Posts tagged: osama
World Fantasy Awards 2012 nominees announced
Posted on 2012-08-08 at 15:50 by Sam
The nominees for the 2012 World Fantasy Awards have been announced, and all five of the novels on the final ballot are available in audio. Let me run them down for you:
- Those Across the River, Christopher Buehlman (Ace) — Those Across the River, Narrated by Mark Bramhall for Penguin Audiobooks — Length:9 hrs and 5 mins — Release Date:09-06-11 — this is one that interested me last year, mainly due to my affection for Bramhall’s narration on Lev Grossman’s The Magicians, and reviewed fairly positively
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Listening Report: May 2012
Posted on 2012-07-04 at 00:04 by Sam
April’s claim of 9 audiobooks was a bit of a “cheat”; I included the late Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 although I had actually read it in (very) early May. Here, things were going to again a bit stretched as it took a few days into June to finish the audiobook which took up most of my late May as well (Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312) but hey, again, it’s my blog, I include what I want, when I want, right? So. Six audiobooks in May, several outstanding including J.M. McDermott’s Last Dragon, Lavie Tidhar’s Osa
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Audiobook review: Osama by Lavie Tidhar
Posted on 2012-06-05 at 16:32 by Sam
Narrated by Jeff Harding for Audible Ltd
Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
Release Date: 05-14-2012 [PS Publishing | Goodreads | Audible UK]
Review by Dave Thompson: “Life Isn’t a Pulp Novel”
Lavie Tidhar’s Osama is not an easy or light novel. However, it is a very thought provoking one, and I suspect it’s one that’s going to stay with me for a long time.
What if Osama bin Laden never existed? What if his acts of terror were confined solely to pulp novels, the kind that are published
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Release Week: Railsea by China Mieville; Osama by Lavie Tidhar; CS Friedman's Magister and Coldfire trilogies; and more
Posted on 2012-05-16 at 14:03 by Sam
For the third week in a row there are multiple major releases in the YA SF & F section, led by Railsea, a foray into a younger age category by the always brilliant Narrated by
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Audiobook release day: Osama by Lavie Tidhar
Posted on 2012-05-14 at 23:35 by Sam
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I don’t always do a release day post these days, usually saving things up for one week-in-recap. But sometimes an audiobook comes along off-Tuesday that I’m really excited about, and today has one such audiobook. Coming in at about 8.5 hours, Osama By Narrated by
In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure
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