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Black Friday Whispersync Deal Roundup

Posted on 2014-11-28 at 13:53 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

There's a fairly good-sized list of Black Friday Kindle Deals, with quite a few offering Whispersync for Voice deals, with all the ones I list here being on sale for $1.99+$1.99. Meanwhile, the November monthly deal roundup still has a few days left of usefulness, so don't forget to check through that list once before the month is over. And! Audible is having a Treat Yourself Sale through Dec 2 with over 300 titles at $4.95. Enjoy!

Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle read by Tom Weiner: "It's

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Release Week(s): Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, Tobias Buckell's The Apocalypse Ocean, Stephen King's Revival, V Wars: Blood and Fire, Bitter Waters, Amanda Palmer's The Art of Asking, and Jeff VanderMeer's "Area X"

Posted on 2014-11-25 at 05:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

NOVEMBER 5-18, 2014: A Chinese science fiction blockbuster translated into English by one of the world's best new writers, a new novel from Stephen King read by actor David Morse, Amanda Palmer's self-help advice/memoir book, an anthology series sequel to V Wars, Chaz Brentley's collection Bitter Waters, the entire 4-book set of Tobias Buckell's Xenowealth series, and a gorgeously packaged "Area X" omnibus of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy headline a fantastic fortnight of new audiobooks. There's

Posted in Release Week | Tagged amanda palmer, area x, bitter waters, chaz brentley, daniel abraham, jeff vandermeer, johannes cabal, ken liu, liu cixin, luke daniels, prentice onayemi, revival, robin miles, sarban, stephen king, the apocalypse ocean, the art of asking, the three-body problem, tobias s buckell, v wars, xenowealth

November 2014 Whispersync Roundup: Octavia Butler's Dawn, Peter David's Artful, Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan, and more

Posted on 2014-11-13 at 06:55 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Now that we're about halfway through November, it's past time to round up this month's Whispersync (and other) deals. First up, the usual gold source for new Whispersync deals, the Kindle monthly deals. 12 books to send up this time:

Dawn (The Xenogenesis Trilogy Book 1) By Octavia E. Butler, Narrated By Aldrich Barrett for Audible for $1.99+$3.49 -- "In a world devastated by nuclear war with humanity on the edge of extinction, aliens finally make contact. They rescue those humans they can, keeping

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged alan cumming, discworld, humble bundle, james langton, john scalzi, luke daniels, macus sakey, octavia butler, patrick ness, paul antony jones, peter david, robert krose, robert mccammon, scholastic audio, scott westerfeld, terry pratchett, the hunger games

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 Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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

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: Gibson, Faber, Rothfuss, Martin, Rice, Shiner, and! Mieville

Posted on 2014-11-03 at 11:28 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

OCTOBER 22-28, 2014: What was already an absolutely packed release week for concurrent new releases (Gibson, Faber, Rothfuss, Martin, Rice) and already with one back-list gem (Lewis Shiner's Frontera) includes the magnificent surprise of China Mieville's The Scar and Iron Council finally coming to US audio. It's been over a year and a half since I last fully turned my attention to the digital regional divide and these are two right from the top of the overseas wishlist, though in the meantime, several more

Posted in Release Week | Tagged anne rice, china mieville, frontera, george rr martin, gildart jackson, josh cohen, lewis shiner, lorelei king, michel faber, patrick rothfuss, prince lestat, roy dotrice, simon vance, stefan rudnicki, the book of strange new things, the peripheral, the slow regard of silent things, the world of ice and fire, william-gibson

Audible's "Thrills and Chills" sale through October 31

Posted on 2014-10-29 at 14:04 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Just in time for Halloween, Audible is having a Thrills and Chills sale, with a goodly pile of audiobooks on sale for $6.95 through October 31. (Meanwhile, today's Daily Deal is The Amityville Horror for $2.95, so there's that, too.)

Here's what most caught my eye in a scan through of the 158 titles:

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged christopher buehlman, glen duncan, guillermo del toro, joe hill, lauren beukes, marisha pessl, robert jackson bennett, stephen king

Release Week: Manly Wade Wellman's The Old Gods Waken, Eric Flint's Islands, Peter F. Hamilton's The Abyss Beyond Dreams, Daniel Abraham's A Shadow in Summer, Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and Tim Robbins reads Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

Posted on 2014-10-24 at 17:07 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

OCTOBER 15-21, 2014: Appalachian folk magic from the legendary Manly Wade Wellman, a full cast radioplay adaptation of an Eric Flint novella, new space sf, backlist epic fantasy from Daniel Abraham, Pynchon's postmodern epic Gravity's Rainbow, and Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian tale Fahrenheit 451 under the voice of Tim Robbins headline this week's releases which also include: Ytasha Womack's Rayla 2212, Chuck Palahniuk's Beautiful You, Eliza Granville's debut novel Gretel and the Dark read by Stefan

Posted in Release Week | Tagged daniel abraham, eric-flint, fahrenheit 451, george guidall, gravity's rainbow, islands, john lee, manly wade wellman, peter f hamilton, ray bradbury, rayla 2212, skyboat media, stefan rudnicki, tantor, thomas pynchon, tim robbins, ytasha womack

Release Week: The Doubt Factory, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future, The Lottery and Other Stories, and As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

Posted on 2014-10-17 at 17:27 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

OCTOBER 8-14, 2014:  October continues to be a month of bountiful harvests in terms of audiobooks, as my first pass for picks came up with 16 titles to strongly consider. So! After the four picks, do check out the "also out this week" (and perhaps even the "also also out this week") listings. The "seen but not heard" titles include Julia Elliott's The Wilds, Blake Butler's 300,000,000, Beth Bernobich's The Time Roads, and Kerry Howley's Thrown, so there's certainly plenty to read if your ears get tired

Posted in Release Week | Tagged as king, as you rish, ben lerner, billy crystal, brian ruckley, bronson pinchot, cary elwes, cassandra campbell, chimpanzee, christine lakin, darin bradley, emma galvin, forrest aguirre, glory obriens history of the future, greg bear, heraclix and pomp, john shirley, paolo bacigalupi, shirley jackson, skyboat media, stefan rudnicki, the doubt factory, the free, the lottery, the princess bride, war dogs

Release Week: Ancillary Sword, Boy's Life, The Maze of Games, The Chaplain's War, The Lesser Dead, and Gillian Anderson's A Vision of Fire

Posted on 2014-10-10 at 18:04 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

OCTOBER 1-7, 2014: In six picks from an absolutely packed week, we get a sequel to a many-multiple award-winning sf novel, a fantastical puzzle book, author-read audiobooks from World Fantasy Award-nominated author Christopher Buehlman and X-Files star Gillian Anderson, a highly-anticipated military sf debut built from the pages of Analog, and Robert McCammon's classic Boy's Life. We also get: new genre novels from John Twelve Hawks, Tina Connolly, Steven Brust, Richard Morgan, Anton Strout, Gwenda Bond

Posted in Release Week | Tagged a vision of fire, adjoa andoh, ancillary sword, ann leckie, boy's life, brad torgersen, christopher buehlman, george newbern, gillian anderson, robert mccammon, the chaplain's war, the lesser dead, the maze of games, wil wheaton

Release Week: Tobias Buckell's Hurricane Fever, Benjamin Parzybok's Sherwood Nation, Peyton Marshall's Goodhouse, Howard Jacobson's J, and David Cronenberg's Consumed read by William Hurt

Posted on 2014-10-07 at 19:18 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

SEPTEMBER 24-30, 2014: I already knew this was going to be a big week, ahead of a huge October slate (previewed by Bookpage, io9, SFSignal, and BuzzFeed) and then several surprises made coming up with a manageable set of picks a nearly impossible task. Beyond the five audiobooks I do highlight this week, there's plenty more to check out in the "also out" listings including Garth Stein's A Sudden Light, Hilary Mantel's The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Jason Mott's The Wonder of All Things, Jonathan L.

Posted in Release Week | Tagged Benjamin Parzybok, Consumed, David Cronenberg, Goodhouse, howard jacobson, Hurricane Fever, Peyton Marshall, Sherwood Nation, tobias buckell, William Hurt