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Audiobook release day: On the Beach by Nevil Shute!

Posted on 2011-10-19 at 17:12 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

On the Beach is Nevil Shute’s 1957 masterpiece, a defining work of speculative fiction born of its time in the cold war, where global nuclear annihilation seemed a turnkey away. Narrated by Simon Prebble From Recorded Books, this appears to be the stellar 1991 production, now made available at Audible.com:

At 9.5 hours, it’s not a long listen. But this novel, along with Walter M. Miller’s 1959 novel of nuclear cataclysm A Canticle for Leibowitz, are among by all-time favorite books. Shute’s is by far the

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Audiobook release day: Zone One by Colson Whitehead, Richard Kadrey's Aloha from Hell, and more

Posted on 2011-10-18 at 16:35 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

On the heels of a brief mention in TIME magazine and a glowing review by Jeff VanderMeer for Barnes & Noble, Zone One: A Novel By Colson Whitehead is out from Random House Audio, concurrent with its release in hardcover from Doubleday:

Narrated by Beresford Bennett, Zone One is both a zombie novel and a wry satire and it’s been on my watch list for a good bit. (Again, hat tip to Jeff VanderMeer, the source of many books in my too-long “to read” list.) There’s been plenty of building attention to the novel,

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life

Posted on 2011-10-17 at 00:38 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life

If it were not for the Apple //e, the IIgs, and the original Mac, I have no idea who I’d be or what I’d be doing. But they were built, and here I am, writing code, publishing a science fiction magazine, and listening to audiobooks on my iPod and now iPhone.

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Audible.com release day: The Ringworld Engineers: The Ringworld Series, Book 2 by Larry Niven

Posted on 2011-10-14 at 21:33 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The Ringworld Engineers: The Ringworld Series, Book 2 By Larry Niven Narrated by Paul Michael Garcia From Blackstone Audio, Inc. Niven’s 1980 novel picks up 20 years after Ringworld:

ALSO OUT TODAY: A seven-pack of titles from Iambik Audio with Unwelcome Bodies by Jennifer Pelland and Chill by Elizabeth Bear being the ones which most catch my eye.

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Sneak peek at James Marster's narration of Clay and Susan Griffith's Vampire Empire: The Greyfriar

Posted on 2011-10-14 at 21:24 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Over at Buzzy Multimedia, The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire, Book 1) is available for pre-order, with a nearly 20 minute preview excerpt from narrator James Marsters.

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Posted on 2011-10-12 at 16:12 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Audiobook received: The Alloy of Law (A Mistborn Novel) by Brandon Sanderson, read by Michael Kramer. Out November 8, 2011 from Macmillan Audio. “Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.” Continuing Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy: The Final Empire: Mistborn Book 1, The Well of

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Audiobook release day: The Cold Commands by Richard K. Morgan; and: Steampunk!

Posted on 2011-10-12 at 15:13 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

On the heels of the Del Rey hardcover release yesterday comes The Cold Commands: A Land Fit for Heroes, Book 2 By Richard K. Morgan Narrated by Simon Vance:

Out from Tantor Audio, The Cold Commands continues Morgan’s foray into sword & sorcery which began with 2009’s The Steel Remains. Morgan is best known for The Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels & Woken Furies but his new series has been greeted with good reviews and the sequel has been quite anticipated. If the cover doesn’t look

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Iambik Audiobooks 1-year "birthday" giveaway

Posted on 2011-10-11 at 17:42 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link: Iambik Audiobooks 1-year "birthday" giveaway

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Audiobook release day: In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood

Posted on 2011-10-11 at 16:18 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Today sees the audiobook (and Audible.com) release date for, among others: In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination By Margaret Atwood Narrated by Susan Denaker:

A collection of Atwood’s essays: “In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination is Margaret Atwood’s account of her rela­tionship with the literary form we have come to know as science fiction. This relationship has been lifelong, stretch­ing from her days as a child reader in the 1940s through her time as a graduate student at

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Audiobooks announced: Alan Baxter's RealmShift and MageSign

Posted on 2011-10-06 at 11:05 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Australian dark fantasy thriller author Alan Baxter announced that his two novels, RealmShift and MageSign, are coming soon to audio thanks to a successful ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange, by Audible.com) agreement with narrator Matt “Bentley” Allegre with RealmShift coming in time for Christmas, and MageSign to follow soon after.

RealmShift introduces both Baxter and his world, a modern day “underpinned by the somewhat less tangible balance and interplay of the gods”, along with the protagonist Isiah, a

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