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The 33 most missing audiobooks of 2014

Posted on 2015-01-17 at 06:12 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Three thousand two hundred sixty-seven. That's how many science fiction and fantasy audiobooks were added to Audible.com's US listings alone in 2014, and the larger number of new speculative fiction audiobooks -- which include GraphicAudio, independent (for example The Maze of Games and Eric Flint's "Islands"), and other titles not available at Audible (for example Cory Doctorow's Homeland and Information Doesn't Want to Be Free), physical-only releases, podiobooks, and English-language audiobooks released

Posted in The Arrrdies | Tagged adam roberts, alex dally macfarlane, am dellamonica, american neolithic, ben aaronovitch, blake butler, broken river books, bryan allen carr, dave hutchinson, david edison, david james keaton, diana wynne jones, elysium, emmi itaranta, fred venturini, gemma files, greg van eekhout, hilda hilst, iain m banks, james l cambias, jay lake, jennifer marie brissett, jenny erpenbeck, jm mcdermott, joanne m harris, john hornor jacobs, jonathan carroll, josh weil, julia elliott, kerry howley, laila lalami, lavie tidhar, maze, naomi foyle, neil williamson, nick mamatas, nina allan, our lady of the islands, peter liney, rajan khanna, richard house, rjurik davidson, sam sykes, shannon page, simon ings, stephen baxter, stuart rojstaczer, terence hawkins, the great glass sea, the last projector, ultima, unwrapped sky, ursula jones, will mcintosh, wu ming-yi

My Top 10 Audiobooks of 2014

Posted on 2015-01-09 at 02:15 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Always look forward to The Guilded Earlobe's picks:

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Pulling the Future Toward Me

Posted on 2015-01-06 at 14:41 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Congrats to Dave (and co-editor Anna) on 5 amazing, ridiculously amazing and wonderful years of PodCastle fantasy stories:

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Release Week: Rudy Rucker's Software, Michael Underwood's The Younger Gods, Daniel Abraham's The Price of Spring, Shae Ford's Dragonsbane, Mary Rickert's The Memory Garden, Russell H. Greenan's It Happened in Boston?, Multiverse, and Rick Wilber's Field of Fantasies

Posted on 2015-01-03 at 04:38 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

DECEMBER 17-31, 2014: I went ahead and extended this pair of weeks one extra day to give a clean cutoff to 2014. It was a fantastic year of audiobooks (and of course Dave and I will be here with some best-of-the-year picks in due course) and 2015 looks every bit as packed as we consider a preview of what's to come. In the meantime, the last half of the last month of 2014 had some surprises, with all eight picks again coming off the "seen but not heard" listings -- though a few of them are from just a few

Posted in Release Week | Tagged chris sorensen, daniel abraham, derek perkins, dragonsbane, fate's forsaken, field of fantasies, gardner dozois, greg bear, luke daniels, mary rickert, michael underwood, multiverse, neil shah, poul anderson, rick wilber, robert fass, rudy rucker, russell h greenan, shae ford, software, tavia gilbert, the price of spring, the younger gods

Release Week: Steve Erickson's Zeroville, Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders, Robert W. Chambers' The Maker of Moons, and Luisa May Alcott's A Whisper in the Dark

Posted on 2014-12-27 at 05:06 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

DECEMBER 10-16, 2014: For the first time in (at least recent) memory, all four of my picks for the week come off the "never before in audio" list, with none of the books even being released this decade and some being well out of copyright in text, and all under some of the best narrators in the field. There's still more backlist audiobooks and even more concurrent new releases also out this week, from the 50-audiobook "The Saint" series in its mind-boggling entirety to David Drake's Skyripper to Jane Yolen

Posted in Release Week | Tagged a whisper in the dakr, bronson pinchot, cassandra campbell, claire bloom, gabrielle de cuir, jane smiley, louisa may alcott, ralph lister, robert w chambers, skyboat media, stefan rudnicki, steve erickson, susan hanfield, the greenlanders, the maker of moons, zeroville

Release Week(s): Carbide Tipped Pens, The Godless, The Strange Library, Winterswim, The Martian Race, The Winter King, Ari Marmell's "Hot Lead, Cold Iron", and Cory Doctorow's "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free"

Posted on 2014-12-18 at 03:15 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

NOVEMBER 26-DECEMBER 9, 2014: A fantastic and wide-ranging fortnight of releases for you to start December, including epic fantasy, hard sf, Arthurian legend, a whimsy from Murakami, a GraphicAudio magical noir, non-fiction, and more. Do check out some of the "also out" listings as well such as Kazuaki Takano's A Genocide of One, Richard Parks' Yamada Monogotari, and Felicia Hajra-Lee's The Niantic Project: Ingress for Google's Niantic Labs, and plenty of mysteries and thrillers besides, including Moriarty,

Posted in Release Week | Tagged ari marmell, ben bova, ben peek, carbide tipped pens, chris sorensen, cory doctorow, eric choi, gabrielle de cuir, gregory benford, haruki murakami, information doesn't want to be free, kirby heyborne, paul michael garcia, ryan w bradley, the godless, the martian race, the strange library, wil wheaton, winterswim

9 Science Fiction and Fantasy Audiobooks by Women of Color You Must Hear

Posted on 2014-12-10 at 18:15 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Making the Internet rounds yesterday was a new list from Buzzfeed of 19 Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels by Women of Color You Must Read and as headline-bait listicles go it's actually pretty good. (Of course one may quibble, but those that I have read that are on this list are fantastic books.) Here's an audiobibliophile tour of the list:

9 ARE IN AUDIO:

Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, read by Lynne Thigpen for Recorded Books -- One of the absolute all-time best books and audiobooks I've ever

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December Whispersync Deal Roundup: Hurley, Jemisin, Walton, Rothfuss, Lawrence, Lynch, Sanderson, and much more

Posted on 2014-12-04 at 18:20 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I keep putting off compiling the December Whispersync Deal roundup, but (1) a good chunk of titles are only on sale through Dec 14 and (2) I already missed passing along both that Andy Weir's The Martian was on sale for $3 and that Rachel Aaron's The Spirit Thief was on sale as well as John Shirley's Everything is Broken, on and on... and since I've no idea when/if some of this deals will disappear, I had better get on it! In that frame of mind, first up here's some deals on some fantastic, highly

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged amanda hocking, bridget ladd, casaundra freeman, chuck wendig, clive barker, crossroad press, david niall wilson, davina porter, diana gabaldon, emily bauer, erik larson, gail z martin, james clamp, jo walton, kameron hurley, katherine kellgren, luke daniels, mark lawrence, michael page, nick podehl, nk jemisin, outlander, patrick rothfuss, prince of thorns, scott lynch, stant litore, stephen hoye, the lies of locke lamora

Release Week: Mira Grant's Symbiont, Brandon Sanderson's Legion: Skin Deep, Tobias Buckell's Mitigated Futures, and Bronson Pinchot reading David Drake's Grimmer Than Hell

Posted on 2014-12-03 at 06:43 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

NOVEMBER 19-25, 2014: An overall very, very quiet week in publishing, but with a standout concurrent new release (Mira Grant's Symbiont), two glimmering backlist collections (Buckell and Drake), the return of Sanderson's Legion (for free! read by Oliver Wyman again!), and a few more titles well worth noting (an indie fantasy superstar in the making in Jacob Cooper, anthologies Robot Uprisings and Night Shift, Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest novels, Costello and Hautala's Star Road, and a huge pile of Akashic

Posted in Release Week | Tagged brandon sanderson, bronson pinchot, christine lakin, david drake, grimmer than hell, legion, mira grant, mitigated futures, oliver wyman, symbiont, tobias buckell

Saturday's huge Whispersync Deal roundup

Posted on 2014-11-29 at 16:27 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Saturday's Whispersync Deal roundup includes Brandon Sanderson, Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert, Ben Bova, Steven Brust, Mercedes Lackey, David Drake, Glen Cook, Larry Niven, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., and more, with narrators Michael Kramer, Stefan Rudnicki, William Dufris, Scott Brick, and more. I don't have too much time for more than a drive-by image gallery, so here they are, mostly $2.99+$2.99:

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