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Audiobook release day: The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen

Posted on 2011-09-28 at 20:25 by Sam

A couple of new audiobooks today, the first being The Revisionists By Thomas Mullen Narrated by Robert Fass, out from Hachette Audio:

This one’s been on my anticipated titles list for a good bit, a far future dystopia of Departments and Revisionists. Out concurrent with its release in print.

Also out today is Terralus 4 By Lee Gimenez Narrated by Dave Courvoisier from Books in Motion — Out in February on Kindle and in print in April, from Salvo Press: “Life on Earth in the year 2074 is bleak following

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Audiobook release day: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Posted on 2011-09-27 at 15:23 by Sam

In a busy day, particularly for books for young readers, it is the Hachette Audio young adult titleDaughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor which most strongly grabs my attention. Narrated by Khristine Hvam, the book comes with a pedigree of starred reviews, as from Publishers Weekly: “National Book Award finalist Taylor again weaves a masterful mix of reality and fantasy with cross-genre appeal. Exquisitely written and beautifully paced, the tale is set in ghostly, romantic Prague, where 17-year-old

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Just added at Audible.com: first books in series by Lin Carter and David Niall Wilson

Posted on 2011-09-22 at 19:20 by Sam

As I will be frequently checking the “Just Added” pages at Audible.com waiting for Neal Stephenson’s Reamde to arrive, Under the Green Star: Green Star, Book 1 By Lin Carter Narrated by Joel Richards is a short listen at under 5 hours, from an author from whom you may have read a lot without knowing, as some of his most well-known works are “posthumous collaborations” with Robert E. Howard (Conan, Kull) and Clark Ashton Smith. His “Green Star” novels from the early 1970s bring together influences from both

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Audiobook release day: Goliath by Scott Westerfeld

Posted on 2011-09-20 at 17:22 by Sam

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Completing his young reader trilogy which began with 2009’s Leviathan and continued with last year’s Behemoth, today sees Scott Westerfeld’s Goliath hit stores and Audible.com. Alan Cumming has been a wonderful narrator for this trilogy, and I’m looking forward to hearing how it ends.

And over on Westerfeld’s blog, there’s a video conversation/interview between author and narrator.

The biggest surprise today is the absence of Neal Stephenson’s Reamd

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Pay attention, kids.

Posted on 2011-09-17 at 11:52 by Sam

sadrobotinabowlerhat:

It’s really emotionally draining when your beloved partner on the kind of fake detective force is slowly turning into a mushroom creature whose eyes might be cameras, but that doesn’t mean you stop caring.

#lessonslearnedfromtheweirdboo​kimreading

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Audible.com release day: The Vaults by Toby Ball (Iambik Audio)

Posted on 2011-09-16 at 16:03 by Sam

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Today sees the Audible.com release of The Vaults by Toby Ball narrated by Michael Agostini:

Also available directly from Iambik Audio, this is the September 14, 2010 debut novel for Ball, with starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and some good reviews over on its Amazon.com page (The Vaults by Toby Ball, St. Martins Press).

 Here’s the Iambik description:

In a dystopian 1930s America, a chilling series of events

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Previewing September 2011 in audiobooks

Posted on 2011-09-15 at 15:53 by Sam

August was jam-packed with wonderful audiobooks, and September looks every bit as crowded. Still, my most anticipated title is REAMDE by Neal Stephenson, coming September 20 from Brilliance Audio:

I’ve deliberately avoided learning too much about the novel; it’s enough for me that it’s by Stephenson, who always seems to be writing the book I am ready to read. Whether it was The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle, or his most recent novel, the stunning Anathem, I’m more than willing

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Currently listening to: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Posted on 2011-09-15 at 03:19 by Sam

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Finished up John Hornor Jacobs’s Southern Gods and while I’ll have more to say before too long, I was very satisfied with how he ended the novel. Raised questions, let characters give their answers, and an ending that feels solidly right for the story that precedes it is a rare enough thing that, well, I wanted to note that before moving on. As a shorter listen (8-9 hours or so) it was worth the time.

But oh, moving on! To The Night Circus 

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Audible.com's "Win-Win" $4.95 audiobook sale, now through September 20

Posted on 2011-09-14 at 15:32 by Sam

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200+ books at $4.95 each, organized by author last name. Here are some of the sf/f titles, with a couple of non-fiction stuck in there for good measure. There’s Scalzi read by Wheaton, there’s the METAtropolis: Cascadia anthology, there’s … well, it’s a long list:

• Ship Breaker By Paolo Bacigalupi Narrated by Joshua Swanson — well received YA novel about a near future Gulf coast community of “shipbreakers”, salvaging the remains of

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Happy audiobook release day, Lauren Beukes's MOXYLAND!

Posted on 2011-09-14 at 13:59 by Sam

Well, it’s Wednesday September 14, and Wednesdays tend to see some “odd” titles filter in after the “big new releases” on Tuesdays. Today is no exception, with a major new audiobook along with with three medium-length titles which all look pretty interesting.

The one I’ve been waiting for is Moxyland By Lauren Beukes Narrated by Nico Evers-Swindell. It’s the first of Beukes’s books to come to audio, with her award-winning Zoo City slated to come soon as well, again from “Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio” — a

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