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Previewing July 2011
Posted on 2011-07-01 at 09:00 by Sam
My most anticipated title this month is, not surprisingly, A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin (Coming July 12, 2011) narrated once again by Roy Dotrice:
Another audiobook (among several!) to watch out for in July: Germline is the debut novel by South Carolina author T. C. McCarthy (Coming July 26, 2011) and is narrated by Donald Corren, beginning a new military SF series.
MORE IN JULY 2011:
- Heartless by Gail Carriger (Coming to Audible.com July 1, 2011) continues her Steampunk series The Parasol
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William Gibson's Neuromancer comes to Audible.com, narrated by Robertson Dean
Posted on 2011-06-30 at 21:55 by Sam
Link: William Gibson's Neuromancer comes to Audible.com, narrated by Robertson Dean
Dean has done a fantastic job with Gibson’s “Big End” novels, particularly Spook Country and Zero History, and this one just popped up on Audible.com today, out of the blue, out of left field, out of a sky “the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
![Neuromancer | [William Gibson]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HM523hAFL._SL175_.jpg)
I haven’t had a chance to listen to this one yet (hey, Penguin Audio, a little heads up next time!) but, well, the publisher’s summary does some justice:
Read more...Twenty years
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Best of June 2011 in Audible.com SFF: Karen Lord's Redemption in Indigo
Posted on 2011-06-30 at 09:00 by Sam
Link: Best of June 2011 in Audible.com SFF: Karen Lord's Redemption in Indigo
Published by Small Beer Press in July 2010 and on several year’s best fantasy lists, Karen Lord’s Redemption in Indigo finally arrived at Audible on June 15, courtesy of a Recorded Books production, narrated by Robin Miles. Miles has 56 Audible titles to her credit, but this was my first, though her 2010 narration of Ekaterina Sedia’s The House of Discarded Dreams is waiting for me on my wish list for one of these days.
Enough
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A look at Amazon.com's best of the year so far in science fiction and fantasy, audio-style
Posted on 2011-06-27 at 17:58 by Sam
Link: A look at Amazon.com's best of the year so far in science fiction and fantasy, audio-style
Amazon.com has put out a “year’s best so far” style list, with both a top-10 editor’s picks section and a science fiction and fantasy section. (And there’s some previously mentioned titles in the middle grade and teen lists as well.) On the SF&F list:
- Among Others by Jo Walton (Tor) has been on my “Most Wanted Audiobook” list since its publication in January; hopefully its appearance at the top of this list can
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Just out from Blackstone Audio: How the Hippies Saved Physics, non-fiction narrated by Sean Runnette
Posted on 2011-06-27 at 16:36 by Sam
Link: Just out from Blackstone Audio: How the Hippies Saved Physics, non-fiction narrated by Sean Runnette
Not yet showing up at Audible, but this one takes a look at “The surprising story of eccentric young scientists who stood up to convention—and changed the face of modern physics.”
More from Blackstone: “In the 1970s, amid severe cutbacks in physics funding, a small group of underemployed physicists in Berkeley decided to throw off the constraints of academia and explore the wilder side of science
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Free YA Audiobook download every week this summer.
Posted on 2011-06-24 at 15:04 by Sam
Link: Free YA Audiobook download every week this summer.
This week’s audiobooks: Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare and Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater.
You need to download Overdrive media player, too.
This is a fun program that HarperAudio is taking part in too. Spread the word!
Whoa! Next week’s titles are Little Brother by Cory Doctorow and The Trial by Franz Kafka! (Aside: I usually associate Overdrive with the kind of onerous DRM that Doctorow doesn’t like — even
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BaffledBooks: My Most Recommended Audiobooks
Posted on 2011-06-23 at 17:35 by Sam
Link: BaffledBooks: My Most Recommended Audiobooks
I posted this in today’s Audiobook Week post and figured it would be a good idea to stick it here as well. My full post is {here}.
- Paranormalcy by Kiersten White. Narrated by Emily Eiden.
- Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling. Narrated by Jim Dale. (Any Harry Potter book, I love them all).
- The…
Nice list! And really interesting post on Baffled Books, I especially like the genre point.
Not a bad list at all! Though the Zafon audiobook
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Audible.com's "The Best of 2011 So Far"
Posted on 2011-06-23 at 17:34 by Sam
Link: Audible.com's "The Best of 2011 So Far"
Audible.com has posted a mini-site feature for “The Best of 2011 So Far”, which includes Solaris: The Definitive Edition and The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive (non-fiction) in its “Editors Picks” while “Customer Favorites” includes Solaris as well as:
- The Wise Man’s Fear: Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2 by Patrick Rothfuss [my review]
- The Throne of Fire: Kane Chronicles, Book 2 (YR)
- Fuzzy Nation by John
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iTunes sale on first audiobooks in a series includes Lev Grossman's The Magicians for $5.95 (ITMS link)
Posted on 2011-06-21 at 21:43 by Sam
Lev Grossman’s 2009 novel The Magicians is one of my all-time favorite audiobooks. Mark Bramhall does a wonderful job on the narration, and there it is, in a “first book in a series” sale in the iTunes Music Store.
Other interesting titles at a glance: Eragon by Christopher Paolini (YA), Redwall (Book 1) by Brian Jacques (YR), The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan (YR), Darkly
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Released today on Audible: The Tenth Anniversary Edition of American Gods by Neil Gaiman, with a new full cast production
Posted on 2011-06-21 at 17:57 by Sam
This is one of my favorite books from one of my favorite authors, and while the existing audiobook is a very good one-narrator performance from George Guidall, for the 10th anniversary edition of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods there’s “updated and expanded” text and a 4-person cast production from Harper Audio.
Publisher’s Summary:
Read more...First published in 2001, American Gods became an
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