Posts tagged: kim stanley robinson

At Long Last! The AudioBookaneers Favorite Audiobooks of 2013!

Posted on 2014-02-24 at 14:53 by Dave

Yes, it's been a looooooooong wait. But 2013 was a pretty good year, and we have the audiobooks to prove it! In our wrap-up of 2012 in audiobooks, we had a consensus pick for best new audiobook, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. This year, we are a house -- er, pirate ship? -- divided. Last year, we also split things up quite a bit between "best new audiobook of a new book" and "best new audiobook of a previously released book". This year, there are no second class citizens among our listens

Posted in The Arrrdies | Tagged american elsewhere, ancillary justice, ann leckie, doctor sleep, hild, kate atkinson, kim stanley robinson, lauren beukes, life after life, neil gaiman, niccola griffith, robert jackson bennett, shaman, stephen king, the ocean at the end of the lane, the shining girls

The 2014 Audie Award finalists have been announced

Posted on 2014-02-19 at 15:33 by Sam

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 with such a broad base of audio publishers. The big 5/6 and Amazon's imprints, along with independents both big (Recorded Books, Blackstone, Tantor, and GraphicAudio) and small: Podium (who continues to produce an extremely high quality of well-curated and well-cast

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alex bledsoe, andy weir, audies, brandon sanderson, bronson pinchot, clockwork angels, doctor sleep, ellen kushner, ever after, george guidall, green space, helene wecker, joe hill, john hodgman, kate mulgrew, kevin j anderson, kim harrison, kim stanley robinson, macleod andrews, maddaddam, margaret atwood, max brooks, metatropolis, miachael page, michael kramer, neil gaiman, neil gaiman presents, neil peart, nos4a2, ocean at the end of the lane, podium, richard kadrey, rip-off, robert sheckley, scott lynch, shaman, stefan rudnicki, stephen king, the martian, will patton, world war z

Whispersync Daily Deal: Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson

Posted on 2013-12-20 at 00:28 by Sam

I knew it, I just knew I should have checked earlier in the day, but, well, I was stinking busy. Still, it's not too late to snap up one of the best books and audiobooks of the year. Shaman: a novel of the Ice Age by Kim Stanley Robinson is today's sf/f Kindle Daily Deal at $2.99, and offers a $4.99 Whispersync upgrade to the absolutely masterful Graeme Malcolm narration at Audible.

I bought this DRM-free on its release day from Hachette Audio via Downpour, but for those shopping at Audible this is a no

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged kim stanley robinson, shaman

Release Week: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam, Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman, Toby Barlow's Babayaga, and Seanan McGuire's Chimes at Midnight

Posted on 2013-09-04 at 19:05 by Sam

AUGUST 28-SEPTEMBER 3, 2013: September kicks off with two of my most anticipated titles of the year, Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam and Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman. It also brings news from The Hugo Awards at this weekend's World Science Fiction Convention in San Antonio, where Mur Lafferty (The Shambling Guide to New York City) won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Author, and John Scalzi's Redshirts was named Best Novel. This week does not, however, bring all the audiobooks that were hoped for: in

Posted in Release Week | Tagged babayaga, kim stanley robinson, maddaddam, margaret atwood, mary robinette kowal, seanan mcguire, shaman, toby barlow

Listening report: June 2012

Posted on 2012-09-12 at 03:21 by Sam

After six audiobooks in May (though KSR’s 2312 went on well into the first week of June) I listened to eight in June, with Tim Powers’s On Stranger Tides and Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay being the outstanding audiobooks, with plenty to recommend Mark L. Van Name’s No Going Back, John Scalzi’s Redshirts, and Jon Sprunk’s Shadow’s Son.

REVIEWS: (Note: as I’m terribly terribly behind in these reviews, these are short (or long in the cases where I did not have time to

Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged cherie priest, clementine, graphicaudio, john scalzi, jon sprunk, kavalier and clay, kim stanley robinson, mark van name, michael chabon, monthly listening report, no going back, on stranger tides, orson scott card, redshirts, shadow's son, stefan rudnicki, tim powers, wil wheaton

Listening Report: May 2012

Posted on 2012-07-04 at 00:04 by Sam

April’s claim of 9 audiobooks was a bit of a “cheat”; I included the late Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 although I had actually read it in (very) early May. Here, things were going to again a bit stretched as it took a few days into June to finish the audiobook which took up most of my late May as well (Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312) but hey, again, it’s my blog, I include what I want, when I want, right? So. Six audiobooks in May, several outstanding including J.M. McDermott’s Last Dragon, Lavie Tidhar’s Osa

Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged 2312, david tallerman, giant thief, jm mcdermott, kim stanley robinson, last dragon, lavie tidhar, monthly listening report, osama

Release Week: KSR's 2312; Anne Lyle; Rob Ziegler; Lev AC Rosen; David Brin; Tim Akers; and the conclusion to The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

Posted on 2012-05-23 at 19:32 by Sam

The absolutely mammoth release week for Tuesday, May 23, is led for me by the much-anticipated and well-regarded 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson, narrated by Sarah Zimmerman for Hachette Audio, out concurrently with its publication in hardcover and e-book by Orbit. At 19 hrs and 15 mins, it seems a pretty good length for exploring a science fiction world (not too long, not too short). Over on Scalzi’s Whatever blog, Robinson talks about the Big Idea behind the novel, there’s an official site which lets you bui

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged 2312, david brin, kim stanley robinson, release week, tim akers

Untitled

Posted on 2012-05-10 at 20:01 by Sam

Received: from Blackstone Audio, two MP3-CD audiobooks: HAMLET’S FATHER by Orson Scott Card, read by Stefan Rudnicki (published May 1); and A SHORT, SHARP SHOCK by Kim Stanley Robinson, read by Paul Michael Garcia (published April 1).

Posted in photo | Tagged blackstone audio, kim stanley robinson, orson scott card, received

Release Week: Triggers, David Drake, Kim Stanley Robinson, Girl Genius, and more

Posted on 2012-04-04 at 12:00 by Sam

The release week for Tuesday, April 3 is led by the release of Triggers By Robert J. Sawyer, Narrated by Jeff Woodman for Audible Frontiers: ”On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin’s bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories. Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged david drake, jeff woodman, kim stanley robinson, phil and kaja foglio, release week, robert j sawyer, triggers