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Release Week: Rudnicki's Fantastic Imaginings, and more of Pohl's Heechee Saga read by Oliver Wyman

Posted on 2012-10-24 at 16:55 by Sam

A pretty quiet release week, made even more so considering the deafening absence on this side of the pond that is the lack of Red Country By Joe Abercrombie, available earlier this week in the UK -- narrated by the voice of Abercrombie's First Law series no less, Steven Pacey. Will a US publisher do the right thing and back up the appropriately sized money truck(s) and bring us this next chapter in the story of Logen Ninefingers? Pretty please? (Update: Via The Guilded Earlobe, I find that this audiobook is

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged fantastic imaginings, frederik pohl, harlan ellison, heechee, oliver wyman, release week, stefan rudnicki

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

Posted on 2012-10-03 at 13:54 by Sam

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, since we can’t listen to everything, here are my picks for the week. Since Monday. Luckily, several of them are short. And one of them is even free. However… there are a lot of picks. And this is mostly just from Tuesday.

I’ve been looking forward to Ironskin By Tina Connolly since late

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged brandon sanderson, brenda cooper, building harlequin's moon, catherynne m valente, david wong, ironskin, larry niven, legion, mr penumbra, oliver wyman, release week, tina connolly, walter mosely

Audible sale: $5.95 / $4.16 -- ends today (9/2)

Posted on 2012-09-03 at 01:05 by Sam

It’s only today that I finally found the sale page, but I’d mentioned this somewhat “quiet” sale over on Facebook and Twitter. The long and short of it is that a whole big list of ACX (Audible’s Audiobook Creation Exchange) titles have been on sale for $5.95, with members still getting their discount which brings them down to $4.16. Among the full list of titles, this includes all the Neil Gaiman Presents titles,among some others below. I still don’t see a full and complete list of the $5.95 titles, but

Posted in regular | Tagged acx, audible, crossroad press, david niall wilson, hal duncan, neil gaiman presents, oliver wyman, sales, the drowning girl, vellum

A reddit /r/audiobooks AMA with award-winning narrator Oliver Wyman

Posted on 2012-08-31 at 15:18 by Sam

Hey folks! Over on the reddit /r/Audiobooks community today is award-winning narrator Oliver Wyman for an AMA — which stands for “Ask Me Anything”.

He’s oft-mentioned here and has narrated some of my favorites — so go ask a question!

Posted in regular | Tagged AMA, audiobooks, oliver wyman, reddit

Wonderful 16-minutes of Oliver Wyman reading H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon"

Posted on 2012-07-02 at 18:25 by Sam

In a tweet, fantastically talented narrator Oliver Wyman (Jeff VanderMeer’s Finch, Frederik Pohl’s Gateway, on and on) mentions that he “Finally got around to recording some Lovecraft for #GoingPublic.” Well, I don’t know exactly what this particular Twitter tag is for yet, but I do know that Wyman gives a perfect rendition of the pulpish proto-weirdish story in question, and that you should go listen to it.

Posted in regular | Tagged GoingPublic, h.p. lovecraft, oliver wyman

Release week: The Age of Miracles, Logan's Run, and The Prince of Nothing

Posted on 2012-06-27 at 12:56 by Sam

The release week of June 26 brings a genre in the mainstream debut, a long-awaited classic read by one of my favorite narrators, and R. Scott Bakker’s Prince of Nothing series, among several other titles to check out.

That Genre-in-the-Mainstream debut is The Age of Miracles: A Novel By Karen Thompson Walker, Narrated by Emily Janice Card for Random House Audio — Length:9 hrs and 3 mins. A “coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world” sees the rotation of the Earth slowing down

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged age of miracles, logan's run, oliver wyman, prince of nothing, release week

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 20:05 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

Posted in regular | Tagged news, oliver wyman

Release Week: Kosmatka, Pagliassotti, Zebrowski, Cherryh, Julavits, Medina, and more...

Posted on 2012-03-14 at 14:58 by Sam

A prolific and intriguing release week is led by The Games By Ted Kosmatka, Narrated by Scott Brick for Random House Audio — “This stunning first novel from Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Ted Kosmatka is a riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics. Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games envisions a harrowing world that may arrive sooner than you think. Silas Williams is the brilliant

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged CJ Cherryh, clockwork heart, dru pagliassotti, oliver wyman, release week, scott brick, ted kosmatka, the games

Release Week: Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed, Oliver Wyman narrates a Swanwick masterwork, and the return of Neil Gaiman Presents

Posted on 2012-02-07 at 15:24 by Sam

My most anticipated release of a packed week in audiobooks is Throne of the Crescent Moon By Saladin Ahmed, Narrated by Phil Gigante for Brilliance Audio [IndieBound MP3-CD link | iTunes Audiobook link]:

Published concurrent with the DAW hardcover, Ahmed’s debut is a welcome new voice in fantasy. Beginning with a short, dark prologue of torture which introduces us to a powerful, evil raiser of ghuls known as “the gaunt man” and his jackal-faced assistant, we are then introduced to our atypical hero, Dr

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged oliver wyman, release week, saladin-ahmed