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Release Week: Bitterwood, Sister Mine, Intermusings, and Morlock Night

Posted on 2013-03-13 at 19:36 by Sam

MARCH 6-12, 2013: Well it's a fairly quiet second release week in March, though not without a few audiobooks very much worth checking out. (It's even quieter on the "seen but not heard" front, as it really appears that both book and audiobook publishers had some manner of aversion to the Ides of March... though there is an intriguing anthology and a slowly picking up buzz novel from a small press to check out.) Meanwhile, John Scalzi's The Human Division marches on with episode 9, The Observers.

PICKS OF

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Release Day: Bitterwood by James Maxey, read by Dave Thompson

Posted on 2013-03-08 at 14:22 by Sam

Ah, the joys of a long, long, long-awaited audiobook finally arriving. Since meeting author James Maxey a few years ago, I've been pestering him about bringing Bitterwood to audio. Now, via ACX and narrator (and fellow AudioBookaneer!) Dave Thompson, it's finally here:

First published in print by Solaris in 2007 and later brought to ebook formats by Maxey himself, Bitterwood begins a 3-book series chronicling the efforts of the titular Bitterwood, dragon hunter: "Bitterwood has spent the past twenty

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bitterwood, dave thompson, james maxey

Release Week: Joyce Carol Oates, Zachary Jernigan, M. John Harrison's Empty Space, Brian Francis Slattery, and more

Posted on 2013-03-06 at 16:11 by Sam

FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 5, 2013: And here we are in March, and when you include the titles from my midweek wrapup it is quite a week indeed, with a 23-hour Joyce Carol Oates novel of possession in early 20th-Century Princeton, another entry in what is shaping up to be quite a run of debut fantasy novels, the conclusion of M. John Harrison's Kefahuchi Tract trilogy, and (of course) The Sound of Rebellion which continues John Scalzi's The Human Division, now in its 8th episode.

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

The Accursed By

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Release Midweek: Brian Francis Slattery, Tim Akers, Stefan Rudnicki, Steampunk Specs, Robert Asprin, and more

Posted on 2013-03-03 at 13:00 by Sam

Give us a breather, audiobook publishers! The "regular" release week haul (ending Tuesday) was big enough, but already in the past few days another week's worth (and then some) of interesting titles are out. And: they come in twos!

First up are two from Brian Francis Slattery, both from Audible Frontiers, starting with one of my most-missing of 2012, Lost Everything. Narrated By Michael Prichard it is billed thus: "From the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation

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Release Week: Fade to Black, Dreams and Shadows, Between Two Thorns, Oz Reimagined, Deadhouse Gates, The Judging Eye, and more

Posted on 2013-02-27 at 16:12 by Sam

It's an absolutely massive release week to wind up February, with debut novels, anthologies, previously published books in two epic fantasy series coming to audio, on and on. It's a week so big that even a new book co-authored by Neal Stephenson, Book 3 of The Mongoliad, and new books in The Night of the Swarm and The Imager Portfolio, don't make it above the fold. (And, of course, more Scalzi, with The Dog King: The Human Division, Episode 7.) I can barely find it in me to complain about the "Seen but not

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Received, February 2013

Posted on 2013-02-25 at 17:41 by Sam

I'm still working through a few of the January incoming, but I've also already had a chance to listen to a few of these titles which were sent our way in February:

1. Digital ARC of The Rift Walker (Vampire Empire, Book Two) by Clay and Susan Griffith, read by James Marsters for Buzzy Multimedia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O2-7WttC44

"A worthy successor in story, narration and production for the Audie-nominated The Greyfriar. James Marsters as a cast of vampires could not be more perfect." -- The

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Sam's Listening Report: November 2012

Posted on 2013-02-21 at 20:02 by Sam

After seven audiobooks and excellent listening in October, it was again seven audiobooks in November, with three audiobooks which ended up making it into my year-end further mentions for new audiobooks of new books (The Long Earth, Red Country, and Clockwork Angels), one of my favorite sf novels of the 2000s coming to audio (Building Harlequin's Moon), some humor (Mogworld), some fictional history (The Mongoliad Book 2), and some mystery (Gone Girl).

REVIEWS:

Building Harlequin’s Moon by Larry

Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged monthly listening report

Release Week: The Secret of Ji, The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination, The Siren Depths, and Domino Falls

Posted on 2013-02-20 at 14:33 by Sam

The middle of February brings a bestselling French fantasy to both English and audio, as well as welcoming back Austin Grossman to the ranks of Mad Scientist storyteller, the conclusion of Martha Wells' Books of the Raksura, and a new novel from frequent collaborators Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes. (And, of course, John Scalzi's The Human Division continues with Back Channel: The Human Division, Episode 6.  Doesn't that go without saying by now?)

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Six Heirs (The Secret of Ji, Book One

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Release Week: Karen Lord's The Best of All Possible Worlds, Karen Russell's Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Ben Bova's Farside, and Hiroshi Sakurazaka's All You Need is Kill

Posted on 2013-02-14 at 03:50 by Sam

The second release week in February comes with quite a haul, with deep future sf from Mythopoetic Award-winner Karen Lord, a lush collection from Karen Russell, a pair of highly anticipated continued epic fantasy series from Recorded Books, new sf from Ben Bova read by Stefan Rudnicki, and one of the more unique audiobooks to come this year, All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. (And one of the more unique books of last year, Patrick Wensink's Broken Piano for President, gets a professional unabridged

Posted in Release Week | Tagged ben bova, karen lord, karen russell, stefan rudnicki

Sam reviews: The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens for Harper Audio

Posted on 2013-02-11 at 17:19 by Sam

The Long Earth: A Novel by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter (2012) Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens (2012) for Harper Audio (review copy)

Review by Sam: I'm completely of two minds on this audiobook. First, and this is not one of those minds but rather a comment, there isn't quite the humor and wit as in Pratchett's Discworld books, but then again this isn't at all that kind of story. It's a story that's more earnest than that, not a send-up or pastiche of the kind of novel it pretends to be on the

Posted in reviews | Tagged harper-audio, michael fenton-stevens, stephen baxter, terry pratchett, the long earth