Page 9 of posts filed: Release Week

Release Week: Joe Hill's NOS4A2, Wesley Chu's The Lives of Tao, Allen Steele's Apollo's Outcasts, and Ballard's The Drought

Posted on 2013-05-01 at 14:54 by Sam

APRIL 24-30, 2013: April goes out with a howl and a bang, with more than a quartet of excellent titles, ranging from concurrent new horror and humorous sf releases, to one of last year's most "missing in audio" young adult sf titles, to one of sf's classic stories of climate change. Next week is another huge crop of high-interest titles as publishers start ramping up for summer reading and listening, so you'd better get started!

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

From the author of the novels Heart-Shaped Box and Horns a

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Release Week: Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni, Neil Gaiman's The Silver Dream, Sarah Prineas' Summerkin, and David Niall Wilson's Nevermore

Posted on 2013-04-24 at 15:56 by Sam

APRIL 17-23, 2013: Though it's not a tremendously crowded release week, there are great picks in adult, teen, and kids audiobooks, ranging from the latest in a long line of strong debut fantasy novels in 2013 (Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni) to a sequel to Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves' InterWorld, and more. (In "meta coverage" notes, this week seems to belong to Harper Audio, whereas last week I noted strong weeks for Hachette Audio and Audible Frontiers.) Without further preamble:

PICKS OF THE

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Release Week: Austin Grossman's YOU; Promise of Blood; Stormdancer; Jeff Noon's Vurt; and Robert Asprin's M.Y.T.H.

Posted on 2013-04-17 at 16:19 by Sam

APRIL 10-16, 2013: What, no new episode of The Human Division?! OK, seriously, this release week belongs to Hachette Audio, with both of my top picks this week. But! Audible Frontiers has its own pair of offerings which make up my second two picks, the Patrick Rothfuss-recommended Stormdancer (2012) and Jeff Noon's Vurt (1993), along with having done something wonderful in bringing the dozen+ books of Robert Asprin's M.Y.T.H. Inc. series to audio as well. (I have some fondness for M.Y.T.H., though not quite

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Release Week: The Human Division and Robin Hobb's Rain Wilds Chronciles conclude; two outstanding 2013 anthologies come to audio; and The Far Time Incident

Posted on 2013-04-10 at 20:29 by Sam

APRIL 3-9, 2013: While overall the release week lacks splashy concurrent new standalone releases, it's still quite a week with the conclusions both of John Scalzi's serial novel The Human Division, with a 2-hour Episode 13, Earth Below, Sky Above (cover, left), and of Robin Hobb's Rain Wilds Chronicles, as well as two outstanding anthologies (ok, one is a collection) from a bit earlier in 2013 (ok, the collection is from the summer of 2012), and! a Mary Robinette Kowal-voiced novel of time travel and

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Release Week: Life after Life, River of Stars, Prophet of Bones, The Kundalini Equation, and Use of Weapons

Posted on 2013-04-03 at 14:22 by Sam

MARCH 27-APRIL 2, 2013: While there are other quite worthy audiobooks in the "Also Out This Week" listings (Book 3 in Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen, Memories of Ice, Ilie Ruby's The Salt God's Daughter, Alex Hughes' Clean and Sharp, Rachel Pollack's World Fantasy Award winner Godmother Night, and Mary Robinette Kowal's latest Glamourist Histories novel Without a Summer) I managed to hold the line at just five picks this week. Good luck making your own selections! And, of course, there is a new

Posted in Release Week | Tagged guy gavriel kay, life after life, prophet of bones, river of stars

Release Week: Neil Gaiman Presents returns, Ariel Djanikian, Red Planet Blues, Wolfhound Century, David Drake, and more

Posted on 2013-03-27 at 15:46 by Sam

It's another big release week with multiple must-listen titles. I've already gotten started on the return of Neil Gaiman Presents, the John Hodgman-narrated Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley, and I expect to get to a few more from this week -- including a literary dystopia, a sf noir set on Mars, and an espionage novel of alternate Russia -- before summer comes around. And, of course, John Scalzi's The Human Division marches on with Episode 11, A Problem of Proportion.

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Release Week: The Rift Walker, The Leviathan Effect, The Clockwork Princess, and more

Posted on 2013-03-20 at 19:37 by Sam

While it's a busier week for young adult titles, not too much really strikes my ears in terms of concurrent new adult releases this week. Meanwhile, John Scalzi's The Human Division chugs along with This Must Be the Place: The Human Division, Episode 10. The big eye-opening audiobook news for me this week was the announcement that Neil Gaiman Presents is set to release another title next week, Robert Sheckley's Dimension of Miracles, read by John Hodgman. To celebrate, Audible is holding a NYC Comicon trip

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Release Week: Bitterwood, Sister Mine, Intermusings, and Morlock Night

Posted on 2013-03-13 at 19:36 by Sam

MARCH 6-12, 2013: Well it's a fairly quiet second release week in March, though not without a few audiobooks very much worth checking out. (It's even quieter on the "seen but not heard" front, as it really appears that both book and audiobook publishers had some manner of aversion to the Ides of March... though there is an intriguing anthology and a slowly picking up buzz novel from a small press to check out.) Meanwhile, John Scalzi's The Human Division marches on with episode 9, The Observers.

PICKS OF

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Release Week: Joyce Carol Oates, Zachary Jernigan, M. John Harrison's Empty Space, Brian Francis Slattery, and more

Posted on 2013-03-06 at 16:11 by Sam

FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 5, 2013: And here we are in March, and when you include the titles from my midweek wrapup it is quite a week indeed, with a 23-hour Joyce Carol Oates novel of possession in early 20th-Century Princeton, another entry in what is shaping up to be quite a run of debut fantasy novels, the conclusion of M. John Harrison's Kefahuchi Tract trilogy, and (of course) The Sound of Rebellion which continues John Scalzi's The Human Division, now in its 8th episode.

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

The Accursed By

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Release Midweek: Brian Francis Slattery, Tim Akers, Stefan Rudnicki, Steampunk Specs, Robert Asprin, and more

Posted on 2013-03-03 at 13:00 by Sam

Give us a breather, audiobook publishers! The "regular" release week haul (ending Tuesday) was big enough, but already in the past few days another week's worth (and then some) of interesting titles are out. And: they come in twos!

First up are two from Brian Francis Slattery, both from Audible Frontiers, starting with one of my most-missing of 2012, Lost Everything. Narrated By Michael Prichard it is billed thus: "From the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation

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