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Release Week: Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others, Glen Duncan's By Blood We Live, Iain Banks' Matter, and Octavia Butler's Patternmaster and Imago

Posted on 2014-02-14 at 05:19 by Sam

FEBRUARY 5-11, 2014: While much more quiet in terms of quantity -- in particular in concurrent new releases, as apparently every publisher had the same "FEBRUARY 4 OR BUST" idea this year -- there's some absolutely exquisite quality in this week's audiobooks haul, led by Ted Chiang's 2002 collection Stories of Your Life and Others, along with backlist titles from Iain Banks and Octavia Butler, and the only week delayed conclusion in audio for Glen Duncan's Last Werewolf trilogy, By Blood We Live. Highlights

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Release Week: Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, James Marsters reads The Kingmakers, Allen Steele's V-S Day, Christopher Golden's Dark Duets, METAtropolis stories, Scott Sigler's Pandemic, J.C. Hutchins' "The 33", and Natania Barron's Pilgrims of the Sky

Posted on 2014-02-07 at 19:06 by Sam

JANUARY 29-FEBRUARY 4, 2014: You are in for quite a treat this week, audiobook listeners. From the surreal and claustrophobic Annihilation to the rapiers-afly adventure of The Kingmakers, to alternate history and on to an intriguing anthology of horror and dark fantasy. Meanwhile, the entire roster of METAtropolis stories have been released individually, and podcasting pioneer J.C. Hutchins released the first installment of a new serial project, "The 33". Speaking of podcasting pioneers, Scott Sigler's

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Release Week: One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Secret of Magic, Red Rising, Hang Wire, Dominion, Love Star, The Crane Wife, Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis, and Janis Ian's Stars

Posted on 2014-01-29 at 21:44 by Sam

JANUARY 22-28, 2014: Another huge week of releases, from the old and long missing (One Hundred Years of Solitude and Xenogenesis), to the new (The Secret of Magic, Red Rising, and Hang Wire), to alternate history and other bits around the edges, to a fantastic new multi-voice production of Janis Ian's Stars anthology. Also out this week is Lord of All Things translated from the prize-winning German edition, a highly anticipated YA sequel in Megan Shepherd's Her Dark Curiosity, the latest book in Jeaniene

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Release Week: Unfettered, Bloodchild and Other Stories, The Unreal and the Real, Dirty Magic, Snowblind, The Séance, A.C. Crispin's StarBridge, and Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn

Posted on 2014-01-24 at 00:56 by Sam

JANUARY 15-21, 2014: This week brings an absolute feast for lovers of short stories, with picks including the star-studded Unfettered anthology and two collections, Octavia Butler's Bloodchild and Other Stories and Ursula Le Guin's The Unreal and the Real. In the "also out" listings there's more high quality short fiction, including a volume of Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, H.P. Lovecraft's Eldritch Tales, and a standalone "Day by Day Armageddon" story by J.L. Bourne, among others. As far as

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Release Week: Shovel Ready, The Emperor's Blades, Alex Bledsoe's Eddie LaCrosse, Shawn Speakman's The Dark Thorn, Gateways, and Clive Barker's The Books of Blood

Posted on 2014-01-15 at 20:23 by Sam

JANUARY 8-14, 2014: This week the name of the game is "fantasy", though near-future noir (Shovel Ready), the latest Peter Clines (Ex-Purgatory, read by Jay Snyder), classic sf from Asimov (read by Scott Brick) and Vonda McIntyre (read by Gayle Hendrix), and most singularly the Frederik Pohl tribute anthology Gateways (read by the voice of Pohl's Gateway, Oliver Wyman) do make for a more diverse range of offerings. But the lion's share of my picks this week? There are swords, there are blades, there are

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Release Week: Chang-rae Lee's On Such a Full Sea, Joe Haldeman's Work Done for Hire, a collection by Ben Marcus, and more

Posted on 2014-01-09 at 18:29 by Sam

JANUARY 1-7, 2014: 2014 gets off to a cracking start with a literary dystopia from Pulitzer Prize finalist Chang-rae Lee, a new standalone novel from Joe Haldeman, a collection by Ben Marcus (Leaving the Sea), and! Jane Yellowrock is back in the latest installment of Faith Hunter's series. In the "also out" listings: Alma Katsu's The Taker trilogy concludes, we get the entirety of R.A. Salvatore's Paths of Darkness trilogy in his Legend of Drizzt oeuvre, and plenty more including a pair of new audiobooks of

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Release Week(s): Catherine M. Wilson's When Women Were Warriors, Samit Basu's Turbulence, Kathleen Tierney's Blood Oranges, Ian McDonald's Planesrunner, and Richard Bowes' Dust Devil on a Quiet Street

Posted on 2014-01-01 at 17:13 by Sam

DECEMBER 18-31, 2013: The last two weeks of 2013 bring two adult novels off the "most missing" list including the Kickstarter-funded and Janis Ian-narrated book one of Catherine M. Wilson's When Women Were Warriors, and two fantastic YA novels as well as works from Mazarkis Williams, Matthew Hughes, Greg Egan, Andy Remic, Martha Wells, Manly Wade Wellman, James Marshall, Steve Perry, Anderson Prunty, and Poul Anderson, among others, and another great audiobook for early teens, Moonkind by Sarah Prineas

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Release Week: Nicola Griffith's Hild, Lewis Shiner's Collected Stories, and Simon Vance narrates John Harwood's The Ghost Writer and Clive Barker's collection of First Tales

Posted on 2013-12-18 at 20:40 by Sam

DECEMBER 11-17, 2013: Finally! Amidst one of the quietest weeks yet on the year, Nicola Griffith's Hild is in audio at last, along with a multi-voiced production of Lewis Shiner's magnificent Collected Stories and enough chilling tales to send you even closer to the fire this winter, with Simon Vance reading both John Harwood's The Ghost Writer and Clive Barker's First Tales, and (in the also out listings) a pair of Spokenworld/Ladbroke productions have excellent narrators reading classic tales from Ambrose

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Release Week: Ellen Datlow's Tails of Wonder and Imagination, Scott Sigler's Nocturnal, Faith Hunter's Cat 'O Nine Tales, Dean Koontz's Innocence, How to Train Your Dragon, and more

Posted on 2013-12-11 at 21:56 by Sam

DECEMBER 4-10, 2013: We're well into the quietest weeks of the year in terms of the publishing schedule, but still a few stellar audiobook picks for you this week from anthologies to collections to children's books and a classic short novel as well as the latest from Dean Koontz and Scott Sigler. In 'audiobook news' my eyebrows went up to finally see Nicola Griffith's Hild on pre-order listings, though under narrator Pearl Hewitt instead of the previously-announced Anne Flosnick. It appears I have been

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Release Week: Dangerous Women, Ian Tregillis' Something More Than Night, Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, and John Gwynne's Malice

Posted on 2013-12-06 at 21:04 by Sam

NOVEMBER 27-DECEMBER 3, 2013: While there's still no sign of Nicola Griffith's Hild -- read like the wind, Ms. Flosnick! -- we still get another fantastic week of audiobooks, including the latest GRRM/Dozois anthology, a Kirkus year's-best-listed new standalone novel from Ian Tregillis, Helen Marshall's creepy ChiZine collection Hair Side, Flesh Side, and the Gemmell-winning epic fantasy Malice by John Gwynne. In the "also out" listings this week, even more epic fantasy than you can shake a stick at, space

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