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James Marsters to narrate the audio version of The Greyfriar: Vampire Empire!
Posted on 2011-08-05 at 18:22 by Sam
Link: James Marsters to narrate the audio version of The Greyfriar: Vampire Empire!
Raleigh authors Clay and Susan Griffith, primarily known for their work on comics, burst onto the f/sf scene with their 2010 Pyr novel The Greyfriar, book 1 in their Vampire Empire trilogy. Earlier this year, Buzzy Multimedia announced it had acquired the audio rights to the series, and the speculation began on who would be picked to narrate the series. Well, the speculation is over, as James Marsters (“Spike” on the
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Audible.com "First Friday" for August 2011: Among Others and All the Lives He Led
Posted on 2011-08-05 at 17:52 by Sam
Link: Audible.com "First Friday" for August 2011: Among Others and All the Lives He Led
It’s here! I’ve been waiting for this to come out in audio since January. Narrated by none other than Katherine Kellgren, Jo Walton’s novel Among Others (Tor, January 2011) leads off Audible.com’s “First Friday” for August.
Described as: “Startling, unusual, and yet irresistibly listenable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of
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Audible.com July 2011 Customer Favorites
Posted on 2011-08-05 at 17:43 by Sam
Link: Audible.com July 2011 Customer Favorites
Another month, another top-10 from Audible.com in their Monthly Customer Favorites series. It’s a genre-heavy month, with:
- Vortex by narrated by
- Ex-Patriots by arrated by
- Hammered: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book 3 by arrated by
- A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 5 by narrated by
But there’s also a non-genre book I keep hearing
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Audio release day: T.C. McCarthy's GERMLINE
Posted on 2011-07-26 at 13:57 by Sam
Link: Audio release day: T.C. McCarthy's GERMLINE
Germline: The Subterrene War, Book 1 is just out at Audible.com and elsewhere. It’s the debut novel from South Carolina author T. C. McCarthy and Bull Spec reviewer C.D. Covington calls it “equal parts The Forever War and Hammer’s Slammers”. McCarthy, a former CIA analyst, weaves a tale of genetically engineered soldiers at war in a future Russia-US conflict in Kazakhstan. An embedded journalist begins to lose himself in the war and the drugs the soldiers
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Another source of audiobook reviews: Axiom's Edge's "The Audio Files"
Posted on 2011-07-15 at 16:16 by Sam
Link: Another source of audiobook reviews: Axiom's Edge's "The Audio Files"
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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Lev Grossman's The Magician King
Posted on 2011-07-14 at 15:09 by Sam
Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Lev Grossman's The Magician King
“With its grand fantasy adventure told in tandem with a tale of devastating realism The Magician King may possibly be the best fantasy novel of a year full of great contenders. Grade: A+”
Argh. Still a few weeks to wait for the public release. Tick, tick, tick…
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This week's Sync free audiobooks: Beowulf and Revenge of the Witch
Posted on 2011-07-14 at 14:09 by Sam
Link: This week's Sync free audiobooks: Beowulf and Revenge of the Witch
Get ‘em while they last.
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Just added at Audible.com: J.G. Ballard's 2003 novel Millennium People
Posted on 2011-07-13 at 14:26 by Sam
Link: Just added at Audible.com: J.G. Ballard's 2003 novel Millennium People
J. G. Ballard is a writer of which I’ve heard much, but from whom I’ve read nearly nothing. Today, courtesy an AudioGO production of a David Rintoul narration, Audible.com added Millennium People to its catalog:
Read more...The explosive J. G. Ballard renaissance, which began with the 2009 publication of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, now continues with his first novel to be published in America in a full decade. “Wonderfully warped,
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Something I missed in the Audible.com paperback sale: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest for $5.95
Posted on 2011-07-12 at 17:30 by Sam
Or it might not be that I missed it, because this morning Audible.com added another stack of books to its Paperback Sale, including The Word for World Is Forest by narrated by
At a shade over 5 hours, it is a short listen, but it’s one I’ve been hoping to pick up as I’ve heard such great things about the book.
Other books of interest I didn’t see the
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I Make Up Worlds: World SF: (Global) Women in SF Roundtable
Posted on 2011-07-12 at 14:13 by Sam
Link: I Make Up Worlds: World SF: (Global) Women in SF Roundtable
With: Aliette de Bodard (France), Joyce Chng (Singapore), Csilla Kleinheincz (Hungary), Kate Elliott (US), Karen Lord (Barbados), Ekaterina Sedia (Russia/US).
I’ve excerpted quotes but there’s lots more on the actual roundtable which you can find here.
Joyce: I feel that – as what I have…
A great roundtable over at the World SF blog. Side note: Lord and Sedia both have great audiobooks to check out:
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