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Audible.com's "New Day, New Deal" through the end of August continues with Richard Adams's Watership Down
Posted on 2011-08-24 at 19:23 by Sam
Audible.com’s “New Day, New Deal” promotion has a solid week to go, as every day at 10 AM ET they are unveiling another $7.95 audiobook to be on sale until August 31. Today’s is Watership Down by narrated by
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Audible.com August 2011 Customer Favorites: Ready Player One, The Magician King, and more
Posted on 2011-08-24 at 19:12 by Sam
Link: Audible.com August 2011 Customer Favorites: Ready Player One, The Magician King, and more
In a week where the NY Times hardcover fiction bestseller list has 5 of its top 10 slots occupied by science fiction and fantasy novels, Audible.com’s monthly customer favorites has Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One at the top of its list:
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Audiobook release day: The White City: Book 3 of the Clockwork Dark by John Claude Bemis
Posted on 2011-08-23 at 16:39 by Sam
Link: Audiobook release day: The White City: Book 3 of the Clockwork Dark by John Claude Bemis
With The White City: Book 3 of The Clockwork Dark, Hillsborough, NC author John Claude Bemis completes his trilogy for young readers which combines American folklore, Steampunk, and just the right amount of mountain magic:
Once again narrated by Listening Library (in print from Random House Books for Young Readers), the book continues the story which began in The Nine Pound Hammer: The
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Audible.com's "New Day, New Deal" through the end of August begins with Yann Martel's Life of Pi
Posted on 2011-08-22 at 17:40 by Sam
Link: Audible.com's "New Day, New Deal" through the end of August begins with Yann Martel's Life of Pi
With “New Day, New Deal” launching today, Audible.com promises to “reveal a top listener favorite on sale each day for just $7.95 every weekday at 10 AM ET until the end of the month”. The promotion begins with Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi:
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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Ernest Cline's Ready Player One
Posted on 2011-08-19 at 20:05 by Sam
Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Ernest Cline's Ready Player One
Wow, he really loved it. I might be a bit less “A+ … I think that Ready Player One has the potential to be more than just a great book, but a true cultural Icon. Ready Player One is the Stranger in a Strange Land of the Atari generation, the Hitchhikers Guide for those who wished the Keatons were their family.” but that’s not too over the top. There was definitely something of a geek criticality event listening to Wil Wheaton produce the
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Fantasy Literature reviews the new audiobook for William Gibson's Neuromancer
Posted on 2011-08-19 at 14:53 by Sam
Link: Fantasy Literature reviews the new audiobook for William Gibson's Neuromancer
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Currently listening to: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline narrated by Wil Wheaton
Posted on 2011-08-18 at 00:41 by Sam
Link: Currently listening to: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline narrated by Wil Wheaton
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Audiobook release day: Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs (and a whole lot more)
Posted on 2011-08-16 at 15:42 by Sam
Link: Audiobook release day: Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs (and a whole lot more)
With front cover praise from David Drake (“Southern Gods is scary, smart, and effective both as Lovecraftian fiction and as a Southern Regional novel set in 1951”) and a recent “Big Idea” feature on Scalzi’s Whatever blog, Southern Gods is John Hornor Jacobs’s debut novel from Night Shade Books. Out in print late last month, Brilliance Audio has produced an Eric G Dove narration of the novel which is out today.
It’s
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Just added at Audible.com: A Blight of Mages by Karen Miller (and some other things)
Posted on 2011-08-14 at 20:20 by Sam
Link: Just added at Audible.com: A Blight of Mages by Karen Miller (and some other things)
A Blight of Mages is the latest audiobook from arrated by
Teaser: “Hundreds of years before the great Mage War, a land lies, unknowing, on the edge of catastrophe….” Miller’s “Mage” books number in quite the several, and it’s been a series I’ve wanted to jump into several times but just haven’t found the time. Yet. I need to find a reading guide to figure out where to begin…
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Interviews and conversations at Locus
Posted on 2011-08-14 at 18:19 by Sam
Link: Interviews and conversations at Locus
Read more...I’ve been terrible at updating here over the past week, for which I beg you to accept my sincerest apologies. There are two new things to mention:
1) an amazingly fun podcast I did with Karen…
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