Page 42 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Release Week: Doctor Sleep, The Incrementalists, Every Boy Should Have a Man, and North American Lake Monsters

Posted on 2013-09-26 at 02:28 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

SEPTEMBER 18-24, 2013: Well, I warned you last week that this week would be big. Huge. The list of excellent audiobooks that fall into the "also out this week" would make for a stellar set of release week picks: V.E. Schwab's Vicious (Tor and Brilliance Audio), James A. Moore's Seven Forges, Jhumpa Lahiri's recently-ABA-longlisted The Lowland, War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, Laura Anne Gilman's Paranomal Scene Investigations, David Tallerman's Prince Thief, Anton Strout's Stonecast, Jason M. Hough's

Posted in Release Week | Tagged brandon sanderson, doctor sleep, nathan ballingrud, stephen king, steven brust, the incrementalists

Received: Summer 2013

Posted on 2013-09-19 at 20:53 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I haven't done a "received" post in a while, so in the interest of openness and acknowledgement, here's what we've asked for and received this summer.

JUNE 2013

The Planet Thieves by Dan Krokos, read by Kirby Heywood for Blackstone Audio (Sam) -- I wasn't entirely sure of the age range for this one, which ended up being somewhere in between young reader and young adult. We don't have the wide-eyed innocence of childhood or (thankfully) the jaded apathy of too many YA novels. Instead it's an adventure for

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Release Week: Happy Hour in Hell, Neptune's Brood, The Rose and the Thorn, Bleeding Edge, and Neil Gaiman's Fortunately, the Milk

Posted on 2013-09-18 at 17:17 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

SEPTEMBER 11-17, 2013: Urban fantasy, deep future sf, adventure fantasy, early 21st century technothriller, and more await listeners in this week's round of picks -- and even more await the "also out this week" reader/listener. (Let alone the "also also out this week" listings. Yes, I've gone Full Monty Python.) Near future, backlist epic fantasy, special edition audio anthology re-issues, resurrecting zombie Taft to run for president, Kafka-esque kittens, nuclear and non-nuclear non-fiction, and more. Whew

Posted in Release Week | Tagged charles stross, michael j sullivan, neil gaiman, tad williams, thomas pynchon

Release Week: The Thicket, Zombie Baseball Beatdown, Dissident Gardens, and The New Space Opera 2

Posted on 2013-09-11 at 14:19 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

SEPTEMBER 4-10, 2013: After closing the summer months with Jason Mott's debut The Returned (Brilliance Audio) and Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman's 2003 novel The Fall of the Kings (Neil Gaiman Presents), the fall audiobook release schedule got off to a cracking start last week with early September releases of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam (Random House Audio), Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman (Hachette Audio), and Nancy Farmer's The Lord of Opium (Simon & Schuster Audio). This week brings western storytelling

Posted in Release Week | Tagged gardner dozois, joe lansdale, jonathan lethem, jonathan strahan, new space opera, paolo bacigalupi, the thicket

Release Week: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam, Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman, Toby Barlow's Babayaga, and Seanan McGuire's Chimes at Midnight

Posted on 2013-09-04 at 19:05 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

AUGUST 28-SEPTEMBER 3, 2013: September kicks off with two of my most anticipated titles of the year, Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam and Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman. It also brings news from The Hugo Awards at this weekend's World Science Fiction Convention in San Antonio, where Mur Lafferty (The Shambling Guide to New York City) won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Author, and John Scalzi's Redshirts was named Best Novel. This week does not, however, bring all the audiobooks that were hoped for: in

Posted in Release Week | Tagged babayaga, kim stanley robinson, maddaddam, margaret atwood, mary robinette kowal, seanan mcguire, shaman, toby barlow

Release Week: The Returned, The Fall of the Kings, Ice Forged, Abaddon's Gate, Reanimators, and Shadows of the New Sun

Posted on 2013-08-28 at 17:55 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

AUGUST 21-27, 2013: It's quite a release week haul this week: a powerful debut in the form of Jason Mott's The Returned, the return of Neil Gaiman Presents with another full cast "illuminated production" in Ellen Kushner's Riverside series, a pair of Recorded Books titles first published in print by Orbit Books earlier this year, a concurrent new release read by one of the best narrators in the business, and a star-studded all-original anthology set in Gene Wolfe's New Sun milieu. And! There's several more

Posted in Release Week | Tagged brandon sanderson, ellen kushner, gail z martin, gene wolfe, james mott, james sa corey, neil gaiman presents, oliver wyman, steelheart, the expanse

The Shambling Guide to New York City Listen-a-Long: Chapters 6-17

Posted on 2013-08-26 at 17:28 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Welcome to the, er, latest installment of The Shambling Guide to New York City Listen-a-Long, covering Chapter 6 through Chapter 17 of Mur Lafferty’s The Shambling Guide to New York City. Whew. Well, I fell right off the wagon -- some of that was picking up the audiobook when it was released and getting to listen all the way to the end right away, rather than waiting week by week, but most of it has just been the complete failure to make the time to write up a proper Listen-a-Long. I'm even more impressed

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Release Week: The People in the Trees, Of Dice and Men, Night Film, and Lookaway, Lookaway

Posted on 2013-08-21 at 18:21 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

AUGUST 14-20, 2013: This week brings a strange speculative fiction from Hanya Yanagihara, a non-fiction on Dungeons & Dragons, a haunting literary mystery, a satirical historical fiction, and a pretty good crop of "also out this week" including the latest fantasy novels from Naomi Novik (with narrator Simon Vance) and Mark Lawrence, and the anticipated dystopian debut of young British writer Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season. As usual: Enjoy!

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

The People in the Trees By Hanya Yanagihara,

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Release Week: Chuck Wendig's Under the Empyrean Sky, Michael J. Martinez's The Daedalus Incident, Aimee Bender's The Color Master, and Kate Elliot's Cold Magic

Posted on 2013-08-19 at 14:23 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

AUGUST 7-13, 2013: Some concurrent new releases, another just-barely-delayed, and one of 2010's most missing in audio make for a varied list of picks this week, from teen dystopian CornPunk to space sf, to a story collection, and a couple of intriguing "genre in the mainstream" books as well. In particular, in the "also out this week", Victoria Lustbader's powerful novel Approaching the Speed of Light was a hard cut this week. Enjoy!

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Under the Empyrean Sky: The Heartland Trilogy, Book 1

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Release Week: Three, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, The Crown Tower, The Companions, Dragonwriter, and the New Space Opera

Posted on 2013-08-14 at 02:48 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

JULY 31-AUGUST 6, 2013: Debuts, prequels, sequels, and anthologies, oh my! You can't throw a dart without hitting something worth listening to in the first release week of August. Post-apocalyptic debut sf? Check. A prequel to a bestselling adventure fantasy series? Check. The latest in R.A. Salvatore's beloved, long-running series of Drizzt books? How about an all-star-studded anthology reflecting on the influence of Anne McCaffery? Check, and check. Enjoy:

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Three: Legends of the

Posted in Release Week | Tagged jay posey, michael j sullivan, RA Salvatore, three