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Audible.com release day: Drew Bowling's The Tower of Shadows, Peter F. Hamilton's A Quantum Murder, Anno Dracula, and Larry Niven's Destiny's Road

Posted on 2011-12-08 at 17:30 by Sam

First: The Tower of Shadows (2006) By Drew Bowling Narrated by Paul Boehmer For Audible, Inc. — praised by both Terry Brooks and R.A. Salvatore, Bowling’s 2006 debut is described as: “From the boundless imagination and talented pen of a young storyteller springs the fabulous first novel in a major new epic fantasy series. Steeped in the traditions of its classic forebears, yet boldly original in its vision and sense of wonder, The Tower of Shadowsswells with heroism, sings with enchantment, and carries the

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Audible.com release day: The Postmortal: A Novel by Drew Magary

Posted on 2011-12-08 at 04:15 by Sam

This is the debut novel for Magary, published by Penguin in the US earlier this year: “Imagine a near future where a cure for aging is discovered and - after much political and moral debate - made available to people worldwide. Immortality, however, comes with its own unique

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Audiobook release Tuesday: Joe Haldeman's Earthbound, Pohl's The Space Merchants, The Thirteen Hallows, Cassandra Clare, Philip Palmer, and Patricia Briggs galore

Posted on 2011-12-06 at 19:53 by Sam

December gets off to a rolling start with a fairly sizable first Tuesday of big-title audiobooks:

1. Earthbound By Joe Haldeman Narrated by Annie Henk For Recorded Books — concluding Haldeman’s trilogy which began with Marsbound and continued with Starbound, Earthbound literally brings the story “home”:

2. The Space Merchants (1958) by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, Narrated by Dan Bittner For Macmillan Audio — “In a vastly overpopulated near-future world, businesses have taken the place of governments

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Audible.com release day: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

Posted on 2011-12-04 at 03:37 by Sam

We don’t often get Saturday releases, but maybe it’s because Audible.com’s servers finally finished processing the just-over 52 hours of the December 7-released Brilliance Audio production of The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick By Philip K. Dick, edited by Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem, and narrated by Fred Stella:

So, just what is the behemoth? From the publisher description:

Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K

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Audible.com release day: Diane Duane's A Wind From the South: Raetian Tales, Book 1

Posted on 2011-12-02 at 21:33 by Sam

Originally published by Badfort Press on Kindle in February, A Wind from the South: Raetian Tales, Book 1 By Diane Duane Narrated by Jessica Almasy comes to audio via Audible Frontiers:

It’s a book I’ve heard nothing about and which I would generally skip over, but a couple of things about the cover give me pause: the first is that it is fairly striking; the second is that it boasts “New York Times Bestselling Author” across the top and, well, I figure I should probably look into this one a bit more closely

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A great list of ChiZine Publications books are coming to audio

Posted on 2011-12-02 at 13:10 by Sam

As a postscript to unrelated correspondence, I complained to CZP co-publisher Brett Savory that I wanted to see more audiobooks of CZP titles. Well, I should have been paying better attention, as there’s not one but two audiobook publishers working on CZP titles.

Firstly, the folks at Iambik Audiobooks have already produced the first of five CZP titles they have in the pipeline:

Chasing the Dragon by Nicholas Kaufmann is narrated by Alex Foster, and should go live at Audible.com soon — through it’s already

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A narrator in need: Jay Snyder

Posted on 2011-12-02 at 01:02 by Sam

Via a Twitter post, narrator Oliver Wyman (The Children of the Sky, Gateway, Finch, …) shares that:

Michal Friedman lost her life delivering twins last week. Please make a donation to help Jay Snyder raise his children: http://sgp.cm/c60302

Jay Snyder is both the narrator for 81 audiobooks at Audible.com, as well as the father of newborn twins. Tragically, his wife died shortly after giving birth last Friday:

Michal Lura Friedman lost her life on Friday, November 25, 2011 in New York City, due to

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Audible.com release day: Peter F. Hamilton's 1993 debut novel Mindstar Rising

Posted on 2011-12-01 at 20:42 by Sam

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Audible.com unveils its audiobooks of the year: Editors' Picks and Customer Favorites, and more

Posted on 2011-12-01 at 17:28 by Sam

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Audible.com release day: Halo: Glasslands by Karen Traviss

Posted on 2011-11-30 at 20:47 by Sam

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