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Best of June 2011 in Audible.com SFF: Karen Lord's Redemption in Indigo

Posted on 2011-06-30 at 9:0 by Sam

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Published by Small Beer Press in July 2010 and on several year’s best fantasy lists, Karen Lord’s Redemption in Indigo finally arrived at Audible on June 15, courtesy of a Recorded Books production, narrated by Robin Miles. Miles has 56 Audible titles to her credit, but this was my first, though her 2010 narration of Ekaterina Sedia’s The House of Discarded Dreams is waiting for me on my wish list for one of these days.

Enough

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Best of May 2011 in Audible.com SFF: China Mieville's Embassytown

Posted on 2011-05-31 at 9:0 by Sam

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Narrated by Susan Duerden, whose previous titles include Android Karenina, China Mieville’s Embassytown is my pick for the best science fiction and fantasy title to be released at Audible.com in May.

Here’s the publisher’s summary:

China Miéville doesn’t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer—and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field—with Embassytown, Miéville has

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Best of April 2011 in Audible.com SFF: Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Posted on 2011-04-30 at 9:0 by Sam

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Charles Yu’s short September 2010 novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Pantheon) finally arrived at Audible.com in April 2011, courtesy of a Recorded Brooks production of a James Yaegashi narration, and it’s my pick for Audible.com’s best Science Fiction and Fantasy release of April 2011.

On to the publisher summary:

Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of

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Best of March 2011 in Audible.com SFF: Lewis Shiner's Glimpses, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki

Posted on 2011-03-31 at 9:0 by Sam

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Lewis Shiner’s 1993 novel Glimpses won the 1994 World Fantasy Award, and has been brought to wonderful life by Stefan Rudnicki. It’s a marvelous audiobook, and my pick for the best Science Fiction and Fantasy audiobook release at Audible.com in March 2011.

Onto the publisher’s summary and some glowing blurbs:

Ray Shackleford is trying to deal with the death of his father and the collapse of his marriage

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Best of February 2011 in Audible.com SFF: David Halperin's Journal of a UFO Investigator narrated by Sean Runnette

Posted on 2011-02-28 at 10:0 by Sam

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Let me get this out of the way first: Prolific non-fiction author and eminent Judaic scholar David Halperin’s debut novel Journal of a UFO Investigator (Viking, Blackstone Audio) is not properly science fiction. It is, however, a wonderful book, and Sean Runnette’s narration brings it wonderfully to life, and it is, to quote Bull Spec reviewer Richard Dansky, “a novel about what science

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Best of January 2011 in Audible.com SFF: Orson Scott Card's The Lost Gate, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki

Posted on 2011-01-31 at 10:0 by Sam

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The Lost Gate: Mithermages, Book 1 by Orson Scott Card, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, starts a new modern fantasy for bestselling author Card. Rudnicki as always delivers, and Card’s setting, on which he’s worked quite a while (as he detailed in an interview with The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy), is reminiscent of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods in that it incorporates most every known pantheon into a

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Best of December 2010 in Audible.com SFF: Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch

Posted on 2010-12-31 at 10:0 by Sam

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Russian urban fantasist Sergei Lukyanenko’s audiobooks have been a long while coming, but they were worth the wait, and they are my pick(s) for the best new science fiction and fantasy release of December 2010 at Audible.com. Paul Michael narrates Audible Frontiers productions of all four Watch books, all published in the wee hours of 2010:

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Best of November 2010 in Audible.com SFF: Catherynne M. Valente's The Habitation of the Blessed

Posted on 2010-11-30 at 10:0 by Sam

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Narrated by Ralph Lister for Brilliance Audio, Valente begins the series A Dirge for Prester John with The Habitation of the Blessed, my pick for the best of November 2010 in new science fiction and fantasy releases at Audible.com. John is a legendary church figure whose letters to Constantinople told of a rich, magical land of which he had become king. Here, Lister brings the three principle storylines to

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Best of October 2010 in Audible.com SFF: Iain M. Banks's Surface Detail

Posted on 2010-10-31 at 9:0 by Sam

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My pick for the best new science fiction and fantasy release at Audible.com in October 2010 is: Surface Detail: A Culture Novel by Iain M. Banks, narrated by Peter Kenny (Hachette Audio).

Publisher summary:

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. And it begins with a murder.

Lededje Y’breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose

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Best of September 2010 in Audible.com SFF: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

Posted on 2010-09-30 at 9:0 by Sam

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic 1974 novel The Dispossessed is brought wonderfully to audio courtesy a Harper Audio production of an excellent Don Leslie narration. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, it is also (and much less impressively, I might add!) my pick for the best new science fiction and fantasy audiobook at Audible.com in September 2010.

The publisher’s summary is brief: “Shevek, a brilliant physicist

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