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Audible.com's "The Paperback Sale" with a pile of good audiobooks. Also: July 5 Audible.com SF/F releases.

Posted on 2011-07-05 at 14:51 by Sam

Link: Audible.com's "The Paperback Sale" with a pile of good audiobooks. Also: July 5 Audible.com SF/F releases.

Billed as “150 audiobooks at paperback prices as low as $5.95”, Audible.com’s “The Paperback Sale” is, well, pretty much that. The SF/F listings include, among classics from Asimov, Bradbury, Vonnegut, Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon, Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi, on and on, including Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi narrated by Joshua Swanson:

About half of this list is on my wish list

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Just added at Audible.com: Lost Voices by Sarah Porter

Posted on 2011-07-05 at 02:37 by Sam

Link: Just added at Audible.com: Lost Voices by Sarah Porter

Lost Voices: The Lost Voices Trilogy, Book 1 is the debut novel for Sarah Porter (YA: Harcourt Children’s) and offers a little break from zombies, vampires, aliens, robots, angels, demons, and witches by setting its sights on another creature of the fantastic: mermaids.

The publisher’s summary:

Fourteen-year-old Luce has had a tough life, but she reaches the depths of despair when she is assaulted and left on the cliffs outside of a grim, gray

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Audible.com "First Friday" for July 2011 (and other July 1 goodies)

Posted on 2011-07-04 at 03:03 by Sam

Link: Audible.com "First Friday" for July 2011 (and other July 1 goodies)

An apparently new feature to post every “first Friday” of the month: “On the First Friday of every month, Audible will present a selection of exciting books, new in audio. Load up for the weekend and enjoy.”

From what I can see, this means previously released books that are now new in audio. For this first “first Friday” this includes a large selection of Kevin J. Anderson novels, including his 1988 novel Resurrection, Inc.

More

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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.”

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:

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:

1. 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.

harpermedia:

stayingsaneinlawschool:

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

harpermedia:

baffledbooks:

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}.

1. Paranormalcy by Kiersten White. Narrated by Emily Eiden.
2. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling. Narrated by Jim Dale. (Any Harry Potter book, I love them all).
3. 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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