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Release Week Wednesday: Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson

Posted on 2012-01-11 at 13:03 by Sam

My pick of the audiobooks out this release week is Distrust That Particular Flavor [Goodreads | not yet available at Audible.com] By William Gibson, Read By Robertson Dean for Tantor Audio:

Published last week in print, this collection of essays comes to us from, essentially, the voice of Gibson in audio, as Dean has narrated recent Gibson novels Spook Country and Zero History with more than aplomb, perfectly capturing the voices of Hollis Henry and (in particular) Milgrim, as well as last year’s new

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Interview Monday: narrator Gayle Hendrix on Stellarnet Rebel

Posted on 2012-01-09 at 16:44 by Sam

For the second Interview Monday of 2012, I’m very happy to welcome narrator Gayle Hendrix to talk about Stellarnet Rebel, the debut novel by J.L. Hilton released last week in e-book and audiobook by Harlequin e-imprint Carina Press. Stellarnet Rebel sees newsblogger Genny O’Riordan arrive on “Asteria, a corporate-owned deep-space colony populated by refugees, criminals, and obsessed online gamers”.

There she meets Duin, an alien speaking out against the invasion of his homeworld by the insect-like Tikati

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Release Week Wednesday: Cinder and Sisterhood of Dune

Posted on 2012-01-04 at 21:43 by Sam

My top two picks for the “big Tuesday releases” this week are Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer and Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, both from Macmillan Audio.

Cinder is a futuristic recasting of Cinderella, with the eponymous Cinder a cyborg in the crowded streets of New Beijing. Narrated by Rebecca Soler, there’s an excerpt as well as a new short story at Tor.com:

Sisterhood of Dune continues the long saga which began with Frank Herbert’s Dune, set years

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Audiobook release day: Stellarnet Rebel by J. L. Hilton and Darkness Falls by Cate Tiernan

Posted on 2012-01-03 at 03:07 by Sam

One of my long-anticipated titles is out today: Stellarnet Rebel By J.L. Hilton Narrated by Gayle Hendrix for Carina Press — “Welcome to Asteria, a corporate-owned, deep-space colony populated with refugees, criminals and obsessive online gamers.”

Stellarnet Rebel is the debut novel for author Hilton, while narrator Gayle Hendrix has narrated books for Nora Roberts, Suzanne Brockmann, and on the St. Martin’s Press/Audible Frontiers anthologies Strange Brew (Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, Charlaine Harris

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Interview Monday: Bob Reiss (The Guilded Earlobe)

Posted on 2012-01-02 at 14:00 by Sam

Welcome to 2012! I’m hoping to provide an interview every Monday this year, ranging from authors, to narrators, editors, engineers, reviewers, and more.

To start this series off I couldn’t think of a better interviewee than Bob Reiss, one of the best audiobooks reviewers around at his blog The Guilded Earlobe, which I’ve followed since stumbling onto it last summer.

Q: I was thinking about setting a goal to do 52 (some short!) interviews in 2012, whether it’s authors, narrators, reviewers, whatever. And I

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My plans for this blog in 2012!

Posted on 2012-01-02 at 03:17 by Sam

Whew. 2011 is barely a day over, and here I am planning a hole year of blogging about science fiction and fantasy audiobooks. First, a couple of changes:

• I’m probably going to listen to fewer than 80 audiobooks this year. I want to take better advantage of the reading time I do have — those times where I could have been sitting and reading but instead have been sitting and listening. So instead of an 80-20 split on audiobooks vs. “real reading” I’m hoping to bring it closer to 50-50.
• I’ve been covering too

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Sam Without Pants

Posted on 2012-01-01 at 22:59 by Sam

Hey, this one’s personal!

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Audiobook release day: Hal Duncan's Vellum: The Book of All Hours and Douglas Hulick's Among Thieves

Posted on 2011-12-30 at 20:18 by Sam

I wasn’t planning on posting today, but then two books popped up which have been high up on my “where’s the audiobook?” list for a while. The first is Vellum: The Book of All Hours By Hal Duncan Narrated by Bernard Setaro Clark For Audible, Inc.:

Duncan’s acclaimed 2005 novel: “It’s 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human; now they are unkin, transformed by the ancient machine-code language of reality itself. They seek The Book of All Hours, the mythical tome within which the

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Audible's "Holiday Relief Sale" includes titles from Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Robert J. Sawyer, and more

Posted on 2011-12-29 at 16:08 by Sam

Audible’s $9.95 Holiday Relief sale goes through January 3, and while there’s a breakout for Fiction the list of 75 titles there isn’t broken down further into genre categories. So, along with a few others that catch my eye:

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Audiobook release week, 27 December 2011

Posted on 2011-12-28 at 04:00 by Sam

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