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Audible introduces SoundBytes -- "shorter works from your favorite authors, plus new writers to discover, for $4.50 or less for a limited time"

Posted on 2012-03-29 at 17:40 by Sam

“These SoundBytes are available for just one week and return to full price on Thursday, April 5, 2012 @ 9AM ET.” The 20 titles include (among others) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Old Man’s War tie-in The Sagan Diary by John Scalzi:

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Release Week: Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker, Mark L. Van Name's Jon and Lobo series, two series from Greg Bear, and more

Posted on 2012-03-28 at 13:12 by Sam

Another jam-packed release week, led for me by Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker and the first four books in Mark L. Van Name’s Jon and Lobo series.

ANGELMAKER: The second novel from Nick Harkaway, author of the Locus- and BSFA-nominated The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker was published in hardcover by Knopf last week after a February print release in the UK. Here, narrated By Daniel Weyman for AudioGO, is a long-anticipated audiobook for me, hailed by William Gibson as “You are in for a treat, sort of like Dickens

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Review and Interview: The Witches of Lublin

Posted on 2012-03-26 at 14:51 by Sam

REVIEW and INTERVIEW: The Witches of Lublin By Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Schwartz, and Yale Strom, Narrated by Ellen Kushner, Miriam Margolyes, Neil Gaiman, Simon Jones, and Barbara Rosenblat for SueMedia Productions:

Review and Interview by Dave Thompson: “Music Bridging our Profane World to the Holiness of the World to Come”

I stumbled across The Witches of Lublin when I was browsing what had been nominated for the Audie Awards - saw that it had been co-written by Ellen Kushner (of Swordspoint fame) and

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News: Oliver Wyman to narrate more of Pohl's Heechee saga, and William F. Nolan's Logan's Run

Posted on 2012-03-23 at 20:05 by Sam

Via Twitter, Oliver Wyman reports that he’ll be narrating “William F. Nolan’s classic Logan’s Run (+ 2 sequels) & 4 more books in Fred Pohl’s epic Heechee saga” for Audible, adding: “I love my job.”

For fans (like me!) of Wyman’s excellent, excellent narration on Frederik Pohl’s Gateway, this is fantastic news. As to more on why Wyman is super-excited about this, check out his response to Audible’s asking narrators to talk about “The Best Book I Ever Narrated” last year. I wonder if they’ll get Robert J

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Interview: Brandon Sanderson on (primarily) The Alloy of Law and narrator Michael Kramer

Posted on 2012-03-23 at 14:45 by Sam

Today I’m absolutely ecstatic to post my interview with bestselling author Brandon Sanderson:

I first met and spoke to Sanderson in September 2010, when he came to Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books for a reading and signing event for The Way of Kings: Book One of The Stormlight Archive, and one of the topics we got onto happened to be audiobooks. Fast forward to the fall of 2011 and the release of The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel (which I reviewed here on the Audible SF/F blog) and it felt like it was time to

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Release Week: Tobias Buckell's Arctic Rising and M. M. Buckner's The Gravity Pilot

Posted on 2012-03-21 at 13:00 by Sam

It’s another packed week of audiobook releases, with the two biggest books for me both being previously released in hardcover from Tor, and both dealing with near/medium future ecological change: Tobias S. Buckell’s Arctic Rising and M. M. Buckner’s The Gravity Pilot.

ARCTIC RISING: Out in hardcover and e-book from Tor in late February, Buckell’s latest is an ecothriller set in a near future where: “Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it’s about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but

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Some Iambik releases: Gemma Files and Jennifer Stevenson

Posted on 2012-03-21 at 01:17 by Sam

Though not yet available at Audible, over at Iambik audiobooks you can already purchase a digital download of A Book of Tongues and A Rope of Thorns by Gemma Files, read by Gordon Mackenzie: “Two years after the Civil War, Pinkerton agent Ed Morrow has gone undercover with one of the weird West’s most dangerous outlaw gangs-the troop led by “Reverend” Asher Rook, ex-Confederate chaplain turned “hexslinger,” and his notorious lieutenant (and lover) Chess Pargeter. Morrow’s task: get close enough to map the

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Release Week: Kosmatka, Pagliassotti, Zebrowski, Cherryh, Julavits, Medina, and more...

Posted on 2012-03-14 at 14:58 by Sam

A prolific and intriguing release week is led by The Games By Ted Kosmatka, Narrated by Scott Brick for Random House Audio — “This stunning first novel from Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Ted Kosmatka is a riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics. Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games envisions a harrowing world that may arrive sooner than you think. Silas Williams is the brilliant

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Audiobook review: Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory

Posted on 2012-03-09 at 18:40 by Sam

Reviewed by Dave Thompson: “The Undead Have Never Been So Fresh (or Funny)”

The living dead seem to be rising just about everywhere you turn, and these days the zombie apocalypse is feeling a bit run of the mill. Do not let this keep you from checking out Raising Stony Mayhall — one of the most delightful zombie books I’ve read.

There’s a trope in zombie fiction of a loved one being infected, and instead of

Posted in regular | Tagged audible frontiers, daryl gregory, dave thompson, david marantz, raising stony mayhall, review

Release Week: Tanith Lee's Tales from the Flat Earth and A. Lee Martinez's Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain

Posted on 2012-03-07 at 15:07 by Sam

Leading a fairly quiet first Tuesday in March in terms of new audiobook releases are the five books in Tanith Lee’s series Tales from the Flat Earth, all read by Susan Duerdan for Audible Frontiers:

“Night’s Master is the first book of the stunning arabesque high-fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth, which, in the manner of The One Thousand and One Nights, portrays an ancient world in mythic grandeur via connected tales. Long ago when the Earth was flat, beautiful, indifferent Gods lived in the

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