Posts tagged: n k jemisin

Release Week: Chabon's Kavalier and Clay; Jemisin's Dreamblood; Brenda Cooper's Silver Ship; Novik's Temeraire; Joan D. Vinge's The Snow Queen; and more

Posted on 2012-06-14 at 14:17 by Sam

My most anticipated release this week comes from the fiction section: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay By Michael Chabon, Narrated by David Colacci for Brilliance Audio. FINALLY an UNABRIDGED recording! Colacci’s narration of the abridged version was a mere 8 hrs and 53 mins — about one third of the full 26 hrs and 20 mins of the unabridged recording. “It’s 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his

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Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged brenda cooper, dreamblood, joan d vinge, kavalier and clay, michael chabon, n k jemisin, release week, silver ship, the snow queen

Release Week: The Drowned Cities, The Killing Moon, Empire State, Giant Thief, and Range of Ghosts

Posted on 2012-05-02 at 14:06 by Sam

It’s quite a release week in the Teen SF/F category, led by my overall pick for the week, The Drowned Cities By Paolo BacigalupiNarrated by Joshua Swanson. It’s the second in Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker series, a post-oil-crash world, out concurrently with the print/e-book edition from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Along with all of my picks for this week, it’s in the 10-12 hour range, a length I am becoming more and more happy with.

 

Outside of YA, and also out concurrently with its print/e-book

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Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged adam christopher, david tallerman, elizabeth bear, empire state, giant thief, n k jemisin, paolo bacigalupi, range of ghosts, release week, the drowned cities, the killing moon