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Audiobook release day: Jon Sprunk's Shadow's Son is out from GraphicAudio
Posted on 2012-04-19 at 22:05 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Audiobook release day: Jon Sprunk's Shadow's Son is out from GraphicAudio
“In the holy city of Othir, treachery and corruption lurk at the end of every street, just the place for a freelance assassin with no loyalties and few scruples. Caim makes his living on the edge of a blade, but when a routine job goes south, he is thrust into the middle of an insidious plot. Pitted against crooked lawmen, rival killers, and sorcery from the Other Side, his only allies are Josephine, the socialite daughter of
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Audible.com's Semi-Annual Half-Price Sale, through April 27
Posted on 2012-04-19 at 20:29 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Audible.com’s Semi-Annual Half-Price Sale lists 1000+ titles, ending April 27 at Noon ET. Organized into the major categories, there’s helpfully a Sci-Fi and Fantasy listing, but it’s quite a doozy at 131 results. So! Here’s my usual rundown of the (too many, still) titles which caught my eye with a (somewhat) shorter list of PICKs:
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by , Narrated by — 10 hrs and 18 mins — the basis for an upcoming feature film by the “co-author” of Pride and
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Release Week: Mechanique, White Horse, James Patrick Kelly, and more
Posted on 2012-04-18 at 15:03 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
A bit quieter in volume, but the release week of Tuesday, April 17, 2012 has brought two intriguing novels from 2011 to audio, namely Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti and Pattern Scars, along with new releases White Horse, Elizabeth Hand’s Radiant Days, and more.
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti By Genevieve Valentine, Narrated by 8 hrs and 19 mins —
Read more...Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged caitlin sweet, genevieve valentine, james patrick kelly, mechanique, release week, the pattern scars, white horse
Release Week: The Greyfriar, Welcome to Bordertown, Infinite Jest, "Enter, Night", Immobility, Unholy Night, Grail, the Honorverse, and more
Posted on 2012-04-11 at 13:12 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Another bumper crop of releases this week, ranging from Steampunk alternate history vampires, to vampires in a remote northern Ontario mining town, to a shared world urban fantasy anthology, to the 56 hours that is David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, a literary post apocalypse, a revisionary approach to the Three Wise Men, and more.
Vampire Empire - The Greyfriar By Narrated by Buzzy Multimedia Publishing (10 hrs and 39 mins):
Read more...“1870. A time known as The Great
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Another peek overseas at Audible UK and the digital divide
Posted on 2012-04-09 at 15:46 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Early last month, I wrote a bit about the regional digital divide, which sees Audible UK members having some excellent sf/f titles which Audible US members don’t have access to, from Songs of the Earth, to The Scar: New Crobuzon, Book 2 and Iron Council: New Crobuzon, Book 3 By Rivers of London and Moon Over Soho By Blue Remembered Earth By
Read more...Posted in regular | Tagged china mieville, iain m banks, patrick rothfuss, regional digital divide
The Guilded Earlobe reviews Brian Evenson's Immobility
Posted on 2012-04-06 at 14:06 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Brian Evenson's Immobility
“Quick Thoughts: For fans of Post Apocalyptic fiction, Immobility is a different take of some familiar situations. Evenson offers some brilliant visuals, compelling dilemmas and a gut punch ending, just don’t expect to go away completely satisfied.”
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Untitled
Posted on 2012-04-04 at 21:06 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
It’s official ladies and gents, Princeless is an Eisner nominee! Not only that, we’re nominated in two different categories: Best Single Issue and Best Publication for Kids (8-12).
Honestly, I had hoped for the best, but just getting nominated for an Eisner was beyond my wildest expectations.
Congrats and well-deserved, Whitley and Goodwin. So excited for you guys; my kids both love this comic.
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Joining Literate Housewife's The Silence of Trees Listen-A-Long
Posted on 2012-04-04 at 15:31 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Joining Literate Housewife's The Silence of Trees Listen-A-Long
I’ve seen narrator Xe Sands name come up on a few titles I’m interested in listening to (most recently The Vanishers) and along comes an audiobook listen-a-long for The Silence of Trees by Valya Dudycz Lupescu, narrated by Sands for Iambik:
And the “listen-a-long” includes a 20% discount code as well. So: join along!
Read more...Posted in link | Tagged iambik, literate housewife, the silence of trees, xe sands
Release Week: Triggers, David Drake, Kim Stanley Robinson, Girl Genius, and more
Posted on 2012-04-04 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
The release week for Tuesday, April 3 is led by the release of Triggers By Narrated by On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin’s bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories. Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac
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Listening Report: March 2012
Posted on 2012-04-03 at 19:16 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Six audiobooks this month, down from eight last month, this time heavily skewed toward sf (5) over fantasy (1):
REVIEWS:
- To Marry Medusa By Narrated by for Blackstone Audio — Rudnicki’s a fan of Sturgeon’s, and I’ve heard him on More Than Human which, along with To Marry Medusa, explores the idea of emergent parapsychology. It’s a reminder that, along with Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, science fiction (and science) actually took telepathy quite seriously
Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged a door into ocean, arctic rising, james sa corey, jay snyder, jefferson mays, joan slonczewski, leviathan wakes, mm buckner, monthly listening report, rosalyn landor, simon vance, stefan rudnicki, the gravity pilot, the stress of her regard, theodore sturgeon, tim powers, to marry medusa, tobias s buckell
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