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The Guilded Earlobe's Top 10 Zombie Novels and Series (with audiobook notes)
Posted on 2012-05-25 at 14:08 by Sam
Link: The Guilded Earlobe's Top 10 Zombie Novels and Series (with audiobook notes)
Led by Mira Grant’s Newsflesh series (bumped up to #1 due to Bob’s very positive thoughts on the final, just-released Blackout) and including several other books and series available in audio (and some which are not). My own write-in, though as much, much less a zombie connoisseur is Boneshakerby Cherie Priest, read wonderfully by Kate Reading and Wil Wheaton. Anyway — go check out the list and add your own favorites.
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Release Week: KSR's 2312; Anne Lyle; Rob Ziegler; Lev AC Rosen; David Brin; Tim Akers; and the conclusion to The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Posted on 2012-05-23 at 19:32 by Sam
The absolutely mammoth release week for Tuesday, May 23, is led for me by the much-anticipated and well-regarded 2312 by arrated by for Hachette Audio, out concurrently with its publication in hardcover and e-book by Orbit. At 19 hrs and 15 mins, it seems a pretty good length for exploring a science fiction world (not too long, not too short). Over on Scalzi’s Whatever blog, Robinson talks about the Big Idea behind the novel, there’s an official site which lets you bui
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Dave Thompson to narrate Tim Pratt's Briarpatch
Posted on 2012-05-21 at 20:37 by Sam
Link: Dave Thompson to narrate Tim Pratt's Briarpatch
Quoth Dave: “I get to read the audiobook for Tim Pratt’s amazing fantasy novel Briarpatch! … I am so stoked beyond words about this, I don’t even know what else to say! I keep expecting people to email me that they’ve changed their minds. I love this book. I loved it immediately - as soon as I started reading it when it came out last year.”
This is absolutely awesome news all around: 1. An audiobook for Briarpatch 2. I get to make Dave interview himself
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Audible.com 48-hour Customer Favorites $7.95 sale
Posted on 2012-05-18 at 17:17 by Sam
Through Noon Eastern Time on May 21, Audible.com is having a 48-hour Customer Favorites $7.95 sale. There is a handy Sci-Fi & Fantasy tab, though there are sf/f titles lurking under the Thriller, Fiction (a lot), and Romance tabs as well. Here’s what most caught my eye in the sf/f tab:
- Howl’s Moving Castle By Diana Wynne Jones, Narrated by Jenny Sterlin — Length:8 hrs and 34 mins — which I got to gush about over on The Functional Nerds blog as part of the Diana Wynne Jones 2012 blog tour
- The Wise Man’s
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Release Week: Railsea by China Mieville; Osama by Lavie Tidhar; CS Friedman's Magister and Coldfire trilogies; and more
Posted on 2012-05-16 at 14:03 by Sam
For the third week in a row there are multiple major releases in the YA SF & F section, led by Railsea, a foray into a younger age category by the always brilliant Narrated by
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Audible.com "3 books for 2 credits" sale ends tonight at midnight
Posted on 2012-05-15 at 14:09 by Sam
Using a special mini-cart, and if you happen to have piles of credits lying around you can “3 for 2” more than once, Audible.com has been running a 3 books for 2 credits sale for the past week which ends tonight at midnight Eastern Time (US). In the sale are books by David Anthony Durham (books 2 and 3 of Acacia), Robert J. Sawyer (WWW: Watch and Wonder), R. A. Salvatore (Forgotten Realms: Transitions), Jo Walton (Small Change trilogy), Margaret Weis (Dragonvarld trilogy), Scott Westerfield (Behemoth and
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Audiobook release day: Osama by Lavie Tidhar
Posted on 2012-05-14 at 23:35 by Sam
Link: Audiobook release day: Osama by Lavie Tidhar
I don’t always do a release day post these days, usually saving things up for one week-in-recap. But sometimes an audiobook comes along off-Tuesday that I’m really excited about, and today has one such audiobook. Coming in at about 8.5 hours, Osama By Narrated by
In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure
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Twenty-first stop on the DWJ blog tour -- The Functional Nerds!
Posted on 2012-05-10 at 20:11 by Sam
Link: Twenty-first stop on the DWJ blog tour -- The Functional Nerds!
Samuel Montgomery-Blinn (who is also behind the very terrific Bull Spec) provides a comprehensive overview of DWJ audiobooks. You’d be surprised by some of the narrators!
“[Howl’s Moving Castle] is done so well, so earnestly, and so authentically that those with an ear for dialects might begin to wonder why Howl speaks with a ‘tapped r’ long before we find out what’s sewn across one of his shirts.”
Thanks for letting me play
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Untitled
Posted on 2012-05-10 at 20:01 by Sam
Received: from Blackstone Audio, two MP3-CD audiobooks: HAMLET’S FATHER by Orson Scott Card, read by Stefan Rudnicki (published May 1); and A SHORT, SHARP SHOCK by Kim Stanley Robinson, read by Paul Michael Garcia (published April 1).
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Over on The Functional Nerds blog, I invite you to Rediscover (or discover for the first time) the works of Diana Wynne Jones in audio
Posted on 2012-05-10 at 14:29 by Sam
A big thanks both to Sharyn November’s Diana Wynn Jones 2012 Tumblr and to The Functional Nerds (whom I joined for a podcast on audiobooks late last year) giving me space to play along.
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