Page 43 of posts by: Sam

Interview: Brandon Sanderson on (primarily) The Alloy of Law and narrator Michael Kramer

Posted on 2012-03-23 at 14:45 by Sam

Today I’m absolutely ecstatic to post my interview with bestselling author Brandon Sanderson:

I first met and spoke to Sanderson in September 2010, when he came to Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books for a reading and signing event for The Way of Kings: Book One of The Stormlight Archive, and one of the topics we got onto happened to be audiobooks. Fast forward to the fall of 2011 and the release of The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel (which I reviewed here on the Audible SF/F blog) and it felt like it was time to

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Release Week: Tobias Buckell's Arctic Rising and M. M. Buckner's The Gravity Pilot

Posted on 2012-03-21 at 13:00 by Sam

It’s another packed week of audiobook releases, with the two biggest books for me both being previously released in hardcover from Tor, and both dealing with near/medium future ecological change: Tobias S. Buckell’s Arctic Rising and M. M. Buckner’s The Gravity Pilot.

ARCTIC RISING: Out in hardcover and e-book from Tor in late February, Buckell’s latest is an ecothriller set in a near future where: “Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it’s about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but

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Some Iambik releases: Gemma Files and Jennifer Stevenson

Posted on 2012-03-21 at 01:17 by Sam

Though not yet available at Audible, over at Iambik audiobooks you can already purchase a digital download of A Book of Tongues and A Rope of Thorns by Gemma Files, read by Gordon Mackenzie: “Two years after the Civil War, Pinkerton agent Ed Morrow has gone undercover with one of the weird West’s most dangerous outlaw gangs-the troop led by “Reverend” Asher Rook, ex-Confederate chaplain turned “hexslinger,” and his notorious lieutenant (and lover) Chess Pargeter. Morrow’s task: get close enough to map the

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Clay and Susan Griffith's The Greyfriar, read by James Marsters

Posted on 2012-03-20 at 15:41 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Clay and Susan Griffith's The Greyfriar, read by James Marsters

“Quick Thoughts: The Greyfriar is a rollicking fun start to a series with great potential. With a lot of vicious Vampires and adventurous derring-do, the first installment of the Vampire Empire lives defies expectations and breaths new life into the Vampire subgenre. Marsters’ narration combined with the fun feel of this novel makes its translation to audiobook seamless, and should win the authors whole new

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Release Week: Kosmatka, Pagliassotti, Zebrowski, Cherryh, Julavits, Medina, and more...

Posted on 2012-03-14 at 14:58 by Sam

A prolific and intriguing release week is led by The Games By Ted Kosmatka, Narrated by Scott Brick for Random House Audio — “This stunning first novel from Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Ted Kosmatka is a riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics. Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games envisions a harrowing world that may arrive sooner than you think. Silas Williams is the brilliant

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Daniel O'Malley's The Rook, read by Susan Duerden

Posted on 2012-03-13 at 15:22 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Daniel O'Malley's The Rook, read by Susan Duerden

“Quick Thoughts: The Rook is one of the most fascinating Fantasies I have experienced in a long time, truly touching that sense of wonder as only the best Fantasies can. In many ways, this is the novel that JK Rowling’s should have wrote next, an adult fantasy that reminds us of those feelings we would get as a child  hiding under our blankets trying to read just one more chapter. Grade: A.”

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Audiobook review: Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory

Posted on 2012-03-09 at 18:40 by Sam

Reviewed by Dave Thompson: “The Undead Have Never Been So Fresh (or Funny)”

The living dead seem to be rising just about everywhere you turn, and these days the zombie apocalypse is feeling a bit run of the mill. Do not let this keep you from checking out Raising Stony Mayhall — one of the most delightful zombie books I’ve read.

There’s a trope in zombie fiction of a loved one being infected, and instead of

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Release Week: Tanith Lee's Tales from the Flat Earth and A. Lee Martinez's Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain

Posted on 2012-03-07 at 15:07 by Sam

Leading a fairly quiet first Tuesday in March in terms of new audiobook releases are the five books in Tanith Lee’s series Tales from the Flat Earth, all read by Susan Duerdan for Audible Frontiers:

“Night’s Master is the first book of the stunning arabesque high-fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth, which, in the manner of The One Thousand and One Nights, portrays an ancient world in mythic grandeur via connected tales. Long ago when the Earth was flat, beautiful, indifferent Gods lived in the

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Audible.com's latest "Win-Win" sale, with $4.95 audiobooks until March 13

Posted on 2012-03-07 at 03:18 by Sam

As the 200+ books are listed by section by author last name, though there’s an Editors’ Picks section as well, this doesn’t make it that easy for the sf/f listener to get a glance at all the titles. (Though what I generally do is check my wish list, sorted by price, to see what sorts up at $4.95.) So, here’s my glance-through (not every sf/f title, particularly in the urban fantasy and paranormal romance side of things you’ll want to check the listings for yourself) of Audible.com’s latest “Win-Win” sale

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Germline by T.C. McCarthy

Posted on 2012-03-06 at 18:09 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Germline by T.C. McCarthy

Last week’s release week write-up for T. C. McCarthy’s Exogene: The Subterrene Trilogy, Book 2 ended up rambling into what’ll serve as my review of the Bahni Turpin-voiced audiobook, and today Bob Reiss at The Guilded Earlobe has posted his review: ”Quick Thoughts: Exogene is literary science fiction at its best, full of visceral imagery, devastating violence and precise war time action. TC McCarthy has taken elements of Post Apocalyptic

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