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Release Week Wednesday: The Flame Alphabet, Shadows in Flight, and The Coldest War

Posted on 2012-01-18 at 19:00 by Sam

For this release week (Tuesday, Jan 17) my top audiobook picks are The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus and Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card, along with The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis.

The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus is out from Recorded Books (Knopf, Jan 17, 2012) — a story of a world where the voices of children become lethal to their parents, and a boy who sets out in search of a cure. I’m not that impressed by the audiobook cover:

So here is the book cover as well:

On Audible: The Flame Alphabet B

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Release Week Wednesday: Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson

Posted on 2012-01-11 at 13:03 by Sam

My pick of the audiobooks out this release week is Distrust That Particular Flavor [Goodreads | not yet available at Audible.com] By William Gibson, Read By Robertson Dean for Tantor Audio:

Published last week in print, this collection of essays comes to us from, essentially, the voice of Gibson in audio, as Dean has narrated recent Gibson novels Spook Country and Zero History with more than aplomb, perfectly capturing the voices of Hollis Henry and (in particular) Milgrim, as well as last year’s new

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Release Week Wednesday: Cinder and Sisterhood of Dune

Posted on 2012-01-04 at 21:43 by Sam

My top two picks for the “big Tuesday releases” this week are Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer and Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, both from Macmillan Audio.

Cinder is a futuristic recasting of Cinderella, with the eponymous Cinder a cyborg in the crowded streets of New Beijing. Narrated by Rebecca Soler, there’s an excerpt as well as a new short story at Tor.com:

Sisterhood of Dune continues the long saga which began with Frank Herbert’s Dune, set years

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Audiobook release week, 27 December 2011

Posted on 2011-12-28 at 04:00 by Sam
A quiet final Tuesday for 2011 sees a handful of urban fantasy releases, along with the self-published The Circle of Sorcerers: A Mages of Bloodmyr Novel: Book #1 By Brian KittrellNarrated by Justin D. Torres for Kittrell’s own Late Nite Books:
An attractive cover for a mid-length (8 hours) opening novel pitting priests against sorcerers, vying for control over elemental magic.
ALSO OUT TODAY: Deep Sky By Patrick Lee Narrated by Jeff Gurne for Harper Audio — book three of Lee’s series which began with
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