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A trickle of releases, meanwhile the semi-annual half price sale...
Posted on 2011-11-16 at 21:18 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
After a huge day of releases last Tuesday, thing have been pretty slow this week. Still, a few things have show up, including:
- Cain By Narrated by For Audible, Inc. — 5.5 hours — “The late Nobel laureate’s final novel, a radical retelling of the Old Testament.”
- Swan Song By Narrated by For Audible, Inc. — classic (well, 1980s!) sf novel about a post-nuclear-apocalypse United States
- Collection: The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories By Narr
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The Guilded Earlobe reviews The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
Posted on 2011-11-16 at 20:16 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
3 weeks ago, Audible.com launched a specially branded ACX line called Neil Gaiman Presents. One of the launch titles was The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill. Today, Bob Reiss at The Guilded Earlobe grades it quite highly: “The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break is an audiobook experience that will play with your emotions. As the novel progresses “M” becomes inexplicably important to you, as he awkwardly attempts to bond with his coworkers and tries to find a place in this world. I
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Posted on 2011-11-16 at 19:55 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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The Thirteen Hallows - back w/postcard
Audiobook received: The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott and Colette Freedman, read by Kate Reading for Macmillan Audio. 9 CDs. “The Hallows. Ancient Artifacts imbued with a primal and deadly power. But are they protectors of this world, or the keys to its destruction?” Scott is the author of bestselling series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, and Reading is the award-winning narrator of The Wheel of Time, Bo
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Posted on 2011-11-10 at 01:20 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Audiobook received: Anthology: Wild Cards I edited by Walter Jon Williams here…)Lewis Shiner, Roger Zelazny, Howard Waldrop, Michael Cassutt, and Martin himselfNarrated by Brilliance Audio In the aftermath of WWII, an alien virus struck the Earth, endowing a handful of
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Audiobook release day: The Alloy of Law, 11-22-63, Inheritance, Wild Cards, ...
Posted on 2011-11-08 at 17:13 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Well, well, well. It’s quite a day for audiobooks, from epic fantasy to epic fantasy turned Steam-age, to superheroes, to zombies, to the conclusion of a 4-book series begun by a now-famous then-teenager. Welcome to November 8, 2011.
The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel By Narrated by Macmillan Audio — set three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy (The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages) The Alloy of Law combines magic, metal
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Audible.com dipping its toes into the world of Pre-Orders?
Posted on 2011-11-07 at 17:40 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Perhaps this has been done with other books, but Pre-Order ‘Locked On’ by Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney read by Lou Diamond Phillips is the first I’ve noticed:
It’s a 44-minute recording of the first three chapters, with the description leading with: “Simply pre-order Locked On now and you’ll get to hear the book’s first three chapters before anyone else. And when the complete book - which is more than 20 hours long - releases on December 13, it’ll be waiting for you in My Library.”
What do my fellow
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Audiobook release day: The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells and The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham
Posted on 2011-11-05 at 01:35 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
The Cloud Roads By Narrated by Audible Frontiers:
This is a book I picked up earlier this summer at my local library when doing a little cover browsing of new hardcovers. (Along with Greg Egan’s The Clockwork Rocket and Col Buchanan’s Farlander — quite a haul!) I read the opening, found it interesting, and marked it as one to look for in audio. And here it is: “Moon has spent his life hiding what he is - a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature
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More audiobook news, from announcements both Little and Big (ha ha!) to today's new releases.
Posted on 2011-11-03 at 18:18 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
First, Sarah Prineas (author of The Magic Thief series) announced via Twitter that “a while ago” audio rights for her forthcoming novel Winterling (HarperChildrens, January 3, 2012) were sold to Recorded Books.
Second, from the “how did I not know this was coming” department, John Crowley’s novel Little, Big will be coming out December 1 from Blackstone Audio! Crowley announced the deal in late September, revealing that he will be narrating the novel, which he did for a previous audiobook, Aegypt (also from
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Audiobook release day: Rule 34 by Charles Stross
Posted on 2011-11-02 at 19:26 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Today sees the release of Rule 34 By Narrated by Recorded Books:
A “loose sequel” to Halting State, Rule 34 uses three interleaving first person perspectives to tell its story: ”Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross takes listeners into the near future for this breathtaking thriller. As head of the Rule 34 Squad, Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh keeps a close eye on Internet activity, monitoring whether people are participating in harmless fantasies or engaging
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Audiobook announcement: Brilliance Audio has purchased audio rights for Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon (DAW Books)
Posted on 2011-11-02 at 18:26 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Saladin Ahmed broke the news on Twitter last Thursday, retweeted by his publisher DAW Books, that Brilliance Audio had purchased the audio rights to his debut novel, Throne of the Crescent Moon (hardcover, Feb 7, 2012):
And a day later, Ahmed posted the first chapter of the novel on his blog. As a fan both of Ahmed’s short fiction (which I’ve enjoyed catching at PodCastle, and which garnered him enough votes to be a finalist for both a Nebula Award and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer) and of
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