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Audible's $7.95 sale through January 2, including Lev Grossman, Haruki Murakami, Cherie Priest, and more

Posted on 2012-12-28 at 14:20 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Audible is having a "Holiday Relief Sale" which lists 100+ audiobooks for $7.95 through January 2, and includes quite a few good sf/f listings. In particular, if you haven't yet picked up Lev Grossman's The Magicians: A Novel, narrated wonderfully by Mark Bramhall, now is absolutely the time. The best "deal" appears to be on Haruki Murakami's Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World which normally lists for $44. And! Two books in Cherie Priest's Clockwork Century. There are also plenty of new

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Release Week: Alchemystic, The Ramal Extraction, Half Life, and more

Posted on 2012-12-28 at 03:41 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The last release week (though not quite the last releases) of the year brings a few interesting titles, but all in all a quiet week.

Alchemystic: A Spellmason Chronicle, Book 1 by Anton Strout, narrated by Linda Borg for Audible, Inc. -- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins. Out in the early fall in print/ebook from Ace: "Alexandra Belarus is a struggling artist living in New York City, even though her family is rich in real estate, including a towering Gothic Gramercy Park building built by her great-great

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The Guilded Earlobe's Top 20 Audiobooks of 2012

Posted on 2012-12-28 at 02:13 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The Guilded Earlobe's Top 20 Audiobooks of 2012 are a must-listen list, and, eep, I've only gotten to two of them, The Rook and Throne of the Crescent Moon. The question isn't, really, if I'll get to his #1 pick for the year (A Gift Upon the Shore by M. K. Wren) but rather, when. (It will be a bit longer before I'll get to the nearly 48 hours of The Stand.)

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Release Week: Rip-Off!, Mayan December, Bradley P. Beaulieu, Terry Goodkind's The First Confessor, and more

Posted on 2012-12-21 at 19:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The middle of December brings some ear candy for the holiday season, including an all-star author/narrator anthology, the end of the world, secondary world fantasy, and quite a bit more. Still, with all that, my mind's on a "missing" audiobook, that for Jesse Bullington's The Folly of the World, my most-anticipated title this week. And at the bottom, details for another "Whispersync for Voice" price quirk, this time netting you both the Kindle and Audible formats of Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim. (Sorry for

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Release Week: Falling Kingdoms, Tears of Rain, Joel Rosenberg, and Dean Ing

Posted on 2012-12-12 at 16:01 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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Today's Audible.com Daily Deal: Neil Gaiman and Neil Gaiman Presents

Posted on 2012-12-07 at 16:40 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Audible.com has been offering Daily Deals this December, and today (Friday, Dec 7) brings a 50% off deal on a list of titles by Neil Gaiman and from Neil Gaiman Presents.

From Gaiman's American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition (A Full Cast Production) to Anansi Boys, Good Omens to The Graveyard Book; to the "Presents" titles Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners (by Ellen Kushner), Light (by M. John Harrison), and my pick for best new novel of 2012, The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan.

The sale

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Release Week: The Testament of Jessie Lamb, A Red Sun Also Rises, and Shadow and Bone

Posted on 2012-12-05 at 18:02 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The first release week in December brings an Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, along with the latest from Mark Hodder and a much-anticipated young adult release, and, well, a few dozen more audiobooks, besides. The most missing audiobook this week for me is a debut novel, Ink, by Damien Walters Grintalis. (More on those after the avalanche of new audiobooks.)

The Testament of Jessie Lamb: A Novel By Jane Rogers, Narrated by Fiona Hardingham for Blackstone Audio -- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins. Published

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Audible's editors pick the best audiobooks of the year (and a so-far rundown of The Lists)

Posted on 2012-12-04 at 19:18 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

While I'm most eagerly awaiting Bob Reiss's picks over at The Guilded Earlobe, the first of the big year-end "best of the year" audiobooks lists is up, from Audible.com as a Best of 2012 featurette, collecting their editors' picks in quite a few categories, the top 10 Listener Favorites of the year, and additional picks from six editors. (Note: since the original post, I've added a few more run-downs of some best-of-the-year lists.)

First, those Listener Favorites, which included six (count 'em!) sf/f

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Release Week: The Rise of Ransom City, The Dresden Files, The Iron Druid Chronicles, and City of Dark Magic

Posted on 2012-11-28 at 14:49 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The last Tuesday in November brings new books in beloved series, as well as a Conan O'Brien-blurbed romp through a fantastical Prague. Still, it's another sequel which most catches my eye, and another sequel (Hannu Rajaniemi's The Fractal Prince) which I'm most disappointed to not see in audio this week.

That most-anticipated title for me this week is The Rise of Ransom City: The Half-Made World, Book 2 By Felix Gilman, Narrated by Ramon De Ocampo and Gregory Itzin for Audible Frontiers -- Length: 14 hrs

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Release Week: Robert Jackson Bennett, Seanan McGuire, Joel Rosenberg, and A.A. Attanasio

Posted on 2012-11-21 at 16:27 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Two of 2012's most missing audiobooks and two backlist books from two of my favorite authors highlight the pre-Thanksgiving release week.

The Troupe By Robert Jackson Bennett, Narrated by Luis Moreno for Recorded Books -- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins -- Published in February in print and ebook by Orbit, it's been a leading contender for "most missing audiobook" all year for me, and leads off the Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2012 - SF/F/H list: "Best-selling author Robert Jackson Bennett has won widespread

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