Posts tagged: hugh howey

Release Week: The Word Exchange, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Strange Bodies, The End is Nigh, Steles of the Sky, The Dragon Business, Black Moon, NOD, The Vanishing, No Lasting Burial, King Maker, and David Gerrold's When HARLIE Was One

Posted on 2014-04-15 at 18:38 by Sam

APRIL 2-8, 2014: Well, the April 1 avalanche was followed up with an April 8 landslide, with a long, long! list of titles to check out, which took me a good long while to finally make sense of. (Seeing as this is coming a full week late, and the "next" release week is already here!) Just... so many good books that even after cutting beyond the comfort point, I had more than a dozen "picks". Which does nobody any good, now, does it? So I cut further, and it hurts a bit, but the audiobooks that remain really

Posted in Release Week | Tagged adrian barnes, alena graedon, black moon, celeste ciulla, claire north, david gerrold, elizabeth bear, hugh howey, james langton, john joseph adams, kenneth calhoun, kevin j anderson, marcel theroux, maurice broaddus, neil shah, nod, peter kenny, stant litore, steles of the sky, strange bodies, the apocalypse triptych, the dragon business, the end is nigh, the eternal sky, the first fifteen lives of harry august, the vanishing, the word exchange, the zombie bible, wendy webb, when harlie was one, xe sands

Whispersync Daily Deal: Hugh Howey's Sand and Susanna Kearsley's The Firebird

Posted on 2014-04-06 at 13:44 by Sam

Sunday, April 6, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal listings bring both sf and paranormal historical fiction Whispersync deals, starting with Hugh Howey's Sand Omnibus, his first new novel since his best-selling Silo Saga, on sale for $1.99 Kindle with a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Karen Chilton for Howey's Broad Reach Publishing. "We live across the thousand dunes with grit in our teeth and sand in our homes. No one will come for us. No one will save us. This is our

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged hugh howey, karen chilton, katherine kellgren, sand, susanna kearsley, the firebird

Release Week: Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others, Glen Duncan's By Blood We Live, Iain Banks' Matter, and Octavia Butler's Patternmaster and Imago

Posted on 2014-02-14 at 05:19 by Sam

FEBRUARY 5-11, 2014: While much more quiet in terms of quantity -- in particular in concurrent new releases, as apparently every publisher had the same "FEBRUARY 4 OR BUST" idea this year -- there's some absolutely exquisite quality in this week's audiobooks haul, led by Ted Chiang's 2002 collection Stories of Your Life and Others, along with backlist titles from Iain Banks and Octavia Butler, and the only week delayed conclusion in audio for Glen Duncan's Last Werewolf trilogy, By Blood We Live. Highlights

Posted in Release Week | Tagged by blood we live, glen duncan, hugh howey, iain m banks, imago, matter, octavia butler, patternist, stories of your life and others, ted chiang, the last werewolf, xenogenesis

Release Week: David Niall Wilson's Killer Green, Martha Wells' Razor's Edge, Hugh Howey's Dust, and Tim Lebbon's London Eye

Posted on 2013-10-02 at 14:25 by Sam

SEPTEMBER 25-OCTOBER 1, 2013: After two weeks of huge releases to end September, October tiptoes in with a quieter slate, though with a quite loud (to me) "missing in audio" title, Ann Leckie's space opera Ancillary Justice. Still, some intriguing releases this week to check out, whether it's unique noir/sf mashup, a new Star Wars tie-in, the conclusion of Hugh Howey's Wool series, or Tim Lebbon's take on a toxic, blasted London. Enjoy!

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Killer Green by David Niall Wilson, narrated by T

Posted in Release Week | Tagged crossroad press, david niall wilson, hugh howey, january lavoy, martha wells, star wars, tim gerard reynolds, tim lebbon

Release Week: Mur Lafferty's The Shambling Guide to New York City, Chuck Wendig's The Blue Blazes, Emma Newman's Any Other Name, and Hugh Howey's Shift

Posted on 2013-05-29 at 18:33 by Sam

MAY 22-28, 2013: It's a mammoth release week to (more or less) close May, ahead of a gigantic release day Wednesday (today) which I'll cover both in a post of its own and of course in a bit lesser detail in the next release week roundup. It's also a particularly big release week for self-published (a.k.a. "indie") titles again, and while Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio snags two of my picks of the week, my top pick is probably no surprise to anyone at this point. In the "seen but not heard" listings it's

Posted in Release Week | Tagged chuck wendig, emma newman, hugh howey, mur lafferty

Revisiting the regional digital divide, again

Posted on 2013-05-23 at 02:29 by Sam

It's been a year since I last turned too much attention to the regional digital divide, and it's high time to give the bee's nest another poke.

There's still! no sign of a US release for China Mieville's Un Lun Dun, The Scar, or Iron Council, and... well, on and on. We did get, from Tantor Audio, Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant series, narrated wonderfully by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as in the UK edition.

And we also got one of the pair of the Iain M. Banks audiobooks I'd bemoaned lack of access to last

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ben aaronovitch, china mieville, elspeth cooper, hugh howey, stella gemmell

The Guilded Earlobe reviews Wool by Hugh Howey

Posted on 2012-09-27 at 13:34 by Sam

I started hearing good things about Wool quite some time ago. Then Ridley Scott bought the film rights, and still I didn’t read it. Then Random House UK bought in, and still I didn’t read it. But now that The Guilded Earlobe has given the audiobook a “go for it” review, I’ll have to figure out how to fit it into a busy fall of listening.

Posted in regular | Tagged guilded earlobe, hugh howey, wool

Release Day: Stanislaw Lem, Wool, and Tim Pratt's Briarpatch

Posted on 2012-08-27 at 16:02 by Sam

Well, it’s another off-Tuesday release day well worth a post, as Audible Frontiers has released a long list of science fiction from Stanislaw Lem, including The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age and Mortal Engines Narrated by Scott Aiello and The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy, The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy, and Peace on Earth Narrated by David Marantz.

Also out today (Monday, August 27) is the much-lauded self-published sf series Wool Omnibus

Posted in regular | Tagged hugh howey, release day, stanislaw lem, the cyberiad, wool