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The AudioBookaneers pick their favorite audiobooks of 2014

Posted on 2015-03-02 at 15:15 by Sam

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 like every year calls for a slight wrinkle in presentation, but this year it's a familiar one: our audiobooks of the year, runners up in both new audiobooks of new books and new audiobooks of previously published books, and our favorite "new to us" listens of the year. (And, mostly because it helps

Posted in The Arrrdies | 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

Release Week: Kameron Hurley's The Mirror Empire, Steven Erikson's Willful Child, Daryl Gregory's Pandemonium, and Tad Williams' Otherland

Posted on 2014-11-12 at 20:11 by Sam

OCTOBER 29-NOVEMBER 4, 2014: Breathtakingly imaginative epic fantasy, sarcastic star-crossing science fiction, a demon possession pandemic, and multiverse-spanning virtual realities make for a fantastic release week of concurrent and backlist new audiobooks this week to start November. It's a packed week as well, with several very good titles also out this week including Stephen Baxter's Proxima, Jack McDevitt's Coming Home, Kim Newman's An English Ghost Story, Lydia Millet's Mermaids in Paradise, Ryan

Posted in Release Week | Tagged daryl gregory, george newbern, kameron hurley, liza ross, macleod andrews, otherland, pandemonium, peter berkrot, steven erikson, tad williams, the mirror empire, willful child

Release Week(s): World of Trouble, Land of Love and Drowning, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Half a King, The Outsorcerer's Apprentice, Blightborn, and Kaiju Rising

Posted on 2014-08-01 at 14:55 by Sam

JULY 9-29, 2014: Covering three weeks worth of releases in mid-to-late July, with picks including a terrific ending to Ben H. Winters' The Last Policeman trilogy, new standalone epic fantasy, magical realism, near-future sf, comedic high fantasy, CornPunk, and a Kickstarter-funded anthology of megamonster invasion. Beyond the picks, there are more trilogies concluded (Hannu Rajaniemi's Jean le Flambeur, Deborah Harkness' All Souls Trilogy), more next books in a series (Melissa Scott and Jo Graham's Order of

Posted in Release Week | Tagged ben h. winters, blightborn, brilliance-audio, chuck wendig, cornpunk, half a king, hannu rajaniemi, joe abercrombie, kaiju rising, land of love and drowning, nick podehl, peter berkrot, ray sawyer, the last policeman, the outsorcerer's apprentice, thomas sweterlitsch, tiphanie yanique, tom holt, tomorrow and tomorrow, world of trouble

Whispersync Monthly Deals for June 2014: Ben Winters, Joyce Carol Oates, Joe Hill, Marcus Sakey, Elmore Leonard, and more (updated June 5!)

Posted on 2014-06-02 at 18:23 by Sam

June is here, and along with it another crop of monthly Kindle deals, including quite a few fantastic titles with inexpensive Whispersync for Voice upgrades to the Audible editions. Here are the eight titles which most caught my eye:

Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II (Last Policeman Trilogy) by Ben H. Winters, read by Peter Berkrot for Brilliance Audio, for $3.99 Kindle plus $3.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition -- "There are just 77 days to go before a deadly asteroid

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged ania ahlborn, ben h. winters, brilliance, countdown city, daniel radcliffe, dave donovan, elmore leonard, grover gardner, horns, joe hill, joyce carol oates, kate mulgrew, luke daniels, marcus sakey, nos4a2, peter berkrot, raylan, seed, the accursed, the gift, timothy olyphant

Whispersync Deal Roundup: Patrick Rothfuss, Jonathan Maberry, Ben H. Winters, Gail Z. Martin, and more

Posted on 2014-03-21 at 20:30 by Sam

Friday, March 21, 2014: Well, since my last big roundup (based on SFSignal's excellent monthly peek into discount Kindle listings) a new crop of titles to check out has gone on sale in a slightly roundabout way. Let's follow the chain:

• Barnes & Noble launched a Nook First in Series promotion, placing a whole bunch of "first in a series" ebooks on sale
• Amazon.com's price matching brings the Kindle price down to match
• Some of those titles have pretty nice Whispersync upgrade prices to the Audible edition

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged ben h. winters, corey jackson, gail z martin, jonathan maberry, kate elliott, myke cole, nick podehl, patrick rothfuss, peter berkrot, tim gerard reynolds

Whispersync Daily Deal: Celebromancy, Clive Barker's The Books of Blood, House of Bathory, and Cassandra Rose Clarke's The Assassin's Curse

Posted on 2014-01-24 at 15:12 by Sam

Friday, January 24, 2014: Four more deals to share today, starting with Celebromancy: Ree Reyes, Book 2 by Michael R. Underwood, narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal for Audible Frontiers, book two in the series after Geekomancy and on sale for $1.99 Kindle, offering a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition. "Things are looking up for urban fantasista Ree Reyes. She’s using her love of pop culture to fight monsters and protect her hometown as a Geekomancer, and now a real-live production

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged AudioGO, cassandra rose clarke, Celebromancy, Chris Patton, clive barker, crossroad press, Dick Hill, Geekomancy, House of Bathory, Kathleen Gati, Linda Lafferty, mary robinette kowal, Michael R Underwood, peter berkrot, Ree Reyes, simon vance, Tania Rodrigues, The Assassin's Curse, The Books of Blood

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

Posted on 2014-01-24 at 00:56 by Sam

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 the "also out" listings there's more high quality short fiction, including a volume of Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, H.P. Lovecraft's Eldritch Tales, and a standalone "Day by Day Armageddon" story by J.L. Bourne, among others. As far as

Posted in Release Week | 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

2013 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced

Posted on 2014-01-16 at 15:08 by Sam

Via Locus Online, the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees have been announced [with DRM-free audiobook editions linked where available]:

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged a calculated life, ancillary justice, ann leckie, anne charnock, ben h. winters, cassandra rose clarke, countdown city, ian whates, jack skillingstead, kate rudd, peter berkrot, philip k dick award, solaris rising, susan duerden, toh enjoe