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Fantasy Literature reviews the new audiobook for William Gibson's Neuromancer

Posted on 2011-08-19 at 14:53 by Sam

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Currently listening to: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline narrated by Wil Wheaton

Posted on 2011-08-18 at 00:41 by Sam

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Audiobook release day: Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs (and a whole lot more)

Posted on 2011-08-16 at 15:42 by Sam

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With front cover praise from David Drake (“Southern Gods is scary, smart, and effective both as Lovecraftian fiction and as a Southern Regional novel set in 1951”) and a recent “Big Idea” feature on Scalzi’s Whatever blog, Southern Gods is John Hornor Jacobs’s debut novel from Night Shade Books. Out in print late last month, Brilliance Audio has produced an Eric G Dove narration of the novel which is out today.

It’s

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Just added at Audible.com: A Blight of Mages by Karen Miller (and some other things)

Posted on 2011-08-14 at 20:20 by Sam

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A Blight of Mages is the latest audiobook from Karen Miller, narrated by Eileen Stevens:

Teaser: “Hundreds of years before the great Mage War, a land lies, unknowing, on the edge of catastrophe….” Miller’s “Mage” books number in quite the several, and it’s been a series I’ve wanted to jump into several times but just haven’t found the time. Yet. I need to find a reading guide to figure out where to begin…

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Interviews and conversations at Locus

Posted on 2011-08-14 at 18:19 by Sam

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merumsal:

I’ve been terrible at updating here over the past week, for which I beg you to accept my sincerest apologies. There are two new things to mention:

1) an amazingly fun podcast I did with Karen…

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Albert Brooks's 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America

Posted on 2011-08-11 at 12:58 by Sam

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The Guilded Earlobe has quickly gone from being unknown to me to being my absolutely favorite source of audiobook interviews. Today he takes a look at one of the audiobooks I passed on along the way this year, Albert Brooks’s 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America:

Here’s the start of the review:

Genre: Future History

Quick Thoughts: While 2030 has its flaws, I found it to be a compelling read

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Audiobook release day: The Magician King by Lev Grossman, read by Mark Bramhall

Posted on 2011-08-09 at 13:51 by Sam

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Leading a 4-pack of interesting releases at Audible.com today is Lev Grossman’s The Magician King, read by Mark Bramhall:

It’s a wonderful novel, and already a few chapters into the audiobook … so very happy once again with Bramhall’s narration of this world. Several reviews have started showing up (last month The Guilded Earlobe reviewed the audiobook as an A+), yesterday CNN had a brief review along with an interview,

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Untitled

Posted on 2011-08-09 at 13:39 by Sam

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Out today!!! Many exclamation points!!!!

Josh raved about The Magician King on our “To BEA and Back Again” ep. Jenn is reading it now in prep for Lev Grossman’s release party at WORD Brooklyn tonight (if you are in New York, YOU SHOULD GO!) and sharing quotes here, here, and here. Rebecca just read The Magicians and can’t wait to get to this one.

It’s unanimously a Bookrageous favorite! And if that doesn’t convince you, can we tell you about the time Lev Grossman recited “The Owl and the

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Previewing August 2011 (and remarking on its first week)

Posted on 2011-08-05 at 19:53 by Sam

August is already well upon us, with the first week bringing a spectacular list to audio. I already noted the First Friday titles Among Others (by Jo Walton) and All the Lives He Led (by Frederik Pohl), and there’s a few more already out this month that warrant immediate notice: 1968’s Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner and 1960’s A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller. Brought to Audible.com via Macmillan Audio and Blackstone Audio, respectively, they are two of the great works of sf and I’m very

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Best of July 2011 in Audible.com SFF: T.C. McCarthy's GERMLINE

Posted on 2011-08-05 at 19:24 by Sam

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In a month of blockbusters (A Dance with Dragons, Ghost Stories, Vortex, Flashback) it was a more under-the-radar release which most impressed me in July. So, a bit belatedly, my pick for the best of July 2011 in Audible.com SFF is: Germline: The Subterrene War, Book 1 by T. C. McCarthy narrated by Donald Corren:

One of the reasons this “Best of July” post is coming almost a week into August is that Germline was released near the end of

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