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Audible.com "3 books for 2 credits" sale ends tonight at midnight
Posted on 2012-05-15 at 14:09 by Sam
Using a special mini-cart, and if you happen to have piles of credits lying around you can “3 for 2” more than once, Audible.com has been running a 3 books for 2 credits sale for the past week which ends tonight at midnight Eastern Time (US). In the sale are books by David Anthony Durham (books 2 and 3 of Acacia), Robert J. Sawyer (WWW: Watch and Wonder), R. A. Salvatore (Forgotten Realms: Transitions), Jo Walton (Small Change trilogy), Margaret Weis (Dragonvarld trilogy), Scott Westerfield (Behemoth and
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Release Week: Last Dragon by J.M. McDermott, Enchanted by Alethea Kontis, and more
Posted on 2012-05-09 at 14:51 by Sam
Release week for Tuesday, May 8, 2012: My top pick this “week” is Last Dragon by J.M. McDermott, read by Cori Samuel for Iambik Audiobooks. This is a bit of a cheat job, as the audiobook was actually released in audio in late April, but I missed its arrival then so I will trumpet it loud and clear now: this is the next book I’m listening to. (See that “currently listening to” sidebar? Yeah, that.) Originally published as the first novel in Wizards of the Coast’s Discoveries series in 2008, and re-issued in
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Listening Report: April 2012
Posted on 2012-05-03 at 19:52 by Sam
Last month it was 6 audiobooks, heavily slanted in favor of sf over fantasy. This month it’s back up to 9 audiobooks, with a pretty even split between genres, and some non-speculative (or at least not heavily speculative) stuff in the mix as well.
REVIEWS:
- A Canticle for Leibowitz By Narrated by (2011) for Blackstone Audio (review copy) — One of my all-time favorite novels, read very well. As many times as I’ve read the book, every re-reading brings
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Release Week: The Drowned Cities, The Killing Moon, Empire State, Giant Thief, and Range of Ghosts
Posted on 2012-05-02 at 14:06 by Sam
It’s quite a release week in the Teen SF/F category, led by my overall pick for the week, The Drowned Cities By Narrated by Ship Breaker series, a post-oil-crash world, out concurrently with the print/e-book edition from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Along with all of my picks for this week, it’s in the 10-12 hour range, a length I am becoming more and more happy with.
Outside of YA, and also out concurrently with its print/e-book
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Release Week: The Mongoliad, Tricked, The Dark Tower, Blackbirds, Robert Silverberg, and more
Posted on 2012-04-25 at 02:32 by Sam
Well, the release week for Tuesday, April 24, 2012 is not messing around. There are two dozen+ new audiobooks, including a pretty big list of big titles.
The Mongoliad: The Foreworld Saga, Book 1 By Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, E. D. deBirmingham, Erik Bear, Joseph Brassey, and Cooper Moo, Narrated by Luke Daniels for Brilliance Audio — concurrent with its print and e-book publication from Amazon’s 47North, this is the first novel to come out of the serial novel project “The Mongoliad”, of which
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Audible.com's Semi-Annual Half-Price Sale, through April 27
Posted on 2012-04-19 at 20:29 by Sam
Audible.com’s Semi-Annual Half-Price Sale lists 1000+ titles, ending April 27 at Noon ET. Organized into the major categories, there’s helpfully a Sci-Fi and Fantasy listing, but it’s quite a doozy at 131 results. So! Here’s my usual rundown of the (too many, still) titles which caught my eye with a (somewhat) shorter list of PICKs:
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by , Narrated by — 10 hrs and 18 mins — the basis for an upcoming feature film by the “co-author” of Pride and
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Release Week: Mechanique, White Horse, James Patrick Kelly, and more
Posted on 2012-04-18 at 15:03 by Sam
A bit quieter in volume, but the release week of Tuesday, April 17, 2012 has brought two intriguing novels from 2011 to audio, namely Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti and Pattern Scars, along with new releases White Horse, Elizabeth Hand’s Radiant Days, and more.
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti By Genevieve Valentine, Narrated by 8 hrs and 19 mins —
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Release Week: The Greyfriar, Welcome to Bordertown, Infinite Jest, "Enter, Night", Immobility, Unholy Night, Grail, the Honorverse, and more
Posted on 2012-04-11 at 13:12 by Sam
Another bumper crop of releases this week, ranging from Steampunk alternate history vampires, to vampires in a remote northern Ontario mining town, to a shared world urban fantasy anthology, to the 56 hours that is David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, a literary post apocalypse, a revisionary approach to the Three Wise Men, and more.
Vampire Empire - The Greyfriar By Narrated by Buzzy Multimedia Publishing (10 hrs and 39 mins):
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Another peek overseas at Audible UK and the digital divide
Posted on 2012-04-09 at 15:46 by Sam
Early last month, I wrote a bit about the regional digital divide, which sees Audible UK members having some excellent sf/f titles which Audible US members don’t have access to, from Songs of the Earth, to The Scar: New Crobuzon, Book 2 and Iron Council: New Crobuzon, Book 3 By Rivers of London and Moon Over Soho By Blue Remembered Earth By
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Release Week: Triggers, David Drake, Kim Stanley Robinson, Girl Genius, and more
Posted on 2012-04-04 at 12:00 by Sam
The release week for Tuesday, April 3 is led by the release of Triggers By Narrated by On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin’s bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories. Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac
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