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Posted on 2012-03-29 at 21:01 by Sam

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Hear Neal Stephenson, Willem Dafoe, and More Read Etgar Keret’s Suddenly, A Knock On The Door

OK. This is very, very interesting. I had no idea this was the audiobook approach for Keret’s collection. Stephenson, Chabon, Aimee Bender, Ben Marcus, Michael Chernof, Dave Eggars, on and on, all narrating different stories.

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Audible introduces SoundBytes -- "shorter works from your favorite authors, plus new writers to discover, for $4.50 or less for a limited time"

Posted on 2012-03-29 at 17:40 by Sam

“These SoundBytes are available for just one week and return to full price on Thursday, April 5, 2012 @ 9AM ET.” The 20 titles include (among others) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Old Man’s War tie-in The Sagan Diary by John Scalzi:

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Release Week: Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker, Mark L. Van Name's Jon and Lobo series, two series from Greg Bear, and more

Posted on 2012-03-28 at 13:12 by Sam

Another jam-packed release week, led for me by Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker and the first four books in Mark L. Van Name’s Jon and Lobo series.

ANGELMAKER: The second novel from Nick Harkaway, author of the Locus- and BSFA-nominated The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker was published in hardcover by Knopf last week after a February print release in the UK. Here, narrated By Daniel Weyman for AudioGO, is a long-anticipated audiobook for me, hailed by William Gibson as “You are in for a treat, sort of like Dickens

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Harry Potter digital audiobooks now available at the Pottermore Shop

Posted on 2012-03-27 at 15:31 by Sam

Link: Harry Potter digital audiobooks now available at the Pottermore Shop

Via the Pottermore Insider (official blog), the entire Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, read superbly by Jim Dale (and in the British English version by Stephen Fry), is now available in digital audio. (Along with the e-books, also available for the first time and also only from the Pottermore Shop.)

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Audible.com's Tournament of Audiobooks now includes free first chapters

Posted on 2012-03-27 at 10:00 by Sam

Link: Audible.com's Tournament of Audiobooks now includes free first chapters

Audible has added a new feature to their Tournament of Audiobooks: free first chapters for all 32 titles. For SF/F fans, this is a chance to really get a strong sampling of:

• 11-22-63: A Novel: Free First Chapter by Stephen King
• A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 5: Free First Chapter by George R. R. Martin
• The Wise Man’s Fear: Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2: Free First Chapter by Patrick Rothfuss
• A Discovery of

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Tantor Audio $6.99 direct download sale

Posted on 2012-03-27 at 01:29 by Sam

Link: Tantor Audio $6.99 direct download sale

Tantor Audio is having a $6.99 direct download sale, including a long list of sf/f titles:

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News: Lavie Tidhar announces five-book deal with Audible, including Osama and trilogy The Bookman Histories

Posted on 2012-03-26 at 19:34 by Sam

Link: News: Lavie Tidhar announces five-book deal with Audible, including Osama and trilogy The Bookman Histories

Absolutely fantastic news:

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Review and Interview: The Witches of Lublin

Posted on 2012-03-26 at 14:51 by Sam

REVIEW and INTERVIEW: The Witches of Lublin By Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Schwartz, and Yale Strom, Narrated by Ellen Kushner, Miriam Margolyes, Neil Gaiman, Simon Jones, and Barbara Rosenblat for SueMedia Productions:

Review and Interview by Dave Thompson: “Music Bridging our Profane World to the Holiness of the World to Come”

I stumbled across The Witches of Lublin when I was browsing what had been nominated for the Audie Awards - saw that it had been co-written by Ellen Kushner (of Swordspoint fame) and

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News: Oliver Wyman to narrate more of Pohl's Heechee saga, and William F. Nolan's Logan's Run

Posted on 2012-03-23 at 20:05 by Sam

Via Twitter, Oliver Wyman reports that he’ll be narrating “William F. Nolan’s classic Logan’s Run (+ 2 sequels) & 4 more books in Fred Pohl’s epic Heechee saga” for Audible, adding: “I love my job.”

For fans (like me!) of Wyman’s excellent, excellent narration on Frederik Pohl’s Gateway, this is fantastic news. As to more on why Wyman is super-excited about this, check out his response to Audible’s asking narrators to talk about “The Best Book I Ever Narrated” last year. I wonder if they’ll get Robert J

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Interview: Brandon Sanderson on (primarily) The Alloy of Law and narrator Michael Kramer

Posted on 2012-03-23 at 14:45 by Sam

Today I’m absolutely ecstatic to post my interview with bestselling author Brandon Sanderson:

I first met and spoke to Sanderson in September 2010, when he came to Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books for a reading and signing event for The Way of Kings: Book One of The Stormlight Archive, and one of the topics we got onto happened to be audiobooks. Fast forward to the fall of 2011 and the release of The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel (which I reviewed here on the Audible SF/F blog) and it felt like it was time to

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