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SF/F for Dog-Lovers?
Posted on 2012-02-12 at 02:20 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Listening to Kevin Hearne’s Hounded: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book 1 this weekend two things struck me. First, that narrator Luke Daniels, whom I enjoyed on the first two volumes of the Wild Cards series and have spotted as the voice behind a Red Bull radio spot, really is darn near a soundalike for Nick Podehl, the voice of Patrick Rothfuss’s KingKiller Chronicles. (Side note: Hounded and The Name of the Wind are both on sale for $4.95 right now.)
Second, and the reason for this post, is that one of the
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Problem
Posted on 2012-02-08 at 15:06 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Do I want to buy “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac? or “The Great Gasby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Both.
(It’s possible we may have a slight bias, but they’re both great recordings)
One vote for the excellent Tom Parker narration of On the Road. Though I’ve heard good things about Harper’s production, too. :)
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The Guilded Earlobe gives an "A" to Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon
Posted on 2012-02-08 at 14:49 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: The Guilded Earlobe gives an "A" to Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon
“Quick Thought: Throne of the Crescent Moon is the rare fantasy that seems to do everything right in an accessible, highly readable way. This book will thrill fantasy fans, and make them long to discover even more about Saladin Ahmed’s intriguing world. Even better, this is the type of accessible fantasy that I would have no trouble recommending to people whether they are fans of the genre or not.”
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Audible.com week-long $4.95 sale on first books in a series
Posted on 2012-02-07 at 21:08 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Ending Feb 14, Audible.com has unveiled a $4.95 sale for first books in a series. Making things easier on sf/f fans is that this time, the sale does have a dedicated sf/f category. Making things harder is that there are still 85 audiobooks in the category! So, here are the titles which most catch my eye:
- The Name of the Wind: Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1 by Narrated by
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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Wild Cards Vol. 2: Aces High
Posted on 2012-02-07 at 15:52 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Wild Cards Vol. 2: Aces High
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Release Week: Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed, Oliver Wyman narrates a Swanwick masterwork, and the return of Neil Gaiman Presents
Posted on 2012-02-07 at 15:24 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
My most anticipated release of a packed week in audiobooks is Throne of the Crescent Moon By Narrated by Brilliance Audio [IndieBound MP3-CD link | iTunes Audiobook link]:
Published concurrent with the DAW hardcover, Ahmed’s debut is a welcome new voice in fantasy. Beginning with a short, dark prologue of torture which introduces us to a powerful, evil raiser of ghuls known as “the gaunt man” and his jackal-faced assistant, we are then introduced to our atypical hero, Dr
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Currently listening to: The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe
Posted on 2012-02-06 at 16:22 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Finished up Mr g: a novel about the creation by Alan Lightman (very glad I didn’t give up on it after the first few chapters), and went onto the next review copy that Blackstone Audio sent me. (The sidebar is a bit too much of a pain to update all the time, I think it’s still showing the Gibson essay collection…) Hoping to finish The Hum and the Shiver in time to start on Saladin Ahmed’s Throne of the Crescent Moon tomorrow morning. Emily Janice Card and Stefan Rudnicki are narrating quite well, with Card’s
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Untitled
Posted on 2012-02-03 at 16:22 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Read more...Mr Gaiman and Mr Hodgman continue their conversation about Audio Books. Here they talk about the upcoming audiobook release of Robert Sheckley’s DIMENSION OF MIRACLES and why it sometimes feels like a strange cross between Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy AND Mad Men at the same time.
(It’s about five minutes of us burbling.)
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The Guilded Earlobe continues its "Welcome to the Apocalypse" series with "My Top 10 Favorite Adult Dystopian Novels"
Posted on 2012-02-03 at 14:47 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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Feature Friday: Locus Magazine's 2011 recommended reading list, audiobooks style
Posted on 2012-02-03 at 14:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
One of my more favorite resources in the sf/f world is the yearly recommended reading list from Locus Magazine. Well, their list looking back at 2011has just been published, and I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the list and see which books have audiobooks available and which do not (yet?) along with (maybe!) some commentary:
The first bit of commentary is: if you were looking for the excellent novels Zoo City by Lauren Beukes and The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi, which saw their
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