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Release Day: Ian McDonald's Brasyl and River of Gods

Posted on 2012-06-21 at 18:37 by Sam

I don’t generally post releases outside of the “release week” posts, but it’s a pretty big day for audiobooks as Ian McDonald’s River of Gods (published 2004, winner of the BSFA Award, nominated for a Hugo, Arthur C. Clarke, and Locus, and here read by Jonathan Keeble) and Brasyl (published 2007, winner of the BSFA Award, nominated for a Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell, and Locus, and here read by Nigel Pilkington) were just released by Audible:

“Ian McDonald’s River of Gods painted a vivid picture of a

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Release Week: David Brin's Existence and Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's The Long Earth

Posted on 2012-06-20 at 02:31 by Sam

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Received: Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

Posted on 2012-06-19 at 15:24 by Sam

Received: Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, read by Stefan Rudnicki (and cast) for Macmillan Audio. Coming concurrent with hardcover and e-book release from Tor on July 17.

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Release Week: Chabon's Kavalier and Clay; Jemisin's Dreamblood; Brenda Cooper's Silver Ship; Novik's Temeraire; Joan D. Vinge's The Snow Queen; and more

Posted on 2012-06-14 at 14:17 by Sam

My most anticipated release this week comes from the fiction section: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay By Michael Chabon, Narrated by David Colacci for Brilliance Audio. FINALLY an UNABRIDGED recording! Colacci’s narration of the abridged version was a mere 8 hrs and 53 mins — about one third of the full 26 hrs and 20 mins of the unabridged recording. “It’s 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his

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Release Week: Redshirts by John Scalzi, a US release for Alastair Reynolds's Blue Remembered Earth, Daniel A. Wilson's Amped, and the story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection

Posted on 2012-06-06 at 13:57 by Sam

The first release week for June 2012 is led by the sf meta-comedic Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas By John Scalzi, Narrated by Wil Wheaton for Audible, out concurrently with the print and (DRM-free!) e-book release from Tor. At 7 hours and 41 minutes it sounds a bit slight, but Wheaton is not your typical plodding-along narrator. The book re-unites the author/narrator duo behind Fuzzy Nation (which was just honored with an Audie Award), Agent to the Stars, and The Android’s Dream, and certainly seems

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Audiobook review: Osama by Lavie Tidhar

Posted on 2012-06-05 at 16:32 by Sam

Osama by Lavie Tidhar

Narrated by Jeff Harding for Audible Ltd

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Release Date: 05-14-2012 [PS Publishing | Goodreads | Audible UK]

Review by Dave Thompson: “Life Isn’t a Pulp Novel”

Lavie Tidhar’s Osama is not an easy or light novel. However, it is a very thought provoking one, and I suspect it’s one that’s going to stay with me for a long time.

What if Osama bin Laden never existed? What if his acts of terror were confined solely to pulp novels, the kind that are published

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Release Week: Mark L. Van Name's No Going Back and Lavie Tidhar's Tel Aviv Dossier

Posted on 2012-05-30 at 02:09 by Sam

May goes out fairly quietly in terms of raw numbers, but there are still two audiobooks I am pretty excited about, led for me by No Going Back: Jon & Lobo, Book 5 By Mark L. Van Name, Narrated by Tom Stechschulte for Audible Frontiers. Out concurrently with its print and e-book release from Baen, the book continues the Jon and Lobo series, which came to audio in one giant gulp last month. “Jon and Lobo are back–and everything is about to change. If they both survive. Haunted by memories of children he could

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Release Week: KSR's 2312; Anne Lyle; Rob Ziegler; Lev AC Rosen; David Brin; Tim Akers; and the conclusion to The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

Posted on 2012-05-23 at 19:32 by Sam

The absolutely mammoth release week for Tuesday, May 23, is led for me by the much-anticipated and well-regarded 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson, narrated by Sarah Zimmerman for Hachette Audio, out concurrently with its publication in hardcover and e-book by Orbit. At 19 hrs and 15 mins, it seems a pretty good length for exploring a science fiction world (not too long, not too short). Over on Scalzi’s Whatever blog, Robinson talks about the Big Idea behind the novel, there’s an official site which lets you bui

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Audible.com 48-hour Customer Favorites $7.95 sale

Posted on 2012-05-18 at 17:17 by Sam

Through Noon Eastern Time on May 21, Audible.com is having a 48-hour Customer Favorites $7.95 sale. There is a handy Sci-Fi & Fantasy tab, though there are sf/f titles lurking under the Thriller, Fiction (a lot), and Romance tabs as well. Here’s what most caught my eye in the sf/f tab:

• Howl’s Moving Castle By Diana Wynne Jones, Narrated by Jenny Sterlin — Length:8 hrs and 34 mins — which I got to gush about over on The Functional Nerds blog as part of the Diana Wynne Jones 2012 blog tour
  
• The Wise Man’s

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Release Week: Railsea by China Mieville; Osama by Lavie Tidhar; CS Friedman's Magister and Coldfire trilogies; and more

Posted on 2012-05-16 at 14:03 by Sam

For the third week in a row there are multiple major releases in the YA SF & F section, led by Railsea, a foray into a younger age category by the always brilliant China Mieville (Perdido Street Station, Embassytown, etc.). Narrated by Jonathan Cowley for Random House Audio, the audiobook comes in at just under 10 hours, and it also comes with heaps of praise for its ability to both engage younger audiences at a narrative level, with a world of trains and giant mole hunts, as well as offer a deeper reading

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