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Hugo Award nominees in audio, 2015 edition

Posted on 2015-04-16 at 19:34 by Sam

From an audiobooks standpoint, I don't have too much to say about this year's Hugo Awards controversy. However, I do want to cover the nominees in terms of what's available in audio, even though this listing is already out of date as nominees are disqualified (for prior publication, etc.) or withdrawn. Here goes, starting with the Best Novel nominees:

• Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US/Orbit UK) -- read by Adjoa Andoh for Hachette Audio
• The Dark Between the Stars, Kevin J. Anderson (Tor Books

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged annie bellet, hugo awards, marko kloos

Review: The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss

Posted on 2015-04-13 at 20:31 by Sam

[Editor's Note: A warm welcome to new AudioBookaneers contributor James Alexander! Ahoy and avast!]

The Slow Regard of Silent Things By: Patrick Rothfuss Read By: Patrick Rothfuss for Penguin Series: The KingKiller Chronicles, Book 2.5 Buy: [IndieBound | Downpour | Amazon | Audible]

Review by James Alexander:

It is rare for a book to begin with a direct challenge from the author to the reader. "Don't read this!" Patrick Rothfuss practically screams at us in the foreword to The Slow Regard of Silent

Posted in reviews | Tagged james alexander, patrick rothfuss, the kingkiller chronicle, the slow regard of silent things

April Whispersync Deal Roundup: SF by Jack Campbell, Gregory Benford, Larry Niven, and Greg Bear; Cassandra Clare's City of Bones, The Hunger Games, Bob Mayer's Area 51, Diana Gabaldon's Outlander, historical fiction, non-fiction, and more

Posted on 2015-04-11 at 20:51 by Sam

Whew! It's April, and while some deals from March are still valid, here's this month's roundup of (mostly) new deals. [Editor's note: Since this series continues to draw some new readers/listeners who may be unfamiliar with Whispersync for Voice, in brief: after (or at the same time as) buying the Kindle edition you can add on the narration if an enabled Audible edition exists, often for a steep discount on even the member/credit price.]

I'll start with Monthly Deals for $3.99 or Less listings:

The

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged ania ahlborn, bob mayer, bowl of heaven, carolyn mccormick, cassandra clare, diana gabaldon, eric g dove, greg bear, gregory benford, jack campbell, john jackson miller, larry niven, luke daniels, martin jensen, outlander, robert kroese, suzanne collins, the hunger games, the lost fleet, walker percy

March Whispersync Deal Roundup: Pierre Grimbert, Oz Reimagined, The Palace Job, Invisible Cities, Libba Bray, Anne McCaffrey, Diana Gabaldon, Harry Turtledove, Ursula K. Le Guin, and more

Posted on 2015-03-10 at 20:11 by Sam

I was planning to hold off posting this until March 13, because I know of a nice set of books that will be going on sale, but I'll have to settle for updating it after March 13 instead, due to some nice deals to pass along which expire on March 11, which is, er, tomorrow. Ah, the life of a bargain hunter.

So I'll start with those soon-to-expire deals, valid through Wednesday, March 11, taken from the Whispersync enabled titles among the 175 Kindle Books for $1.99 Each:

UPDATE 3/13: SEE THE END OF THE POST

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged anne mccaffrey, bernadette dunne, clive barker, diana gabaldon, Dick Hill, h paul honsinger, harry turtledove, italo calvino, jack l chalker, january lavoy, jasper fforde, john joseph adams, john lee, justine eyre, lavinia, libba bray, Linda Lafferty, luke daniels, marcus sakey, michael page, oz reimagined, patrick weekes, pierre grimbert, ray chase, richard kadrey, robert heinlein, robin hobb, secret of ji, sergei lukyanenko, steven harper, tad williams, terry pratchett, the settlers of catan, ursula k le guin

The AudioBookaneers pick their favorite audiobooks of 2014

Posted on 2015-03-02 at 15:15 by Sam

Well, it's (past) that time of year again: time for Dave and I to look back on a year in listening. We laughed, we cried, we cheered, we jeered, we stayed up well into the night for these audiobooks. It seems like every year calls for a slight wrinkle in presentation, but this year it's a familiar one: our audiobooks of the year, runners up in both new audiobooks of new books and new audiobooks of previously published books, and our favorite "new to us" listens of the year. (And, mostly because it helps

Posted in The Arrrdies | Tagged adjoa andoh, afterparty, amber benson, andy weir, andy weird, ann leckie, anne charnock, area x, bd wong, ben h. winters, bronson pinchot, catherynne m valente, chang-rae lee, cherie priest, chris beckett, cibola burn, claire north, daniel abraham, dark eden, daryl gregory, donna tartt, drizzt, evie wyld, fred berman, gabrielle de cuir, haruki murakami, ironskin, j.k. rowling, james marsters, james sa corey, janis ian, jeff vandermeer, jo walton, joe hill, john darnielle, john scalzi, johnny b truant, jonathan lethem, josh cohen, junot diaz, kameron hurley, katherine addison, kristen bell, lev grossman, lewis shiner, lock in, macleod andrews, manly wade wellman, maplecroft, margaret atwood, mark bramhall, michael chabon, michel faber, monica byrne, motherless brooklyn, my real children, neil gaiman, nick harkaway, octavia butler, on such a full sea, one hundred years of solitude, peter berkrot, RA Salvatore, rc bray, richard kadrey, robert galbraith, robert glenister, rosalyn landor, ruth ozeki, sandman slim, sean platt, shirley jackson, six-gun snow white, stefan rudnicki, ted chiang, the beam, the book of strange new things, the brief wondrous life of oscar wao, the girl in the road, the goblin emperor, the goldfinch, the martian, the mirror empire, the silkworm, the yiddish policeman's union, therese anne fowler, tigerman, tina connolly, vampire empire, veronica mars, we have always lived in the castle, when women were warriors, wil wheaton, wolf in white van, xe sands

February Whispersync Deal roundup: PKD, Marie Brennan, Walter Mosley, Ken MacLeod, Theodore Sturgeon, Robin Hobb, and more

Posted on 2015-02-17 at 20:55 by Sam

Well, February's well past half over, so as usual it's beyond past time to get this month's Whispersync deal roundup put together. So here we go!  [UPDATE: Since this series has drawn some new readers/listeners who may be unfamiliar with Whispersync for Voice, in brief: after (or at the same time as) buying the Kindle edition you can add on the narration if an enabled Audible edition exists, often for a steep discount on even the member/credit price.]

First, from the Monthly Deals for $3.99 or less listing

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged aj hartley, dave duncan, devon monk, harlan ellison, ian macleod, kevin j anderson, marie brennan, octavia butler, philip k dick, ralph lister, richard kadrey, robin hobb, stefan rudnicki, tanya eby, theodore sturgeon, tim pratt, walter mosley

January Whispersync Deal roundup: Frontera, The Thirteenth Step, Bitterwood, Katia Fox, The Lives of Tao, Embedded, and much, much more

Posted on 2015-01-22 at 22:04 by Sam

With less than 10 days left in the month, perhaps it's time to finally get the January Whispersync Deal roundup out into the world. [UPDATE: Since this post has drawn some new readers who may be unfamiliar with Whispersync for Voice, in brief: after (or at the same time as) buying the Kindle edition you can add on the narration if an enabled Audible edition exists, often for a steep discount on even the member/credit price.]

First, a handful of currently running Kindle Countdown Deals that will bump back

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged frontera, gabrielle de cuir, james langton, james maxey, joel ohman, justine eyre, kate rudd, katia fox, kevin j anderson, lewis shiner, luke daniels, meritropolis, michele w miller, robert brumm, rudy rucker, simon vance, stefan rudnicki, the thirteenth step, victor bevine, wendigo soul

The 33 most missing audiobooks of 2014

Posted on 2015-01-17 at 06:12 by Sam

Three thousand two hundred sixty-seven. That's how many science fiction and fantasy audiobooks were added to Audible.com's US listings alone in 2014, and the larger number of new speculative fiction audiobooks -- which include GraphicAudio, independent (for example The Maze of Games and Eric Flint's "Islands"), and other titles not available at Audible (for example Cory Doctorow's Homeland and Information Doesn't Want to Be Free), physical-only releases, podiobooks, and English-language audiobooks released

Posted in The Arrrdies | Tagged adam roberts, alex dally macfarlane, am dellamonica, american neolithic, ben aaronovitch, blake butler, broken river books, bryan allen carr, dave hutchinson, david edison, david james keaton, diana wynne jones, elysium, emmi itaranta, fred venturini, gemma files, greg van eekhout, hilda hilst, iain m banks, james l cambias, jay lake, jennifer marie brissett, jenny erpenbeck, jm mcdermott, joanne m harris, john hornor jacobs, jonathan carroll, josh weil, julia elliott, kerry howley, laila lalami, lavie tidhar, maze, naomi foyle, neil williamson, nick mamatas, nina allan, our lady of the islands, peter liney, rajan khanna, richard house, rjurik davidson, sam sykes, shannon page, simon ings, stephen baxter, stuart rojstaczer, terence hawkins, the great glass sea, the last projector, ultima, unwrapped sky, ursula jones, will mcintosh, wu ming-yi

My Top 10 Audiobooks of 2014

Posted on 2015-01-09 at 02:15 by Sam

Always look forward to The Guilded Earlobe's picks:

Posted in Uncategorized

Pulling the Future Toward Me

Posted on 2015-01-06 at 14:41 by Sam

Congrats to Dave (and co-editor Anna) on 5 amazing, ridiculously amazing and wonderful years of PodCastle fantasy stories:

Posted in Uncategorized