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Release Week Wednesday: The Flame Alphabet, Shadows in Flight, and The Coldest War
Posted on 2012-01-18 at 19:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
For this release week (Tuesday, Jan 17) my top audiobook picks are The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus and Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card, along with The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis.
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus is out from Recorded Books (Knopf, Jan 17, 2012) — a story of a world where the voices of children become lethal to their parents, and a boy who sets out in search of a cure. I’m not that impressed by the audiobook cover:
So here is the book cover as well:
On Audible: The Flame Alphabet B
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Posted on 2012-01-18 at 18:53 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Received: Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card, read by Stefan Rudnicki, Scott Brick, and a full cast for Macmillan Audio. Out January 17.
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Audible 48-Hour Sale: 100+ titles at $7.95 each (ends Jan 19 at noon EST)
Posted on 2012-01-17 at 21:22 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
UPDATE: The sale has been extended to Jan 21 at 3 PM EST.
Audible has unveiled a new 48-Hour Sale. As often happens, it’s not sorted in any way, not even fiction vs. non-fiction. So here’s my scan for interesting things, including the recent full-cast American Gods and both The Magicians and the sequel The Magician King:
FICTION:
- Ex-Heroes by Narrated by
- The Night Eternal: Book Three of the Strain Trilogy by Narrated by
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Audio Bibiliophile reviews The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga
Posted on 2012-01-17 at 20:08 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
“Now I seem to be a sucker for a good zombie book, and I like to think that I know good ones from bad. The Walking Dead: Rise of The Governor is a good one, I mean great one, possibly one of the best zombie stories I have ever listened to. Pure, unadulterated, original, breathtaking and enough surprises to keep you guessing.”
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Neil Gaiman: ACX - if you're a writer, an actor, a producer
Posted on 2012-01-17 at 18:50 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Neil Gaiman: ACX - if you're a writer, an actor, a producer
I thought I’d remind those of you on Tumblr who are writers, producers or actors (and that smaller group of you who are “rights holders”) that ACX - Audiobook Creation Exchange - is a wonderful thing, and it works.
Here’s the press-release type anouncement we did when it went live: …
And there’s some ACX-matched audiobooks coming this year I’m looking forward to, starting with Alan Baxter’s MageSign and RealmShift.
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Review: The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers, read by Simon Vance
Posted on 2012-01-17 at 14:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
I’m pleased to welcome a new regular contributor to the Audible SF/F blog: Dave Thompson. While we have plans (a podcast? two-contributor reviews?) he’s starting out with a review of The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers, read by Simon Vance for Blackstone Audio. Out in April of 2011, the novel was originally published in print in 1989 by Ace Hardcover. A new book, Hide Me Among the Graves: A Novel is due out in March from William Morrow.
Review by Dave Thompson
There’s a tense scene early on in Tim
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Interview Monday: narrator Robertson Dean on William Gibson's Distrust That Particular Flavor
Posted on 2012-01-16 at 14:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Dear readers of Audible SF/F, you are in for a treat. Today’s installment of Interview Monday is a conversation with narrator (and stage, film, and TV actor) Robertson Dean.
Dean has narrated nearly 200 titles, from Beowulf to all manner of current fiction and non-fiction, and has become for all intents and purposes the voice of William Gibson in audio, having narrated 2007’s Spook Country, 2010’s Zero History, a 2011 unabridged production of Neuromancer, and the just-released essay collection Distrust That
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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Jo Walton's Among Others, read by Katherine Kellgren
Posted on 2012-01-16 at 12:48 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Jo Walton's Among Others, read by Katherine Kellgren
“Quick Thoughts: Among Others is a novel full of that magical brilliance that I just cannot properly explain with words. It is the ultimate genre blending novel. It is a fantasy novel for science fiction fans, a character study for those who love well plotted tales. It is an adult novel that embraces the tropes of children and young adult literature, adding texture and created something totally unique.”
Wow. Now I
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Feature Friday: Ridiculously Huge Preview of 2012
Posted on 2012-01-13 at 18:03 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
This one comes more than a week later than planned as we’re not just one but two release weeks into the year, but, hey, it’s really, really big. As always a big, big hat tip to Cybermage’s sf book calendar, along with Locus Magazine’s forthcoming books listing, a long list of ARCs offered for the Magick 4 Terri LiveJournal, io9, and a particularly fruitful thread on the ASOIAF forum. This is probably too big to be useful? Maybe. Probably. I got carried away. So much for my goal of keeping track of fewer
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The Guilded Earlobe continues its "Welcome to the Apocalypse" series with "My Favorite Post Apocalyptic Audiobooks of 2011: Zombies"
Posted on 2012-01-13 at 15:40 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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