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July #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Ken Liu, Kat Howard, Octavia Butler, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Matheson, Walter Mosley, Field of Dreams, Scott Westerfeld’s Zeroes, and much more
July brought a refreshed list of Summer Reading Deals and 50 Kindle Books for $2 Each to the Kindle store, and there’s over 700 titles in there, 387 of which are Whispersync for Voice enabled in the “Summer Reading Deals” alone. (There’s … Continue reading
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Tagged brandon mull, kat howard, ken liu, octavia butler, scott westerfeld
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September WhispersyncDeal roundup: Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild, Neal Stephenson’s Mongoliad, Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men, Sarah Prineas, Arthur C. Clarke, David Wong, Jasper Fforde, and more
Another roundup pushing up against the end-of-the-month wire, so let’s jump right in with the deals expiring at the end of the month. First up, a roundup of what most caught my eye of the 189 Whispersync-for-Voice-enabled titles in this month’s $3.99 … Continue reading
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Tagged anne flosnik, arthur c clarke, bloodchild, brilliance, christina farley, david drake, david wong, ex-patriots, frank peretti, garard doyle, jasper fforde, jeff wheeler, john wyndham, luke daniels, marcus sakey, mark dawson, matthew quick, max allan collins, neal stpheneson, nick podehl, octavia butler, oliver wyman, peter clines, ray porter, salman rushdie, sarah prineas, stuart neville, ted dekker, terry pratchett, the day of the triffids, the magic thief, the wee free men, this book is full of spiders
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The AudioBookaneers pick their favorite audiobooks of 2014
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged adjoa andoh, afterparty, amber benson, andy weir, andy weird, ann leckie, anne charnock, area x, bd wong, ben h. winters, bronson pinchot, catherynne m valente, chang-rae lee, cherie priest, chris beckett, cibola burn, claire north, daniel abraham, dark eden, daryl gregory, donna tartt, drizzt, evie wyld, fred berman, gabrielle de cuir, haruki murakami, ironskin, j.k. rowling, james marsters, james sa corey, janis ian, jeff vandermeer, jo walton, joe hill, john darnielle, john scalzi, johnny b truant, jonathan lethem, josh cohen, junot diaz, kameron hurley, katherine addison, kristen bell, lev grossman, lewis shiner, lock in, macleod andrews, manly wade wellman, maplecroft, margaret atwood, mark bramhall, michael chabon, michel faber, monica byrne, motherless brooklyn, my real children, neil gaiman, nick harkaway, octavia butler, on such a full sea, one hundred years of solitude, peter berkrot, RA Salvatore, rc bray, richard kadrey, robert galbraith, robert glenister, rosalyn landor, ruth ozeki, sandman slim, sean platt, shirley jackson, six-gun snow white, stefan rudnicki, ted chiang, the beam, the book of strange new things, the brief wondrous life of oscar wao, the girl in the road, the goblin emperor, the goldfinch, the martian, the mirror empire, the silkworm, the yiddish policeman's union, therese anne fowler, tigerman, tina connolly, vampire empire, veronica mars, we have always lived in the castle, when women were warriors, wil wheaton, wolf in white van, xe sands
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February Whispersync Deal roundup: PKD, Marie Brennan, Walter Mosley, Ken MacLeod, Theodore Sturgeon, Robin Hobb, and more
Well, February’s well past half over, so as usual it’s beyond past time to get this month’s Whispersync deal roundup put together. So here we go! [UPDATE: Since this series has drawn some new readers/listeners who may be unfamiliar with Whispersync for … Continue reading
November 2014 Whispersync Roundup: Octavia Butler’s Dawn, Peter David’s Artful, Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan, and more
Now that we’re about halfway through November, it’s past time to round up this month’s Whispersync (and other) deals. First up, the usual gold source for new Whispersync deals, the Kindle monthly deals. 12 books to send up this time: Dawn … Continue reading
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Tagged alan cumming, discworld, humble bundle, james langton, john scalzi, luke daniels, macus sakey, octavia butler, patrick ness, paul antony jones, peter david, robert krose, robert mccammon, scholastic audio, scott westerfeld, terry pratchett, the hunger games
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October Whispersync Deal Roundup: Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising, Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon, Tim Pratt’s Heirs of Grace, James Blaylock’s The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs, and more (UPDATED!)
October is here, and so a new crop of monthly e-book deals are live. While quite a lot of the September roundup remains live as well (outside of the specifically monthly price drops) here’s what’s new: NOTE: Updated on Tuesday Oct … Continue reading
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Tagged james blaylock, kindred, octavia butler, susan cooper, the dark is rising, tim pratt
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Release Week: One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Secret of Magic, Red Rising, Hang Wire, Dominion, Love Star, The Crane Wife, Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis, and Janis Ian’s Stars
JANUARY 22-28, 2014: Another huge week of releases, from the old and long missing (One Hundred Years of Solitude and Xenogenesis), to the new (The Secret of Magic, Red Rising, and Hang Wire), to alternate history and other bits around the edges, to a fantastic … Continue reading
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Tagged adam christopher, andri snaer magnason, christopher kipiniak, cj sansom, daniel weyman, deborah johnson, dominion, gabriel garcia marquez, hang wire, janis ian, john lee, lovestar, luke daniels, octavia butler, one hundred years of solitude, patrick ness, pierce brown, red rising, stars, the crane wife, the secret of magic, tim gerard reynolds, xenogenesis
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Release Week: Unfettered, Bloodchild and Other Stories, The Unreal and the Real, Dirty Magic, Snowblind, The Séance, A.C. Crispin’s StarBridge, and Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn
JANUARY 15-21, 2014: This week brings an absolute feast for lovers of short stories, with picks including the star-studded Unfettered anthology and two collections, Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild and Other Stories and Ursula Le Guin’s The Unreal and the Real. In … Continue reading
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Tagged ac crispin, bloodchild, christopher golden, dirty magic, jaye wells, jonathan lethem, motherless brooklyn, octavia butler, patrick rothfuss, peter berkrot, shawn speakman, snowblind, starbridge, terry brooks, the seance, unfettered, unreal and the real, ursula le guin
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Briefly, On Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Parable of the Sower
As I have been finishing Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred over the past day and a half or so, of the many thoughts swirling around in my head was this: that no author I’ve read had such a command of both the … Continue reading