Posts tagged: robert mccammon

November 2014 Whispersync Roundup: Octavia Butler's Dawn, Peter David's Artful, Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan, and more

Posted on 2014-11-13 at 06:55 by Sam

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 (The Xenogenesis Trilogy Book 1) By Octavia E. Butler, Narrated By Aldrich Barrett for Audible for $1.99+$3.49 -- "In a world devastated by nuclear war with humanity on the edge of extinction, aliens finally make contact. They rescue those humans they can, keeping

Posted in Whispersync Deals | 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

Release Week: Ancillary Sword, Boy's Life, The Maze of Games, The Chaplain's War, The Lesser Dead, and Gillian Anderson's A Vision of Fire

Posted on 2014-10-10 at 18:04 by Sam

OCTOBER 1-7, 2014: In six picks from an absolutely packed week, we get a sequel to a many-multiple award-winning sf novel, a fantastical puzzle book, author-read audiobooks from World Fantasy Award-nominated author Christopher Buehlman and X-Files star Gillian Anderson, a highly-anticipated military sf debut built from the pages of Analog, and Robert McCammon's classic Boy's Life. We also get: new genre novels from John Twelve Hawks, Tina Connolly, Steven Brust, Richard Morgan, Anton Strout, Gwenda Bond

Posted in Release Week | Tagged a vision of fire, adjoa andoh, ancillary sword, ann leckie, boy's life, brad torgersen, christopher buehlman, george newbern, gillian anderson, robert mccammon, the chaplain's war, the lesser dead, the maze of games, wil wheaton

Release Week: Six-Gun Snow White, The River of Souls, The Dark Between the Stars, Prince of Fools, The Science of Discworld, and Mr. Mercedes

Posted on 2014-06-10 at 16:10 by Sam

MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2014: June got off to a big start, with star-spanning sf (Kevin J. Anderson's The Dark Between the Stars), epic fantasy (Mark Lawrence's Prince of Fools), historical almost-supernatural thriller (Robert McCammon's The River of Souls), a fairytale recast in the Wild West (Catherynne M. Valente's Six-Gun Snow White), and yes, horror from Stephen King (Mr. Mercedes). In the ALSO OUT listings there's an Expanse novella from James S.A. Corey along with Chandler Klang Smith's 2013 debut Goldenland

Posted in Release Week | Tagged catherynne m valente, edoardo ballerini, julia whelan, kevin j anderson, mark lawrence, mr mercedes, prince of fools, robert mccammon, six-gun snow white, stephen king, terry pratchett, the dark between the stars, the river of souls, the science of discworld, tim gerard reynolds