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April Whispersync Deal Roundup: SF by Jack Campbell, Gregory Benford, Larry Niven, and Greg Bear; Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones, The Hunger Games, Bob Mayer’s Area 51, Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, historical fiction, non-fiction, and more

Whew! It’s April, and while some deals from March are still valid, here’s this month’s roundup of (mostly) new deals. [Editor’s note: Since this series continues to draw some new readers/listeners who may be unfamiliar with Whispersync for Voice, in brief: after … Continue reading

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Release Week: Niven and Harrington’s The Goliath Stone, Christopher Priest’s The Adjacent, Madeline Ashby’s iD, Paul S. Kemp’s A Discourse in Steel, Calvino’s Invisible Cities, and Ballard’s The Drowned World

JUNE 19-25, 2013: June goes out with quite a bang — limiting the picks to even the four pairs below still leaves titles of interest in the “also out this week” listings, such as a literary historical fantasy from Andrew … Continue reading

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Sam reviews: Building Harlequin’s Moon by Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper, read by Tom Weiner for Blackstone Audio

Building Harlequin’s Moon by Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper (2005) Read by Tom Weiner (2012) for Blackstone Audio (review copy) Review by Sam: This is a book I was very interested in when it was originally published back in 2005, but … Continue reading

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Release Week: The Twelve, Bowl of Heaven, Roadside Picnic, and George R.R. Martin

Vampires and aliens are featured in two new highly-anticipated books in this mid-October release week, and aliens and vampires are also featured in new audiobooks of highly-regarded books published in past years. The Twelve by Justin Cronin, read by Scott … Continue reading

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Release week: Ironskin, Legion, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, This Book is Full of Spiders, Building Harlequin’s Moon, and a return to Fairyland

Well, I tried. I put together an interstitial release week post on Friday. Then again Monday morning. And still what’s left in this week’s haul is more than enough to keep all the listening hours in a year occupied. So, … Continue reading

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Release Week: Returns to Ringworld and Shannara

The release week of Tuesday August 21 brings another chapter to two classic series, one sf and one fantasy, along with an intriguing horror title. Fate of Worlds: Return from the Ringworld By Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner, Narrated … Continue reading

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