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Release Week: Afterparty, The Serpent of Venice, The Forever Watch, The Deaths of Tao, and Ursula K. Le Guin's Outer Space, Inner Lands

Posted on 2014-04-24 at 18:02 by Sam

APRIL 16-22, 2014: Another quiet week in terms of sheer numbers, with an even quieter week ahead before an absolute audio avalanche to begin May. But! Fear not, there are still several choice audiobooks to check out this week, from near-future thrillers, to historical fantasy comedies, to... well, we'll get there. The ALSO OUT listings have some gems as well: the two concluding volumes of Maurice Broadduss' Knights of Breton Court, Ian McDonald's Empire Dreams, Richard Bowes' Minions of the Moon, David

Posted in Release Week | Tagged afterparty, christopher moore, daryl gregory, david ramirez, dina-pearlman, euan morton, michael naramore, tandy cronyn, tavia gilbert, the deaths of tao, the forever watch, the serpent of venice, the unreal and the real, ursula k le guin, wesley chu

Release Week: Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon, Geoff Ryman's The Warrior Who Carried Life, Michael J. Sullivan's Hollow World, Ben Bova's Transhuman, Jay Lake's collection The Sky That Wraps, and Cory Doctorow's Homeland

Posted on 2014-04-17 at 19:35 by Sam

APRIL 9-15, 2014: After two massive release weeks in a row, we get a bit of a breather here in terms of overall numbers, but a half-dozen fantastic titles make for another week of hard choices for those without infinite time for listening. The ALSO OUT listings have a few items of interest as well, particularly Frank Herbert's Direct Descent read by Scott Brick, Matthew Costello's post-apocalyptic horror novel Home, Shae Ford's Slight and Shadow, and a wide selection of teen and middle grade titles

Posted in Release Week | Tagged ben bova, cory doctorow, geoff ryman, hollow world, homeland, jay lake, jonathan davis, lagoon, michael j sullivan, nnedi okorafor, stefan rudnicki, the sky that wraps, the warrior who carried life, transhuman, wil wheaton

Release Week: The Word Exchange, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Strange Bodies, The End is Nigh, Steles of the Sky, The Dragon Business, Black Moon, NOD, The Vanishing, No Lasting Burial, King Maker, and David Gerrold's When HARLIE Was One

Posted on 2014-04-15 at 18:38 by Sam

APRIL 2-8, 2014: Well, the April 1 avalanche was followed up with an April 8 landslide, with a long, long! list of titles to check out, which took me a good long while to finally make sense of. (Seeing as this is coming a full week late, and the "next" release week is already here!) Just... so many good books that even after cutting beyond the comfort point, I had more than a dozen "picks". Which does nobody any good, now, does it? So I cut further, and it hurts a bit, but the audiobooks that remain really

Posted in Release Week | Tagged adrian barnes, alena graedon, black moon, celeste ciulla, claire north, david gerrold, elizabeth bear, hugh howey, james langton, john joseph adams, kenneth calhoun, kevin j anderson, marcel theroux, maurice broaddus, neil shah, nod, peter kenny, stant litore, steles of the sky, strange bodies, the apocalypse triptych, the dragon business, the end is nigh, the eternal sky, the first fifteen lives of harry august, the vanishing, the word exchange, the zombie bible, wendy webb, when harlie was one, xe sands

Release Week: Dark Eden, Desert of Souls, Reign of Ash, Games Creatures Play, Tales of the Radiation Age, Salvage, and Ian McDonald's Desolation Road and Cyberabad Days

Posted on 2014-04-07 at 19:14 by Sam

MARCH 26-APRIL 1, 2014: A fantastic range of releases this week, from a 2012-UK-published novel of mind-bending interplanetary science fiction finally getting a US release, to epic fantasy, a big-name paranormal fantasy anthology, post-apocalyptic sf, to near-future sf for young/new adults, and some long-missing audiobooks from Ian McDonald's backlist. Also out this week: Scott Sigler's Galactic Football League, Steven Erikson's The Bonehunters (Book 6 in his Malazan Book of the Fallen), a new audiobook

Posted in Release Week | Tagged alexandra duncan, brandon sanderson, charlaine harris, chris beckett, cyberabad days, dark eden, desolation roads, gail z martin, howard andrew jones, ian mcdonald, jason sheehan, kate rudd, lemony snicket, nick podehl, peter ganim, reign of ash, salvage, seanan mcguire, the desert of souls, tim gerard reynolds

Release Week: Accelerando by Charles Stross, Lockstep by Karl Schroeder, Sleep Donation by Karen Russell, The Boy with the Porcelain Blade by Den Patrick, and Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars

Posted on 2014-03-31 at 13:13 by Sam

MARCH 19-25, 2014: Well, I had no idea it was coming, but when Charles Stross' mindfuck-a-minute 2005 novel Accelerando shows up, read by George Guidall no less, it's your lead pick of the week. And a packed week it is, with, Karl Schroeder's new space opera Lockstep, Karen Russell's new novella Sleep Donation, and Den Patrick's "ornate yet dark" fantasy debut The Boy with the Porcelain Blade. Also out this week: Frank M. Robinson's 1956 sf novel The Power read by Bronson Pinchot, Jonathan Maberry's Code

Posted in Release Week | Tagged accelerando, charles stross, den patrick, george guidall, karen russell, karl schroeder, kristen bell, lockstep, sleep donation, the boy with the porcelain blade, veronica mars

Release Week: Lavie Tidhar, Terry Pratchett's Raising Steam, Scott Meyer's Off to Be the Wizard, and Cory Doctorow's Homeland read by Wil Wheaton

Posted on 2014-03-19 at 15:39 by Sam

MARCH 12-18, 2014: A jam-packed week straddes the Ides of March, bringing a fantastic haul of audiobooks led by two short novels from Lavie Tidhar, the latest steam-powered Discworld novel from Terry Pratchett, and Scott Meyer's Off to Be the Wizard read by Luke Daniels. Update: Also out now and available exclusively as part of the current Humble eBook Bundle, Cory Doctorow's Homeland, bestselling sequel to Little Brother, is read by Wil Wheaton -- at Skyboat Media no less, directed by Gabrielle de Cuir who

Posted in Release Week | Tagged cory doctorow, lavie tidhar, luke daniels, scott meyer, terry pratchett, wil wheaton

Release Week: Helen Oyeyemi's "Boy, Snow, Bird" and Maureen F. McHugh's After the Apocalypse: Stories

Posted on 2014-03-15 at 04:03 by Sam

MARCH 5-11, 2014: Some highly anticipated audiobooks arrived this week, led by Helen Oyeyemi's new novel Boy, Snow, Bird and Maureen F. McHugh's 2011 collection After the Apocalypse: Stories. Also out this week are Michael Rowe's Wild Fell, a trio of Ian McDonald's backlist including 1993 BSFA finalist The Broken Land, high-end epic fantasy in the form of Miles Cameron's The Fell Sword, R.A. Salvatore's Night of the Hunter, and Simon R. Green's Once in a Blue Moon, sf in the form of Hugh Howey's Sand, horro

Posted in Release Week | Tagged after the apocalypse, boy snow bird, helen oyeyemi, maureen f mchugh

Release Week: Words of Radiance, Ghost Train to New Orleans, Tropic of Serpents, Half Bad, The King in Yellow read by Stefan Rudnicki, and Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West performed by Jonathan Frakes

Posted on 2014-03-06 at 21:33 by Sam

FEBRUARY 26-MARCH 4, 2014: And here I thought that last week was packed. This week saw almost 200 titles released on March 4 alone, with another 100 on March 3. My picks of this avalanche include an epic fantasy sequel from Brandon Sanderson, an urban fantasy sequel from Mur Lafferty, anthropological dragon memoir fantasy (yes, it exists, it's totally a genre, and yes, it's a sequel), and hey, more fantasy, the highly-anticipated debut Half Bad by Sally Green, and a classic 1895 novel-in-stories, performed

Posted in Release Week | Tagged brandon sanderson, ghost train to new orleans, half bad, jonathan frakes, kate reading, marie brennan, mur lafferty, sally green, seth macfarlane, stefan rudnicki, stormlight archive, the king in yellow, the shambling guides, words of radiance

Release Week: Influx, Moth and Spark, Honor's Knight, Servant of the Underworld, City of a Hundred Rows, Dan Simmons, and collections from Kim Stanley Robinson and Joe Haldeman

Posted on 2014-03-03 at 04:40 by Sam

FEBRUARY 19-25, 2014: Well. This has been a hard release week to put together for a few reasons, mostly the sheer number of interesting titles and the difficulty in limiting the space for "picks", but also I added about 100? or so more books into the "Coming Soon" listings, including the newly-announced The Peripheral by William Gibson, Margaret Killjoy's A Country of Ghosts (no audio news but man does that book look interesting), an imminently forthcoming Blackstone Audio production of The King in Yellow,

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Release Week: Alice Hoffman's The Museum of Extraordinary Things and David Weber's Like a Mighty Army, Broken Homes and The New Watch, Metro 2034 and Z 2135, and more

Posted on 2014-02-20 at 18:19 by Sam

FEBRUARY 12-18, 2013: A packed week this week, both in terms of releases and news. New audiobooks range from magical realism (Alice Hoffman's The Museum of Extraordinary Things) to space sf (David Weber's Like a Mighty Army) to dystopian sf (Metro 2034 and Z 2135) to the London-set urban fantasy of Ben Aaronovitch and the Russia-set urban fantasy of Sergei Lukyanenko, to backlist audiobooks from Tricia Sullivan and H. Beam Piper, and plenty more including sf from Ian Whates and Joel Shepherd, Arthurian

Posted in Release Week | Tagged alice hoffman, ben aaronovitch, david weber, kobna holdbrook-smith, oliver wyman, peter grant, safehold, sergei lukyanenko, the museum of extraordinary things, tricia sullivan