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Audible.com dipping its toes into the world of Pre-Orders?
Posted on 2011-11-07 at 17:40 by Sam
Perhaps this has been done with other books, but Pre-Order ‘Locked On’ by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney read by Lou Diamond Phillips is the first I’ve noticed:
It’s a 44-minute recording of the first three chapters, with the description leading with: “Simply pre-order Locked On now and you’ll get to hear the book’s first three chapters before anyone else. And when the complete book - which is more than 20 hours long - releases on December 13, it’ll be waiting for you in My Library.”
What do my fellow
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Audiobook release day: The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells and The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham
Posted on 2011-11-05 at 01:35 by Sam
The Cloud Roads By Narrated by Audible Frontiers:
This is a book I picked up earlier this summer at my local library when doing a little cover browsing of new hardcovers. (Along with Greg Egan’s The Clockwork Rocket and Col Buchanan’s Farlander — quite a haul!) I read the opening, found it interesting, and marked it as one to look for in audio. And here it is: “Moon has spent his life hiding what he is - a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature
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More audiobook news, from announcements both Little and Big (ha ha!) to today's new releases.
Posted on 2011-11-03 at 18:18 by Sam
First, Sarah Prineas (author of The Magic Thief series) announced via Twitter that “a while ago” audio rights for her forthcoming novel Winterling (HarperChildrens, January 3, 2012) were sold to Recorded Books.
Second, from the “how did I not know this was coming” department, John Crowley’s novel Little, Big will be coming out December 1 from Blackstone Audio! Crowley announced the deal in late September, revealing that he will be narrating the novel, which he did for a previous audiobook, Aegypt (also from
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Audiobook release day: Rule 34 by Charles Stross
Posted on 2011-11-02 at 19:26 by Sam
Today sees the release of Rule 34 By Narrated by Recorded Books:
A “loose sequel” to Halting State, Rule 34 uses three interleaving first person perspectives to tell its story: ”Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross takes listeners into the near future for this breathtaking thriller. As head of the Rule 34 Squad, Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh keeps a close eye on Internet activity, monitoring whether people are participating in harmless fantasies or engaging
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Audiobook announcement: Brilliance Audio has purchased audio rights for Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon (DAW Books)
Posted on 2011-11-02 at 18:26 by Sam
Saladin Ahmed broke the news on Twitter last Thursday, retweeted by his publisher DAW Books, that Brilliance Audio had purchased the audio rights to his debut novel, Throne of the Crescent Moon (hardcover, Feb 7, 2012):
And a day later, Ahmed posted the first chapter of the novel on his blog. As a fan both of Ahmed’s short fiction (which I’ve enjoyed catching at PodCastle, and which garnered him enough votes to be a finalist for both a Nebula Award and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer) and of
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Audiobook release day: The Folded World by Catherynne M. Valente (and many more)
Posted on 2011-11-01 at 15:42 by Sam
On a busy day to start November, my most-anticipated title is without question The Folded World: A Dirge for Prester John Volume Two By Narrated by
Book 2 in her A Dirge for Prester John series after 2010’s The Habitation of the Blessed — also narrated by Lister and out from Brilliance Audio. In book 2, “Mythopoeic Award winner Catherynne M. Valente continues to re-imagine the legends of the Middle Ages” and we’ll see the armies of Prester John come to Constantinople’s
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Audiobook release day: The Poison Eaters and Other Stories by Holly Black
Posted on 2011-10-31 at 14:42 by Sam
Just in time to sneak under the wire (under 90 minutes to go!) for Audible.com’s “Frighteningly Low Prices” sale, today sees the audiobook release for Holly Black’s collection The Poison Eaters and Other Stories, narrated by the author and out from Brilliance Audio:
Priced at $5.87 until 12 ET today.
Update: Also out today: A new audio version of Echo By Narrated by Alex Benedict novels, supplanting a barely year-old version narrated by Paul Boehmer.
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Audiobook release: Mr. Fox: A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi
Posted on 2011-10-26 at 20:42 by Sam
Out today, after yesterday’s big releases and news: Mr. Fox: A Novel By Narrated by From AudioGO:
I must have overlooked this book in the Amazon.com October Best Books of the Month, and missed her interview with Fantasy Matters despite a mention on the World SF blog, but I *just* read in more detail about this novel via Jeff VanderMeer’s Omnivoracious blog and, well, pretty much everything he recommends I’ll at least check out. (And with good results, as Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears
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Audiobook release day: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami; and "Neil Gaiman Presents..."
Posted on 2011-10-25 at 17:34 by Sam
Billed (perhaps justifiably) as “The Most Anticipated Novel of the Year”, 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami has finally arrived. Translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel, narrated by Mark Boyett, Marc Vietor, and Allison Hiroto, and out from Audible, Inc.:
The book has been subject to quite a flurry of interviews, reviews, and other oddities. Oddities? Yes. TIME magazine’s “Cat Power” article, which rates Murakami’s books on their cat content, would apply. But more typical profiles and reviews have abounded as
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Audiobook release day: On the Beach by Nevil Shute!
Posted on 2011-10-19 at 17:12 by Sam
On the Beach is Narrated by Recorded Books, this appears to be the stellar 1991 production, now made available at Audible.com:
At 9.5 hours, it’s not a long listen. But this novel, along with Walter M. Miller’s 1959 novel of nuclear cataclysm A Canticle for Leibowitz, are among by all-time favorite books. Shute’s is by far the
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