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Release Week: 1 October 2024
Posted on 2024-10-01 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
FEATURED:
- The Last Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison with J. Michael Straczynski, read by a full cast for Blackstone -- "In 1973 celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with Again, Dangerous Visions. But for reasons undisclosed, The Last Dangerous Visions was never completed. Now, six years after Ellison’s passing, science fiction’s most famous unpublished book is here
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Release Week: 24 September 2024
Posted on 2024-09-24 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Playground: A Novel By: Richard Powers, read by Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu, Krys Janae, and Kevin R Free for Spotify -- "Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across
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Release Week: 17 September 2024
Posted on 2024-09-17 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
FICTION PICKS:
An Academy for Liars By: Alexis Henderson, read by Tracie Frank for Penguin -- "A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come from outside the classroom in this stunning dark academia novel from the acclaimed author of The Year of the Witching and House of Hunger."
Alien Clay By: Adrian Tchaikovsky, read by Ben Allen for Orbit -- "The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such
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Release Week: 10 September 2024
Posted on 2024-09-10 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Next Stop By: Benjamin Resnick, read by Gilli Messer for Simon and Schuster -- "An astonishingly resonant novel that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through one family after a black hole consumes the State of Israel and similar strange events occur in major cities around the world, ushering in a time of chaos as well as miracles."
Guillotine By: Delilah S. Dawson, read by Elisabeth Ashby for Tantor -- "Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn't want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just
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Release Week: 3 September 2024
Posted on 2024-09-03 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
The Life Impossible: A Novel By: Matt Haig, read by Joanna Lumley and Jordan Stephens for Penguin -- "When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed
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Release Week: 27 August 2024
Posted on 2024-08-27 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
The Siege of Burning Grass By: Premee Mohamed, read by Richard Trinder for Tantor -- "The Empires of Varkal and Med'ariz have always been at war. Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in
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Release Week: 20 August 2024
Posted on 2024-08-20 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Two long-anticipated titles for me are my PICKS for this week:
Netherford Hall by Natania Barron, read by Hannah Curtis for Tantor -- Described as "Pride and Prejudice and Witches", I've had the pleasure of watching this book come to life over the past years and am so excited to get the final book: "After a mysterious fire at their home in Regency London displaces Gentlewitch Edith Rookwood and her now much-reduced family to their ancestral seat of Netherford Hall in Kent, she faces a new threat in the
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Release Week: 6 August 2024
Posted on 2024-08-06 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher, read by Eliza Foss and Jennifer Pickens for Macmillan -- "Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms—there are no secrets in this house—and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don’t
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Release Week: 16 July 2024
Posted on 2024-07-16 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur by Lev Grossman, read by Nicholas Guy Smith for Penguin -- The bestselling author of The Magicians makes his triumphant return to adult fiction: "A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, only to find that he’s too late. The king died two weeks ago at the Battle of Camlann, leaving no heir, and only a handful of the knights of the Round Table survive. They aren’t the heroes of legend, like Lancelot or
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Release Week: 9 July 2024
Posted on 2024-07-09 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Navola: A Novel by Paolo Bacigalupi, read by Marc Vietor for Audible -- "From the New York Times best-selling author of The Windup Girl and The Water Knife comes a sweeping literary fantasy about the young scion from a ruling-class family who faces rebellion as he ascends to power."
Bury Your Gays By: Chuck Tingle, read by André Santana, with Charlie Jane Anders, CJ Leede, Georgia Bird, Liz Kerin, Mara Wilson, Mark Oshiro, Sarah Gailey, Stephen Graham Jones, T. Kingfisher, and TJ Klune for Macmillan
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