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Scalzi's The Human Division Audiobook to be Serialized?
Posted on 2012-10-23 at 21:24 by Dave
John Scalzi, author of Redshirts, Fuzzy Nation, and Old Man's War has just announced that he's completed his new novel (set in the Old Man's War universe): The Human Division.
Scalzi has been talking for a while how this book is made up of a series of interlocking stories, and will be released serially as eBook episodes, with the collected edition coming out around the same time as the final story. But in his post today, Scalzi mentions that this might not only happen for the eBook, but for the audiobook
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News: Lavie Tidhar announces five-book deal with Audible, including Osama and trilogy The Bookman Histories
Posted on 2012-03-26 at 19:34 by Sam
Absolutely fantastic news:
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News: Oliver Wyman to narrate more of Pohl's Heechee saga, and William F. Nolan's Logan's Run
Posted on 2012-03-23 at 20:5 by Sam
Via Twitter, Oliver Wyman reports that he’ll be narrating “William F. Nolan’s classic Logan’s Run (+ 2 sequels) & 4 more books in Fred Pohl’s epic Heechee saga” for Audible, adding: “I love my job.”
For fans (like me!) of Wyman’s excellent, excellent narration on Frederik Pohl’s Gateway, this is fantastic news. As to more on why Wyman is super-excited about this, check out his response to Audible’s asking narrators to talk about “The Best Book I Ever Narrated” last year. I wonder if they’ll get Robert J
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Audiobook news: Dina Pearlman to narrate Tobias S. Buckell's Arctic Rising for Audible Frontiers!
Posted on 2012-02-02 at 21:1 by Sam
Audible Frontiers let me know that narrator Dina Pearlman (Clementine: A Novel of the Clockwork Century, Ombria in Shadow, Polgara the Sorceress, and the Kris Longknife, Anna Strong, Vampire for Hire, and Weather Warden series, among other credits) will be narrating Tobias S. Buckell’s Arctic Rising, to be released concurrently with the Tor hardcover on Feb. 28:
“Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it’s about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international
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iTunes sale on first audiobooks in a series includes Lev Grossman's The Magicians for $5.95 (ITMS link)
Posted on 2011-06-21 at 21:43 by Sam
Lev Grossman’s 2009 novel The Magicians is one of my all-time favorite audiobooks. Mark Bramhall does a wonderful job on the narration, and there it is, in a “first book in a series” sale in the iTunes Music Store.
Other interesting titles at a glance: Eragon by Christopher Paolini (YA), Redwall (Book 1) by Brian Jacques (YR), The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan (YR), Darkly
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Released today on Audible: The Tenth Anniversary Edition of American Gods by Neil Gaiman, with a new full cast production
Posted on 2011-06-21 at 17:57 by Sam
This is one of my favorite books from one of my favorite authors, and while the existing audiobook is a very good one-narrator performance from George Guidall, for the 10th anniversary edition of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods there’s “updated and expanded” text and a 4-person cast production from Harper Audio.
Publisher’s Summary:
Read more...First published in 2001, American Gods became an