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Audiobook release day: Zone One by Colson Whitehead, Richard Kadrey's Aloha from Hell, and more

Posted on 2011-10-18 at 16:35 by Sam

On the heels of a brief mention in TIME magazine and a glowing review by Jeff VanderMeer for Barnes & Noble, Zone One: A Novel By Colson Whitehead is out from Random House Audio, concurrent with its release in hardcover from Doubleday:

Narrated by Beresford Bennett, Zone One is both a zombie novel and a wry satire and it’s been on my watch list for a good bit. (Again, hat tip to Jeff VanderMeer, the source of many books in my too-long “to read” list.) There’s been plenty of building attention to the novel,

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Audible.com release day: The Ringworld Engineers: The Ringworld Series, Book 2 by Larry Niven

Posted on 2011-10-14 at 21:33 by Sam

The Ringworld Engineers: The Ringworld Series, Book 2 By Larry Niven Narrated by Paul Michael Garcia From Blackstone Audio, Inc. Niven’s 1980 novel picks up 20 years after Ringworld:

ALSO OUT TODAY: A seven-pack of titles from Iambik Audio with Unwelcome Bodies by Jennifer Pelland and Chill by Elizabeth Bear being the ones which most catch my eye.

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Sneak peek at James Marster's narration of Clay and Susan Griffith's Vampire Empire: The Greyfriar

Posted on 2011-10-14 at 21:24 by Sam

Over at Buzzy Multimedia, The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire, Book 1) is available for pre-order, with a nearly 20 minute preview excerpt from narrator James Marsters.

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Audiobook release day: The Cold Commands by Richard K. Morgan; and: Steampunk!

Posted on 2011-10-12 at 15:13 by Sam

On the heels of the Del Rey hardcover release yesterday comes The Cold Commands: A Land Fit for Heroes, Book 2 By Richard K. Morgan Narrated by Simon Vance:

Out from Tantor Audio, The Cold Commands continues Morgan’s foray into sword & sorcery which began with 2009’s The Steel Remains. Morgan is best known for The Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels & Woken Furies but his new series has been greeted with good reviews and the sequel has been quite anticipated. If the cover doesn’t look

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Audiobook release day: In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood

Posted on 2011-10-11 at 16:18 by Sam

Today sees the audiobook (and Audible.com) release date for, among others: In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination By Margaret Atwood Narrated by Susan Denaker:

A collection of Atwood’s essays: “In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination is Margaret Atwood’s account of her rela­tionship with the literary form we have come to know as science fiction. This relationship has been lifelong, stretch­ing from her days as a child reader in the 1940s through her time as a graduate student at

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Audiobooks announced: Alan Baxter's RealmShift and MageSign

Posted on 2011-10-06 at 11:05 by Sam

Australian dark fantasy thriller author Alan Baxter announced that his two novels, RealmShift and MageSign, are coming soon to audio thanks to a successful ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange, by Audible.com) agreement with narrator Matt “Bentley” Allegre with RealmShift coming in time for Christmas, and MageSign to follow soon after.

RealmShift introduces both Baxter and his world, a modern day “underpinned by the somewhat less tangible balance and interplay of the gods”, along with the protagonist Isiah, a

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Audiobook release day: Ganymede by Cherie Priest; Zoo City by Lauren Beukes; The Sacred Band by David Anthony Durham

Posted on 2011-10-04 at 21:20 by Sam

Cherie Priest’s Clockwork Century returns with Ganymede: Clockwork Century, Book 4:

The Clockwork Century began with 2009’s Boneshaker (narrated by Wil Wheaton and Kate Reading), followed by the short novel Clementine: A Novel of the Clockwork Century (read by Dina Pearlman and Victor Bevine) and a full-size follow-up, Dreadnought (once again narrated by Reading). Here, the Macmillan Audio production of Ganymede is narrated by Edoardo Ballerini.

The Clockwork Century began with a powerful drill and zombies

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"Surprise" Audible.com release: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson

Posted on 2011-09-30 at 16:03 by Sam

After just having heard it would be delayed until mid-October, and checking pretty much daily anyway, surprise, surprise, oh, back-dated surprise, Neal Stephenson’s REAMDE is now available at Audible.com.

• Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner and out from Brilliance Audio the audiobook weighs in at 38 and a half hours. Well, whatever its actual Audible Release Date (it wasn’t the 27th, I tell you!) it is here now. I’ve been looking forward to Stephenson’s next book for a long time, and though I have my cranky

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Audible.com added yesterday: The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe

Posted on 2011-09-30 at 15:56 by Sam

The Hum and the Shiver: The Tufa Novels, Book 1 By Alex Bledsoe was published in print by Tor Books on September 27. Yesterday, the Blackstone Audio audiobook was added to Audible.com, narrated by Emily Janice Card and Stefan Rudnicki. When I saw it yesterday:

I didn’t recognize the book as actually being one of those on my anticipated titles list, as the cover … well, compare it to the Tor print cover:

But seeing Rudnicki’s name attached (though the available audio sample is entirely from Card) kept some

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Audiobook release day: The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen

Posted on 2011-09-28 at 20:25 by Sam

A couple of new audiobooks today, the first being The Revisionists By Thomas Mullen Narrated by Robert Fass, out from Hachette Audio:

This one’s been on my anticipated titles list for a good bit, a far future dystopia of Departments and Revisionists. Out concurrent with its release in print.

Also out today is Terralus 4 By Lee Gimenez Narrated by Dave Courvoisier from Books in Motion — Out in February on Kindle and in print in April, from Salvo Press: “Life on Earth in the year 2074 is bleak following

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