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Audiobook release day: The Poison Eaters and Other Stories by Holly Black

Posted on 2011-10-31 at 14:42 by Sam

Just in time to sneak under the wire (under 90 minutes to go!) for Audible.com’s “Frighteningly Low Prices” sale, today sees the audiobook release for Holly Black’s collection The Poison Eaters and Other Stories, narrated by the author and out from Brilliance Audio:

Priced at $5.87 until 12 ET today.

Update: Also out today: A new audio version of Echo By Jack McDevitt Narrated by Coleen Marlo — the latest of McDevitt’s Alex Benedict novels, supplanting a barely year-old version narrated by Paul Boehmer.

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Zone One by Colson Whitehead

Posted on 2011-10-28 at 20:14 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Zone One by Colson Whitehead

I haven’t decided if I will read this one in audio (in which “read” is in scare quotes I suppose) or in print — but I do plan to read it one way or another sometime after I finish up with Reamde.

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Posted on 2011-10-28 at 18:13 by Sam

Zoo City audiobook: front cover

Zoo City audiobook: back cover

Audiobook received: Zoo City By Lauren Beukes Narrated by Justine Eyre From Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio. Currently on sale for $5.24 at Audible.com. I would say more, but I already have my review drafted, and, really, why would I repeat myself? Back cover principle text: ”Zinzi December has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops

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Fantasy novel from a Connecticut 13 year old with Crohn's Disease

Posted on 2011-10-28 at 13:42 by Sam

Link: Fantasy novel from a Connecticut 13 year old with Crohn's Disease

Chronicles a bit of the struggles of a young girl with Crohn’s Disease, and talks about her short fantasy novel which was self-published in Nook, Kindle, and (free) ePub form. It’s not the greatest story ever told (contemporary fantasy, Ash, Rayne, the council and its Head) but it’s probably a good step up from my efforts at that age :) (if I were foolish enough to read what I have safely boxed away in my closet, I suppose a comparison

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Audiobook release: Mr. Fox: A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi

Posted on 2011-10-26 at 20:42 by Sam

Out today, after yesterday’s big releases and news: Mr. Fox: A Novel By Helen Oyeyemi Narrated by Carol Boyd From AudioGO:

I must have overlooked this book in the Amazon.com October Best Books of the Month, and missed her interview with Fantasy Matters despite a mention on the World SF blog, but I *just* read in more detail about this novel via Jeff VanderMeer’s Omnivoracious blog and, well, pretty much everything he recommends I’ll at least check out. (And with good results, as Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears

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Audiobook release day: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami; and "Neil Gaiman Presents..."

Posted on 2011-10-25 at 17:34 by Sam

Billed (perhaps justifiably) as “The Most Anticipated Novel of the Year”, 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami has finally arrived. Translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel, narrated by Mark Boyett, Marc Vietor, and Allison Hiroto, and out from Audible, Inc.:

The book has been subject to quite a flurry of interviews, reviews, and other oddities. Oddities? Yes. TIME magazine’s “Cat Power” article, which rates Murakami’s books on their cat content, would apply. But more typical profiles and reviews have abounded as

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Posted on 2011-10-20 at 18:12 by Sam

Audiobook received: Reamde by Neal Stephenson read by Malcolm Hillgartner from Brilliance Audio. Upon starting the audiobook (it being on sale for $13.64 made it worth buying rather than ripping in the 32 discs of the review copy, and I’d actually started even earlier thanks to Reamde: Free First Chapter) I discover that the title is pronounced “reamed”. I enjoy wordplay, and so the title having 3 one-letter transposition re-spellings (reamed, readme, remade) tickles my brain in the right places. Now

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Audiobook release day: On the Beach by Nevil Shute!

Posted on 2011-10-19 at 17:12 by Sam

On the Beach is Nevil Shute’s 1957 masterpiece, a defining work of speculative fiction born of its time in the cold war, where global nuclear annihilation seemed a turnkey away. Narrated by Simon Prebble From Recorded Books, this appears to be the stellar 1991 production, now made available at Audible.com:

At 9.5 hours, it’s not a long listen. But this novel, along with Walter M. Miller’s 1959 novel of nuclear cataclysm A Canticle for Leibowitz, are among by all-time favorite books. Shute’s is by far the

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Audiobook release day: Zone One by Colson Whitehead, Richard Kadrey's Aloha from Hell, and more

Posted on 2011-10-18 at 16:35 by Sam

On the heels of a brief mention in TIME magazine and a glowing review by Jeff VanderMeer for Barnes & Noble, Zone One: A Novel By Colson Whitehead is out from Random House Audio, concurrent with its release in hardcover from Doubleday:

Narrated by Beresford Bennett, Zone One is both a zombie novel and a wry satire and it’s been on my watch list for a good bit. (Again, hat tip to Jeff VanderMeer, the source of many books in my too-long “to read” list.) There’s been plenty of building attention to the novel,

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life

Posted on 2011-10-17 at 00:38 by Sam

Link: Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life

If it were not for the Apple //e, the IIgs, and the original Mac, I have no idea who I’d be or what I’d be doing. But they were built, and here I am, writing code, publishing a science fiction magazine, and listening to audiobooks on my iPod and now iPhone.

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