Posts tagged: annihilation

September Whispersync Deal Roundup

Posted on 2014-09-12 at 14:45 by Sam

Out with the deals of August and in with the deals of September! As usual, the daily #WhispersyncDeal posts on Facebook/Twitter cover the more ephemeral deals, but here's some titles to check out all September long -- but first, some deals that either end today (Friday) or in a week:

Today (Friday) only, Open Road Media has set the ebook price for their edition of Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow to "free". This edition is Whispersync for Voice enabled with the fantastic Blackstone Audio

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Release Week: Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, James Marsters reads The Kingmakers, Allen Steele's V-S Day, Christopher Golden's Dark Duets, METAtropolis stories, Scott Sigler's Pandemic, J.C. Hutchins' "The 33", and Natania Barron's Pilgrims of the Sky

Posted on 2014-02-07 at 19:06 by Sam

JANUARY 29-FEBRUARY 4, 2014: You are in for quite a treat this week, audiobook listeners. From the surreal and claustrophobic Annihilation to the rapiers-afly adventure of The Kingmakers, to alternate history and on to an intriguing anthology of horror and dark fantasy. Meanwhile, the entire roster of METAtropolis stories have been released individually, and podcasting pioneer J.C. Hutchins released the first installment of a new serial project, "The 33". Speaking of podcasting pioneers, Scott Sigler's

Posted in Release Week, Uncategorized | Tagged allen steele, annihilation, carolyn mccormick, christopher golden, clay and susan griffith, dark duets, james marsters, jc hutchins, jeff vandermeer, metatropolis, the 33, the kingmakers, the southern reach, v-s day, vampire empire

Review: Annihilation

Posted on 2014-02-07 at 06:25 by Dave

Annihilation (Book 1 in the Southern Reach trilogy) by Jeff VanderMeer, Read by Carolyn McCormick Length: 6 hours

It's  a simple, classic set-up: A group of explorers head out on an expedition to the mysterious Area X. They have gone through rigorous training that strips much of their identity in hopes of generating unbiased field reports. Instead, they are referred to simply by their scientific professions: Psychologist, Anthropologist, Surveyor, and Biologist. There was a Linguist too, but something

Posted in reviews, Uncategorized | Tagged annihilation, carolyn mccormick, jeff vandermeer, kaleidoscope of wtfery, southern reach trilogy

Pre-order update: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Posted on 2014-01-16 at 20:51 by Sam

Not that I've been checking every week for a couple of months or anything, but: one thing I snuck into an update of this week's release week coverage is that there's finally a pre-order page at Downpour.com for Annihilation (Southern Reach, Volume 1) by Jeff VanderMeer, read by Carolyn McCormick for Blackstone Audio, due out February 4 concurrent with the Farrar, Straus, & Giroux print/ebook release:

I last reported on this audiobook late last month when McCormick, the voice of The Hunger Games audiobook

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged annihilation, carolyn mccormick, jeff vandermeer

Jeff VanderMeer's forthcoming "Annihilation: a novel" to be narrated by Carolyn McCormick

Posted on 2013-12-30 at 22:51 by Sam

I've been refreshing Blackstone Audio's site every week or so for months now, looking for news on the narrator and release date confirmation. And lo and behold on their new Blackstone Library website is an even shinier new listing for Annihilation, the first novel in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy.

And the narrator is listed as Carolyn McCormick, whose work on The Hunger Games audiobooks I absolutely adored. This is a big-time casting for a big-time novel, and I'm very excited to see what

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