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Audible.com release day: The Ringworld Throne, and Wake Up and Dream
Posted on 2011-11-25 at 19:38 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Two titles came across the wire late Wednesday. The first is The Ringworld Throne: The Ringworld Series, Book 3 (1996) By Narrated by Blackstone Audio, Inc. — hot on the heels of last month’s The Ringworld Engineers: The Ringworld Series, Book 2:
The second is Wake Up And Dream By Narrated by Audible Ltd — this one is billed as “a dazzling collision of science, fantasy and history. Like the feelies themselves … film noir with Technicolor
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Audible.com's "Black Friday" sale: $4.95 audiobooks through Nov 29
Posted on 2011-11-25 at 15:25 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Audible.com's "Black Friday" sale: $4.95 audiobooks through Nov 29
Once again it’s not sorted into any categories, so Audible.com’s “Black Friday” sale is just a big long unsorted list. But I’m here to help, so here’s a run down of the ones that caught my eye. And don’t forget, you can pretty easily give Audible audiobooks as gifts these days:
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Audible.com asks: What's Your Pick for Audiobook of the Year?
Posted on 2011-11-23 at 16:24 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Audible.com asks: What's Your Pick for Audiobook of the Year?
My pick is Glimpses By Narrated by Skyboat Productions:
Still under $7, a March 2011 audiobook release for Shiner’s 1993 novel, winner of the 1994 World Fantasy Award. I don’t have a final count handy, but I’ve listened to 40-50 audiobooks this year, 20-25 of which were published at Audible.com in 2011. Glimpses takes the take. Anyway, go vote! And because I’d love to know, come back here and comment and
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Audiobook review: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
Posted on 2011-11-22 at 22:12 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
WHAT: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes narrated by Justine Eyre from Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio:
HOW: Bought a-la-carte from Audible.com
WHY: Jeff VanderMeer’s NY Times review; Arthur C. Clarke Award; Kitschies Red Tentacle Award; shortlisted for BSFA; World Fantasy Award nomination; I’m publishing an interview of Beukes in Bull Spec #7; and after I listened to the sample I decided not to wait for the CD review copy set to jump into this discount-priced, full-valued audiobook.
THE STORY: Zinzi December is
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Audiobook release day: Non-genre, young readers, zombies, and missed opportunities.
Posted on 2011-11-22 at 20:44 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
- The Third Reich By Narrated by For Macmillan Audio — a German wargames player becomes
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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Swan Song by Robert McCammond
Posted on 2011-11-22 at 15:58 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Swan Song by Robert McCammond
“Quick Thoughts: While Swan Song is one of my favorite all time books, and a must read for fans of Post Apocalyptic fiction and Dark Fantasy, I found the experience of it much more rewarding than remembered. Maybe it’s being older, or experiencing it as an audiobook, but revisiting this world only made me love it more. Grade: A.”
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Audiobook review: Joe Abercrombie's The First Law trilogy
Posted on 2011-11-21 at 21:48 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
WHAT: The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie narrated by for Orion Publishing Group Limited. TThe Blade Itself: The First Law: Book One, Before They Are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two, and Last Argument of Kings: The First Law: Book Three:
HOW: Bought a-la-carte from Audible.com.
WHY: Over the years, some books just keep popping up. In writing back and forth with Pyr editor Lou Anders over the past couple of years, two names kept coming up when we’d write about what
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Audiobook review: The Passage by Justin Cronin
Posted on 2011-11-21 at 20:55 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
WHAT: The Passage By Narrated by Random House Audio:
HOW: Borrowed from the Durham County Library as 29 discs.
WHY: Explained this pretty well (and at some length) in my Currently Listening To post for the audiobook. Summary: Lev Grossman recommended it. It was at the library. I was between credits.
THE STORY: The first segment of the book was very well done: a rainforest expedition encounters some really nasty bats and unleashes a strange
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SFFaudio Challenge #6 -- make an audiobook, get an audiobook
Posted on 2011-11-18 at 19:27 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
I hadn’t seen this in previous years, but the SFFaudio Challenge #6 is open, where if you record a public domain book from their list, you can get a new audiobook. If I had the time, I’d really like to take on Animal Farm — because, well, er… I’ve still not read it in full.
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Untitled
Posted on 2011-11-17 at 16:19 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Read more...Fun times, we just found a great interview between Wired.com and Guillermo Del Toro:
Wired.com: What made you want to write an apocalyptic vampire tale?
Del Toro: Originally I wanted very much to try and present the origins of the vampire plague in very modern terms. And then little by little, with each book, go back to finding the spiritual in the biology and finding the biology in the myth.
I feel like science and religion are like a Möbius strip. When you dig deep enough into
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