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The AudioBookaneers turns one!

Posted on 2013-10-14 at 12:01 by Sam

When I started basically keeping track of what I was already obsessing over -- the weekly piles of choices of new audiobooks -- as "The Audible SF/F Blog" back in the summer of 2011, I wondered if anyone else would come along for the ride. Well, hundreds of posts and a rename later, with my co-blogger Dave Thompson and a huge thank you to our readers, I'm happily celebrating a year of The AudioBookaneers, as of yeseterday, October 13, 2013. Hooray! Huzzah! Long live The AudioBookaneers! Arr!

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Review: Fortunately, The Milk

Posted on 2013-09-20 at 14:28 by Dave

Fortunately, the Milk Written and Read by Neil Gaiman Length: 58 minutes

It should be a walk down the street, but on a father's trip to buy some milk for his children's cereal (and probably also his tea), aliens show up (as they do), and kidnap him. Dad escapes by breaking the time space continuum and lands himself on a 17th century pirate ship, and here - things get a little weird.

Throughout the rest of the book there are vampyrs, time traveling dinosaurs, exploding volcanoes, oh-so-self-fulfilling

Posted in reviews, Uncategorized | Tagged Children's Books, neil gaiman

Received: Summer 2013

Posted on 2013-09-19 at 20:53 by Sam

I haven't done a "received" post in a while, so in the interest of openness and acknowledgement, here's what we've asked for and received this summer.

JUNE 2013

The Planet Thieves by Dan Krokos, read by Kirby Heywood for Blackstone Audio (Sam) -- I wasn't entirely sure of the age range for this one, which ended up being somewhere in between young reader and young adult. We don't have the wide-eyed innocence of childhood or (thankfully) the jaded apathy of too many YA novels. Instead it's an adventure for

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Review: American Elsewhere

Posted on 2013-09-19 at 06:00 by Dave

American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett, Read by Graham Winton Length: 22 hours, 23 minutes

If you have to stand against the great lurking darkness that’s encroaching upon you from the edge of universe, I recommend cranking up The Best of Erich Zann's Violin Classics, inviting over Chuthulu’s rebellious teenage children to stand by your side, and having  Robert Jackson Bennett’s American Elsewhere in hand to keep said Darkness at bay.

I’ve been looking forward to this book pretty much since I’d heard

Posted in reviews, Uncategorized | Tagged american elsewhere, kaleidoscope of wtfery, recorded books, robert jackson bennett

Review: The Great Gatsby

Posted on 2013-09-02 at 06:10 by Dave

The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, narrated by Jake Gyllenhall
Length: 4 hours, 49 minutes

Happy Labor Day, folks! How does a trip deconstructing the American Dream sound?

Last month I talked about the delights of comfort food, but sometimes you're in the mood for what my family calls "growing food," which is part of the reason I decided to give The Great Gatsby a whirl. I'd been assigned to read it twice in high school, but hadn't revisited it since, and my wife just got assigned to teach it, so

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Release Week: The People in the Trees, Of Dice and Men, Night Film, and Lookaway, Lookaway

Posted on 2013-08-21 at 18:21 by Sam

AUGUST 14-20, 2013: This week brings a strange speculative fiction from Hanya Yanagihara, a non-fiction on Dungeons & Dragons, a haunting literary mystery, a satirical historical fiction, and a pretty good crop of "also out this week" including the latest fantasy novels from Naomi Novik (with narrator Simon Vance) and Mark Lawrence, and the anticipated dystopian debut of young British writer Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season. As usual: Enjoy!

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

The People in the Trees By Hanya Yanagihara,

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Review: The Drowned Cities

Posted on 2013-08-19 at 17:54 by Dave

The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi, Read by Joshua Swanson Length: 9 hours, 58 minutes

In Paolo Bacigalupi's The Drowned Cities, the American Dream has shifted into an apocalyptic nightmare, and its legacy is a devastating cycle of violence ripping the country into warring factions. The surviving casualties are quickly drafted into the oppressing armies to perpetuate the cycle of violence. Armies made of children.

The Drowned Cities is a story about child soldiers, the seduction of violence, and

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Release Week: Chuck Wendig's Under the Empyrean Sky, Michael J. Martinez's The Daedalus Incident, Aimee Bender's The Color Master, and Kate Elliot's Cold Magic

Posted on 2013-08-19 at 14:23 by Sam

AUGUST 7-13, 2013: Some concurrent new releases, another just-barely-delayed, and one of 2010's most missing in audio make for a varied list of picks this week, from teen dystopian CornPunk to space sf, to a story collection, and a couple of intriguing "genre in the mainstream" books as well. In particular, in the "also out this week", Victoria Lustbader's powerful novel Approaching the Speed of Light was a hard cut this week. Enjoy!

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Under the Empyrean Sky: The Heartland Trilogy, Book 1

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Review: Marla Mason Double Feature

Posted on 2013-08-15 at 17:39 by Dave

Broken Mirrors (Marla Mason, Book 5) by T.A. Pratt, read by Jessica Almasy Length: 9 hours, 55 minutes

Grim Tides

A good series is like the perfect comfort food. You know more or less what you're going to get if you've been here before, and you take pleasure in that familiarity. The Marla Mason books are my comfort food. I love the wicked sense of humor and no-nonsense Marla provides, and I love the way Jessica

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The Orbital Drop, Whispersync for Voice, and SFSignal's impressive ebook deals list

Posted on 2013-07-10 at 02:42 by Sam

I've posted fairly frequently about Whispersync for Voice deals, and one sure source for finding new ones is following Orbit Books' The Orbital Drop ebook deals, which each month "drops" the price on one or more ebooks in Orbit's catalog -- this month the titles include T.C. McCarthy's Germline and Mira Grant's Feed. Another pretty good source is watching for sequels or new follow-on books in a series, and checking to see if maybe the publisher has dropped the price on book one to try to tempt people to

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brandon sanderson, germline, legion, oliver wyman, whispersync