Page 49 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Release Week: The Human Division, Glamour in Glass, Shades of Earth, Rage is Back, and Impulse

Posted on 2013-01-16 at 20:41 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Well, it's the middle of January and 2013 is getting into full swing, and though there's not a big crop of highlight-reel concurrent releases this week, one of my most-missing titles of 2012 is here, along with the first installment of John Scalzi's serial novel The Human Division. Also: at the bottom, three five more "Whispersync for Voice" deals I stumbled across this week.

The Human Division gets underway with a double-length (bit under 2.5 hours) first episode, The B-Team: The Human Division, Episode 1

Posted in Release Week | Tagged john scalzi, mary robinette kowal, release week

Dave reviews: The Rook, by Daniel O'Malley, read by Susan Duerden

Posted on 2013-01-16 at 01:44 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The Rook, by Daniel O’Malley, read by Susan Duerden for Dreamscape

 Review by Dave Thompson:

Imagine if J.K. Rowling had decided to do a Ministry of Magic novel and you’ve basically got the set-up for The Rook.

The Rook has a little bit of everything in it: It’s as if O’Malley took some of the best (and worst) tropes from the last 20 years of genre fiction, tossed them into a blender with his own special ingredients, and served up a tasty little cocktail with fruit and an umbrella. It starts off a bit

Posted in reviews | Tagged daniel o'malley, dave thompson, dreamscape, susan duerden, the rook

Untitled

Posted on 2013-01-15 at 16:52 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The first installment of John Scalzi's new serialized Old Man's War-universe novel, The Human Division, is out: "The B-Team", with the remainder of the episodes up for pre-order for $0.99/$0.69. And Audible is doing a "first one's free" deal if you Like their Facebook page. A couple "missing" things are (1) for ease of use, just let me spend one credit and pre-order all of them? (2) I can't (yet at least) "gift" future episodes, and (3) I really wish Audible would NOT default to using a full credit on

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Release Week: The Memory of Light, Libriomancer, Lost Things, No Further Messages, and Dungeons and Dragons galore

Posted on 2013-01-09 at 17:43 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The first full release week of 2013 is a big one. Of course there's the decades-awaited conclusion to The Wheel of Time, which at nearly 42 hours could certainly fully occupy a listening month. There's also an audiobook of an interesting 2012 title that didn't make it into audio last year, but the second biggest audio news this week is undoubtedly that with more than 200 audiobooks added, Dungeons and Dragons has invaded Audible in a big way, big enough to warrant a new mini-site. I won't even try to list

Posted in Release Week

Sam's listening report: October 2012

Posted on 2013-01-05 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

After my slowest listening month in a very long time -- four audiobooks and a novella podcast episode in September -- I was back up to seven audiobooks, buoyed a bit by fall review copies coming in. It was a fantastic month in terms of enjoying what I was listening to as well, from fantasy (Hal Duncan's Vellum, Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires) to anthologies (V Wars, Fantastic Imaginings), a non-fiction collection (Neal Stephenson's Some Remarks), and even a rare (for me, apparently) non-genre

Posted in reviews, Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged monthly listening report

The AudioBookaneers 2012 Year in Review, Part 1: Our Favorite Listens

Posted on 2013-01-05 at 00:13 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Well, like everybody else, we're taking a look back at 2012. It was the biggest year ever in terms of audiobook releases: Audible Frontiers published 750 audiobooks this year alone, not to mention the output from the other major and independent publishers and the influx of ACX titles this year. Did we listen to everything? Oh no. (More on that in the second part of this series. Much more.) Did the audiobook publishers get to every deserving book? Not quite. (More on that in the third part of the series

Posted in The Arrrdies

Review: The Dragon King

Posted on 2013-01-04 at 03:20 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The Dragon King by Dan Redwine Narrated by Ken MacMillan for Nation9, Inc. Length: 13 mins -- Release Date: 12-28-12

Review by Sam:

Nation9 has been releasing short English and Spanish audiobooks for kids and young teens, starting in mid-December 2012. So far they've a few Sherlock Holmes titles (ex. Sherlock Holmes - Scandal in Bohemia: Intro to Classics) and a pair of adaptations of Japanese tales, the other being Ogre of Rashomon. As I quite often listen to audiobooks with my kids, when I saw this

Posted in reviews | Tagged dan redwine, ken macmillan, kids, Nation9, the dragon king

Release Week: Thieftaker, Gun Machine, Great North Road, and Scoundrels

Posted on 2013-01-02 at 03:29 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Posted in Release Week | Tagged great north road, gun machine, release week, scoundrels, thieftaker, warren ellis

TKTK Sam Listening Plans Always Private TKTK

Posted on 2013-01-01 at 05:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

TKTK:

RC INBOX:

Downpour:

• FEB? The City of Devi, Farside, Free Lunch
• Teaspoon of Earth and Sky
• Daughters Who Walk this Path
• Birthright
• Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

• Sold
• Midnight Riot

• Gardens of the Moon
• This Book is Full of Spiders
• Valente 2
• Last Dragonslayer

January 2013:

The Dragon King -- reviewed

The Wizard of Oz -- review in draft

Last Call by Tim Powers --done - to review

The Human Division ep. 1

Declare by Tim Powers -- done - to-review -- do dual review of

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Battle of the download sales: Downpour's 40-50% off through Tuesday

Posted on 2012-12-29 at 19:54 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I posted yesterday about Audible's $7.95 sale (on 100+ audiobooks) which also runs through Jan. 2, but I should also mention that Downpour.com (Blackstone Audio's new multi-publisher DRM-free audiobook store) is also running a sale. Theirs is 40% off all downloads, 50% off of "Classics", as well as a wide selection of MP3-CD and CD audiobooks for sale, through Tuesday. Enjoy! Among other selections, I can certainly recommend, on sale for $11.97:

The Testament of Jessie Lamb (UNABRIDGED)

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