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Audible.com "Paperback Sale" through July 28

Posted on 2012-07-16 at 14:06 by Sam

Billed as “100 audiobooks for as low as $5.95 each”, Audible.com is having a Paperback Sale through July 28, with a pretty good haul of interesting sf/f titles. Here’s the ones which most caught my eye, $5.95 unless otherwise noted:

• The Rook: A Novel By Daniel O’Malley Narrated by Susan Duerden — Length:17 hrs and 51 mins
• A Discovery of Witches By Deborah Harkness, Narrated by Jennifer Ikeda — Series: All Souls, Book 1 — Length:24 hrs and 2 mins ($8.95)
• Delirium By Lauren Oliver, Narrated by Sarah Drew — S

Posted in regular | Tagged audible.com, sales

Audiobook review: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Posted on 2012-07-12 at 15:08 by Sam

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Narrated by David Colacci for Brilliance Audio

Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins

Release Date: 06-12-12 

Review by Dave Thompson: “Why don’t you figure out where we’re going to put all your goddamn comic books!”

This is going to be something of a departure from the other reviews I’ve done here, and I hope you all will indulge me. 

Memory is a funny thing. I first read Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay when it came out in

Posted in regular | Tagged dave thompson, kavalier and clay, michael chabon, reviews

Release week: Shadow Show, Caitlin R. Kiernan's The Drowning Girl, The Last Policeman, and Year Zero

Posted on 2012-07-11 at 13:52 by Sam

July really gets rolling here in its second week, with a long list of big new releases, including Rob Reid’s Year Zero and Deborah Harkness’s Shadow of Night. Still, it’s another four books which most catch my eye this week, starting with the anthology Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury edited by Sam Weller and Mort Castle, narrated by George Takei, Edward Herrmann, Kate Mulgrew, F. Murray Abraham, Neil Gaiman, Peter Appel, and James Urbaniak for Harper Audio, concurrent with its

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged caitlin r kiernan, graham joyce, neil gaiman, neil gaiman presents, ray bradbury, release week, the drowning girl, the last policeman, year zero

Release week: Alif the Unseen; Guy Gavriel Kay; Alexei Panshin; White Trash Zombies; Prince of Thorns; and more

Posted on 2012-07-04 at 01:21 by Sam

While the first release week in July isn’t headlined with new star-powered releases — those might be found in the “seen but not heard” section, including a new Charles Stross “Laundry Files” novel — there are a few intriguing new titles along with another round of new Audible Frontiers productions of previously well-received novels.

The title that most intrigues me this week is shelved in the Mysteries/Thrillers section, but with both some near future cyberthriller elements, and supernatural fantasy

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged alexei panshin, alif the unseen, guy gavriel kay, release week, stefan rudnicki

Wonderful 16-minutes of Oliver Wyman reading H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon"

Posted on 2012-07-02 at 18:25 by Sam

In a tweet, fantastically talented narrator Oliver Wyman (Jeff VanderMeer’s Finch, Frederik Pohl’s Gateway, on and on) mentions that he “Finally got around to recording some Lovecraft for #GoingPublic.” Well, I don’t know exactly what this particular Twitter tag is for yet, but I do know that Wyman gives a perfect rendition of the pulpish proto-weirdish story in question, and that you should go listen to it.

Posted in regular | Tagged GoingPublic, h.p. lovecraft, oliver wyman

Rush's Neil Peart to narrate the Brilliance Audio production of Kevin J. Anderson's Clockwork Angels: The Novel (based in turn on the Rush album)

Posted on 2012-06-27 at 20:01 by Sam

Via his blog, author Kevin J. Anderson mentions (among other things) something he’d apparently previously announced:

The hardcover, full-color novel comes out from ECW on September to coincide with the launch of the Rush Clockwork Angels tour. The unabridged audiobook from Brilliance is narrated by Neil Peart himself.

And, well, that’s not something I’d heard yet. Anderson is also giving away a free booklet preview of the novel:

Very interesting… The audiobook listing at Brilliance Audio gives a release

Posted in regular | Tagged clockwork angels, kevin j anderson, rush

The Devourer of Books Audiobook Week, Wednesday: A short meme.

Posted on 2012-06-27 at 17:12 by Sam

Quoth The Devourer: “Here’s something quick and easy for the middle of the week, just a short meme. Just copy and paste to your own post (and, you know, obviously change the answers so they’re yours and not mine).”

Here’s something quick and easy for the middle of the week, just a short meme. Just copy and paste to your own post (and, you know, obviously change the answers so they’re yours and not mine).

Current/most recent audiobook:

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, narrated

Posted in regular | Tagged devourer of books

Release week: The Age of Miracles, Logan's Run, and The Prince of Nothing

Posted on 2012-06-27 at 12:56 by Sam

The release week of June 26 brings a genre in the mainstream debut, a long-awaited classic read by one of my favorite narrators, and R. Scott Bakker’s Prince of Nothing series, among several other titles to check out.

That Genre-in-the-Mainstream debut is The Age of Miracles: A Novel By Karen Thompson Walker, Narrated by Emily Janice Card for Random House Audio — Length:9 hrs and 3 mins. A “coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world” sees the rotation of the Earth slowing down

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged age of miracles, logan's run, oliver wyman, prince of nothing, release week

Review: Redshirts by John Scalzi, read by Wil Wheaton

Posted on 2012-06-26 at 19:10 by Sam

Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas By John Scalzi

Narrated by Wil Wheaton for Audible Frontiers

Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins

Release Date: 06-05-12 

Review by Dave Thompson: “Stay off the Bridge! Avoid the Narrative!”

“Is it just me…or is everyone on this ship monumentally fucked up about away teams?” asks one of the Redshirts early on in John Scalzi’s latest.  Redshirts is funny, exciting, and gets emotional and pretty heartfelt in the most surprising places. But what’s really unique about this one is how

Posted in regular | Tagged dave thompson, john scalzi, redshirts, review, wil wheaton

The Devourer of Books Audiobook Week, Monday: My Audiobook Year

Posted on 2012-06-25 at 17:07 by Sam

The Devourer of Books is having an Audiobook Week this week, encouraging other audiobooks bloggers to join in. Bob Reiss at The Guilded Earlobe has already done so. So I’ll chip in with something short and take a stab at the topic.

It was actually about a year ago (June 20th to be precise) that I first started seriously blogging about audiobooks here — though I back-posted a few months of “best of the month” picks, a feature I only continued forward a few months. My biggest feature ended up being the 4-part

Posted in regular | Tagged devourer of books, the guilded earlobe