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Audiobook release day: The Dread by Gail Z. Margin and Seed Seeker by Pamela Sargent
Posted on 2012-02-01 at 21:10 by Sam
I have resisted doing many of these off-Tuesday release posts, but this one is a biggie for me: The Dread: Fallen Kings Cycle, Book 2 By Narrated by Tantor Audio:
“The Dread, Book Two of the Fallen Kings Cycle, picks up the adventures of Tris, Jonmarc, and the Winter Kingdoms gang immediately after the events in The Sworn. Summoner-King Tris Drayke takes what remains of his army north for a war he is ill-prepared to fight, as reports from spies confirm Tris’s worst fear
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Release Week: Lost and Found, When Worlds Collide
Posted on 2012-02-01 at 13:40 by Sam
A fairly quiet release week to end January, with the most interesting titles for me being previously released books.
The first is Lost and Found: The Taken Trilogy, Book 1 By Narrated by
Not so long ago Marcus Walker was just another young commodities trader in Chicago, working hard and playing harder. But that’s all in the past, part of a life half forgotten-a reality that vanished when he was attacked while
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Release Week Wednesday: The Curious Case(s) of Burton & Swinburne, Against the Light, KKR, PKD, and more
Posted on 2012-01-25 at 14:00 by Sam
A fairly big release week is highlighted for me by the complete Burton and Swinburne series by Mark Hodder, narrated by Gerard Doyle for Audible Frontiers:
Out concurrently with the Pyr print release of Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon: Burton & Swinburne, Book 3, getting all three of these groundbreaking steampunk/sf books is a huge addition to the world of sf audiobooks. The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack: Burton & Swinburne, Book 1 (2010) was the first steampunk book to win the Philip K
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Review: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
Posted on 2012-01-21 at 01:58 by Sam
What: Mistborn: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson, narrated by Michael Kramer for Macmillan Audio on 9 CDs, with bonus PDF of The Elendel Daily
How: Review copy requested from Macmillan Audio after seeing it as a loose-leaf late insert in their catalog.
Why: I’ve heard a lot of praise for Sanderson’s Mistborn novels and really enjoyed hearing him read from (and talk about) The Way of Kings in person in the fall of 2010, where I got a chance to talk to him a little and turned the event into an article
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Release Week Wednesday: The Flame Alphabet, Shadows in Flight, and The Coldest War
Posted on 2012-01-18 at 19:00 by Sam
For this release week (Tuesday, Jan 17) my top audiobook picks are The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus and Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card, along with The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis.
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus is out from Recorded Books (Knopf, Jan 17, 2012) — a story of a world where the voices of children become lethal to their parents, and a boy who sets out in search of a cure. I’m not that impressed by the audiobook cover:
So here is the book cover as well:
On Audible: The Flame Alphabet B
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Audible 48-Hour Sale: 100+ titles at $7.95 each (ends Jan 19 at noon EST)
Posted on 2012-01-17 at 21:22 by Sam
UPDATE: The sale has been extended to Jan 21 at 3 PM EST.
Audible has unveiled a new 48-Hour Sale. As often happens, it’s not sorted in any way, not even fiction vs. non-fiction. So here’s my scan for interesting things, including the recent full-cast American Gods and both The Magicians and the sequel The Magician King:
FICTION:
- Ex-Heroes by Narrated by
- The Night Eternal: Book Three of the Strain Trilogy by Narrated by
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Review: The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers, read by Simon Vance
Posted on 2012-01-17 at 14:00 by Sam
I’m pleased to welcome a new regular contributor to the Audible SF/F blog: Dave Thompson. While we have plans (a podcast? two-contributor reviews?) he’s starting out with a review of The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers, read by Simon Vance for Blackstone Audio. Out in April of 2011, the novel was originally published in print in 1989 by Ace Hardcover. A new book, Hide Me Among the Graves: A Novel is due out in March from William Morrow.
Review by Dave Thompson
There’s a tense scene early on in Tim
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Interview Monday: narrator Robertson Dean on William Gibson's Distrust That Particular Flavor
Posted on 2012-01-16 at 14:00 by Sam
Dear readers of Audible SF/F, you are in for a treat. Today’s installment of Interview Monday is a conversation with narrator (and stage, film, and TV actor) Robertson Dean.
Dean has narrated nearly 200 titles, from Beowulf to all manner of current fiction and non-fiction, and has become for all intents and purposes the voice of William Gibson in audio, having narrated 2007’s Spook Country, 2010’s Zero History, a 2011 unabridged production of Neuromancer, and the just-released essay collection Distrust That
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Feature Friday: Ridiculously Huge Preview of 2012
Posted on 2012-01-13 at 18:03 by Sam
This one comes more than a week later than planned as we’re not just one but two release weeks into the year, but, hey, it’s really, really big. As always a big, big hat tip to Cybermage’s sf book calendar, along with Locus Magazine’s forthcoming books listing, a long list of ARCs offered for the Magick 4 Terri LiveJournal, io9, and a particularly fruitful thread on the ASOIAF forum. This is probably too big to be useful? Maybe. Probably. I got carried away. So much for my goal of keeping track of fewer
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Audiobook release day: Velvet Dogma by Weston Ochse
Posted on 2012-01-12 at 17:59 by Sam
Velvet Dogma By Philip K. Dick meets William Gibson.” Narrated by Crossroad Press, it is set in the year 2040 in a world of human-machine ocular nerve interaction and sanctioned organ theft, with paroled cyberterrorist Rebecca Mines on the run:
OUT YESTERDAY:
- Sixth Column By Narrated by six against six million in a brilliantly waged near-future war for nothing less than
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