Page 59 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Twenty-first stop on the DWJ blog tour -- The Functional Nerds!

Posted on 2012-05-10 at 20:11 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: Twenty-first stop on the DWJ blog tour -- The Functional Nerds!

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Samuel Montgomery-Blinn (who is also behind the very terrific Bull Spec) provides a comprehensive overview of DWJ audiobooks. You’d be surprised by some of the narrators!

“[Howl’s Moving Castle] is done so well, so earnestly, and so authentically that those with an ear for dialects might begin to wonder why Howl speaks with a ‘tapped r’ long before we find out what’s sewn across one of his shirts.”

Thanks for letting me play

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Posted on 2012-05-10 at 20:01 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Received: from Blackstone Audio, two MP3-CD audiobooks: HAMLET’S FATHER by Orson Scott Card, read by Stefan Rudnicki (published May 1); and A SHORT, SHARP SHOCK by Kim Stanley Robinson, read by Paul Michael Garcia (published April 1).

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Over on The Functional Nerds blog, I invite you to Rediscover (or discover for the first time) the works of Diana Wynne Jones in audio

Posted on 2012-05-10 at 14:29 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: Over on The Functional Nerds blog, I invite you to Rediscover (or discover for the first time) the works of Diana Wynne Jones in audio

A big thanks both to Sharyn November’s Diana Wynn Jones 2012 Tumblr and to The Functional Nerds (whom I joined for a podcast on audiobooks late last year) giving me space to play along.

So: Go read the article!

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Release Week: Last Dragon by J.M. McDermott, Enchanted by Alethea Kontis, and more

Posted on 2012-05-09 at 14:51 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Release week for Tuesday, May 8, 2012: My top pick this “week” is Last Dragon by J.M. McDermott, read by Cori Samuel for Iambik Audiobooks. This is a bit of a cheat job, as the audiobook was actually released in audio in late April, but I missed its arrival then so I will trumpet it loud and clear now: this is the next book I’m listening to. (See that “currently listening to” sidebar? Yeah, that.) Originally published as the first novel in Wizards of the Coast’s Discoveries series in 2008, and re-issued in

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Listening Report: April 2012

Posted on 2012-05-03 at 19:52 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Last month it was 6 audiobooks, heavily slanted in favor of sf over fantasy. This month it’s back up to 9 audiobooks, with a pretty even split between genres, and some non-speculative (or at least not heavily speculative) stuff in the mix as well.

REVIEWS:

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The Guilded Earlobe interviews Mainak Dhar about "Zombiestan"

Posted on 2012-05-02 at 18:22 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: The Guilded Earlobe interviews Mainak Dhar about "Zombiestan"

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Release Week: The Drowned Cities, The Killing Moon, Empire State, Giant Thief, and Range of Ghosts

Posted on 2012-05-02 at 14:06 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

It’s quite a release week in the Teen SF/F category, led by my overall pick for the week, The Drowned Cities By Paolo Bacigalupi, Narrated by Joshua Swanson. It’s the second in Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker series, a post-oil-crash world, out concurrently with the print/e-book edition from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Along with all of my picks for this week, it’s in the 10-12 hour range, a length I am becoming more and more happy with.

Outside of YA, and also out concurrently with its print/e-book

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Tell me what to listen to next.

Posted on 2012-04-26 at 18:46 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: Tell me what to listen to next.

I am as usual in the midst of a bout of choice paralysis. So: I turn to you using a poll with the options:

• Jon Sprunk’s Shadow’s Son
• David Anthony Durham’s The War with the Mein
• Scott Lynch’s The Lies of Locke Lamora
• Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer

Or write-in via a comment here, or re-blog, or on Twitter or Facebook. I’m always up for suggestions!

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Release Week: The Mongoliad, Tricked, The Dark Tower, Blackbirds, Robert Silverberg, and more

Posted on 2012-04-25 at 02:32 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Well, the release week for Tuesday, April 24, 2012 is not messing around. There are two dozen+ new audiobooks, including a pretty big list of big titles.

The Mongoliad: The Foreworld Saga, Book 1 By Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, E. D. deBirmingham, Erik Bear, Joseph Brassey, and Cooper Moo, Narrated by Luke Daniels for Brilliance Audio — concurrent with its print and e-book publication from Amazon’s 47North, this is the first novel to come out of the serial novel project “The Mongoliad”, of which

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Posted on 2012-04-19 at 23:29 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Received: Forthcoming from Brilliance Audio, both THE MONGOLIAD by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, et al. and Evan Currie’s INTO THE BLACK, both concurrent with their print publication from 47North. (Will I be listening to The Mongoliad by the time you read this? Probably not. This weekend, though!)

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