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Posted on 2011-12-02 at 15:10 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews The Night Eternal by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

“Quick Thoughts: The Night Eternal, and the Strain trilogy in total, may not live up entirely to what I expected, but if you can trudge through the rough patches early in the novel you will be rewarded with a well plotted final confrontation which leaves the series on a high note.”

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A great list of ChiZine Publications books are coming to audio

Posted on 2011-12-02 at 13:10 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

As a postscript to unrelated correspondence, I complained to CZP co-publisher Brett Savory that I wanted to see more audiobooks of CZP titles. Well, I should have been paying better attention, as there’s not one but two audiobook publishers working on CZP titles.

Firstly, the folks at Iambik Audiobooks have already produced the first of five CZP titles they have in the pipeline:

Chasing the Dragon by Nicholas Kaufmann is narrated by Alex Foster, and should go live at Audible.com soon — through it’s already

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A narrator in need: Jay Snyder

Posted on 2011-12-02 at 01:02 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Via a Twitter post, narrator Oliver Wyman (The Children of the Sky, Gateway, Finch, …) shares that:

Michal Friedman lost her life delivering twins last week. Please make a donation to help Jay Snyder raise his children: http://sgp.cm/c60302

Jay Snyder is both the narrator for 81 audiobooks at Audible.com, as well as the father of newborn twins. Tragically, his wife died shortly after giving birth last Friday:

Michal Lura Friedman lost her life on Friday, November 25, 2011 in New York City, due to

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Neil Gaiman blogs some thoughts on "Audiobooks: A Cautionary Tale"

Posted on 2011-12-01 at 21:40 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: Neil Gaiman blogs some thoughts on "Audiobooks: A Cautionary Tale"

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Audible.com release day: Peter F. Hamilton's 1993 debut novel Mindstar Rising

Posted on 2011-12-01 at 20:42 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Mindstar Rising: The Greg Mandel Trilogy, Part 1 By Peter F. Hamilton Narrated by Toby Longworth For Audible Frontiers:

Mindstar Rising is the 1993 first novel from prolific British author Hamilton, whose 10 books have sold more than 2 million copies. “It’s the 21st century, and global warming is here to stay, so forget the way your country used to look. And get used to the free market, too – the companies possess all the best hardware, and they’re calling the shots now. In a world like this, a man open

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Audible.com unveils its audiobooks of the year: Editors' Picks and Customer Favorites, and more

Posted on 2011-12-01 at 17:28 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Picking Stephen King’s 11-22-63: A Novel as its Audiobook of the Year, Audible.com also unveils its lineup of the Best of 2011 in various categories, along with naming Lorelei King as the Narrator of the Year based on customer ratings, providing several lists of selections by editors, and even identifying the site’s Most Helpful Reviewer and Most Followed Reviewer. (I worry that this might lead to competitive reviewers refraining from following other popular reviewers, or marking reviews as helpful, but

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Audible.com release day: Halo: Glasslands by Karen Traviss

Posted on 2011-11-30 at 20:47 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The newest addition both to Audible.com’s SF/F section and to the Halo universe is Halo: Glasslands By Karen Traviss Narrated by Euan Morton For Macmillan Audio:

“The Covenant has collapsed after a long, brutal war that saw billions slaughtered on Earth and her colonies. For the first time in decades, however, peace finally seems possible. But though the fighting’s stopped, the war is far from over: it’s just gone underground.”

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Jonathan Maberry's Dead of Night

Posted on 2011-11-30 at 15:34 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Jonathan Maberry's Dead of Night

“Quick Thoughts: Dead of Night does what few Zombie novels have, scared me to the point where I felt a burning desire to build my own heavily armed bunker in preparation for the upcoming Zombie Apocalypse and for this, I am not sure whether I should thank the author, or run screaming at the very thought of him.”

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Audiobook release day: Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners by Ellen Kushner

Posted on 2011-11-29 at 20:39 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Neil Gaiman Presents continues with its next selection, Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners By Ellen Kushner Narrated by Ellen Kushner, Dion Graham, Katherine Kellgren, Robert Fass, Nick Sullivan, and Simon Jones:

This is an “illuminated” audiobook with sound effects like doors closing, background noise at a restaurant, “the ring of steel”, and a full cast of characters around Kushner’s narration of her 1987 novel. (Elsewhere, Gaiman talked with Salon.com about audiobooks — very much worth checking out!)

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Stephen King's 11/22/63

Posted on 2011-11-29 at 17:40 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Stephen King's 11/22/63

“Quick Thoughts: People who think they know King from his labels as a horror novelist and pop icon will say that 11/22/63 is a departure from his other work. They are wrong. 11/22/63 is classic Stephen King full of the subtle horror themes that permeate his best works as well as an amazing cast of fascinating characters, all of whom, for good or ill adds something to the overall story.”

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