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Audiobook review: Viriconium by M. John Harrison, read by Simon Vance
Posted on 2012-02-16 at 14:02 by Sam
Last month the blog welcomed contributor Dave Thompson with his review of Tim Powers’s The Stress of Her Regard, read by Simon Vance. Today he returns with another review, setting his ears on Viriconium by M. John Harrison, read by Vance for Neil Gaiman Presents:
Review by Dave Thompson: “A Not As Young Man’s Return Journey to Viriconium”
I have been to Viriconium once before – and appropriately – I find that the landscape of the city seems to have shifted since the last time I was here. Sometimes, it’s a
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Release Week: Stephen King's The Stand; Reese, Kittredge, and Simmons; Zebrowski, Gunn, and Lieber
Posted on 2012-02-15 at 15:30 by Sam
Coming in at nearly 48 hours, the big title this audiobook release week is The Stand By arrated by Random House Audio:
Not only is the recording unabridged, it’s the “complete and uncut” version of King’s classic post-apocalyptic tale, “includ[ing] more than 500 pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation.” First published in it’s “abbreviated” (yet still doorstopping) form in 1978 and
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SF/F for Dog-Lovers?
Posted on 2012-02-12 at 02:20 by Sam
Listening to Kevin Hearne’s Hounded: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book 1 this weekend two things struck me. First, that narrator Luke Daniels, whom I enjoyed on the first two volumes of the Wild Cards series and have spotted as the voice behind a Red Bull radio spot, really is darn near a soundalike for Nick Podehl, the voice of Patrick Rothfuss’s KingKiller Chronicles. (Side note: Hounded and The Name of the Wind are both on sale for $4.95 right now.)
Second, and the reason for this post, is that one of the
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Problem
Posted on 2012-02-08 at 15:06 by Sam
Do I want to buy “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac? or “The Great Gasby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Both.
(It’s possible we may have a slight bias, but they’re both great recordings)
One vote for the excellent Tom Parker narration of On the Road. Though I’ve heard good things about Harper’s production, too. :)
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Audible.com week-long $4.95 sale on first books in a series
Posted on 2012-02-07 at 21:08 by Sam
Ending Feb 14, Audible.com has unveiled a $4.95 sale for first books in a series. Making things easier on sf/f fans is that this time, the sale does have a dedicated sf/f category. Making things harder is that there are still 85 audiobooks in the category! So, here are the titles which most catch my eye:
- The Name of the Wind: Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1 by Narrated by
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Release Week: Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed, Oliver Wyman narrates a Swanwick masterwork, and the return of Neil Gaiman Presents
Posted on 2012-02-07 at 15:24 by Sam
My most anticipated release of a packed week in audiobooks is Throne of the Crescent Moon By Narrated by Brilliance Audio [IndieBound MP3-CD link | iTunes Audiobook link]:
Published concurrent with the DAW hardcover, Ahmed’s debut is a welcome new voice in fantasy. Beginning with a short, dark prologue of torture which introduces us to a powerful, evil raiser of ghuls known as “the gaunt man” and his jackal-faced assistant, we are then introduced to our atypical hero, Dr
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Currently listening to: The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe
Posted on 2012-02-06 at 16:22 by Sam
Finished up Mr g: a novel about the creation by Alan Lightman (very glad I didn’t give up on it after the first few chapters), and went onto the next review copy that Blackstone Audio sent me. (The sidebar is a bit too much of a pain to update all the time, I think it’s still showing the Gibson essay collection…) Hoping to finish The Hum and the Shiver in time to start on Saladin Ahmed’s Throne of the Crescent Moon tomorrow morning. Emily Janice Card and Stefan Rudnicki are narrating quite well, with Card’s
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Feature Friday: Locus Magazine's 2011 recommended reading list, audiobooks style
Posted on 2012-02-03 at 14:00 by Sam
One of my more favorite resources in the sf/f world is the yearly recommended reading list from Locus Magazine. Well, their list looking back at 2011has just been published, and I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the list and see which books have audiobooks available and which do not (yet?) along with (maybe!) some commentary:
The first bit of commentary is: if you were looking for the excellent novels Zoo City by Lauren Beukes and The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi, which saw their
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Audiobook news: Dina Pearlman to narrate Tobias S. Buckell's Arctic Rising for Audible Frontiers!
Posted on 2012-02-02 at 21:01 by Sam
Audible Frontiers let me know that narrator Dina Pearlman (Clementine: A Novel of the Clockwork Century, Ombria in Shadow, Polgara the Sorceress, and the Kris Longknife, Anna Strong, Vampire for Hire, and Weather Warden series, among other credits) will be narrating Tobias S. Buckell’s Arctic Rising, to be released concurrently with the Tor hardcover on Feb. 28:
“Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it’s about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international
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Listening report: January 2012
Posted on 2012-02-02 at 03:44 by Sam
On the heels of three audiobooks in the last bit of December (The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott and Colette Freedman, Earthbound by Joe Haldeman, and The Lost Gate: Mithermages, Book 1 by Orson Scott Card) I listened to six audiobooks this month; not too bad. It’s more than I had planned for, but several of them are quite short, and none of them are 30-hour epics:
AUDIOBOOKS HEARD IN JANUARY:
- Stellarnet Rebel By Narrated by Carina Press — my interview with the
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