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Posted on 2012-04-02 at 20:10 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: News: Wil Wheaton to narrate John Scalzi's Redshirts

Quoth the Scalzi: “I can tell you this now that it is not April Fools Day and you will believe me.” — Wil Wheaton will narrate the audiobook version of Redshirts:

And the news was confirmed by Wheaton on Twitter, where he added, “I’m super proud of it.”

Meanwhile, I’m still a-twitter over @wilw’s retweeting of my own April Fool’s joke, which even included speculation as to why this wasn’t already announced, as, yes, Scalzi says, “If ever there

Posted in link | Tagged john scalzi, redshirts, wil wheaton

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Posted on 2012-04-02 at 19:46 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

neil-gaiman:

Yesterday was the birthday of one of my favorite living writers. He’s someone whose words have made a huge impression on me, whose stories made me dream and want to be a writer myself.

He’s Samuel R. Delany, Chip to his friends. This is a photo taken of him yesterday afternoon, on his 70th birthday, by Kyle Cassidy.

I don’t have many heroes left.

Happy Birthday for yesterday, Chip.

And his new book Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders is finally coming out this month. Also: Kyle

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Breaking news: Wil Wheaton to narrate John Scalzi's fantasy trilogy Shadow War of the Night Dragon

Posted on 2012-04-02 at 07:38 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

April 1, 2012: Already today it was announced that Tor is set to publish a Manga adaptation of bestselling author John Scalzi’s bestselling and award-winning fantasy trilogy Shadow War of the Night Dragon, with artist Madeleine Rosca on illustration duties:

While this is fantastic news for fans of the series, here at the Audible SF/F blog we have the inside scoop on an exclusive announcement: Macmillan Audio has reached an agreement with Wil Wheaton to narrate the entire trilogy in audio. Inside

Posted in April 1 | Tagged brrrrrreaking news, john scalzi, wil wheaton

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Posted on 2012-03-29 at 21:01 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

tordotcom:

Hear Neal Stephenson, Willem Dafoe, and More Read Etgar Keret’s Suddenly, A Knock On The Door

OK. This is very, very interesting. I had no idea this was the audiobook approach for Keret’s collection. Stephenson, Chabon, Aimee Bender, Ben Marcus, Michael Chernof, Dave Eggars, on and on, all narrating different stories.

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Audible introduces SoundBytes -- "shorter works from your favorite authors, plus new writers to discover, for $4.50 or less for a limited time"

Posted on 2012-03-29 at 17:40 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

“These SoundBytes are available for just one week and return to full price on Thursday, April 5, 2012 @ 9AM ET.” The 20 titles include (among others) The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Old Man’s War tie-in The Sagan Diary by John Scalzi:

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Release Week: Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker, Mark L. Van Name's Jon and Lobo series, two series from Greg Bear, and more

Posted on 2012-03-28 at 13:12 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Another jam-packed release week, led for me by Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker and the first four books in Mark L. Van Name’s Jon and Lobo series.

ANGELMAKER: The second novel from Nick Harkaway, author of the Locus- and BSFA-nominated The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker was published in hardcover by Knopf last week after a February print release in the UK. Here, narrated By Daniel Weyman for AudioGO, is a long-anticipated audiobook for me, hailed by William Gibson as “You are in for a treat, sort of like Dickens

Posted in regular, Release Week | Tagged angelmaker, children no more, mark van name, nick harkaway, release week

Harry Potter digital audiobooks now available at the Pottermore Shop

Posted on 2012-03-27 at 15:31 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: Harry Potter digital audiobooks now available at the Pottermore Shop

Via the Pottermore Insider (official blog), the entire Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, read superbly by Jim Dale (and in the British English version by Stephen Fry), is now available in digital audio. (Along with the e-books, also available for the first time and also only from the Pottermore Shop.)

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Audible.com's Tournament of Audiobooks now includes free first chapters

Posted on 2012-03-27 at 10:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: Audible.com's Tournament of Audiobooks now includes free first chapters

Audible has added a new feature to their Tournament of Audiobooks: free first chapters for all 32 titles. For SF/F fans, this is a chance to really get a strong sampling of: