunn, the circle, welcome to the greenhouse

Release Week: David Niall Wilson's Killer Green, Martha Wells' Razor's Edge, Hugh Howey's Dust, and Tim Lebbon's London Eye

Posted on 2013-10-02 at 14:25 by Sam

SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1, 2013: After two weeks of huge releases to end September, October tiptoes in with a quieter slate, though with a quite loud (to me) "missing in audio" title, Ann Leckie's space opera Ancillary Justice. Still, some intriguing releases this week to check out, whether it's unique noir/sf mashup, a new Star Wars tie-in, the conclusion of Hugh Howey's Wool series, or Tim Lebbon's take on a toxic, blasted London. Enjoy!

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Killer Green by David Niall Wilson, narrated by T

Posted in Release Week | Tagged crossroad press, david niall wilson, hugh howey, january lavoy, martha wells, star wars, tim gerard reynolds, tim lebbon

Release Week: Doctor Sleep, The Incrementalists, Every Boy Should Have a Man, and North American Lake Monsters

Posted on 2013-09-26 at 02:28 by Sam

SEPTEMBER 18-24, 2013: Well, I warned you last week that this week would be big. Huge. The list of excellent audiobooks that fall into the "also out this week" would make for a stellar set of release week picks: V.E. Schwab's Vicious (Tor and Brilliance Audio), James A. Moore's Seven Forges, Jhumpa Lahiri's recently-ABA-longlisted The Lowland, War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, Laura Anne Gilman's Paranomal Scene Investigations, David Tallerman's Prince Thief, Anton Strout's Stonecast, Jason M. Hough's

Posted in Release Week | Tagged brandon sanderson, doctor sleep, nathan ballingrud, stephen king, steven brust, the incrementalists

Received: Summer 2013

Posted on 2013-09-19 at 20:53 by Sam

I haven't done a "received" post in a while, so in the interest of openness and acknowledgement, here's what we've asked for and received this summer.

JUNE 2013

The Planet Thieves by Dan Krokos, read by Kirby Heywood for Blackstone Audio (Sam) -- I wasn't entirely sure of the age range for this one, which ended up being somewhere in between young reader and young adult. We don't have the wide-eyed innocence of childhood or (thankfully) the jaded apathy of too many YA novels. Instead it's an adventure for

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Release Week: Happy Hour in Hell, Neptune's Brood, The Rose and the Thorn, Bleeding Edge, and Neil Gaiman's Fortunately, the Milk

Posted on 2013-09-18 at 17:17 by Sam

SEPTEMBER 11-17, 2013: Urban fantasy, deep future sf, adventure fantasy, early 21st century technothriller, and more await listeners in this week's round of picks -- and even more await the "also out this week" reader/listener. (Let alone the "also also out this week" listings. Yes, I've gone Full Monty Python.) Near future, backlist epic fantasy, special edition audio anthology re-issues, resurrecting zombie Taft to run for president, Kafka-esque kittens, nuclear and non-nuclear non-fiction, and more. Whew

Posted in Release Week | Tagged charles stross, michael j sullivan, neil gaiman, tad williams, thomas pynchon