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Audible.com release day: Two Marla Mason Novels by T.A. Pratt (and more)

Posted on 2011-09-06 at 17:23 by Sam

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While The Tears of the Sun: A Novel of the Change (Emberverse Series, Book 8) by S. M. Stirling narrated by Todd McLaren is the big new release today, along with Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (20th Anniversary Edition): The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 1 by Timothy Zahn narrated by Marc Thompson, I’d like to highlight two Marla Mason novels by T. A. Pratt, otherwise known as Tim Pratt, a brilliant American short story writer.

The first

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Time: Welcome to TIME on Tumblr

Posted on 2011-09-06 at 14:04 by Sam

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timemagazine:

There’s something to be said for an 88-year-old with a Tumblr account.

Since 1923, TIME has reported the world’s history and somewhere along the way, we became a part of it. TIME co-founder Henry Luce once said, “I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.”…

Hey hey! TIME has a Tumblr page now.

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Currently listening to: The Passage by Justin Cronin

Posted on 2011-09-04 at 14:23 by Sam

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Having just finished listening to Sean Barrett’s excellent narration of Patrick Suskind’s disturbing and strange Perfume (not available at Audible.com US), I’m starting into The Passage by Justin Cronin narrated by Scott BrickAdenrele Ojo, and Abby Craden:

This is one of course I saw at Audible.com last June (2010) when it was released, with some rotating banner ads, etc. You can’t get to everything, and this is one I skipped — just not that

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Audible.com "First Friday" for September 2011 (and other recent bits and pieces)

Posted on 2011-09-02 at 15:36 by Sam

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Today’s “First Friday” releases include Up Against It by M. J. Locke narrated by Cassandra Campbell:

As well as several other sf/f titles coming to Audible.com for the first time. Meanwhile, yesterday saw a new edition of The Kingless Land: The Band of Four Series, Book 1 by Ed Greenwood. Previously (2002) available as narrated by Nadia May, the new (well, to Audible, it is the 2001 Blackstone Audio production) edition

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Audiobook release day: Hellbent by Cherie Priest and The Measure of the Magic by Terry Brooks

Posted on 2011-08-30 at 13:57 by Sam

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Hellbent by Cherie Priest narrated by Natalie Ross sees the author of the brilliant Steampunk-zombie-horror-alternate history novel Boneshaker (narrated wonderfully by Wil Wheaton and Kate Reading by the way) return to the world of Bloodshot and her vampire-thief Raylene Pendle (AKA Cheshire Red):


With The Measure of the Magic: Legends of ShannaraTerry Brooks returns (one again narrated by Phil Gigante wh

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Lewis Shiner's Glimpses

Posted on 2011-08-30 at 13:46 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Lewis Shiner's Glimpses

From the review: “Lewis’s tales of a time bending rock fan gives us an intimate look at rock legends as well as a realistic portrayal of a middle aged man whose faith in rock and roll to change the world is put to the ultimate challenge. … I was amazed by the amount of love and detail Shiner presented his rock and roll idols with. He humanizes rock legends like  Brian Wilson and Jimi Hendricks in a way I have never seen before, giving them such

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Just added at Audible.com: The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich!

Posted on 2011-08-29 at 15:35 by Sam

Link: Just added at Audible.com: The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich!

Wow! I’ve heard a lot of great things about this 2010 avant garde fantasy novel, and now, courtesy a Recorded Books production of an Angela Goethals narration, The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich has come to Audible.com:

Quoth the publisher’s description:

A MacDowell Colony fellow and a finalist for the Starcherone Prize, Grace Krilanovich was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. During the 1990s in the Pacific

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Big Scary Blog: Meet Audio Book Narrator of the Pine Deep Trilogy, Tom Weiner

Posted on 2011-08-26 at 17:39 by Sam

Link: Big Scary Blog: Meet Audio Book Narrator of the Pine Deep Trilogy, Tom Weiner

A really nice interview over at Jonathan Maberry’s Big Scary Blog with narrator Tom Weiner. In it, some brief mention of some of Weiner’s favorite projects, including Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle and The Three Stigmata of Palmer EldritchRobert Heinlein’s The Cat Who Walks through WallsPoul Anderson’s Harvest of Stars: The Harvest of Stars Series, Book 1, and Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

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Audible.com asks some of the industry's best narrators: "What's the Best Book You've Ever Narrated?"

Posted on 2011-08-26 at 15:29 by Sam

Link: Audible.com asks some of the industry's best narrators: "What's the Best Book You've Ever Narrated?"

Wow, there’s a great new (at least to me!) feature page at Audible.com today, “The Best Book I Ever Narrated”. This page lists some of my favorite narrators describing, well, their pick for the best book they ever narrated, and as a narrator junkie this is just a great feature. Some highlights:

Glimpses by Lewis Shiner narrated by Stefan Rudnicki:

This is an audiobook which is very dear to my heart

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Just added at Audible.com: Simon Morden's Equations of Life

Posted on 2011-08-25 at 16:33 by Sam

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Published by Orbit on April 1 earlier this year, Equations of Life by Simon Morden has just been added to Audible.com courtesy a Recorded Books production, narrated by Toby Leonard Moore:

If this cover doesn’t look familiar, well, the book cover looks like this:


And the trilogy continued in May and June:

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