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"The past can’t be changed, but it can be learned from." -- James reviews Snapshot

Posted on 2017-02-28 at 19:21 by Sam

Snapshot
By Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by William DeMeritt for Audible

— Review by James Alexander —

Snapshot is one of those books you know will probably be a movie soon right away. I mean that in the best possible sense, the premise is just too good. In a city of millions, detectives Davis and Chaz are the only real people. Cops in this futuristic world have taken to using “Snapshots”, large scale, holodeck-like re-creations of the past to solve crimes.

Let’s say a murder is committed Monday with no

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Black Friday #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Jemisin's The Fifth Season, McCammon's Swan Song, Cashore's Graceling, and Sanderson's Alcatraz

Posted on 2016-11-26 at 07:26 by Sam

While the November #WhispersyncDeal roundup continues through the weekend, today's Whispersync-enabled Kindle Daily Deals include some spectacular speculative fiction for all ages:

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, read by Robin Miles for $2.99+$4.95 -- An absolutely amazing book and audiobook, the start of a new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin.

Swan Song by Robert McCammon, read by Tom Stechschulte for $1.99+$3.95 -- "Robert McCammon's prescient

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Does Brandon Sanderson have superpowers or is he just chained to his laptop? James reviews Calamity (The Reckoners, Book 3)

Posted on 2016-03-14 at 18:09 by Sam

Calamity: The Reckoners, Book 3 By Brandon Sanderson Narrated by MacLeod Andrews for Audible

-- Review by James Alexander --

Does Brandon Sanderson have superpowers or is he just chained to his laptop? It feels like the Reckoners trilogy has only just begun and the conclusion is already here. And it isn’t the only thing he’s been doing right now.

The setting combines today’s familiar trends of post apocalyptic and superhero fiction into something wholly unique: a world where super powered beings dubbed

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Release Week: Mira Grant's Symbiont, Brandon Sanderson's Legion: Skin Deep, Tobias Buckell's Mitigated Futures, and Bronson Pinchot reading David Drake's Grimmer Than Hell

Posted on 2014-12-03 at 06:43 by Sam

NOVEMBER 19-25, 2014: An overall very, very quiet week in publishing, but with a standout concurrent new release (Mira Grant's Symbiont), two glimmering backlist collections (Buckell and Drake), the return of Sanderson's Legion (for free! read by Oliver Wyman again!), and a few more titles well worth noting (an indie fantasy superstar in the making in Jacob Cooper, anthologies Robot Uprisings and Night Shift, Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest novels, Costello and Hautala's Star Road, and a huge pile of Akashic

Posted in Release Week | Tagged brandon sanderson, bronson pinchot, christine lakin, david drake, grimmer than hell, legion, mira grant, mitigated futures, oliver wyman, symbiont, tobias buckell

Release Week: Dark Eden, Desert of Souls, Reign of Ash, Games Creatures Play, Tales of the Radiation Age, Salvage, and Ian McDonald's Desolation Road and Cyberabad Days

Posted on 2014-04-07 at 19:14 by Sam

MARCH 26-APRIL 1, 2014: A fantastic range of releases this week, from a 2012-UK-published novel of mind-bending interplanetary science fiction finally getting a US release, to epic fantasy, a big-name paranormal fantasy anthology, post-apocalyptic sf, to near-future sf for young/new adults, and some long-missing audiobooks from Ian McDonald's backlist. Also out this week: Scott Sigler's Galactic Football League, Steven Erikson's The Bonehunters (Book 6 in his Malazan Book of the Fallen), a new audiobook

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Release Week: Words of Radiance, Ghost Train to New Orleans, Tropic of Serpents, Half Bad, The King in Yellow read by Stefan Rudnicki, and Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West performed by Jonathan Frakes

Posted on 2014-03-06 at 21:33 by Sam

FEBRUARY 26-MARCH 4, 2014: And here I thought that last week was packed. This week saw almost 200 titles released on March 4 alone, with another 100 on March 3. My picks of this avalanche include an epic fantasy sequel from Brandon Sanderson, an urban fantasy sequel from Mur Lafferty, anthropological dragon memoir fantasy (yes, it exists, it's totally a genre, and yes, it's a sequel), and hey, more fantasy, the highly-anticipated debut Half Bad by Sally Green, and a classic 1895 novel-in-stories, performed

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The 2014 Audie Award finalists have been announced

Posted on 2014-02-19 at 15:33 by Sam

Via Booklist Online, the 2014 Audies Finalists have been announced. My first thoughts are 1. that I'm thrilled to see Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman named as a finalist in the Science Fiction category. And 2, I can't recall a previous year with such a broad base of audio publishers. The big 5/6 and Amazon's imprints, along with independents both big (Recorded Books, Blackstone, Tantor, and GraphicAudio) and small: Podium (who continues to produce an extremely high quality of well-curated and well-cast

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Whispersync Daily Deal: Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

Posted on 2014-01-01 at 13:14 by Sam

Happy New Year! January 1 brings a $1.99 Kindle Daily Deal for the first novel for teens from the best-selling author of Mistborn and co-author of the concluding novels of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, Brandon Sanderson, starting a new superhero series The Reckoners: Steelheart. For $3.99 more, add to the Audible edition narrated by Macleod Andrews (Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim, Steven Gould's Jumper).

"Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women

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Release Week: Doctor Sleep, The Incrementalists, Every Boy Should Have a Man, and North American Lake Monsters

Posted on 2013-09-26 at 02:28 by Sam

SEPTEMBER 18-24, 2013: Well, I warned you last week that this week would be big. Huge. The list of excellent audiobooks that fall into the "also out this week" would make for a stellar set of release week picks: V.E. Schwab's Vicious (Tor and Brilliance Audio), James A. Moore's Seven Forges, Jhumpa Lahiri's recently-ABA-longlisted The Lowland, War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, Laura Anne Gilman's Paranomal Scene Investigations, David Tallerman's Prince Thief, Anton Strout's Stonecast, Jason M. Hough's

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Release Week: The Returned, The Fall of the Kings, Ice Forged, Abaddon's Gate, Reanimators, and Shadows of the New Sun

Posted on 2013-08-28 at 17:55 by Sam

AUGUST 21-27, 2013: It's quite a release week haul this week: a powerful debut in the form of Jason Mott's The Returned, the return of Neil Gaiman Presents with another full cast "illuminated production" in Ellen Kushner's Riverside series, a pair of Recorded Books titles first published in print by Orbit Books earlier this year, a concurrent new release read by one of the best narrators in the business, and a star-studded all-original anthology set in Gene Wolfe's New Sun milieu. And! There's several more

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