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Joining Literate Housewife's The Silence of Trees Listen-A-Long
Posted on 2012-04-04 at 15:31 by Sam
Link: Joining Literate Housewife’s The Silence of Trees Listen-A-Long
I’ve seen narrator Xe Sands name come up on a few titles I’m interested in listening to (most recently The Vanishers) and along comes an audiobook listen-a-long for The Silence of Trees by Valya Dudycz Lupescu, narrated by Sands for Iambik:
And the “listen-a-long” includes a 20% discount code as well. So: join along!
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Release Week: Triggers, David Drake, Kim Stanley Robinson, Girl Genius, and more
Posted on 2012-04-04 at 12:00 by Sam
The release week for Tuesday, April 3 is led by the release of Triggers By Narrated by On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin’s bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories. Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac arrest. He has a near-death experience - but the memories that flash through Jerrison’s mind are not his memories. It quickly becomes clear that the electromagnetic pulse generated by the bomb amplified and scrambled Dr. Singh’s equipment, allowing a random group of people to access one another’s minds.” Joining Triggers are four more novels from Sawyer’s backlist: Illegal Alien, Mindscan, Frameshift, and Factoring Humanity.
Also new Tuesday is The Road of Danger: RCN Series, Book 9 By Narrated by RCN series, also for Audible Frontiers: ”Captain Daniel Leary with his friend–and spy–Officer Adele Mundy are sent to a quiet sector to carry out an easy task: helping the local admiral put down a coup before it takes place.”
Out Monday was A Short, Sharp Shock By Narrated by 4 hrs and 18 mins — “A man tumbles through wild surf, half drowned, to collapse on a moonlit beach. When he regains consciousness, he has no memory of who he is or where he came from. He knows only that the woman who washed ashore with him has disappeared sometime in the night and that he has awakened in a surreal landscape of savage beauty—a mysterious watery world encircled by a thin spine of land.”
And out on Saturday was Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess: A Girl Genius Novel, Book 2 By Narrated by In a time when the Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare, Mad Science rules the world… with mixed success. With the help of Krosp, Emperor of All Cats, Agatha has escaped from the massive airship known as Castle Wulfenbach. After crashing their escape dirigible, Agatha and Krosp fall in with Master Payne’s Circus of Adventure, a traveling troupe of performers dedicated to staging Heterodyne shows - dramatizations of the exploits of Bill and Barry Heterodyne and their allies - who are unaware of Agatha’s connection to the Heterodyne line.”
ALSO OUT TUESDAY:
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Listening Report: March 2012
Posted on 2012-04-03 at 19:16 by Sam
Six audiobooks this month, down from eight last month, this time heavily skewed toward sf (5) over fantasy (1):
REVIEWS:
Read more...Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged a door into ocean, arctic rising, james sa corey, jay snyder, jefferson mays, joan slonczewski, leviathan wakes, mm buckner, monthly listening report, rosalyn landor, simon vance, stefan rudnicki, the gravity pilot, the stress of her regard, theodore sturgeon, tim powers, to marry medusa, tobias s buckell
News: Wil Wheaton to narrate John Scalzi's Redshirts
Posted on 2012-04-02 at 20:10 by Sam
Link: News: Wil Wheaton to narrate John Scalzi’s Redshirts
Quoth the Scalzi: “I can tell you this now that it is not April Fools Day and you will believe me.” — Wil Wheaton will narrate the audiobook version of Redshirts:
And the news was confirmed by Wheaton on Twitter, where he added, “I’m super proud of it.”
Meanwhile, I’m still a-twitter over @wilw’s retweeting of my own April Fool’s joke, which even included speculation as to why this wasn’t already announced, as, yes, Scalzi says, “If ever there were a no-brainer between book and reader, this is it.” But now it’s announced, and we have only the wait.
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Untitled
Posted on 2012-04-02 at 19:46 by Sam
Yesterday was the birthday of one of my favorite living writers. He’s someone whose words have made a huge impression on me, whose stories made me dream and want to be a writer myself.
He’s Samuel R. Delany, Chip to his friends. This is a photo taken of him yesterday afternoon, on his 70th birthday, by Kyle Cassidy.
I don’t have many heroes left.
Happy Birthday for yesterday, Chip.
And his new book Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders is finally coming out this month. Also: Kyle Cassidy does great work. I love his photograph series “Where I Write”: http://whereiwrite.org/
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Breaking news: Wil Wheaton to narrate John Scalzi's fantasy trilogy Shadow War of the Night Dragon
Posted on 2012-04-02 at 07:38 by Sam
April 1, 2012: Already today it was announced that Tor is set to publish a Manga adaptation of bestselling author John Scalzi’s bestselling and award-winning fantasy trilogy Shadow War of the Night Dragon, with artist Madeleine Rosca on illustration duties:
While this is fantastic news for fans of the series, here at the Audible SF/F blog we have the inside scoop on an exclusive announcement: Macmillan Audio has reached an agreement with Wil Wheaton to narrate the entire trilogy in audio. Inside: extensive info and interviews.
Read more...Posted in April 1 | Tagged brrrrrreaking news, john scalzi, wil wheaton
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Posted on 2012-03-29 at 21:01 by Sam
Hear Neal Stephenson, Willem Dafoe, and More Read Etgar Keret’s Suddenly, A Knock On The Door
OK. This is very, very interesting. I had no idea this was the audiobook approach for Keret’s collection. Stephenson, Chabon, Aimee Bender, Ben Marcus, Michael Chernof, Dave Eggars, on and on, all narrating different stories.
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Audible introduces SoundBytes -- "shorter works from your favorite authors, plus new writers to discover, for $4.50 or less for a limited time"
Posted on 2012-03-29 at 17:40 by Sam
“These SoundBytes are available for just one week and return to full price on Thursday, April 5, 2012 @ 9AM ET.” The 20 titles include (among others) The Metamorphosis by The Sagan Diary by
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Release Week: Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker, Mark L. Van Name's Jon and Lobo series, two series from Greg Bear, and more
Posted on 2012-03-28 at 13:12 by Sam
Another jam-packed release week, led for me by Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker and the first four books in Mark L. Van Name’s Jon and Lobo series.
ANGELMAKER: The second novel from The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker was published in hardcover by Knopf last week after a February print release in the UK. Here, narrated By AudioGO, is a long-anticipated audiobook for me, hailed by William Gibson as “You are in for a treat, sort of like Dickens meets Mervyn Peake in a modern Mother London. The very best sort of odd.”
“Joe Spork repairs clocks, a far cry from his late father, a flashy London gangster. But when Joe fixes one particularly unusual device, his life is suddenly upended. Joe’s client, Edie Banister, is more than just a kindly old lady - she’s a former superspy. And the device? It’s a 1950s doomsday machine. And having triggered it, Joe now faces the wrath of both the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator, Edie’s old arch-nemesis.” Over on Scalzi’s Whateverblog, Harkaway describes the Big Idea behind Angelmaker.
JON and LOBO: The first four books inMark L. Van Name’s Jon and Lobo series (One Jump Ahead, Slanted Jack, Overthrowing Heaven, and Children No More) come to audio, narrated by the outstanding Audible Frontiers:
Published in print and e-book by Baen, book 5, No Going Back, is due in May/June. The series stars Jon, a genetically-enhanced super soldier, and Lobo, “the hyper-intelligent assault vehicle who is his only real friend”. Each book stands on its own, for me the entry point to the series was Children No More, in which Jon faces his own past as a child soldier while setting out on an interstellar mission to rescue children from the same fate. At first, I wasn’t sure about Audible’s casting of Stechschulte as narrator. He is absolutely fantastic — his narration on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is one of the best performances I’ve ever heard, and I’ve read great things about his work on Swan Song — but his voice is quite a bit older than I imagined Jon’s. However, getting a little deeper into Children No More, his job with Lobo is wonderful, capturing the “coming from nowhere and everywhere” by being this deep, open, wide sound. Hopefully having such a high-profile narrator will pull some of the narrator’s fans over to Van Name’s series.
ALSO OUT TUESDAY:
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Harry Potter digital audiobooks now available at the Pottermore Shop
Posted on 2012-03-27 at 15:31 by Sam
Link: Harry Potter digital audiobooks now available at the Pottermore Shop
Via the Pottermore Insider (official blog), the entire Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, read superbly by Jim Dale (and in the British English version by Stephen Fry), is now available in digital audio. (Along with the e-books, also available for the first time and also only from the Pottermore Shop.)
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