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Audible.com week-long $4.95 sale on first books in a series

Posted on 2012-02-07 at 21:08 by Sam

Ending Feb 14, Audible.com has unveiled a $4.95 sale for first books in a series. Making things easier on sf/f fans is that this time, the sale does have a dedicated sf/f category. Making things harder is that there are still 85 audiobooks in the category! So, here are the titles which most catch my eye:

• The Name of the Wind: Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1 by Patrick Rothfuss Narrated by Nick Podehl — at $4.95 for nearly 28 hours of richly detailed, wonderful fantasy, if you haven’t jumped into this series

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Wild Cards Vol. 2: Aces High

Posted on 2012-02-07 at 15:52 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Wild Cards Vol. 2: Aces High

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Release Week: Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed, Oliver Wyman narrates a Swanwick masterwork, and the return of Neil Gaiman Presents

Posted on 2012-02-07 at 15:24 by Sam

My most anticipated release of a packed week in audiobooks is Throne of the Crescent Moon By Saladin Ahmed, Narrated by Phil Gigante for Brilliance Audio [IndieBound MP3-CD link | iTunes Audiobook link]:

Published concurrent with the DAW hardcover, Ahmed’s debut is a welcome new voice in fantasy. Beginning with a short, dark prologue of torture which introduces us to a powerful, evil raiser of ghuls known as “the gaunt man” and his jackal-faced assistant, we are then introduced to our atypical hero, Dr

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Currently listening to: The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe

Posted on 2012-02-06 at 16:22 by Sam

Finished up Mr g: a novel about the creation by Alan Lightman (very glad I didn’t give up on it after the first few chapters), and went onto the next review copy that Blackstone Audio sent me. (The sidebar is a bit too much of a pain to update all the time, I think it’s still showing the Gibson essay collection…) Hoping to finish The Hum and the Shiver in time to start on Saladin Ahmed’s Throne of the Crescent Moon tomorrow morning. Emily Janice Card and Stefan Rudnicki are narrating quite well, with Card’s

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Posted on 2012-02-03 at 16:22 by Sam

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neil-gaiman:

Mr Gaiman and Mr Hodgman continue their conversation about Audio Books. Here they talk about the upcoming audiobook release of Robert Sheckley’s DIMENSION OF MIRACLES and why it sometimes feels like a strange cross between Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy AND Mad Men at the same time.

(It’s about five minutes of us burbling.)

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The Guilded Earlobe continues its "Welcome to the Apocalypse" series with "My Top 10 Favorite Adult Dystopian Novels"

Posted on 2012-02-03 at 14:47 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe continues its "Welcome to the Apocalypse" series with "My Top 10 Favorite Adult Dystopian Novels"

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Feature Friday: Locus Magazine's 2011 recommended reading list, audiobooks style

Posted on 2012-02-03 at 14:00 by Sam

One of my more favorite resources in the sf/f world is the yearly recommended reading list from Locus Magazine. Well, their list looking back at 2011has just been published, and I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the list and see which books have audiobooks available and which do not (yet?) along with (maybe!) some commentary:

The first bit of commentary is: if you were looking for the excellent novels Zoo City by Lauren Beukes and The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi, which saw their

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Audiobook news: Dina Pearlman to narrate Tobias S. Buckell's Arctic Rising for Audible Frontiers!

Posted on 2012-02-02 at 21:01 by Sam

Audible Frontiers let me know that narrator Dina Pearlman (Clementine: A Novel of the Clockwork Century, Ombria in Shadow, Polgara the Sorceress, and the Kris Longknife, Anna Strong, Vampire for Hire, and Weather Warden series, among other credits) will be narrating Tobias S. Buckell’s Arctic Rising, to be released concurrently with the Tor hardcover on Feb. 28:

“Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it’s about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international

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Posted on 2012-02-02 at 20:12 by Sam

Received: Six (6!) audiobooks from Blackstone Audio:

• Mr g: A Novel about the Creation
• Little, Big: or, The Fairies’ Parliament
• The Hum and the Shiver: The Tufa Novels, Book 1
• A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Immortality, Inc.
• The Sum of All Men: The Runelords, Book One

I’ve started onto Mr g already, and hope to fit the others in over the next month or so. I’m really excited about Little, Big and The Hum and the Shiver, and look forward to hearing how one of my all-time favorite novels, A Canticle for Leibowitz

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Listening report: January 2012

Posted on 2012-02-02 at 03:44 by Sam

On the heels of three audiobooks in the last bit of December (The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott and Colette Freedman, Earthbound by Joe Haldeman, and The Lost Gate: Mithermages, Book 1 by Orson Scott Card) I listened to six audiobooks this month; not too bad. It’s more than I had planned for, but several of them are quite short, and none of them are 30-hour epics:

AUDIOBOOKS HEARD IN JANUARY:

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