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Release Week: Manly Wade Wellman’s The Old Gods Waken, Eric Flint’s Islands, Peter F. Hamilton’s The Abyss Beyond Dreams, Daniel Abraham’s A Shadow in Summer, Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, and Tim Robbins reads Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

OCTOBER 15-21, 2014: Appalachian folk magic from the legendary Manly Wade Wellman, a full cast radioplay adaptation of an Eric Flint novella, new space sf, backlist epic fantasy from Daniel Abraham, Pynchon’s postmodern epic Gravity’s Rainbow, and Ray Bradbury’s classic dystopian tale … Continue reading

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Whispersync Daily Deal: The Lives (and Deaths) of Tao, The Curiosity, The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope, The Stockholm Octavo, and Flight Behavior

Saturday, April 26, 2014: Today’s Kindle Daily Deals listings with excellent Whispersync for Voice deals include recently-announced John W. Campbell for Best New Writer nominee Wesley Chu’s The Lives of Tao and The Deaths of Tao, along with a huge list of “book club” fiction mostly … Continue reading

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Release Week: Accelerando by Charles Stross, Lockstep by Karl Schroeder, Sleep Donation by Karen Russell, The Boy with the Porcelain Blade by Den Patrick, and Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars

MARCH 19-25, 2014: Well, I had no idea it was coming, but when Charles Stross’ mindfuck-a-minute 2005 novel Accelerando shows up, read by George Guidall no less, it’s your lead pick of the week. And a packed week it is, with, Karl Schroeder’s new … Continue reading

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The 2014 Audie Award finalists have been announced

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: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Sunday, January 19, 2014: I would call it one of the best debuts of the year; then one of the best audiobooks of the year; then, simply, one of the best books of the year: The Golem and the Jinni: … Continue reading

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