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Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Posted on 2013-07-03 at 04:57 by Dave

A Neil Gaiman audiobook is an Event. Gaiman has a mythical reputation as a fantasist, and with that reputation comes a lot of baggage. There's been a lot of talk about what Gaiman's been up to the last few years. An American God television show (which dictates sequels to his acclaimed, award winning novel). A sequel to Odd and the Frost Giant. A prequel to his groundbreaking Sandman comic. Another Neverwhere. (Oka

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Guest Post on BookLifeNow: Want to Read More? Think About Audiobooks

Posted on 2013-06-25 at 16:19 by Sam

I'm very happy to have contributed a guest post on the topic of audiobooks to BookLifeNow, the website "expansion kit" to Jeff VanderMeer's book Booklife. Entitled "Want to Read More? Think About Audiobooks" it's addressed to writers who know they need to be reading more to help feed their creative feedback loop, but can't make time to sit down and read. I hope you enjoy!

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Links to some recent Laura Miller audiobook reviews on Salon.com's "The Listener"

Posted on 2013-06-25 at 15:17 by Sam

I haven't been keeping up as well with Salon.com's "The Listener", a weekly audiobook review blog, and apparently I have been missing some good ones. Here are a few from Laura Miller that are definitely worth checking out:

“River of Stars”: Picture “Game of Thrones” in China

Guy Gavriel Kay's exquisite Asian-inspired epic fantasy offers a fresh twist on intrigue and adventure

“The Golem and the Jinni”: Magic in the New World

A master narrator reads a tale of two creatures from folklore making new lives in

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Briefly, On Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Parable of the Sower

Posted on 2013-06-16 at 20:50 by Sam

As I have been finishing Octavia E. Butler's Kindred over the past day and a half or so, of the many thoughts swirling around in my head was this: that no author I've read had such a command of both the history of where America has come from (Kindred) and a prescience for the future of where America seems to be going (Parable of the Sower) than Butler.

And what perhaps boggles the mind further about this is that Kindred was published in 1979, and Parable of the Sower was published in 1993, and yet both

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And the Audie goes to...

Posted on 2013-05-31 at 15:32 by Sam

The 2013 Audie Awards have been announced, including Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint (for best Audio Drama), Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles (for best Science Fiction), the new Audible production of Claire Danes' narration of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (for best Fiction), the Neil Gaiman Presents production of Keith Roberts' Anita (for best Fantasy), and many more.

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged audies, ellen kushner, neil gaiman presents, swordspoint

Revisiting the regional digital divide, again

Posted on 2013-05-23 at 02:29 by Sam

It's been a year since I last turned too much attention to the regional digital divide, and it's high time to give the bee's nest another poke.

There's still! no sign of a US release for China Mieville's Un Lun Dun, The Scar, or Iron Council, and... well, on and on. We did get, from Tantor Audio, Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant series, narrated wonderfully by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as in the UK edition.

And we also got one of the pair of the Iain M. Banks audiobooks I'd bemoaned lack of access to last

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ben aaronovitch, china mieville, elspeth cooper, hugh howey, stella gemmell

Featured author and narrator: Mary Robinette Kowal

Posted on 2013-05-14 at 17:36 by Sam

AudioBookaneers Features Presents: Mary Robinette Kowal, author, narrator, and puppeteer

By Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Hugo Award winning author Mary Robinette Kowal visited Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books on Friday, on her book tour for Without a Summer, the third book in her The Glamourist Histories series which began with 2010's Shades of Milk and Honey. Billed as, more or less, "the fantasy novel which Jane Austen might have written" the series is a Regency period historical fiction with plenty of manners,

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Review: Double Feature

Posted on 2013-05-13 at 19:50 by Dave

Double Feature by Owen King, read by Holter Graham Length: 16 hours, 11 minutes

Review by Dave Thompson:

When I was in college, I made a student film. I went to a Christian university, and so I decided to write and direct a movie about vampires. This was just as Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show came out, before it became "a thing." So, I spent a semester of my life and education attempting to make a horror movie - one that to this day has never actually been edited together and completed. One of the

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Bitterwood by James Maxey, read by Dave Thompson

Posted on 2013-04-23 at 13:19 by Sam

Go check it out! "Quick Thoughts: Maxey’s tale of revenge and Dragons set in a unique Post Apocalyptic world is finally now available in Audio. Fans of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, and David Gemmell’s Jerusalem man series should cheer this offering by James Maxey. It blends multiple genres creating a fascinating tableau that vaults this classic story from the mundane into something special."

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The Human Division Listen-A-Long! Episode 12: The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads

Posted on 2013-04-11 at 05:44 by Dave

The Human Division, Episode 12: The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads by John Scalzi, read by William Dufris Length: 38 minutes

Hello, and welcome back to another listen-a-long of John Scalzi's The Human Division! This post is positively exploding with spoilers, so after you've listened, grab a margarita the size of cowboy hat and let's drink!

Recap!

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