Page 40 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Release Week: Nicola Griffith's Hild, Lewis Shiner's Collected Stories, and Simon Vance narrates John Harwood's The Ghost Writer and Clive Barker's collection of First Tales

Posted on 2013-12-18 at 20:40 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

DECEMBER 11-17, 2013: Finally! Amidst one of the quietest weeks yet on the year, Nicola Griffith's Hild is in audio at last, along with a multi-voiced production of Lewis Shiner's magnificent Collected Stories and enough chilling tales to send you even closer to the fire this winter, with Simon Vance reading both John Harwood's The Ghost Writer and Clive Barker's First Tales, and (in the also out listings) a pair of Spokenworld/Ladbroke productions have excellent narrators reading classic tales from Ambrose

Posted in Release Week | Tagged clive barker, hild, janis ian, john harwood, lewis shiner, nicola griffith, simon vance, stefan rudnicki, the ghost writer

Whispersync Daily Deal: Hillary Jordan's When She Woke and Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior

Posted on 2013-12-14 at 14:46 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Another day, another glance over the Kindle Daily Deal list for Whispersync deals. Here's two of interest today:

When She Woke By Hillary Jordan, Narrated By Heather Corrigan for HighBridge. A dystopian novel where the line between church and state has blurred, a "Scarlet Letter" for the 21st century: "Hannah Payne awakens to a nightmare. She is lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move to millions at home. She is now a convicted criminal, and

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged barbara kingsolver, flight behavior, heather corrigan, hillary jordan, when she woke, whispersync

Whispersync Daily Deal: Jonathan Lethem's Gun, With Occasional Music (meanwhile Neil Gaiman's Stardust is still on sale as well)

Posted on 2013-12-13 at 14:53 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Jonathan Lethem's Gun, With Occasional Music is a Kindle Daily Deal today at $1.99, and offers a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Nick Sullivan-narrated audiobook from AudioGO on Audible. "Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems - not the least of which are the rabbit in his waiting room and the trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is an ominous place where evolved animals function as members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such

Posted in Uncategorized, Whispersync Deals | Tagged jonathem lethem, kindle daily deal, neil gaiman, stardust, whispersync for voice

Release Week: Ellen Datlow's Tails of Wonder and Imagination, Scott Sigler's Nocturnal, Faith Hunter's Cat 'O Nine Tales, Dean Koontz's Innocence, How to Train Your Dragon, and more

Posted on 2013-12-11 at 21:56 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

DECEMBER 4-10, 2013: We're well into the quietest weeks of the year in terms of the publishing schedule, but still a few stellar audiobook picks for you this week from anthologies to collections to children's books and a classic short novel as well as the latest from Dean Koontz and Scott Sigler. In 'audiobook news' my eyebrows went up to finally see Nicola Griffith's Hild on pre-order listings, though under narrator Pearl Hewitt instead of the previously-announced Anne Flosnick. It appears I have been

Posted in Release Week | Tagged dean koontz, ellen datlow, faith hunter, phil gigante, scott sigler

Release Week: Dangerous Women, Ian Tregillis' Something More Than Night, Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, and John Gwynne's Malice

Posted on 2013-12-06 at 21:04 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

NOVEMBER 27-DECEMBER 3, 2013: While there's still no sign of Nicola Griffith's Hild -- read like the wind, Ms. Flosnick! -- we still get another fantastic week of audiobooks, including the latest GRRM/Dozois anthology, a Kirkus year's-best-listed new standalone novel from Ian Tregillis, Helen Marshall's creepy ChiZine collection Hair Side, Flesh Side, and the Gemmell-winning epic fantasy Malice by John Gwynne. In the "also out" listings this week, even more epic fantasy than you can shake a stick at, space

Posted in Release Week | Tagged carrie vaughn, cecelia holland, dangerous women, diana gabaldon, diana rowland, emily rankin, gardner dozois, george rr martin, helen marshall, iain glen, ian tregillis, inna korobkina, jasin ian, jim butcher, joe abercrombie, joe r lansdale, jonathan frakes, lev grossman, nancy kress, pat cadigan, sam sykes, scott brick, stana katic

Release Week: Sofia Samatar's A Stranger in Olondria, Gene Wolfe's The Land Across, Kate Maruyama's Harrowgate, Dr. Who: Eleven Stories (including Neil Gaiman's Nothing O'Clock), and a big stack of sf by Greg Egan

Posted on 2013-11-27 at 17:40 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

NOVEMBER 20-26, 2013: Not one but (at least) two absolute must-listens this week, along with more new Dr. Who and new-to-audio hard sf than you can shake a stick at -- and more besides. The picks include concurrent new audio for Gene Wolfe's highly-anticipated The Land Across, and another pair of my "most missing audiobooks of 2012" which come off the list as Sofia Samatar's A Stranger in Olondria and Kate Maruyama's Harrowgate were also released this week. In "also out" there's yet more, including Joan

Posted in Release Week | Tagged dr who, gene wolfe, greg egan, harrowgate, neil gaiman, sofia samatar

Sam's Listening Report: February 2013

Posted on 2013-11-21 at 13:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Well... wow. I've really let these reports get way, way out of hand. It's mid-November! Anyway... I'm not really sure how it happened, but though February is the shortest month it was a huge month of listening for me after quite a start to the year in January as well. I also threaded in John Scalzi's episodic The Human Division (which I won't review myself here, since Dave covered these magnificently through his Listen-a-Long). Wonderful books and in a splendid variety, from a crazed serial killer in New

Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged ben aaronovitch, clay and susan griffith, gun machine, james marsters, jl-hilton, justine eyre, karen lord, kobna holdbrook-smith, leviathan chronicles, midnight rio, mur lafferty, patricia mccormick, reg e cathey, robin miles, sold, stefan kiesbye, stellarnet prince, the best of all possible worlds, vampire epire, warren ellis, your house is on fire your children all gone

Release Week: Tim Powers' Hide Me Among the Graves, Lewis Shiner's Slam, Report from Nuremberg, and Krista D. Ball's Tranquility's Grief

Posted on 2013-11-20 at 19:29 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

NOVEMBER 13-19, 2013: As happened last week, amidst a fairly quiet week overall there's still a pair of fantastic audiobooks from my "most missing in audio" list: Tim Powers' Hide Me Among the Graves and Lewis Shiner's Slam. Additionally, this week brings one of the most fantastically-produced non-fiction titles I've ever had the occasion to come across, an Audible-published Skyboat Media full cast production of Report from Nuremberg, complete with archive audio from the source material. The "also out

Posted in Release Week | Tagged fiona hardingham, hide me among the graves, iamik audio, lewis shiner, report from nuremberg, stefan rudnicki, tim powers

And the winner is...

Posted on 2013-11-18 at 19:39 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Thanks everyone for your comments on the "most overlooked" sf/f novel of 2013 as part of this year's cross-examination of the Publishers Weekly, Amazon.com, and Goodreads Award lists. We ended up with seven valid entries for the free six-month subscription to audiobooks.com, in order:

1. "Damon" for The Daedalus Incident
2. "D. Sharer" for Kill City Blues
3. "Joel" for Wolfhound Century
4. "Arren" for The Rithmatist
5. "David Graybeard" for Great North Road
6. "ficticious1" for The Dream Thieves
7. "Ash" for The Tyrant

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Cory Doctorow audiobooks now available at Downpour.com

Posted on 2013-11-17 at 15:08 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

While I wasn't looking, a quartet of Cory Doctorow's audiobooks showed up at Downpour.com -- they aren't available on Audible.com due to Audible's DRM-only format and Doctorow's anti-DRM stance. I don't know when they arrived, but it's a welcome sight and one I've been asking for since Downpour's launch as a DRM-free multi-vendor alternative to Audible.com. So, as promised in a quick update on this week's Release Week write-up, here's some more links and pictures and verbiage about Doctorow's audiobooks

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged cory doctorow, downpour, drm