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Audible.com's latest "Win-Win" sale, with $4.95 audiobooks until March 13

Posted on 2012-03-07 at 03:18 by Sam

As the 200+ books are listed by section by author last name, though there’s an Editors’ Picks section as well, this doesn’t make it that easy for the sf/f listener to get a glance at all the titles. (Though what I generally do is check my wish list, sorted by price, to see what sorts up at $4.95.) So, here’s my glance-through (not every sf/f title, particularly in the urban fantasy and paranormal romance side of things you’ll want to check the listings for yourself) of Audible.com’s latest “Win-Win” sale

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Listening Report: February 2012

Posted on 2012-03-02 at 20:33 by Sam

Quite a month in listening, with 8 audiobooks (up from six in January), but I really fell by the wayside in my print reading. A train trip to and from StellarCon (where I’m a guest, along with guest of honor Patrick Rothfuss and a long list of people much more awesome than me) this weekend should make for some dedicated reading time, when I hope to finally finish up James Maxey’s Greatshadow and get back to chapter 3 or so of Nancy Kress’s After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, and continue

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Audiobook release day: Daniel O'Malley's The Rook and Gail Carriger's Timeless: The Parasol Protectorate, the Fifth

Posted on 2012-03-02 at 02:58 by Sam

March 1 brings with it two much-anticipated audiobooks, though also sees the print publication of a few books I’d love to see/hear in audio.

First up among those anticipated audiobooks is The Rook: A Novel By Daniel O’Malley, Narrated by Susan Duerden for Hachette Audio (Dreamscape) — O’Malley’s debut was published in hardcover and e-book by Little, Brown and Company on January 11, and it was on both my radar and my “where’s the audio?” list, put onto the former by TIME magazine book editor (and author of T

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Audible.com 24-hour 2-for-1 sale

Posted on 2012-02-29 at 15:17 by Sam

Starting this morning and lasting until Thursday March 1 at 11 AM Eastern Time (US), Audible.com is promoting a 2-for-1 sale. This is one of the “special shopping cart” mini-site sales, and there is a tab for both Fantasy and (separately!) for Sci-Fi titles, though some titles of sf interest lurk on the Fiction, Young Adult, and other tabs as well. The titles include books from Fforde, Vonnegut, Tim Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, and more, and here are the ones which most caught my eye when scanning through this

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Release Week: TC McCarthy's Exogene, Michael Swanwick's Dancing with Bears, Sergey and Marina Dyachenko's The Scar, and Elizabeth Hand's Available Dark

Posted on 2012-02-29 at 03:49 by Sam

February goes out with quite a splash, with T. C. McCarthy’s Exogene: The Subterrene Trilogy, Book 2, Michael Swanwick’s Dancing with Bears: A Darger and Surplus Novel, Sergey and Marina Dyachenko’s The Scar, and Elizabeth Hand’s Available Dark.

EXOGENE: Read by Bahni Turpin for Blackstone Audio and released concurrently with the mass market and e-book from Orbit, Exogene sets up as a much more traditional military sf novel than did the author’s debut, 2011’s Germline. Germline was read by Donald Corren, an

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Feature Friday: Open Letter to Audible: a DRM-free option.

Posted on 2012-02-24 at 15:50 by Sam

Dear Audible,

I love you guys. You’ve brought nearly 700 science fiction and fantasy books to audio, 43 so far this year, and we’re not even done with February yet. (And that’s just Audible Frontiers alone, not counting Audible, Inc. or Neil Gaiman Presents, or Brilliance Audio, or even just the beginnings of what you’re doing with ACX.) I love the narrator features and interviews, and I am really liking the ability to follow reviewers which was added last year, and the addition of individual ratings for

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Release Week: Eric Flint's 1632, Elizabeth Moon's Echoes of Betrayal, Larry Niven, and The Technologists

Posted on 2012-02-21 at 18:43 by Sam

Published in print by Baen in 2000, 1632 became a bestseller and spawned a bestselling series of alternate history and its own fanfiction magazine, its own track at Dragon*Con, and who knows what else. Synopsis: A small bit of

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The 2012 Audies finalists have been announced, with Neil Gaiman getting nods as author, publisher, and performer, and 3 nods for Wil Wheaton

Posted on 2012-02-20 at 21:40 by Sam

Via Audiobooker, a Booklist blog, the 2012 Audies Finalists have been announced. Here are some of the titles I thought my readers here would find the most interesting, with links:

FANTASY

• The Automatic Detective, by A. Lee Martinez, Narrated by Marc Vietor, Audible, Inc.
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone, by Laini Taylor, Narrated by Khristine Hvam, Hachette Audio
• The Land of Laughs, by Jonathan Carroll, Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Audible, Inc. (Neil Gaiman Presents)
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully

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Feature Friday: The regional digital divide cuts both ways (or: WHERE IS MY IRON COUNCIL AUDIOBOOK, WORLD!)

Posted on 2012-02-17 at 17:48 by Sam

Most times, as a reader and listener in the US, I don’t have to worry much about regional rights when it comes to the books I want to read, the films I want to watch, and so on. But as I find myself following the field more and more closely, those exceptions, generally UK and Australia (and sometimes Canadian!) titles which haven’t (yet?) made it to the US begin to gnaw at me.

Last year, it was (among other books, but most notably) Christopher Priest’s The Islanders which came out in the UK …

But not in

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Audiobook release day: John Carter in 'A Princess of Mars', read by Scott Brick

Posted on 2012-02-17 at 01:54 by Sam

Although I swear I saw Tanith Lee’s Delusion’s Master, read by Susan Duerden no less, show up momentarily today, another title hit Audible’s shelves this evening and seems to have stuck: John Carter in ‘A Princess of Mars’: Barsoom Series, Book 1 By Edgar Rice Burroughs, Narrated by Scott Brick for Tantor Audio:

While it’s the 7th production of A Princess of Mars I can find on Audible alone, it’s notable for it’s narrator (Brick) and it’s timeliness (Disney’s fortchoming John Carter film opens March 8, and

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