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Posted on 2012-05-02 at 18:22 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe interviews Mainak Dhar about "Zombiestan"

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Tell me what to listen to next.

Posted on 2012-04-26 at 18:46 by Sam

Link: Tell me what to listen to next.

I am as usual in the midst of a bout of choice paralysis. So: I turn to you using a poll with the options:

Jon Sprunk’s Shadow’s Son
David Anthony Durham’s The War with the Mein
Scott Lynch’s The Lies of Locke Lamora
Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer

Or write-in via a comment here, or re-blog, or on Twitter or Facebook. I’m always up for suggestions!

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Audiobook release day: Jon Sprunk's Shadow's Son is out from GraphicAudio

Posted on 2012-04-19 at 22:5 by Sam

Link: Audiobook release day: Jon Sprunk's Shadow's Son is out from GraphicAudio

“In the holy city of Othir, treachery and corruption lurk at the end of every street, just the place for a freelance assassin with no loyalties and few scruples. Caim makes his living on the edge of a blade, but when a routine job goes south, he is thrust into the middle of an insidious plot. Pitted against crooked lawmen, rival killers, and sorcery from the Other Side, his only allies are Josephine, the socialite daughter of

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Brian Evenson's Immobility

Posted on 2012-04-06 at 14:6 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Brian Evenson's Immobility

“Quick Thoughts: For fans of Post Apocalyptic fiction, Immobility is a different take of some familiar situations. Evenson offers some brilliant visuals, compelling dilemmas and a gut punch ending, just don’t expect to go away completely satisfied.”

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Joining Literate Housewife's The Silence of Trees Listen-A-Long

Posted on 2012-04-04 at 15:31 by Sam

Link: Joining Literate Housewife's The Silence of Trees Listen-A-Long

I’ve seen narrator Xe Sands name come up on a few titles I’m interested in listening to (most recently The Vanishers) and along comes an audiobook listen-a-long for The Silence of Trees by Valya Dudycz Lupescu, narrated by Sands for Iambik:

And the “listen-a-long” includes a 20% discount code as well. So: join along!

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News: Wil Wheaton to narrate John Scalzi's Redshirts

Posted on 2012-04-02 at 20:10 by Sam

Link: News: Wil Wheaton to narrate John Scalzi's Redshirts

Quoth the Scalzi: “I can tell you this now that it is not April Fools Day and you will believe me.” — Wil Wheaton will narrate the audiobook version of Redshirts:

And the news was confirmed by Wheaton on Twitter, where he added, “I’m super proud of it.”

Meanwhile, I’m still a-twitter over @wilw’s retweeting of my own April Fool’s joke, which even included speculation as to why this wasn’t already announced, as, yes, Scalzi says, “If ever there

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Harry Potter digital audiobooks now available at the Pottermore Shop

Posted on 2012-03-27 at 15:31 by Sam

Link: Harry Potter digital audiobooks now available at the Pottermore Shop

Via the Pottermore Insider (official blog), the entire Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, read superbly by Jim Dale (and in the British English version by Stephen Fry), is now available in digital audio. (Along with the e-books, also available for the first time and also only from the Pottermore Shop.)

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Audible.com's Tournament of Audiobooks now includes free first chapters

Posted on 2012-03-27 at 10:0 by Sam

Link: Audible.com's Tournament of Audiobooks now includes free first chapters

Audible has added a new feature to their Tournament of Audiobooks: free first chapters for all 32 titles. For SF/F fans, this is a chance to really get a strong sampling of: