Page 58 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Release Week: Redshirts by John Scalzi, a US release for Alastair Reynolds's Blue Remembered Earth, Daniel A. Wilson's Amped, and the story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection

Posted on 2012-06-06 at 13:57 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The first release week for June 2012 is led by the sf meta-comedic Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas By John Scalzi, Narrated by Wil Wheaton for Audible, out concurrently with the print and (DRM-free!) e-book release from Tor. At 7 hours and 41 minutes it sounds a bit slight, but Wheaton is not your typical plodding-along narrator. The book re-unites the author/narrator duo behind Fuzzy Nation (which was just honored with an Audie Award), Agent to the Stars, and The Android’s Dream, and certainly seems

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged alastair reynolds, blue remembered earth, john scalzi, kobna holdbrook-smith, redshirts, release week, wil wheaton

Audiobook review: Osama by Lavie Tidhar

Posted on 2012-06-05 at 16:32 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Osama by Lavie Tidhar

Narrated by Jeff Harding for Audible Ltd

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Release Date: 05-14-2012 [PS Publishing | Goodreads | Audible UK]

Review by Dave Thompson: “Life Isn’t a Pulp Novel”

Lavie Tidhar’s Osama is not an easy or light novel. However, it is a very thought provoking one, and I suspect it’s one that’s going to stay with me for a long time.

What if Osama bin Laden never existed? What if his acts of terror were confined solely to pulp novels, the kind that are published

Posted in regular | Tagged dave thompson, jeff harding, lavie tidhar, osama, review

Release Week: Mark L. Van Name's No Going Back and Lavie Tidhar's Tel Aviv Dossier

Posted on 2012-05-30 at 02:09 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

May goes out fairly quietly in terms of raw numbers, but there are still two audiobooks I am pretty excited about, led for me by No Going Back: Jon & Lobo, Book 5 By Mark L. Van Name, Narrated by Tom Stechschulte for Audible Frontiers. Out concurrently with its print and e-book release from Baen, the book continues the Jon and Lobo series, which came to audio in one giant gulp last month. “Jon and Lobo are back–and everything is about to change. If they both survive. Haunted by memories of children he could

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged lavie tidhar, mark van name, no going back, release week

The Guilded Earlobe's Top 10 Zombie Novels and Series (with audiobook notes)

Posted on 2012-05-25 at 14:08 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: The Guilded Earlobe's Top 10 Zombie Novels and Series (with audiobook notes)

Led by Mira Grant’s Newsflesh series (bumped up to #1 due to Bob’s very positive thoughts on the final, just-released Blackout) and including several other books and series available in audio (and some which are not). My own write-in, though as much, much less a zombie connoisseur is Boneshakerby Cherie Priest, read wonderfully by Kate Reading and Wil Wheaton. Anyway — go check out the list and add your own favorites.

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Release Week: KSR's 2312; Anne Lyle; Rob Ziegler; Lev AC Rosen; David Brin; Tim Akers; and the conclusion to The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

Posted on 2012-05-23 at 19:32 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The absolutely mammoth release week for Tuesday, May 23, is led for me by the much-anticipated and well-regarded 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson, narrated by Sarah Zimmerman for Hachette Audio, out concurrently with its publication in hardcover and e-book by Orbit. At 19 hrs and 15 mins, it seems a pretty good length for exploring a science fiction world (not too long, not too short). Over on Scalzi’s Whatever blog, Robinson talks about the Big Idea behind the novel, there’s an official site which lets you bui

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged 2312, david brin, kim stanley robinson, release week, tim akers

Dave Thompson to narrate Tim Pratt's Briarpatch

Posted on 2012-05-21 at 20:37 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: Dave Thompson to narrate Tim Pratt's Briarpatch

Quoth Dave: “I get to read the audiobook for Tim Pratt’s amazing fantasy novel Briarpatch! … I am so stoked beyond words about this, I don’t even know what else to say! I keep expecting people to email me that they’ve changed their minds. I love this book. I loved it immediately - as soon as I started reading it when it came out last year.”

This is absolutely awesome news all around: 1. An audiobook for Briarpatch 2. I get to make Dave interview himself

Posted in link | Tagged acx, briarpatch, dave thompson, tim pratt

Audible.com 48-hour Customer Favorites $7.95 sale

Posted on 2012-05-18 at 17:17 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Through Noon Eastern Time on May 21, Audible.com is having a 48-hour Customer Favorites $7.95 sale. There is a handy Sci-Fi & Fantasy tab, though there are sf/f titles lurking under the Thriller, Fiction (a lot), and Romance tabs as well. Here’s what most caught my eye in the sf/f tab:

• Howl’s Moving Castle By Diana Wynne Jones, Narrated by Jenny Sterlin — Length:8 hrs and 34 mins — which I got to gush about over on The Functional Nerds blog as part of the Diana Wynne Jones 2012 blog tour
  
• The Wise Man’s

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Release Week: Railsea by China Mieville; Osama by Lavie Tidhar; CS Friedman's Magister and Coldfire trilogies; and more

Posted on 2012-05-16 at 14:03 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

For the third week in a row there are multiple major releases in the YA SF & F section, led by Railsea, a foray into a younger age category by the always brilliant China Mieville (Perdido Street Station, Embassytown, etc.). Narrated by Jonathan Cowley for Random House Audio, the audiobook comes in at just under 10 hours, and it also comes with heaps of praise for its ability to both engage younger audiences at a narrative level, with a world of trains and giant mole hunts, as well as offer a deeper reading

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged china mieville, cs friedman, lavie tidhar, osama, railsea, release week

Audible.com "3 books for 2 credits" sale ends tonight at midnight

Posted on 2012-05-15 at 14:09 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Using a special mini-cart, and if you happen to have piles of credits lying around you can “3 for 2” more than once, Audible.com has been running a 3 books for 2 credits sale for the past week which ends tonight at midnight Eastern Time (US). In the sale are books by David Anthony Durham (books 2 and 3 of Acacia), Robert J. Sawyer (WWW: Watch and Wonder), R. A. Salvatore (Forgotten Realms: Transitions), Jo Walton (Small Change trilogy), Margaret Weis (Dragonvarld trilogy), Scott Westerfield (Behemoth and

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Audiobook release day: Osama by Lavie Tidhar

Posted on 2012-05-14 at 23:35 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: Audiobook release day: Osama by Lavie Tidhar

I don’t always do a release day post these days, usually saving things up for one week-in-recap. But sometimes an audiobook comes along off-Tuesday that I’m really excited about, and today has one such audiobook. Coming in at about 8.5 hours, Osama By Lavie Tidhar is Narrated by Jeff Harding for Audible Ltd [Audible UK link here]:

“In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure

Posted in link | Tagged lavie tidhar, osama