Page 45 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Revisiting the regional digital divide, again

Posted on 2013-05-23 at 02:29 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

It's been a year since I last turned too much attention to the regional digital divide, and it's high time to give the bee's nest another poke.

There's still! no sign of a US release for China Mieville's Un Lun Dun, The Scar, or Iron Council, and... well, on and on. We did get, from Tantor Audio, Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant series, narrated wonderfully by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as in the UK edition.

And we also got one of the pair of the Iain M. Banks audiobooks I'd bemoaned lack of access to last

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ben aaronovitch, china mieville, elspeth cooper, hugh howey, stella gemmell

Release Week: Will Self's Umbrella, Mark T. Barnes' The Garden of Stones, Dan Krokos' The Planet Thieves, and a free Neil Gaiman short

Posted on 2013-05-22 at 14:25 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

May 15-21, 2013: A bit of a lull after last week's haul, but certainly none the lesser in top-level impact as a long, long hoped-for literary fiction title is here this week in the form of Will Self's Booker-shortlisted Umbrella. But don't worry, sf/f fans, whether "sf" or "f" strikes your fancy there are a few audiobooks to check out this week as well, of course. There's also a particularly strong crop of "indie" releases (see a selection of those in the "also out this week" listings) as well as a few more

Posted in Release Week | Tagged dan krokos, neil gaiman, will self

The Shambling Guide to New York City Listen-a-Long: Chapter 2

Posted on 2013-05-16 at 20:58 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Welcome to the second installment of The Shambling Guide to New York City Listen-a-Long, covering Chapter 2 of Mur Lafferty's The Shambling Guide to New York City. First, there's now a book trailer up, she'll be appearing on a live chat event via Shindig.com next week, and great reviews keep popping up all over the place -- like this starred review from Booklist. Before I get into the write-up: a warning, that I'll repeat each episode, that the discussion here is oh-so-spoilerific, so if that's a concern

Posted in The Shambling Guide to NYC Listen-a-Long | Tagged mur lafferty

Release Week: Brandon Sanderson's The Rithmatist; Antti Tuomainen's The Healer; Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors; World War Z; The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl; Fiction River; and John Scalzi's The Human Division

Posted on 2013-05-15 at 17:15 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Posted in Release Week | Tagged brandon sanderson, john scalzi, neil gaiman, world war z

Featured author and narrator: Mary Robinette Kowal

Posted on 2013-05-14 at 17:36 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

AudioBookaneers Features Presents: Mary Robinette Kowal, author, narrator, and puppeteer

By Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Hugo Award winning author Mary Robinette Kowal visited Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books on Friday, on her book tour for Without a Summer, the third book in her The Glamourist Histories series which began with 2010's Shades of Milk and Honey. Billed as, more or less, "the fantasy novel which Jane Austen might have written" the series is a Regency period historical fiction with plenty of manners,

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged mary robinette kowal

The Shambling Guide to New York City Listen-a-Long: Chapter 1

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

Welcome to the first installment of The Shambling Guide to New York City Listen-a-Long, covering Chapter 1 of Mur Lafferty's The Shambling Guide to New York City. There's a bit more to this installment than will be usual, as we get to also talk about Lafferty's introduction to the podcast, and, well, a bit about my listening history where it comes to her other podcasts. First a warning, that I'll repeat each episode, that the discussion here is oh-so-spoilerific, so if that's a concern, pop over and take

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Release Week: The Kings and Queens of Roam, Odds Against Tomorrow, Tales of Majipoor, and The Crystal Shard

Posted on 2013-05-08 at 19:46 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

MAY 1-7, 2013: May is here, and the first release week brings quite a haul, so let's get right to it:

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

The Kings and Queens of Roam: A Novel by Daniel Wallace, read by Angela Brazil for AudioGO. Out concurrent with the print/ebook release from Touchstone, it's the first new novel since 2007 for Wallace, the author of Big Fish. Here it's a story blending tall tales, folklore, and magical realism in, well, "Wallace"-ian fashion; is the magic "real"? Does it matter if it is? "Helen and

Posted in Release Week | Tagged daniel wallace, stefan rudnicki

Received: April 2013

Posted on 2013-05-03 at 19:42 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I took it pretty easy on the review copy front in April, to the tune of three titles:

1. No Return by Zachary Jernigan, read by John FitzGibbon for Audible Frontiers.

This is one I finished listening to a couple of week ago now, so here's a snippet of my review, A stunning and original debut fantasy: "In a crowded year of strong debut fantasy novels, "No Return" is a very strong contender. Beginning with an assured voice, a prologue of a pitiless landscape of an hallucinogenic salt lake, expanding out

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May is for Mur: The Shambling Guide to New York City Listen-A-Long begins tomorrow!

Posted on 2013-05-01 at 19:59 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I hope you enjoyed Dave's The Human Division Listen-a-Long the past couple of months, because we have another one planned for May and June, getting started tomorrow as part of a month-long feature here on The Audiobookaneers, focusing on author, podcaster, and narrator, Mur Lafferty.

Due out in print, ebook, and audiobook on May 28 from Orbit and Hachette Audio, Lafferty's new series The Shambling Guides gets started with The Shambling Guide to New York City. Great reviews have been rolling in along with

Posted in The Shambling Guide to NYC Listen-a-Long | Tagged mur lafferty, the shambling guides

Release Week: Joe Hill's NOS4A2, Wesley Chu's The Lives of Tao, Allen Steele's Apollo's Outcasts, and Ballard's The Drought

Posted on 2013-05-01 at 14:54 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

APRIL 24-30, 2013: April goes out with a howl and a bang, with more than a quartet of excellent titles, ranging from concurrent new horror and humorous sf releases, to one of last year's most "missing in audio" young adult sf titles, to one of sf's classic stories of climate change. Next week is another huge crop of high-interest titles as publishers start ramping up for summer reading and listening, so you'd better get started!

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

From the author of the novels Heart-Shaped Box and Horns a

Posted in Release Week | Tagged allen steele, joe hill, wesley chu