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2011 in review, 3 of 4: Where's the audiobook?

Posted on 2011-12-21 at 19:22 by Sam

This is the third of four posts looking back at 2011 in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks. I started with my year in listening and continued with a look into what I missed. Here, I’ll gripe at the world with my list of the most missing audiobooks of the year — those books I wanted to listen to but for which there was no audiobook. Lastly, I’ll lay out my picks for the year’s best in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks. But now: Where’s the audiobook?

• An Agreement with Hell by Dru

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The perils and rewards of having a public "where's the audiobook?" list

Posted on 2011-12-21 at 17:05 by Sam

I have done a terrible job of categorizing, sorting, and updating my list of missing audiobooks, as the arrival this year of several on my “where’s the audiobook?” list attests. But on the plus side, sometimes folks see the list and let me know that, hey, some of those books are coming. And I get to pass that info along, which is quite fun. So without further adieu, Audible contacted me to let me know about some of the titles they (or someone they know about) has in the works for 2012:

Glory Road by Robert

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Audiobook release Tuesday: Wild Cards II: Aces High; Eutopia; and Amanda Hocking's My Blood Approves

Posted on 2011-12-20 at 21:15 by Sam

A fairly quiet Tuesday, past the midway part of December. Still, there’s a great new title this week: Wild Cards II: Aces High by George R. R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Pat Cadigan, Lewis Shiner, and Walter Jon Williams, Narrated by Luke Daniels For Brilliance Audio:

This volume follows a more unified story arc, as The Swarm-Mother infestation approaches Earth, making for a more novel-like feel as opposed to a shared world short story anthology as in the first volume. Daniels does an excellent job on both

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2011 in review, 2 of 4: What I missed.

Posted on 2011-12-19 at 18:26 by Sam

This is the second of four posts looking back at 2011 in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks. I started with my year in listening and continue here with a look into what I missed. Next I’ll gripe at the world with my list of the most missing audiobooks of the year — those books I wanted to listen to but for which there was no audiobook. Lastly, I’ll lay out my picks for the year’s best in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks. But now! What I missed.

The full list of titles which came out in 2011 which

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Interview: Robert J. Sawyer on Audible, Triggers, and more

Posted on 2011-12-19 at 16:12 by Sam

Award-winning Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer is not just the author of a long list of audiobooks (from FlashForward, from which the recent television series was adapted, to his Neanderthal Parallax series Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids, to his most recent series, WWW: Wake, Watch, and Wonder, and several standalone novels besides) he’s also a great fan of audiobooks and of Audible.com, having been a member for over ten years. He’s also narrated several introduction to classic science

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2011 in review, 1 of 4: My year in listening. (70 audiobooks, if you're counting.)

Posted on 2011-12-15 at 20:13 by Sam

This is the first of four posts looking back at 2011 in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks. I’m going to start with my year in listening, continue with a look into what I missed, and then gripe at the world with my list of the most missing audiobooks of the year — those books I wanted to listen to but for which there was no audiobook. Lastly, I’ll lay out my picks for the year’s best in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks. But first! My year in listening.

I have never read as much as I have this year

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Random House Audio releases a new production of George R. R. Martin's A Feast for Crows, this time narrated by Roy Dotrice

Posted on 2011-12-15 at 16:07 by Sam

Well, this one catches me flat-footed and flabbergasted as to how I missed knowing about it ahead of time, but Random House Audio has released a new production of A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 4 by George R.R. Martin, this time narrated by the narrator of the original productions of books 1, 2, 3, and 5, Roy Dotrice:

In 2005, a scheduling conflict kept Dotrice from narrating the original production, A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book IV, for which John Lee filled in quite

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Iambik Audiobooks also has some Small Beer Press titles in production

Posted on 2011-12-14 at 21:20 by Sam

When putting together my notes for my post about ChiZine Publications titles coming to audio, I noticed that Iambik Audiobooks — a fantastic independent publisher which is really putting out some great short and medium length titles — also had recently published a title from (speaking of fantastic and independent) Small Beer Press. That title is Couch by Benjamin Parzybok, but (with absolutely no offense meant to Parzybok!) it’s the fact that a relationship between Small Beer and Iambik is building which

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Audiobook release Tuesday: Two from Neil Gaiman Presents; Elizabeth Hand's "Generation Loss"; Tom Clancy; "The Leopard"; "The Broken Ones"; and "Rebellion"

Posted on 2011-12-13 at 20:49 by Sam

Neil Gaiman Presents returns today with two new audiobooks. The first is Viriconium By M. John Harrison Narrated by Simon Vance. It’s the second Harrison audiobook for Gaiman’s line, after Light, and with a big-time narrator in Vance (The Prestige, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Interview with the Vampire, The Third Reich, Casino Royale, The Steel Remains) to boot. A few words from Neil on Viriconium: ”Viriconium is three novles and a short story collection, spanning much of M. John Harrison’s illustrious

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Audible.com release day: John Crowley's "Little, Big"

Posted on 2011-12-10 at 00:48 by Sam

Oh boy. I’ve been waiting for this one so long that I forgot I was waiting for it — and then, here it is: Little, Big: or, The Fairies’ Parliament written and narrated by John Crowley for Blackstone Audiobooks — this 1981 modern fantasy novel was hailed as “A book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy.” by Ursula K. Le Guin, it won the 1982 World Fantasy Award and was nominated for that year’s Nebula, Hugo, BSFA, and Locus Award, it’s, well, a novel I’ve wanted to come to audiobook for a

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