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Iambik Audiobooks 1-year "birthday" giveaway

Posted on 2011-10-11 at 17:42 by Sam

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Audiobook release day: Goliath by Scott Westerfeld

Posted on 2011-09-20 at 17:22 by Sam

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Completing his young reader trilogy which began with 2009’s Leviathan and continued with last year’s Behemoth, today sees Scott Westerfeld’s Goliath hit stores and Audible.com. Alan Cumming has been a wonderful narrator for this trilogy, and I’m looking forward to hearing how it ends.

And over on Westerfeld’s blog, there’s a video conversation/interview between author and narrator.

The biggest surprise today is the absence of Neal Stephenson’s Reamd

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Audible.com release day: The Vaults by Toby Ball (Iambik Audio)

Posted on 2011-09-16 at 16:3 by Sam

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Today sees the Audible.com release of The Vaults by Toby Ball narrated by Michael Agostini:

Also available directly from Iambik Audio, this is the September 14, 2010 debut novel for Ball, with starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and some good reviews over on its Amazon.com page (The Vaults by Toby Ball, St. Martins Press).

 Here’s the Iambik description:

In a dystopian 1930s America, a chilling series of events

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Currently listening to: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Posted on 2011-09-15 at 3:19 by Sam

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Finished up John Hornor Jacobs’s Southern Gods and while I’ll have more to say before too long, I was very satisfied with how he ended the novel. Raised questions, let characters give their answers, and an ending that feels solidly right for the story that precedes it is a rare enough thing that, well, I wanted to note that before moving on. As a shorter listen (8-9 hours or so) it was worth the time.

But oh, moving on! To The Night Circus 

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Audible.com's "Win-Win" $4.95 audiobook sale, now through September 20

Posted on 2011-09-14 at 15:32 by Sam

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200+ books at $4.95 each, organized by author last name. Here are some of the sf/f titles, with a couple of non-fiction stuck in there for good measure. There’s Scalzi read by Wheaton, there’s the METAtropolis: Cascadia anthology, there’s … well, it’s a long list:

• Ship Breaker By Paolo Bacigalupi Narrated by Joshua Swanson — well received YA novel about a near future Gulf coast community of “shipbreakers”, salvaging the remains of

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Audiobook release day: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Posted on 2011-09-13 at 20:36 by Sam

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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern narrated by Jim Dale is out, from Random House:

I’ve heard a lot of really good things about this book and hope to squeeze it in before getting to Neal Stephenson’s Reamde. (Though I’m not yet halfway through John Hornor Jacobs’s Southern Gods, so… it might have to wait until after. We’ll see!)

Also out today:

• How Firm a Foundation: Safehold Series, Book 5 by David Weber narrated by Charles Keating
• World

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Best of August 2011 in Audible.com SFF: Lev Grossman's The Magician King

Posted on 2011-09-08 at 20:49 by Sam

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It’s probably not too much of a surprise for those who have followed this blog that my pick for the Best of August 2011 in Audible.com SFF is The Magician King: A Novel by Lev Grossman narrated by Mark Bramhall:

I reviewed the audiobook on Audible some weeks ago, and was going to use this space to add a few thoughts which did not fit into the 2000-character limit there. However, I’m going to just let a blog post elsewhere suffi

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A quiet couple of days does include Jonathan Lethem's 1995 novel Amnesia Moon

Posted on 2011-09-08 at 16:42 by Sam

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 I recently listened to my first audiobook from Jonathan Lethem, Gun, with Occasional Music, and though I’m not sure I’ll be picking up Amnesia Moon, his 1995 novel which is a new Recorded Books production of a Scott Sowers narration, it is the only new sf/f release across the past couple of days at Audible.com so it gets a little time in the spotlight:

There is also a new thriller release that’s come across my radar, Chi

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Fantasy Literature reviews the recently released audiobook for Kage Baker's The House of the Stag

Posted on 2011-09-07 at 18:31 by Sam

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From the article: “Too little of Kage Baker’s work has been produced on audio, so when I saw that Audible Frontiers had recently released The House of the Stag, I snatched it up. It’s read by Sean Crisden, whose voices are perfect for Baker’s dry humor. He’s absolutely hilarious in the scene where the theater manager is explaining the stock characters of epics to Gard.

I didn’t need the plotline about

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Audible.com classics sale -- ends September 13

Posted on 2011-09-06 at 18:0 by Sam

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There’s a 50% off sale covering 100 “classics” ending September 13 at 11 AM EST. It’s partitioned by author last name rather than curated into any kind of categories, so… good luck finding things!

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