Posts tagged: scott brick
Oscar tie-in #WhispersyncDeal roundup for February 27: Life of Pi, Mary Poppins, 12 Years a Slave, and more
Posted on 2016-02-27 at 15:26 by Sam
Amazon's Gold Box Deal today is a "Read it before you see it" set of discounted books that were made into Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated films, 9 of which are Whispersync for Voice enabled. Some of these (Room, The Silence of the Lambs) still add up to over $10, but! there's plenty of deals to be had here as well:
Life of Pi by Man Booker Prize, Fiction, 2002: "Pi Patel has been raised in a zoo in India. When his father
Read more...Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged bronson pinchot, grover gardner, mary poppins, matthew quick, ray porter, rs belcher, scott brick, solomon northup, upton sinclair, yann martel
Casting Call: Skyboat Media's Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir on Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever
Posted on 2016-02-26 at 17:59 by Sam
I've been a huge fan of Skyboat Media for a long time -- anybody who brings more Lewis Shiner and Manly Wade Wellman audiobooks into the world gets my support, and that's the tip of the iceberg -- and when I saw that Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir were planning to produce a full cast version of Harlan Ellison's classic Star Trek teleplay "The City on the Edge of Forever" I was definitely intrigued. When I saw the behind-the-scenes sound check with Scott Brick as Spock, and Brick's studio selfie with
Read more...Posted in Casting Call, Interviews | Tagged gabrielle de cuir, harlan ellison, kickstarter, scott brick, skyboat media, stefan rudnicki
January #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Kameron Hurley's Worldbreaker Saga, Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone, Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland, and more
Posted on 2016-01-24 at 00:06 by Sam
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The Mirror Empire: Worldbreaker Saga 1 for $1.99+$3.49 and Empire Ascendant: Worldbreaker Saga #2 for $1.99+$2.99 are just ridiculous prices
Read more...Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged alan cumming, catherynne m valente, kameron hurley, kareem abdul-jabbar, leigh bardugo, liza ross, luke daniels, matt forbeck, scott brick
Release Week: Dangerous Women, Ian Tregillis' Something More Than Night, Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, and John Gwynne's Malice
Posted on 2013-12-06 at 21:04 by Sam
NOVEMBER 27-DECEMBER 3, 2013: While there's still no sign of Nicola Griffith's Hild -- read like the wind, Ms. Flosnick! -- we still get another fantastic week of audiobooks, including the latest GRRM/Dozois anthology, a Kirkus year's-best-listed new standalone novel from Ian Tregillis, Helen Marshall's creepy ChiZine collection Hair Side, Flesh Side, and the Gemmell-winning epic fantasy Malice by John Gwynne. In the "also out" listings this week, even more epic fantasy than you can shake a stick at, space
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged carrie vaughn, cecelia holland, dangerous women, diana gabaldon, diana rowland, emily rankin, gardner dozois, george rr martin, helen marshall, iain glen, ian tregillis, inna korobkina, jasin ian, jim butcher, joe abercrombie, joe r lansdale, jonathan frakes, lev grossman, nancy kress, pat cadigan, sam sykes, scott brick, stana katic
Release Week: Never Knew Another, Burning Paradise, Fortune's Pawn, Sea Hearts, and Once Upon a Time
Posted on 2013-11-06 at 17:39 by Sam
OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 5, 2013: I've been excited about this week since I first learned that J.M. McDermott's "Dogsland" books Never Knew Another and When We Were Executioners were coming to audio, and! here they are, along with: a new novel by Robert Charles Wilson, Rachel Bach's new military sf novel Fortune's Pawn, Margo Lanagan's glimmering 2012 selkie fantasy, and the Paula Guran-edited Once Upon a Time anthology, and! plenty more besides in the "also out this week" listings including: Terry Pratchett's T
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged burning paradise, eileen stevens, jm mcdermott, margo lanagan, never knew another, once upon a time, paula guran, rachel bach, robert charles wilson, scott brick
Release Week: Hannu Rajaniemi's The Fractal Prince, Django Wexler's The Thousand Names, Anthony Ryan's Blood Song, Melissa Marr's The Arrivals, Matt Haig's The Humans, and Stephen Graham Jones' Zombie Bake-Off
Posted on 2013-07-09 at 03:32 by Sam
JUNE 26-JULY 2, 2013: July is off and running with a first release week to jump-start your summer listening plans. From hard-to-the-point-of-being-nearly-incomprehensible sf (Hannu Rajaniemi's The Fractal Prince) to a more The Hunger Games esque (with aliens!) book (Melissa Marr's The Arrivals) to first books in new epic fantasy series (Django Wexler's The Thousand Names and Anthony Ryan's Blood Song) to the latest in quite a string of literary authorial takes on sf (Matt Haig's The Humans), to... well, a
Posted in Release Week | Tagged anthony ryan, django wexler, hannu rajaniemi, scott brick, stephen graham jones
Release Week: The Twelve, Bowl of Heaven, Roadside Picnic, and George R.R. Martin
Posted on 2012-10-17 at 20:05 by Sam
Vampires and aliens are featured in two new highly-anticipated books in this mid-October release week, and aliens and vampires are also featured in new audiobooks of highly-regarded books published in past years.
The Twelve by Justin Cronin, read by Scott Brick for Random House Audio continues the story from Cronin's post-apocalyptic vampire novel The Passage which introduced a set of death row inmates used as experimental subjects for a virus discovered by an unfortunate South American expedition and the
Read more...Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged bowl of heaven, george rr martin, gregory benford, justin cronin, larry niven, mike mignola, release week, roadside picnic, scott brick, the twelve
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 , Narrated by 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
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