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Posted on 2012-02-03 at 16:22 by Sam
Mr Gaiman and Mr Hodgman continue their conversation about Audio Books. Here they talk about the upcoming audiobook release of Robert Sheckley’s DIMENSION OF MIRACLES and why it sometimes feels like a strange cross between Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy AND Mad Men at the same time.
(It’s about five minutes of us burbling.)
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The Guilded Earlobe continues its "Welcome to the Apocalypse" series with "My Top 10 Favorite Adult Dystopian Novels"
Posted on 2012-02-03 at 14:47 by Sam
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Feature Friday: Locus Magazine's 2011 recommended reading list, audiobooks style
Posted on 2012-02-03 at 14:00 by Sam
One of my more favorite resources in the sf/f world is the yearly recommended reading list from Locus Magazine. Well, their list looking back at 2011has just been published, and I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the list and see which books have audiobooks available and which do not (yet?) along with (maybe!) some commentary:
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Audiobook news: Dina Pearlman to narrate Tobias S. Buckell's Arctic Rising for Audible Frontiers!
Posted on 2012-02-02 at 21:01 by Sam
Audible Frontiers let me know that narrator Dina Pearlman (Clementine: A Novel of the Clockwork Century, Ombria in Shadow, Polgara the Sorceress, and the Kris Longknife, Anna Strong, Vampire for Hire, and Weather Warden series, among other credits) will be narrating Tobias S. Buckell’s Arctic Rising, to be released concurrently with the Tor hardcover on Feb. 28:
“Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it’s about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international community is racing desperately to claim the massive amounts of oil beneath the newly accessible ocean.”
Also, I learned that Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio will be producing David Tallerman’s just-released fantasy novel Giant Thief (Tales of Easie Damasco, Book 1) in CD and MP3-CD — narrator TBD, to be released on May 1. So, hey, two books I didn’t know were coming to audio. And there was much rejoicing!
UPDATE Feb 3: And I just learned that Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio will also be producing Matt Forbeck’s novel Carpathia — out in print on March 1, coming to audio on June 1.
UPDATE Feb 3, later: And… I just learned that Brilliance Audio will be producing the Holly Black edited anthology Welcome to Bordertown, to be released on April 10. The anthology was published in print last year. (Thanks for the heads up, Dave!)
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Posted on 2012-02-02 at 20:12 by Sam
Received: Six (6!) audiobooks from Blackstone Audio:
- Mr g: A Novel about the Creation
- Little, Big: or, The Fairies’ Parliament
- The Hum and the Shiver: The Tufa Novels, Book 1
- A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Immortality, Inc.
- The Sum of All Men: The Runelords, Book One
I’ve started onto Mr g already, and hope to fit the others in over the next month or so. I’m really excited about Little, Big and The Hum and the Shiver, and look forward to hearing how one of my all-time favorite novels, A Canticle for Leibowitz, sounds.
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Listening report: January 2012
Posted on 2012-02-02 at 03:44 by Sam
On the heels of three audiobooks in the last bit of December (The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott and Colette Freedman, Earthbound by Joe Haldeman, and The Lost Gate: Mithermages, Book 1 by Orson Scott Card) I listened to six audiobooks this month; not too bad. It’s more than I had planned for, but several of them are quite short, and none of them are 30-hour epics:
AUDIOBOOKS HEARD IN JANUARY:
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Audiobook release day: The Dread by Gail Z. Margin and Seed Seeker by Pamela Sargent
Posted on 2012-02-01 at 21:10 by Sam
I have resisted doing many of these off-Tuesday release posts, but this one is a biggie for me: The Dread: Fallen Kings Cycle, Book 2 By Narrated by Tantor Audio:
“The Dread, Book Two of the Fallen Kings Cycle, picks up the adventures of Tris, Jonmarc, and the Winter Kingdoms gang immediately after the events in The Sworn. Summoner-King Tris Drayke takes what remains of his army north for a war he is ill-prepared to fight, as reports from spies confirm Tris’s worst fear. A new threat rises across the sea: a dark summoner who intends to make the most of the Winter Kingdoms’s weakness. In Isencroft, Kiara’s father is assassinated and she will now have no choice except to return and claim the crown. But she must leave behind her husband and their infant son to face the dark power that threatens her rule.”
Narrator Heyborne returns to reprise his role in The Sworn which began this second series in the Winter Kingdoms from author Martin. The first series, Chronicles of the Necromancer, comprises four books: The Summoner, The Blood King, Dark Haven, and Dark Lady’s Chosen, all read by Peter Ganim for Audible Frontiers:
ALSO OUT TODAY:
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Release Week: Lost and Found, When Worlds Collide
Posted on 2012-02-01 at 13:40 by Sam
A fairly quiet release week to end January, with the most interesting titles for me being previously released books.
The first is Lost and Found: The Taken Trilogy, Book 1 By Narrated by
Not so long ago Marcus Walker was just another young commodities trader in Chicago, working hard and playing harder. But that’s all in the past, part of a life half forgotten-a reality that vanished when he was attacked while camping and tossed aboard a starship bound for deep space.”
The second (and third) are two classic sf novels from the 1930s by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer, When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide:
Read by Peter Ganim for Audible Frontiers, the first book details the cataclysmic approach of a rogue planet, bound for impact with earth; the second with the life of the survivors.
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK:
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Free story download at Audible.com: "The Gentle Brush of Wings" by David Niall Wilson
Posted on 2012-01-25 at 17:07 by Sam
Link: Free story download at Audible.com: “The Gentle Brush of Wings” by David Niall Wilson
Narrated by Crossroad Press: ”Defining Moments is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated collection by author David Niall Wilson. The story “The Gentle Brush of Wings”, first published in this collection, won the Bram Stoker Award for short fiction.”
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Release Week Wednesday: The Curious Case(s) of Burton & Swinburne, Against the Light, KKR, PKD, and more
Posted on 2012-01-25 at 14:00 by Sam
A fairly big release week is highlighted for me by the complete Burton and Swinburne series by Mark Hodder, narrated by Gerard Doyle for Audible Frontiers:
Out concurrently with the Pyr print release of Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon: Burton & Swinburne, Book 3, getting all three of these groundbreaking steampunk/sf books is a huge addition to the world of sf audiobooks. The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack: Burton & Swinburne, Book 1 (2010) was the first steampunk book to win the Philip K. Dick Award, and The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man: Burton & Swinburne, Book 2 (2011) pushes the story forward with, literally, larger than life characters.
ALSO OUT YESTERDAY:
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Against the Light Narrated by Brilliance Audio — concurrent with print release from new Amazon.com sf imprint 47North
- Boneyards: Diving Universe, Book 3 By Narrated by
- Two more Philip K. Dick novels from Brilliance Audio in their now long-running series of productions: The Penultimate Truth read by Nick Podehl and The Crack in Space read by Eric Dawe
- Horizon: An Aftertime Novel, Book 3 By Narrated by
- Dawnbreaker: Dark Days, Book 3 By Narrated by Hillary Huber for HarperCollins Audio
- Non-genre? Mr g: A Novel about the Creation By Narrated by
- Non-genre? Pineapple Grenade: A Novel By Narrated by Series: Serge Storms, Book 15 — just reviewed by The Guilded Earlobe
- Non-fiction: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking By Narrated by
OUT THIS MORNING:
- A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories By Narrated by
OUT EARLIER THIS WEEK:
- Timecaster (2011) By Narrated by
- The Gods Abide By By the Light of the Green Star By
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