Posts tagged: tad williams
2016 Arrrdies, Part 1: The digital regional divide of 2015: Tad Williams, Daniel Polansky, Becky Chambers, Robert Holdstock, Sarah Pinborough, and more
Posted on 2016-02-22 at 17:08 by Sam
I had a blast putting together the most missing audiobooks of 2014, and I'm back for more. This year saw (in the US Audible science fiction and fantasy section alone) 3,606 new audiobooks, up a few hundred from last year's 3,267. And, of course, that number doesn't include GraphicAudio, independent and podiobook releases, and (most notably for my interests) the six new Cory Doctorow audiobooks at DRM-free Downpour.com.
I suppose that in fairness I should go back through the 2014 list and highlight some of
Read more...Posted in The Arrrdies | Tagged Andrew Wincott, Becky Chambers, Daniel Polansky, digital regional divide, robert holdstock, sarah pinborough, tad williams
March Whispersync Deal Roundup: Pierre Grimbert, Oz Reimagined, The Palace Job, Invisible Cities, Libba Bray, Anne McCaffrey, Diana Gabaldon, Harry Turtledove, Ursula K. Le Guin, and more
Posted on 2015-03-10 at 20:11 by Sam
I was planning to hold off posting this until March 13, because I know of a nice set of books that will be going on sale, but I'll have to settle for updating it after March 13 instead, due to some nice deals to pass along which expire on March 11, which is, er, tomorrow. Ah, the life of a bargain hunter.
So I'll start with those soon-to-expire deals, valid through Wednesday, March 11, taken from the Whispersync enabled titles among the 175 Kindle Books for $1.99 Each
UPDATE 3/13: SEE THE END OF THE POST
Read more...Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged anne mccaffrey, bernadette dunne, clive barker, diana gabaldon, Dick Hill, h paul honsinger, harry turtledove, italo calvino, jack l chalker, january lavoy, jasper fforde, john joseph adams, john lee, justine eyre, lavinia, libba bray, Linda Lafferty, luke daniels, marcus sakey, michael page, oz reimagined, patrick weekes, pierre grimbert, ray chase, richard kadrey, robert heinlein, robin hobb, secret of ji, sergei lukyanenko, steven harper, tad williams, terry pratchett, the settlers of catan, ursula k le guin
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
Read more...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: Acceptance, The Bone Clocks, Maplecroft, Sleeping Late on Judgement Day, and Randall Munroe's "What If?"
Posted on 2014-09-09 at 03:49 by Sam
AUGUST 27-SEPTEMBER 2, 2014: September is here, and so are 5 of my most-anticipated audiobooks of the entire year: Jeff VanderMeer's Acceptance concludes his Southern Reach trilogy, David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks is the Cloud Atlas author's first new novel in four years, Cherie Priest's Maplecroft gives us Lizzie Borden and her axe, we find out what happens to an angel on the run after Sleeping Late on Judgement Day, and Wil Wheaton narrates an audiobook adaptation of Randall Munroe's What If? Also out
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged bobby dollar, bronson pinchot, cherie priest, david mitchell, jeff vandermeer, maplecroft, randall munroe, tad williams, the bone clocks, the southern reach, what if, wil wheaton, xe sands, xkcd
Audible's "Begin at the Beginning" sale, including Tad Williams, Richard Kadrey, Mira Grant, Paolo Bacigalupi, and more
Posted on 2014-02-11 at 18:37 by Sam
Running through February 19, Audible.com's Begin at the Beginning sale on first books in a series includes 206 books all priced at $4.95. Now, 206 titles is a pretty long list. Here's what caught my eye, with covers and "PICK:" notations for the ones I really recommend, which include Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan, Gene Wolfe's Shadow of the Torturer, Mira Grant's Feed, Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim, Paolo Bacigalupi's Shipbreaker, Tad Williams' The Dirty Streets of Heaven, and Michael J. Sullivan's The Crown
Read more...Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alan cumming, jonathan davis, leviathan, michael j sullivan, mira grant, paolo bacigalupi, richard kadrey, sandman slim, scott westerfeld, simon vance, tad williams, tim gerard reynolds
Release Week: Happy Hour in Hell, Neptune's Brood, The Rose and the Thorn, Bleeding Edge, and Neil Gaiman's Fortunately, the Milk
Posted on 2013-09-18 at 17:17 by Sam
SEPTEMBER 11-17, 2013: Urban fantasy, deep future sf, adventure fantasy, early 21st century technothriller, and more await listeners in this week's round of picks -- and even more await the "also out this week" reader/listener. (Let alone the "also also out this week" listings. Yes, I've gone Full Monty Python.) Near future, backlist epic fantasy, special edition audio anthology re-issues, resurrecting zombie Taft to run for president, Kafka-esque kittens, nuclear and non-nuclear non-fiction, and more. Whew
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged charles stross, michael j sullivan, neil gaiman, tad williams, thomas pynchon
Sam's Listening Report: January 2013
Posted on 2013-04-06 at 12:48 by Sam
So, we're into April and I'm only scratching the surface on reviewing my January listening, and a long list of full reviews to write, but I want to get these brief thoughts out at least, so, in the interest of time: I started the year by finishing up some long-overdue Tim Powers "research" in advance of meeting (and interviewing!) him at illogiCon, interrupted only a bit by the launch of John Scalzi's episodic The Human Division (which I won't review myself here, since Dave is covering these magnificently
Read more...Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged monthly listening report, tad williams, tim powers
Release Week: Tad Williams, Steven Erikson, Iain M. Banks, and The Lord of the Rings
Posted on 2012-10-10 at 15:07 by Sam
What the second release week in October lacks in the staggering numbers department, it makes up for with three absolutely stellar titles: urban fantasy from Tad Williams, the latest Iain M. Banks “Culture” novel, and the long-awaited first audio installment of Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen epic fantasy series. And! The long-awaited digital audio release of the Rob Inglis narrations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
I’ve bemoaned the US audiobook absence of The Dirty
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