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The AudioBookaneers pick their favorite audiobooks of 2014
Posted on 2015-03-02 at 15:15 by Sam
Well, it's (past) that time of year again: time for Dave and I to look back on a year in listening. We laughed, we cried, we cheered, we jeered, we stayed up well into the night for these audiobooks. It seems like every year calls for a slight wrinkle in presentation, but this year it's a familiar one: our audiobooks of the year, runners up in both new audiobooks of new books and new audiobooks of previously published books, and our favorite "new to us" listens of the year. (And, mostly because it helps
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Release Week: Kameron Hurley's The Mirror Empire, Steven Erikson's Willful Child, Daryl Gregory's Pandemonium, and Tad Williams' Otherland
Posted on 2014-11-12 at 20:11 by Sam
OCTOBER 29-NOVEMBER 4, 2014: Breathtakingly imaginative epic fantasy, sarcastic star-crossing science fiction, a demon possession pandemic, and multiverse-spanning virtual realities make for a fantastic release week of concurrent and backlist new audiobooks this week to start November. It's a packed week as well, with several very good titles also out this week including Stephen Baxter's Proxima, Jack McDevitt's Coming Home, Kim Newman's An English Ghost Story, Lydia Millet's Mermaids in Paradise, Ryan
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Release Week: Station Eleven, City of Stairs, Hieroglyph, Monstrous Affections, and Gregory Maguire's Egg and Spoon
Posted on 2014-09-16 at 13:31 by Sam
SEPTEMBER 3-9, 2014: A highly-praised post-apocalyptic fiction, a secondary-world fantasy, an optimistic hard sf anthology, a young adult fantasy anthology, and an "all ages" fantasy lead a crowded week which also includes Daryl Gregory's "dark, degenerate, and sublime" We Are All Completely Fine, Karen Miller's The Falcon Throne, Angus Watson's Age of Iron, Siobhan Adcock's ghost story The Barter, Paula Guran's anthology Zombies: More Recent Dead, Benedict Cumberbatch reading William Golding's The Spire, a
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Review: Afterparty
Posted on 2014-05-22 at 05:56 by Dave
Afterparty by Daryl Gregory, performed by Tavia Gilbert Length: 10 hours, 52 minutes
Imagine going to church, taking communion, and as soon as you swallowed the wafer and wine, seeing God right beside you. Or, if not God, an aspect of God – one that you could converse with, argue with, beg, weep with, and scream at. Now, imagine all that if you were an atheist.
Regardless of what you believe or do not believe, as a science fiction fan you have to wonder: short of this miraculous wafer falling from the
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Release Week: Afterparty, The Serpent of Venice, The Forever Watch, The Deaths of Tao, and Ursula K. Le Guin's Outer Space, Inner Lands
Posted on 2014-04-24 at 18:02 by Sam
APRIL 16-22, 2014: Another quiet week in terms of sheer numbers, with an even quieter week ahead before an absolute audio avalanche to begin May. But! Fear not, there are still several choice audiobooks to check out this week, from near-future thrillers, to historical fantasy comedies, to... well, we'll get there. The ALSO OUT listings have some gems as well: the two concluding volumes of Maurice Broadduss' Knights of Breton Court, Ian McDonald's Empire Dreams, Richard Bowes' Minions of the Moon, David
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Audiobook review: Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory
Posted on 2012-03-09 at 18:40 by Sam
Reviewed by Dave Thompson: “The Undead Have Never Been So Fresh (or Funny)”
The living dead seem to be rising just about everywhere you turn, and these days the zombie apocalypse is feeling a bit run of the mill. Do not let this keep you from checking out Raising Stony Mayhall — one of the most delightful zombie books I’ve read.
There’s a trope in zombie fiction of a loved one being infected, and instead of
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