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Release Week: Ancillary Sword, Boy's Life, The Maze of Games, The Chaplain's War, The Lesser Dead, and Gillian Anderson's A Vision of Fire

Posted on 2014-10-10 at 18:04 by Sam

OCTOBER 1-7, 2014: In six picks from an absolutely packed week, we get a sequel to a many-multiple award-winning sf novel, a fantastical puzzle book, author-read audiobooks from World Fantasy Award-nominated author Christopher Buehlman and X-Files star Gillian Anderson, a highly-anticipated military sf debut built from the pages of Analog, and Robert McCammon's classic Boy's Life. We also get: new genre novels from John Twelve Hawks, Tina Connolly, Steven Brust, Richard Morgan, Anton Strout, Gwenda Bond

Posted in Release Week | Tagged a vision of fire, adjoa andoh, ancillary sword, ann leckie, boy's life, brad torgersen, christopher buehlman, george newbern, gillian anderson, robert mccammon, the chaplain's war, the lesser dead, the maze of games, wil wheaton

Release Week: Tobias Buckell's Hurricane Fever, Benjamin Parzybok's Sherwood Nation, Peyton Marshall's Goodhouse, Howard Jacobson's J, and David Cronenberg's Consumed read by William Hurt

Posted on 2014-10-07 at 19:18 by Sam

SEPTEMBER 24-30, 2014: I already knew this was going to be a big week, ahead of a huge October slate (previewed by Bookpage, io9, SFSignal, and BuzzFeed) and then several surprises made coming up with a manageable set of picks a nearly impossible task. Beyond the five audiobooks I do highlight this week, there's plenty more to check out in the "also out" listings including Garth Stein's A Sudden Light, Hilary Mantel's The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Jason Mott's The Wonder of All Things, Jonathan L.

Posted in Release Week | Tagged Benjamin Parzybok, Consumed, David Cronenberg, Goodhouse, howard jacobson, Hurricane Fever, Peyton Marshall, Sherwood Nation, tobias buckell, William Hurt

Release Week: Wolf in White Van, Afterworlds, Rooms, Horrorstör, and Terry Pratchett's A Slip of the Keyboard

Posted on 2014-10-01 at 20:33 by Sam

SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2014: Whew! It's been a busy couple of weeks, and this release week roundup is more than a week late. But! I can't do my usual trick of combining two weeks into one roundup, because there's just too many great titles coming out here as summer turns to fall. This week: a full review of John Darnielle's affecting Wolf in White Van, along with picks from YA (Scott Westerfeld's Afterworlds) and horror (Lauren Oliver's adult debut Rooms and Grady Hendrix's bizarre and aptly-published-by-Quirk

Posted in Release Week | Tagged afterworlds, bronson pinchot, grady hendrix, Heather Lind, horrorstor, john darnielle, lauren oliver, michael fenton-stevens, rooms, scott westerfeld, sheetal sheth, tai sammons, terry pratchett, wolf in white van

Release Week: Broken Monsters, My Real Children, The Rabbit Back Literature Society, and Jay Lake's Last Plane to Heaven

Posted on 2014-09-22 at 17:22 by Sam

SEPTEMBER 10-16, 2014: One of the quietest weeks in overall numbers in a good while nonetheless has very, very much to recommend it, with US audio releases for the latest novels from Lauren Beukes and Jo Walton, an eagerly-awaited Finnish speculative fiction, and Jay Lake's posthumous final collection Last Plane to Heaven. Also out this week: John Shirley's historical fiction Wyatt in Wichita well ahead of the planned print/ebook release, Ken Follett's Century Trilogy concludes with Edge of Eternity, Kelly

Posted in Release Week | Tagged alison larkin, broken monsters, jay lake, jo walton, lauren beukes, my real children, pasi ilmari jaaskelainen, the rabbit back literature society

Release Week: Station Eleven, City of Stairs, Hieroglyph, Monstrous Affections, and Gregory Maguire's Egg and Spoon

Posted on 2014-09-16 at 13:31 by Sam

SEPTEMBER 3-9, 2014: A highly-praised post-apocalyptic fiction, a secondary-world fantasy, an optimistic hard sf anthology, a young adult fantasy anthology, and an "all ages" fantasy lead a crowded week which also includes Daryl Gregory's "dark, degenerate, and sublime" We Are All Completely Fine, Karen Miller's The Falcon Throne, Angus Watson's Age of Iron, Siobhan Adcock's ghost story The Barter, Paula Guran's anthology Zombies: More Recent Dead, Benedict Cumberbatch reading William Golding's The Spire, a

Posted in Release Week | Tagged alma cuervo, city of stairs, daryl gregory, egg and spoon, emily st john mandel, gavin grant, gregory maguire, hieroglyph, kathryn cramer, kelly link, kirsten potter, michael page, monstrous affections, neal stephenson, robert jackson bennett, siobhan adcock, station eleven, the barter

Release Week: Acceptance, The Bone Clocks, Maplecroft, Sleeping Late on Judgement Day, and Randall Munroe's "What If?"

Posted on 2014-09-09 at 03:49 by Sam

AUGUST 27-SEPTEMBER 2, 2014: September is here, and so are 5 of my most-anticipated audiobooks of the entire year: Jeff VanderMeer's Acceptance concludes his Southern Reach trilogy, David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks is the Cloud Atlas author's first new novel in four years, Cherie Priest's Maplecroft gives us Lizzie Borden and her axe, we find out what happens to an angel on the run after Sleeping Late on Judgement Day, and Wil Wheaton narrates an audiobook adaptation of Randall Munroe's What If? Also out

Posted in Release Week | Tagged bobby dollar, bronson pinchot, cherie priest, david mitchell, jeff vandermeer, maplecroft, randall munroe, tad williams, the bone clocks, the southern reach, what if, wil wheaton, xe sands, xkcd

Release Week(s): Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, Graham Joyce's The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit, Robin Hobb's Fool's Assassin, Charles Gannon's Fire With Fire, Ekaterina Sedia's Heart of Iron, John Shirley's Everything is Broken, Jacob Cooper's Circle of Reign, and just a ridiculous all-star cast reads R.A. Salvatore's Drizzt stories (for free)

Posted on 2014-08-26 at 03:17 by Sam

AUGUST 6-19, 2014: Another two-weeks-worth of roundup here, with new books from Murakami, Joyce, and Hobb, backlist Sedia, Shirley, and Gannon, and highly notable epic fantasy audio from the completely unexpected to the completely unprecedented. Yup. And there's a long list of "also out this week" titles of note including (at least) Sean Platt and David Wright's Yesterday's Gone from Podium Publishing, Melissa Scott and Lisa Barnett's Point of Dreams, J.G. Ballard's The Drought, The Atrocity Exhibition, and

Posted in Release Week, Uncategorized | Tagged al yankovic, bruce locke, charles e gannon, cirlce of reign, colorless tsukuru tazaki, david duchovny, dreamscape media, ekaterina sedia, elliot hill, everything is broken, felicia day, fire with fire, fool's assassin, gildart jackson, graham joyce, haruki murakami, heart of iron, ice-t, jacob cooper, john shirley, kevin pariseau, michael chiklis, michael kramer, prime books, RA Salvatore, robin hobb, sean astin, the ghost in the electric blue suit, the legend of drizzt, wil wheaton

Release Week: The Magician's Land, Frostborn, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, The Spirit and the Skull, The Widow's House, and Laird Barron's Occultation and Other Stories

Posted on 2014-08-11 at 14:31 by Sam

JULY 30-AUGUST 5, 2014: Trilogies conclude and trilogies begin, and still another expands, along with two intriguing standalone novels to kick off August: Lev Grossman's The Magician's Land, Lou Anders' Frostborn, David Shafer's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, J.M. Hayes' The Spirit and the Skull, and Daniel Abraham's The Widow's House. It's a busy week, with other audiobooks out including Carol Berg's Dust and Light, Steven Erikson's Reaper's Gale (in Brilliance Audio's ongoing productions of his Malazan Book of

Posted in Release Week | Tagged bernard setaro clark, daniel abraham, david shafer, fabio tassone, frostborn, JM Hayes, laird barron, lev grossman, lou anders, mark bramhall, occultation and other stories, the dagger and the coin, the magician's land, The Spirit and the Skull, the widow's house, thrones and bones, whiskey tango foxtrot

Release Week(s): World of Trouble, Land of Love and Drowning, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Half a King, The Outsorcerer's Apprentice, Blightborn, and Kaiju Rising

Posted on 2014-08-01 at 14:55 by Sam

JULY 9-29, 2014: Covering three weeks worth of releases in mid-to-late July, with picks including a terrific ending to Ben H. Winters' The Last Policeman trilogy, new standalone epic fantasy, magical realism, near-future sf, comedic high fantasy, CornPunk, and a Kickstarter-funded anthology of megamonster invasion. Beyond the picks, there are more trilogies concluded (Hannu Rajaniemi's Jean le Flambeur, Deborah Harkness' All Souls Trilogy), more next books in a series (Melissa Scott and Jo Graham's Order of

Posted in Release Week | Tagged ben h. winters, blightborn, brilliance-audio, chuck wendig, cornpunk, half a king, hannu rajaniemi, joe abercrombie, kaiju rising, land of love and drowning, nick podehl, peter berkrot, ray sawyer, the last policeman, the outsorcerer's apprentice, thomas sweterlitsch, tiphanie yanique, tom holt, tomorrow and tomorrow, world of trouble

Release Week: The Queen of the Tearling, Alias Hook, California, A Plunder of Souls, Landline, To Kill a Mockingbird, Close Your Eyes Hold Hands, and How to Survive a Sharknado

Posted on 2014-07-12 at 10:52 by Sam

JULY 2-8, 2014: Another fantastic week's worth of audiobooks has come our way, from beloved Pulitzer-winning classics in audiobook (and ebook) for the first time to post-apocalyptic sf and epic fantasy, Peter Pan retold, historical fantasy, and time-travel romance. Also out this week: Terry Brooks returns to Shannara (read by Simon Vance), along with new audiobooks from Chris Bohjalian and Veronica Roth, J.M. Ledgard's Submergence, and a standalone short audiobook from Neil Gaiman, his The Truth is a Cave

Posted in Release Week | Tagged a plunder of souls, alias hook, california, db jackson, edan lepucki, emma galvin, erika johansen, harper lee, jonathan davis, katherine kellgren, lisa jensen, rainbow rowell, ralph lister, rebecca lowman, sissy spacek, the queen of the tearling, to kill a mockingbird