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Audiobook release day: The Dread by Gail Z. Margin and Seed Seeker by Pamela Sargent

Posted on 2012-02-01 at 21:10 by Sam

I have resisted doing many of these off-Tuesday release posts, but this one is a biggie for me: The Dread: Fallen Kings Cycle, Book 2 By Gail Z. MartinNarrated by Kirby Heyborne for Tantor Audio:

The Dread, Book Two of the Fallen Kings Cycle, picks up the adventures of Tris, Jonmarc, and the Winter Kingdoms gang immediately after the events in The SwornSummoner-King Tris Drayke takes what remains of his army north for a war he is ill-prepared to fight, as reports from spies confirm Tris’s worst fear

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Release Week: Lost and Found, When Worlds Collide

Posted on 2012-02-01 at 13:40 by Sam

A fairly quiet release week to end January, with the most interesting titles for me being previously released books.

The first is Lost and Found: The Taken Trilogy, Book 1 By Alan Dean Foster, Narrated by Oliver Wyman for Audible, Inc.:

Originally published in 2004 by Del Rey: “Not so long ago Marcus Walker was just another young commodities trader in Chicago, working hard and playing harder. But that’s all in the past, part of a life half forgotten-a reality that vanished when he was attacked while

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Free story download at Audible.com: "The Gentle Brush of Wings" by David Niall Wilson

Posted on 2012-01-25 at 17:07 by Sam

Link: Free story download at Audible.com: "The Gentle Brush of Wings" by David Niall Wilson

Narrated by Basil Sands for Crossroad Press: ”Defining Moments is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated collection by author  David Niall Wilson. The story “The Gentle Brush of Wings”, first published in this collection, won the Bram Stoker Award for short fiction.”

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Release Week Wednesday: The Curious Case(s) of Burton & Swinburne, Against the Light, KKR, PKD, and more

Posted on 2012-01-25 at 14:00 by Sam

A fairly big release week is highlighted for me by the complete Burton and Swinburne series by Mark Hodder, narrated by Gerard Doyle for Audible Frontiers:

  

Out concurrently with the Pyr print release of Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon: Burton & Swinburne, Book 3, getting all three of these groundbreaking steampunk/sf books is a huge addition to the world of sf audiobooks. The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack: Burton & Swinburne, Book 1 (2010) was the first steampunk book to win the Philip K

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Arwen Elys Dayton's Resurrection

Posted on 2012-01-23 at 15:09 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Arwen Elys Dayton's Resurrection

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Review: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson

Posted on 2012-01-21 at 01:58 by Sam

What: Mistborn: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson, narrated by Michael Kramer for Macmillan Audio on 9 CDs, with bonus PDF of The Elendel Daily


How: Review copy requested from Macmillan Audio after seeing it as a loose-leaf late insert in their catalog.

Why: I’ve heard a lot of praise for Sanderson’s Mistborn novels and really enjoyed hearing him read from (and talk about) The Way of Kings in person in the fall of 2010, where I got a chance to talk to him a little and turned the event into an article

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The Guilded Earlobe continues its "Welcome to the Apocalypse" series with "Top 5 Post Apocalyptic Novels: Plants That Kill"

Posted on 2012-01-20 at 15:41 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe continues its "Welcome to the Apocalypse" series with "Top 5 Post Apocalyptic Novels: Plants That Kill"

Triffids make an appearance, but my money’s on kudzu.

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Release Week Wednesday: The Flame Alphabet, Shadows in Flight, and The Coldest War

Posted on 2012-01-18 at 19:00 by Sam

For this release week (Tuesday, Jan 17) my top audiobook picks are The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus and Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card, along with The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis.

The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus is out from Recorded Books (Knopf, Jan 17, 2012) — a story of a world where the voices of children become lethal to their parents, and a boy who sets out in search of a cure. I’m not that impressed by the audiobook cover:

So here is the book cover as well:

On Audible: The Flame Alphabet B

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Posted on 2012-01-18 at 18:53 by Sam

Received: Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card, read by Stefan Rudnicki, Scott Brick, and a full cast for Macmillan Audio. Out January 17.

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Audible 48-Hour Sale: 100+ titles at $7.95 each (ends Jan 19 at noon EST)

Posted on 2012-01-17 at 21:22 by Sam

UPDATE: The sale has been extended to Jan 21 at 3 PM EST.

Audible has unveiled a new 48-Hour Sale. As often happens, it’s not sorted in any way, not even fiction vs. non-fiction. So here’s my scan for interesting things, including the recent full-cast American Gods and both The Magicians and the sequel The Magician King:

FICTION:

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