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Audiobook release day: Velvet Dogma by Weston Ochse

Posted on 2012-01-12 at 17:59 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Velvet Dogma By Weston Ochse is a 2011 novel billed as “Philip K. Dick meets William Gibson.” Narrated by Arika Escalona for Crossroad Press, it is set in the year 2040 in a world of human-machine ocular nerve interaction and sanctioned organ theft, with paroled cyberterrorist Rebecca Mines on the run:

OUT YESTERDAY:

• Sixth Column By Robert A. Heinlein Narrated by Tom Weiner for Blackstone Audio — Heinlein’s 1949 novel of “six against six million in a brilliantly waged near-future war for nothing less than

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Release Week Wednesday: Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson

Posted on 2012-01-11 at 13:03 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

My pick of the audiobooks out this release week is Distrust That Particular Flavor [Goodreads | not yet available at Audible.com] By William Gibson, Read By Robertson Dean for Tantor Audio:

Published last week in print, this collection of essays comes to us from, essentially, the voice of Gibson in audio, as Dean has narrated recent Gibson novels Spook Country and Zero History with more than aplomb, perfectly capturing the voices of Hollis Henry and (in particular) Milgrim, as well as last year’s new

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Interview Monday: narrator Gayle Hendrix on Stellarnet Rebel

Posted on 2012-01-09 at 16:44 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

For the second Interview Monday of 2012, I’m very happy to welcome narrator Gayle Hendrix to talk about Stellarnet Rebel, the debut novel by J.L. Hilton released last week in e-book and audiobook by Harlequin e-imprint Carina Press. Stellarnet Rebel sees newsblogger Genny O’Riordan arrive on “Asteria, a corporate-owned deep-space colony populated by refugees, criminals, and obsessed online gamers”.

There she meets Duin, an alien speaking out against the invasion of his homeworld by the insect-like Tikati

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George Guidall's letter to the NY Times editor, on the "rise" of audiobooks

Posted on 2012-01-06 at 18:50 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: George Guidall's letter to the NY Times editor, on the "rise" of audiobooks

Referencing James Parker’s article, “The Mind’s Ear”. (Another letter to the editor, not quite as complimentary of audiobooks as “reading”, references John Schwartz’s article “Wired for Sound”.) Hat tip to narrator Simon Vance’s tweet today, to which I join my own: “How did I miss this?” — I did read Schwartz’s article, but missed both Parker’s and the letters to the editor.

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The Guilded Earlobe's favorite (non-zombie) post-apocalyptic audiobooks of 2011

Posted on 2012-01-06 at 18:32 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: The Guilded Earlobe's favorite (non-zombie) post-apocalyptic audiobooks of 2011

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Release Week Wednesday: Cinder and Sisterhood of Dune

Posted on 2012-01-04 at 21:43 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

My top two picks for the “big Tuesday releases” this week are Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer and Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, both from Macmillan Audio.

Cinder is a futuristic recasting of Cinderella, with the eponymous Cinder a cyborg in the crowded streets of New Beijing. Narrated by Rebecca Soler, there’s an excerpt as well as a new short story at Tor.com:

Sisterhood of Dune continues the long saga which began with Frank Herbert’s Dune, set years

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Audiobook release day: Stellarnet Rebel by J. L. Hilton and Darkness Falls by Cate Tiernan

Posted on 2012-01-03 at 03:07 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

One of my long-anticipated titles is out today: Stellarnet Rebel By J.L. Hilton Narrated by Gayle Hendrix for Carina Press — “Welcome to Asteria, a corporate-owned, deep-space colony populated with refugees, criminals and obsessive online gamers.”

Stellarnet Rebel is the debut novel for author Hilton, while narrator Gayle Hendrix has narrated books for Nora Roberts, Suzanne Brockmann, and on the St. Martin’s Press/Audible Frontiers anthologies Strange Brew (Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, Charlaine Harris

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Interview Monday: Bob Reiss (The Guilded Earlobe)

Posted on 2012-01-02 at 14:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Welcome to 2012! I’m hoping to provide an interview every Monday this year, ranging from authors, to narrators, editors, engineers, reviewers, and more.

To start this series off I couldn’t think of a better interviewee than Bob Reiss, one of the best audiobooks reviewers around at his blog The Guilded Earlobe, which I’ve followed since stumbling onto it last summer.

Q: I was thinking about setting a goal to do 52 (some short!) interviews in 2012, whether it’s authors, narrators, reviewers, whatever. And I

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My plans for this blog in 2012!

Posted on 2012-01-02 at 03:17 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Whew. 2011 is barely a day over, and here I am planning a hole year of blogging about science fiction and fantasy audiobooks. First, a couple of changes:

• I’m probably going to listen to fewer than 80 audiobooks this year. I want to take better advantage of the reading time I do have — those times where I could have been sitting and reading but instead have been sitting and listening. So instead of an 80-20 split on audiobooks vs. “real reading” I’m hoping to bring it closer to 50-50.
• I’ve been covering too

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Sam Without Pants

Posted on 2012-01-01 at 22:59 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Hey, this one’s personal!

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