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2013 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced

Posted on 2014-01-16 at 15:8 by Sam

Via Locus Online, the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees have been announced [with DRM-free audiobook editions linked where available]:

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged a calculated life, ancillary justice, ann leckie, anne charnock, ben h. winters, cassandra rose clarke, countdown city, ian whates, jack skillingstead, kate rudd, peter berkrot, philip k dick award, solaris rising, susan duerden, toh enjoe

Re-Pressed: Bob’s Audiobook Report: January Week 1

Posted on 2014-01-08 at 2:23 by Sam

Over on The Guilded Earlobe, my go-to audiobook reviewer Bob Reiss lays out his plans for a little more irregular, a little more personal and rambly updates. I'm down with that. The first of those is Bob’s Audiobook Report: January Week 1 in which I also see something I'm very, very much looking forward to: "I have selected and have been working on my Top 20 Audiobooks of 2013 post." Oh yeah. OH YEAH. Bring it.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged the guilded earlobe

Review: The Land Across

Posted on 2013-12-31 at 7:25 by Dave

The Land Across By Gene Wolfe, Read by Jeff Woodman Length: 10 hours, 56 minutes

Toward the end of Gene Wolfe’s The Land Across, travel-writer Grafton tells his foreign secret police comrade that he doesn’t have anything to tell her, but thinks: “Really, there was a lot [to tell], but I had decided not to tell all that. I figured it out last night, and this morning…I didn’t know how to say it.” Well, I have to admit, I haven’t figured it all out, and I’d be lying if I thought I did, but I sure enjoyed

Posted in reviews, Uncategorized | Tagged fantastic travelogues, gene wolfe, jeff woodman, review

Whispersync Daily Deal: Jonathan Lethem's Gun, With Occasional Music (meanwhile Neil Gaiman's Stardust is still on sale as well)

Posted on 2013-12-13 at 14:53 by Sam

Jonathan Lethem's Gun, With Occasional Music is a Kindle Daily Deal today at $1.99, and offers a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Nick Sullivan-narrated audiobook from AudioGO on Audible. "Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems - not the least of which are the rabbit in his waiting room and the trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is an ominous place where evolved animals function as members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such

Posted in Uncategorized, Whispersync Deals | Tagged jonathem lethem, kindle daily deal, neil gaiman, stardust, whispersync for voice

Cory Doctorow audiobooks now available at Downpour.com

Posted on 2013-11-17 at 15:8 by Sam

While I wasn't looking, a quartet of Cory Doctorow's audiobooks showed up at Downpour.com -- they aren't available on Audible.com due to Audible's DRM-only format and Doctorow's anti-DRM stance. I don't know when they arrived, but it's a welcome sight and one I've been asking for since Downpour's launch as a DRM-free multi-vendor alternative to Audible.com. So, as promised in a quick update on this week's Release Week write-up, here's some more links and pictures and verbiage about Doctorow's audiobooks

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged cory doctorow, downpour, drm

Received: October 2013

Posted on 2013-11-12 at 13:0 by Sam

Well, we had been taking it a bit slow in terms of review copies over the summer, a few each month. But we pretty much gorged as October rolled around. Something in the air? So, in that ongoing interest in full disclosure and all that, here are:

RECEIVED, OCTOBER 2013

The Bone Season By Samantha Shannon, Narrated By Alana Kerr for Audible for Bloomsbury (Sam).

Joyland By Stephen King, Narrated By Michael Kelly for Simon & Schuster Audio (Dave).

Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and Poems of the

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Running down the Lists: 2013 early edition; and! a contest!

Posted on 2013-11-11 at 13:59 by Sam

One of the most popular posts of all time here at The AudioBookaneers is last year's rundown of the lists of the best books of the year, and who am I to argue against what the people want? So, while there are quite a few more lists that will come out over the coming weeks, I'll run down 3 of the bigger lists so far of "the best books of 2013" and, at the end, ask for your input as part of a contest with the prize being a free six month subscription to Audiobooks.com. First! The sources so far:

• PW's 101

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All Hallows Listen: The Shining

Posted on 2013-10-30 at 5:34 by Dave

The Shining
by Stephen King, Narrated by Campbell Scott
Length: 15 hours, 49 minutes

Some stories you discover long after they've become iconic.

I'd never read or heard The Shining before, and I've never seen the Kubrick movie. But The Shining is a story that has left a mark on our culture, and those kind of stories are always interesting to experience after the fact. Sometimes when you do, you kind of scratch your head, shrug, and say, "It was okay." Maybe it originated or popularized certain tropes, adn

Posted in All Hallow's Listen, reviews, Uncategorized

Whispersync Deal: James Maxey's Bitterwood, read by Dave Thompson for Just $1.99

Posted on 2013-10-21 at 18:15 by Dave

Some of you know in my spare time, I record audiobooks (as well as PodCastle, a free fantasy fiction podcast). Yesterday, I woke up to a pleasant surprise - James Maxey's Bitterwood, which I narrate, is on sale at Audible for the super cheap price of $1.99 thanks to a Whisersync deal. That's just about 14 hours of me talking in the voices of a bunch of different dragons, and even singing a death hymn. It's actually a really wild, science fantasy kind of story, and the price is impossible to beat.

In order to

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Review: Skinner

Posted on 2013-10-18 at 12:45 by Dave

Skinner By Charlie Huston, Narrated by Jay Snyder Length: 13 hours, 18 minutes

There are certain writers that have an incredibly distinct voice - you know immediately when you’re reading them. Cormac McCarthy book. DittoToni Morrison, Charles Frazier, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Catherynne M. Valente, and James Ellroy all pop into my mind, as does Charlie Huston. Huston is one of those writers where I’m just really predisposed to dig the stripped down hardboiled style he employs. And, truth be told

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