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Audiobook release day: Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners by Ellen Kushner
Posted on 2011-11-29 at 20:39 by Sam
Neil Gaiman Presents continues with its next selection, Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners By Narrated by
This is an “illuminated” audiobook with sound effects like doors closing, background noise at a restaurant, “the ring of steel”, and a full cast of characters around Kushner’s narration of her 1987 novel. (Elsewhere, Gaiman talked with Salon.com about audiobooks — very much worth checking out!)
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Audible.com release day: The Ringworld Throne, and Wake Up and Dream
Posted on 2011-11-25 at 19:38 by Sam
Two titles came across the wire late Wednesday. The first is The Ringworld Throne: The Ringworld Series, Book 3 (1996) By Narrated by Blackstone Audio, Inc. — hot on the heels of last month’s The Ringworld Engineers: The Ringworld Series, Book 2:
The second is Wake Up And Dream By Narrated by Audible Ltd — this one is billed as “a dazzling collision of science, fantasy and history. Like the feelies themselves … film noir with Technicolor
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Audiobook review: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
Posted on 2011-11-22 at 22:12 by Sam
WHAT: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes narrated by Justine Eyre from Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio:
HOW: Bought a-la-carte from Audible.com
WHY: Jeff VanderMeer’s NY Times review; Arthur C. Clarke Award; Kitschies Red Tentacle Award; shortlisted for BSFA; World Fantasy Award nomination; I’m publishing an interview of Beukes in Bull Spec #7; and after I listened to the sample I decided not to wait for the CD review copy set to jump into this discount-priced, full-valued audiobook.
THE STORY: Zinzi December is
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Audiobook release day: Non-genre, young readers, zombies, and missed opportunities.
Posted on 2011-11-22 at 20:44 by Sam
- The Third Reich By Narrated by For Macmillan Audio — a German wargames player becomes
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Audiobook review: Joe Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy
Posted on 2011-11-21 at 21:48 by Sam
WHAT: The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie narrated by for Orion Publishing Group Limited. TThe Blade Itself: The First Law: Book One, Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two, and Last Argument of Kings: The First Law: Book Three:
HOW: Bought a-la-carte from Audible.com.
WHY: Over the years, some books just keep popping up. In writing back and forth with Pyr editor Lou Anders over the past couple of years, two names kept coming up when we’d write about what
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Audiobook review: The Passage by Justin Cronin
Posted on 2011-11-21 at 20:55 by Sam
WHAT: The Passage By Narrated by Random House Audio:
HOW: Borrowed from the Durham County Library as 29 discs.
WHY: Explained this pretty well (and at some length) in my Currently Listening To post for the audiobook. Summary: Lev Grossman recommended it. It was at the library. I was between credits.
THE STORY: The first segment of the book was very well done: a rainforest expedition encounters some really nasty bats and unleashes a strange
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SFFaudio Challenge #6 -- make an audiobook, get an audiobook
Posted on 2011-11-18 at 19:27 by Sam
I hadn’t seen this in previous years, but the SFFaudio Challenge #6 is open, where if you record a public domain book from their list, you can get a new audiobook. If I had the time, I’d really like to take on Animal Farm — because, well, er… I’ve still not read it in full.
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A trickle of releases, meanwhile the semi-annual half price sale...
Posted on 2011-11-16 at 21:18 by Sam
After a huge day of releases last Tuesday, thing have been pretty slow this week. Still, a few things have show up, including:
- Cain By Narrated by For Audible, Inc. — 5.5 hours — “The late Nobel laureate’s final novel, a radical retelling of the Old Testament.”
- Swan Song By Narrated by For Audible, Inc. — classic (well, 1980s!) sf novel about a post-nuclear-apocalypse United States
- Collection: The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories By Narr
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The Guilded Earlobe reviews The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
Posted on 2011-11-16 at 20:16 by Sam
3 weeks ago, Audible.com launched a specially branded ACX line called Neil Gaiman Presents. One of the launch titles was The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill. Today, Bob Reiss at The Guilded Earlobe grades it quite highly: “The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break is an audiobook experience that will play with your emotions. As the novel progresses “M” becomes inexplicably important to you, as he awkwardly attempts to bond with his coworkers and tries to find a place in this world. I
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Audiobook release day: The Alloy of Law, 11-22-63, Inheritance, Wild Cards, ...
Posted on 2011-11-08 at 17:13 by Sam
Well, well, well. It’s quite a day for audiobooks, from epic fantasy to epic fantasy turned Steam-age, to superheroes, to zombies, to the conclusion of a 4-book series begun by a now-famous then-teenager. Welcome to November 8, 2011.
The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel By Narrated by Macmillan Audio — set three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy (The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages) The Alloy of Law combines magic, metal
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