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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

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

Release Week: John Scalzi's Lock In, Peter Watts' Echopraxia, Richard Kadrey's The Getaway God, and Brent Weeks' The Broken Eye

Posted on 2014-09-02 at 02:46 by Sam

AUGUST 20-26, 2014: August goes out with quite a bang, with a near-future sf thriller, medium-future space sf, urban fantasy, and epic fantasy releases among the biggest of the year, ahead of what is set to be quite a September to remember. Also out this week: an English translation of Daniel Kehlman's tragicomic novel F, Lisa Shearin's Southern-fried, NYC-set urban fantasy The Grendel Affair, Simon R. Green's Voices from Beyond, David Drake's "Northworld" trilogy, Janet Morris and Chris Morris' The Sacred

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged amber benson, brent weeks, david drake, echopraxia, john scalzi, lisa shearin, lock in, macleod andrews, northworld, peter watts, richard kadrey, sandman slim, simon vance, the broken eye, the getaway god, the grendel affair, wil wheaton

Release Week(s): Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, Graham Joyce's The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit, Robin Hobb's Fool's Assassin, Charles Gannon's Fire With Fire, Ekaterina Sedia's Heart of Iron, John Shirley's Everything is Broken, Jacob Cooper's Circle of Reign, and just a ridiculous all-star cast reads R.A. Salvatore's Drizzt stories (for free)

Posted on 2014-08-26 at 03:17 by Sam

AUGUST 6-19, 2014: Another two-weeks-worth of roundup here, with new books from Murakami, Joyce, and Hobb, backlist Sedia, Shirley, and Gannon, and highly notable epic fantasy audio from the completely unexpected to the completely unprecedented. Yup. And there's a long list of "also out this week" titles of note including (at least) Sean Platt and David Wright's Yesterday's Gone from Podium Publishing, Melissa Scott and Lisa Barnett's Point of Dreams, J.G. Ballard's The Drought, The Atrocity Exhibition, and

Posted in Release Week, Uncategorized | Tagged al yankovic, bruce locke, charles e gannon, cirlce of reign, colorless tsukuru tazaki, david duchovny, dreamscape media, ekaterina sedia, elliot hill, everything is broken, felicia day, fire with fire, fool's assassin, gildart jackson, graham joyce, haruki murakami, heart of iron, ice-t, jacob cooper, john shirley, kevin pariseau, michael chiklis, michael kramer, prime books, RA Salvatore, robin hobb, sean astin, the ghost in the electric blue suit, the legend of drizzt, wil wheaton

August Whispersync Deal Roundup

Posted on 2014-08-16 at 03:46 by Sam

While I've continued the daily #WhispersyncDeal posts on Facebook/Twitter, with another month has come another set of month-long Whispersync deals, both in Amazon's monthly Kindle deal listings and beyond. First those "official" deals, starting with sci-fi and fantasy:

Carniepunk for $1.99+$3.99 -- "Come one, come all! The Carniepunk Midway promises you every thrill and chill a traveling carnival can provide. But fear not! Urban fantasy's biggest stars are here to guide you through this strange and

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged anathem, canada, carniepunk, charming, chuck wendig, claire dewitt, cyberstorm, elliott james, fuzzy nation, john scalzi, luke daniels, matthew mather, neal stephenson, patrick dewitt, podium publishing, ray chase, richard ford, rick riordan, sara gran, scott meyer, stant litore, the sisters brothers, tom taylorson, wil wheaton

Release Week: Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon, Geoff Ryman's The Warrior Who Carried Life, Michael J. Sullivan's Hollow World, Ben Bova's Transhuman, Jay Lake's collection The Sky That Wraps, and Cory Doctorow's Homeland

Posted on 2014-04-17 at 19:35 by Sam

APRIL 9-15, 2014: After two massive release weeks in a row, we get a bit of a breather here in terms of overall numbers, but a half-dozen fantastic titles make for another week of hard choices for those without infinite time for listening. The ALSO OUT listings have a few items of interest as well, particularly Frank Herbert's Direct Descent read by Scott Brick, Matthew Costello's post-apocalyptic horror novel Home, Shae Ford's Slight and Shadow, and a wide selection of teen and middle grade titles

Posted in Release Week | Tagged ben bova, cory doctorow, geoff ryman, hollow world, homeland, jay lake, jonathan davis, lagoon, michael j sullivan, nnedi okorafor, stefan rudnicki, the sky that wraps, the warrior who carried life, transhuman, wil wheaton

Breaking news: Wil Wheaton to narrate Robin Sloan's The Dragon-Song Chronicles

Posted on 2014-04-01 at 18:12 by Sam

April 1, 2014, Durham, North Carolina: 

In Robin Sloan's wonderful 2012 novel Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Clark Moffat's fantasy series The Dragon-Song Chronicles seemed so very much like real books that I looked them up in a few places -- and I was certainly not the only one -- before realizing that, duh, they're fictional artifacts of the novel. Well played, Mr. Sloan. Still, the novels seemed so thoroughly developed, with plot summaries and complete excerpts -- narrated by author Sloan to great ef

Posted in April 1 | Tagged fsg originals, robin sloan, skyboat media, the dragon-song chronicles, wil wheaton

Release Week: Lavie Tidhar, Terry Pratchett's Raising Steam, Scott Meyer's Off to Be the Wizard, and Cory Doctorow's Homeland read by Wil Wheaton

Posted on 2014-03-19 at 15:39 by Sam

MARCH 12-18, 2014: A jam-packed week straddes the Ides of March, bringing a fantastic haul of audiobooks led by two short novels from Lavie Tidhar, the latest steam-powered Discworld novel from Terry Pratchett, and Scott Meyer's Off to Be the Wizard read by Luke Daniels. Update: Also out now and available exclusively as part of the current Humble eBook Bundle, Cory Doctorow's Homeland, bestselling sequel to Little Brother, is read by Wil Wheaton -- at Skyboat Media no less, directed by Gabrielle de Cuir who

Posted in Release Week | Tagged cory doctorow, lavie tidhar, luke daniels, scott meyer, terry pratchett, wil wheaton

Release Week: Rip-Off!, Mayan December, Bradley P. Beaulieu, Terry Goodkind's The First Confessor, and more

Posted on 2012-12-21 at 19:00 by Sam

The middle of December brings some ear candy for the holiday season, including an all-star author/narrator anthology, the end of the world, secondary world fantasy, and quite a bit more. Still, with all that, my mind's on a "missing" audiobook, that for Jesse Bullington's The Folly of the World, my most-anticipated title this week. And at the bottom, details for another "Whispersync for Voice" price quirk, this time netting you both the Kindle and Audible formats of Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim. (Sorry for

Posted in Release Week | Tagged brenda cooper, gardner dozois, john scalzi, mayan december, rip-off, sfwa, wil wheaton

Listening report: June 2012

Posted on 2012-09-12 at 03:21 by Sam

After six audiobooks in May (though KSR’s 2312 went on well into the first week of June) I listened to eight in June, with Tim Powers’s On Stranger Tides and Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay being the outstanding audiobooks, with plenty to recommend Mark L. Van Name’s No Going Back, John Scalzi’s Redshirts, and Jon Sprunk’s Shadow’s Son.

REVIEWS: (Note: as I’m terribly terribly behind in these reviews, these are short (or long in the cases where I did not have time to

Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged cherie priest, clementine, graphicaudio, john scalzi, jon sprunk, kavalier and clay, kim stanley robinson, mark van name, michael chabon, monthly listening report, no going back, on stranger tides, orson scott card, redshirts, shadow's son, stefan rudnicki, tim powers, wil wheaton

Audible "Win-Win" $4.95 sale, through Sep 18

Posted on 2012-09-07 at 00:24 by Sam

A members-only sale at Audible, this one dubbed Win-Win, with $4.95 titles running through September 18. The sale page sorts out titles by author last name groupings, so here is my scan-through for interesting titles:

LONGER LIST and LINKS:

• TEMPTING: The Heroes By Joe Abercrombie, Narrated by Michael Page — Length:22 hrs and 44 mins
• The End of Eternity By Isaac Asimov, Narrated by Paul Boehmer — Length:8 hrs and 11 mins
• The Windup Girl By Paolo Bacigalupi, Narrated by Jonathan Davis — Length:19

Posted in regular | Tagged audible, george rr martin, john scalzi, neal stephenson, neil gaiman, sales, terry pratchett, wil wheaton