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Oscar tie-in #WhispersyncDeal roundup for February 27: Life of Pi, Mary Poppins, 12 Years a Slave, and more

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 … Continue reading

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Casting Call: Skyboat Media’s Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir on Harlan Ellison’s The City on the Edge of Forever

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 … Continue reading

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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

There are 471 Whispersync-enabled titles in this month’s Kindle Monthly Deal listings, 75 of them in the Science Fiction & Fantasy section. While quite a few of these we’ve seen before (Amazon’s 47North and Brilliance Audio pipeline) there’s one right at the top that’s … Continue reading

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Release Week: Dangerous Women, Ian Tregillis’ Something More Than Night, Helen Marshall’s Hair Side, Flesh Side, and John Gwynne’s Malice

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 … Continue reading

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Release Week: Never Knew Another, Burning Paradise, Fortune’s Pawn, Sea Hearts, and Once Upon a Time

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 … Continue reading

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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

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 … Continue reading

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Release Week: The Twelve, Bowl of Heaven, Roadside Picnic, and George R.R. Martin

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 … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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