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Posted on 2013-09-11 at 14:19 by Sam

SEPTEMBER 4-10, 2013: After closing the summer months with Jason Mott's debut The Returned (Brilliance Audio) and Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman's 2003 novel The Fall of the Kings (Neil Gaiman Presents), the fall audiobook release schedule got off to a cracking start last week with early September releases of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam (Random House Audio), Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman (Hachette Audio), and Nancy Farmer's The Lord of Opium (Simon & Schuster Audio). This week brings western storytelling

Posted in Release Week | Tagged gardner dozois, joe lansdale, jonathan lethem, jonathan strahan, new space opera, paolo bacigalupi, the thicket

Release Week: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam, Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman, Toby Barlow's Babayaga, and Seanan McGuire's Chimes at Midnight

Posted on 2013-09-04 at 19:05 by Sam

AUGUST 28-SEPTEMBER 3, 2013: September kicks off with two of my most anticipated titles of the year, Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam and Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman. It also brings news from The Hugo Awards at this weekend's World Science Fiction Convention in San Antonio, where Mur Lafferty (The Shambling Guide to New York City) won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Author, and John Scalzi's Redshirts was named Best Novel. This week does not, however, bring all the audiobooks that were hoped for: in

Posted in Release Week | Tagged babayaga, kim stanley robinson, maddaddam, margaret atwood, mary robinette kowal, seanan mcguire, shaman, toby barlow

Release Week: The Returned, The Fall of the Kings, Ice Forged, Abaddon's Gate, Reanimators, and Shadows of the New Sun

Posted on 2013-08-28 at 17:55 by Sam

AUGUST 21-27, 2013: It's quite a release week haul this week: a powerful debut in the form of Jason Mott's The Returned, the return of Neil Gaiman Presents with another full cast "illuminated production" in Ellen Kushner's Riverside series, a pair of Recorded Books titles first published in print by Orbit Books earlier this year, a concurrent new release read by one of the best narrators in the business, and a star-studded all-original anthology set in Gene Wolfe's New Sun milieu. And! There's several more

Posted in Release Week | Tagged brandon sanderson, ellen kushner, gail z martin, gene wolfe, james mott, james sa corey, neil gaiman presents, oliver wyman, steelheart, the expanse

The Shambling Guide to New York City Listen-a-Long: Chapters 6-17

Posted on 2013-08-26 at 17:28 by Sam

Welcome to the, er, latest installment of The Shambling Guide to New York City Listen-a-Long, covering Chapter 6 through Chapter 17 of Mur Lafferty’s The Shambling Guide to New York City. Whew. Well, I fell right off the wagon -- some of that was picking up the audiobook when it was released and getting to listen all the way to the end right away, rather than waiting week by week, but most of it has just been the complete failure to make the time to write up a proper Listen-a-Long. I'm even more impressed

Posted in The Shambling Guide to NYC Listen-a-Long

Release Week: The People in the Trees, Of Dice and Men, Night Film, and Lookaway, Lookaway

Posted on 2013-08-21 at 18:21 by Sam

AUGUST 14-20, 2013: This week brings a strange speculative fiction from Hanya Yanagihara, a non-fiction on Dungeons & Dragons, a haunting literary mystery, a satirical historical fiction, and a pretty good crop of "also out this week" including the latest fantasy novels from Naomi Novik (with narrator Simon Vance) and Mark Lawrence, and the anticipated dystopian debut of young British writer Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season. As usual: Enjoy!

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

The People in the Trees By Hanya Yanagihara,

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Release Week: Chuck Wendig's Under the Empyrean Sky, Michael J. Martinez's The Daedalus Incident, Aimee Bender's The Color Master, and Kate Elliot's Cold Magic

Posted on 2013-08-19 at 14:23 by Sam

AUGUST 7-13, 2013: Some concurrent new releases, another just-barely-delayed, and one of 2010's most missing in audio make for a varied list of picks this week, from teen dystopian CornPunk to space sf, to a story collection, and a couple of intriguing "genre in the mainstream" books as well. In particular, in the "also out this week", Victoria Lustbader's powerful novel Approaching the Speed of Light was a hard cut this week. Enjoy!

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Under the Empyrean Sky: The Heartland Trilogy, Book 1

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Release Week: Three, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, The Crown Tower, The Companions, Dragonwriter, and the New Space Opera

Posted on 2013-08-14 at 02:48 by Sam

JULY 31-AUGUST 6, 2013: Debuts, prequels, sequels, and anthologies, oh my! You can't throw a dart without hitting something worth listening to in the first release week of August. Post-apocalyptic debut sf? Check. A prequel to a bestselling adventure fantasy series? Check. The latest in R.A. Salvatore's beloved, long-running series of Drizzt books? How about an all-star-studded anthology reflecting on the influence of Anne McCaffery? Check, and check. Enjoy:

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Three: Legends of the

Posted in Release Week | Tagged jay posey, michael j sullivan, RA Salvatore, three

Release Week: The Darwin Elevator, Kill City Blues, Nexus, Frostarc, Antidote Man, and Jay Lake's City Imperishable

Posted on 2013-08-05 at 18:01 by Sam

JULY 24-30, 2013: July comes to a close with: another in a long line of strong 2013 debuts, narrated by one of the best in the business; the latest Sandman Slim; a well-received late 2012 sf novel of near-future nano-drugs; an early 2013 self-published sf novel which first came to my attention for its striking cover art and is now here as well-produced self-published audiobook; an audio original; and the two novels in Jay Lake's City Imperishable series. And! Plenty more to pick from this week as well

Posted in Release Week | Tagged antidote man, jamie sutliff, jason m hough, jay lake, luke daniels, nexus, ramez naam, richard kadrey, sandman slim, simon vance

Kickstarter for Catherine M. Wilson's When Women Were Warriors, read by Janis Ian for Dog Ear Audio

Posted on 2013-07-25 at 03:02 by Sam

I've recently found out about a Kickstarter campaign for an audiobook edition of When Women Were Warriors and I am very excited to both be a backer and to share the project with my fellow audiobibliophiles:

Catherine M. Wilson's When Women Were Warriors is a trilogy, and book one, The Warrior's Path, won the 2010 EPIC Ebook Award for Fiction. (And happens to be free as of this writing, on Kobo, Nook, Kindle, and likely other places.)

Janis Ian is an acclaimed singer, songwriter, musician, columnist, and

Posted in news | Tagged catherine m. wilson, janis ian, kickstarter, when women were warriors

Release Week: American Elsewhere, The Teleportation Accident, and Carniepunk

Posted on 2013-07-24 at 18:15 by Sam

JULY 17-23, 2013: I was set to write up a fairly quiet -- with the principal exception of the colorful-looking anthology Carniepunk -- release week, when Recorded Books unexpectedly dropped one of my most-anticipated titles of the year, Robert Jackson Bennett's American Elsewhere. It's months later than the print publication but still well ahead of the previously expected audio release. And! When digging through the non-sf/f catalogs, as I tend to do each release week just to make sure I'm not missing out

Posted in Release Week | Tagged american elsewhere, carniepunk, robert jackson bennett, the teleportation accident

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