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“The past can’t be changed, but it can be learned from.” — James reviews Snapshot

Posted on 2017-02-28 by montsamu

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, … Continue reading →

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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 by montsamu

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 … Continue reading →

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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 by montsamu

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 … Continue reading →

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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 by montsamu

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 … Continue reading →

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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 by montsamu

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 … Continue reading →

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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 by montsamu

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 … Continue reading →

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The 2014 Audie Award finalists have been announced

Posted on 2014-02-19 by montsamu

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 … Continue reading →

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Whispersync Daily Deal: Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

Posted on 2014-01-01 by montsamu

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 2013-09-25 by montsamu

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. … Continue reading →

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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 by montsamu

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 … Continue reading →

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