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Divided We Triumph -- Dave Reviews NEMESIS GAMES
Posted on 2015-09-15 at 12:30 by Dave
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, Book 5) by James S.A. Corey, Read by Jefferson Mays Length: 16 hours, 44 minutes
If you're like me, all you need to know about Nemesis Games is that Chrisjen Avasarala and Bobbi Draper are back in a big way. Oh, also Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante.
But it gets better. I've talked before how I pretty much just want to stowaway with the crew of the Rocinante and drink coffee with them. Well, with this book, I got about as close to that opportunity as I could. In Nemes
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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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Review: Cibola Burn
Posted on 2014-08-12 at 12:51 by Dave
Cibola Burn (Expanse, Book 4)
By James S.A. Corey, Read by Erik Davies
Length: 21 hours, 23 minutes
[Downpour | Audible | IndieBound]
Some problems require diplomacy. Others require Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante.
Two years after the ring has opened up Earth, Mars, and the Belt to a whole new universe of planets, a dispute arises on a newly discovered habitable planet between illegal settlers and the corporation claiming to rightfully own it. The diplomatic powers that be claim that there’s
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Release Week: Bears Discover Fire, The Quick, Rogues, The Fever, high-end sf sequels, and Luke Daniels, Luke Daniels, Luke Daniels
Posted on 2014-06-21 at 13:35 by Sam
JUNE 11-17, 2014: There is an absolute avalanche of outstanding audio this week, comprised mostly of audiobooks we've been anticipating for a good while now, but led by a breathtaking surprise: Terry Bisson's 1993 collection Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories. There's high-end sf (Cibola Burn, The Long Mars, On the Steel Breeze), there's historically-set fantasy (The Quick), there's comedic fantasy (Spell or High Water) and urban fantasy (Shattered, Half-Off Ragnarok) and an sf/thriller hyrbid (A Better
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Top 25 most-anticipated books of June 2014
Posted on 2014-06-05 at 18:40 by Sam
Everyone has their own lists, but here’s ours: what we're most looking forward to this month, in chronological order of release, with audiobook information if we know about it. (I tried holding the list to 10 as I managed for last month's preview, but after a second pass cutting as much as I was close to happy with, I was still in the 30s. Trimming further to 25 was hard enough!)
JUNE 3
Searchers After Horror edited by S.T. Joshi (Fedogan and Bremer, June 1) — The first of two anthologies on my list this
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Review: Star Wars: Honor Among Thieves
Posted on 2014-03-13 at 07:03 by Dave
Star Wars: Honor Among Thieves (Empire and Rebellion, Book 2) by James S.A. Corey, read by Marc Thompson Length: 9 Hours, 52 Minutes
This is the Han Solo book you're looking for.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I read all the Star Wars books. I stopped right before the New Jedi Order (when I was in college), and since then have only read two -- Zahn's Scoundrels and Schreiber's Death Troopers. In general, the Expanded Star Wars Universe became too much of a chore for me - the continuity got
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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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Release Week: Caliban's War; Joe Haldeman's None So Blind; Ken Scholes's Antiphon; Michael J. Sullivan's Heir of Novron; and more
Posted on 2012-08-15 at 15:09 by Sam
While the release week for Tuesday August 14 is a bit quiet for concurrent new releases — again it’s the “Seen But Not Heard” list of Nick Mamatas’s Bullettime, collections from Kij Johnson and Jeffrey Ford, and some others which drive my thoughts on the week — there’s a sizable list of previously released books in audio for the first time, including a highly-anticipated sequel and a collection of stories by Joe Haldeman being the most intriguing audiobooks this week, with additional picks being Ken Scholes
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Listening Report: March 2012
Posted on 2012-04-03 at 19:16 by Sam
Six audiobooks this month, down from eight last month, this time heavily skewed toward sf (5) over fantasy (1):
REVIEWS:
- To Marry Medusa By Narrated by for Blackstone Audio — Rudnicki’s a fan of Sturgeon’s, and I’ve heard him on More Than Human which, along with To Marry Medusa, explores the idea of emergent parapsychology. It’s a reminder that, along with Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, science fiction (and science) actually took telepathy quite seriously