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Release Week: Last Dragon by J.M. McDermott, Enchanted by Alethea Kontis, and more

Posted on 2012-05-09 at 14:51 by Sam

Release week for Tuesday, May 8, 2012: My top pick this “week” is Last Dragon by J.M. McDermott, read by Cori Samuel for Iambik Audiobooks. This is a bit of a cheat job, as the audiobook was actually released in audio in late April, but I missed its arrival then so I will trumpet it loud and clear now: this is the next book I’m listening to. (See that “currently listening to” sidebar? Yeah, that.) Originally published as the first novel in Wizards of the Coast’s Discoveries series in 2008, and re-issued in

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Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged alethea kontis, enchanted, jm mcdermott, last dragon, release week, ta pratt, watler mosley

Listening Report: April 2012

Posted on 2012-05-03 at 19:52 by Sam

Last month it was 6 audiobooks, heavily slanted in favor of sf over fantasy. This month it’s back up to 9 audiobooks, with a pretty even split between genres, and some non-speculative (or at least not heavily speculative) stuff in the mix as well.

        

REVIEWS:

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

The Guilded Earlobe interviews Mainak Dhar about "Zombiestan"

Posted on 2012-05-02 at 18:22 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe interviews Mainak Dhar about "Zombiestan"

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Release Week: The Drowned Cities, The Killing Moon, Empire State, Giant Thief, and Range of Ghosts

Posted on 2012-05-02 at 14:06 by Sam

It’s quite a release week in the Teen SF/F category, led by my overall pick for the week, The Drowned Cities By Paolo BacigalupiNarrated by Joshua Swanson. It’s the second in Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker series, a post-oil-crash world, out concurrently with the print/e-book edition from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Along with all of my picks for this week, it’s in the 10-12 hour range, a length I am becoming more and more happy with.

 

Outside of YA, and also out concurrently with its print/e-book

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Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged adam christopher, david tallerman, elizabeth bear, empire state, giant thief, n k jemisin, paolo bacigalupi, range of ghosts, release week, the drowned cities, the killing moon

Tell me what to listen to next.

Posted on 2012-04-26 at 18:46 by Sam

Link: Tell me what to listen to next.

I am as usual in the midst of a bout of choice paralysis. So: I turn to you using a poll with the options:

  • Jon Sprunk’s Shadow’s Son
  • David Anthony Durham’s The War with the Mein
  • Scott Lynch’s The Lies of Locke Lamora
  • Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer

Or write-in via a comment here, or re-blog, or on Twitter or Facebook. I’m always up for suggestions!

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Posted in link | Tagged polls

Release Week: The Mongoliad, Tricked, The Dark Tower, Blackbirds, Robert Silverberg, and more

Posted on 2012-04-25 at 02:32 by Sam

Well, the release week for Tuesday, April 24, 2012 is not messing around. There are two dozen+ new audiobooks, including a pretty big list of big titles.

The Mongoliad: The Foreworld Saga, Book 1 By Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, E. D. deBirmingham, Erik Bear, Joseph Brassey, and Cooper Moo, Narrated by Luke Daniels for Brilliance Audio — concurrent with its print and e-book publication from Amazon’s 47North, this is the first novel to come out of the serial novel project “The Mongoliad”, of which

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Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged blackbirds, chuck wendig, kevin hearne, neal stephenson, release week, robert silverberg, stefan rudnicki, stephen king, the mongoliad

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Posted on 2012-04-19 at 23:29 by Sam

Received: Forthcoming from Brilliance Audio, both THE MONGOLIAD by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, et al. and Evan Currie’s INTO THE BLACK, both concurrent with their print publication from 47North. (Will I be listening to The Mongoliad by the time you read this? Probably not. This weekend, though!)

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Audiobook release day: Jon Sprunk's Shadow's Son is out from GraphicAudio

Posted on 2012-04-19 at 22:05 by Sam

Link: Audiobook release day: Jon Sprunk's Shadow's Son is out from GraphicAudio

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“In the holy city of Othir, treachery and corruption lurk at the end of every street, just the place for a freelance assassin with no loyalties and few scruples. Caim makes his living on the edge of a blade, but when a routine job goes south, he is thrust into the middle of an insidious plot. Pitted against crooked lawmen, rival killers, and sorcery from the Other Side, his only allies are Josephine, the socialite daughter of

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Posted in link | Tagged graphicaudio, jon sprunk, shadow's son

Audible.com's Semi-Annual Half-Price Sale, through April 27

Posted on 2012-04-19 at 20:29 by Sam

Audible.com’s Semi-Annual Half-Price Sale lists 1000+ titles, ending April 27 at Noon ET. Organized into the major categories, there’s helpfully a Sci-Fi and Fantasy listing, but it’s quite a doozy at 131 results. So! Here’s my usual rundown of the (too many, still) titles which caught my eye with a (somewhat) shorter list of PICKs:

 

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Posted in regular | Tagged sales

Release Week: Mechanique, White Horse, James Patrick Kelly, and more

Posted on 2012-04-18 at 15:03 by Sam

A bit quieter in volume, but the release week of Tuesday, April 17, 2012 has brought two intriguing novels from 2011 to audio, namely Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti and Pattern Scars, along with new releases White Horse, Elizabeth Hand’s Radiant Days, and more.

Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti By Genevieve Valentine, Narrated by Scott Aiello for Audible Frontiers — 8 hrs and 19 mins — Included in Jeff VanderMeer’s list of dozen of the best novels of 2011 for Locus and originally

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Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged caitlin sweet, genevieve valentine, james patrick kelly, mechanique, release week, the pattern scars, white horse

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