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Release Week: Brandon Sanderson's The Rithmatist; Antti Tuomainen's The Healer; Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors; World War Z; The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl; Fiction River; and John Scalzi's The Human Division

Posted on 2013-05-15 at 17:15 by Sam

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Featured author and narrator: Mary Robinette Kowal

Posted on 2013-05-14 at 17:36 by Sam

AudioBookaneers Features Presents: Mary Robinette Kowal, author, narrator, and puppeteer

By Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Hugo Award winning author Mary Robinette Kowal visited Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books on Friday, on her book tour for Without a Summer, the third book in her The Glamourist Histories series which began with 2010's Shades of Milk and Honey. Billed as, more or less, "the fantasy novel which Jane Austen might have written" the series is a Regency period historical fiction with plenty of manners,

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The Shambling Guide to New York City Listen-a-Long: Chapter 1

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

Welcome to the first installment of The Shambling Guide to New York City Listen-a-Long, covering Chapter 1 of Mur Lafferty's The Shambling Guide to New York City. There's a bit more to this installment than will be usual, as we get to also talk about Lafferty's introduction to the podcast, and, well, a bit about my listening history where it comes to her other podcasts. First a warning, that I'll repeat each episode, that the discussion here is oh-so-spoilerific, so if that's a concern, pop over and take

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Release Week: The Kings and Queens of Roam, Odds Against Tomorrow, Tales of Majipoor, and The Crystal Shard

Posted on 2013-05-08 at 19:46 by Sam

MAY 1-7, 2013: May is here, and the first release week brings quite a haul, so let's get right to it:

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

The Kings and Queens of Roam: A Novel by Daniel Wallace, read by Angela Brazil for AudioGO. Out concurrent with the print/ebook release from Touchstone, it's the first new novel since 2007 for Wallace, the author of Big Fish. Here it's a story blending tall tales, folklore, and magical realism in, well, "Wallace"-ian fashion; is the magic "real"? Does it matter if it is? "Helen and

Posted in Release Week | Tagged daniel wallace, stefan rudnicki

Received: April 2013

Posted on 2013-05-03 at 19:42 by Sam

I took it pretty easy on the review copy front in April, to the tune of three titles:

1. No Return by Zachary Jernigan, read by John FitzGibbon for Audible Frontiers.

This is one I finished listening to a couple of week ago now, so here's a snippet of my review, A stunning and original debut fantasy: "In a crowded year of strong debut fantasy novels, "No Return" is a very strong contender. Beginning with an assured voice, a prologue of a pitiless landscape of an hallucinogenic salt lake, expanding out

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May is for Mur: The Shambling Guide to New York City Listen-A-Long begins tomorrow!

Posted on 2013-05-01 at 19:59 by Sam

I hope you enjoyed Dave's The Human Division Listen-a-Long the past couple of months, because we have another one planned for May and June, getting started tomorrow as part of a month-long feature here on The Audiobookaneers, focusing on author, podcaster, and narrator, Mur Lafferty.

Due out in print, ebook, and audiobook on May 28 from Orbit and Hachette Audio, Lafferty's new series The Shambling Guides gets started with The Shambling Guide to New York City. Great reviews have been rolling in along with

Posted in The Shambling Guide to NYC Listen-a-Long | Tagged mur lafferty, the shambling guides

Release Week: Joe Hill's NOS4A2, Wesley Chu's The Lives of Tao, Allen Steele's Apollo's Outcasts, and Ballard's The Drought

Posted on 2013-05-01 at 14:54 by Sam

APRIL 24-30, 2013: April goes out with a howl and a bang, with more than a quartet of excellent titles, ranging from concurrent new horror and humorous sf releases, to one of last year's most "missing in audio" young adult sf titles, to one of sf's classic stories of climate change. Next week is another huge crop of high-interest titles as publishers start ramping up for summer reading and listening, so you'd better get started!

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

From the author of the novels Heart-Shaped Box and Horns a

Posted in Release Week | Tagged allen steele, joe hill, wesley chu

Release Week: Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni, Neil Gaiman's The Silver Dream, Sarah Prineas' Summerkin, and David Niall Wilson's Nevermore

Posted on 2013-04-24 at 15:56 by Sam

APRIL 17-23, 2013: Though it's not a tremendously crowded release week, there are great picks in adult, teen, and kids audiobooks, ranging from the latest in a long line of strong debut fantasy novels in 2013 (Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni) to a sequel to Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves' InterWorld, and more. (In "meta coverage" notes, this week seems to belong to Harper Audio, whereas last week I noted strong weeks for Hachette Audio and Audible Frontiers.) Without further preamble:

PICKS OF THE

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Bitterwood by James Maxey, read by Dave Thompson

Posted on 2013-04-23 at 13:19 by Sam

Go check it out! "Quick Thoughts: Maxey’s tale of revenge and Dragons set in a unique Post Apocalyptic world is finally now available in Audio. Fans of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, and David Gemmell’s Jerusalem man series should cheer this offering by James Maxey. It blends multiple genres creating a fascinating tableau that vaults this classic story from the mundane into something special."

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Release Week: Austin Grossman's YOU; Promise of Blood; Stormdancer; Jeff Noon's Vurt; and Robert Asprin's M.Y.T.H.

Posted on 2013-04-17 at 16:19 by Sam

APRIL 10-16, 2013: What, no new episode of The Human Division?! OK, seriously, this release week belongs to Hachette Audio, with both of my top picks this week. But! Audible Frontiers has its own pair of offerings which make up my second two picks, the Patrick Rothfuss-recommended Stormdancer (2012) and Jeff Noon's Vurt (1993), along with having done something wonderful in bringing the dozen+ books of Robert Asprin's M.Y.T.H. Inc. series to audio as well. (I have some fondness for M.Y.T.H., though not quite

Posted in Release Week | Tagged austin grossman, jeff noon, robert asprin