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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:

  • To Marry Medusa By Theodore SturgeonNarrated by Stefan Rudnicki for Blackstone Audio — Rudnicki’s a fan of Sturgeon’s, and I’ve heard him on More Than Human which, along with To Marry Medusa, explores the idea of emergent parapsychology. It’s a reminder that, along with Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, science fiction (and science) actually took telepathy quite seriously
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Release Week: Tobias Buckell's Arctic Rising and M. M. Buckner's The Gravity Pilot

Posted on 2012-03-21 at 13:00 by Sam

It’s another packed week of audiobook releases, with the two biggest books for me both being previously released in hardcover from Tor, and both dealing with near/medium future ecological change: Tobias S. Buckell’s Arctic Rising and M. M. Buckner’s The Gravity Pilot.

ARCTIC RISING: Out in hardcover and e-book from Tor in late February, Buckell’s latest is an ecothriller set in a near future where: “Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it’s about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but

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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 CenturyOmbria in ShadowPolgara the Sorceress, and the Kris LongknifeAnna 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

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