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Audiobook release day: The White City: Book 3 of the Clockwork Dark by John Claude Bemis

Posted on 2011-08-23 at 16:39 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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With The White City: Book 3 of The Clockwork Dark, Hillsborough, NC author John Claude Bemis completes his trilogy for young readers which combines American folklore, Steampunk, and just the right amount of mountain magic:

Once again narrated by John H. Mayer and out from Listening Library (in print from Random House Books for Young Readers), the book continues the story which began in The Nine Pound Hammer: The

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Audible.com's "New Day, New Deal" through the end of August begins with Yann Martel's Life of Pi

Posted on 2011-08-22 at 17:40 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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With “New Day, New Deal” launching today, Audible.com promises to “reveal a top listener favorite on sale each day for just $7.95 every weekday at 10 AM ET until the end of the month”. The promotion begins with Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi:

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Ernest Cline's Ready Player One

Posted on 2011-08-19 at 20:05 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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Wow, he really loved it. I might be a bit less “A+ …  I think that Ready Player One has the potential to be more than just a great book, but a true cultural Icon. Ready Player One is the Stranger in a Strange Land of the Atari generation, the Hitchhikers Guide for those who wished the Keatons were their family.” but that’s not too over the top. There was definitely something of a geek criticality event listening to Wil Wheaton produce the

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Fantasy Literature reviews the new audiobook for William Gibson's Neuromancer

Posted on 2011-08-19 at 14:53 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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Currently listening to: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline narrated by Wil Wheaton

Posted on 2011-08-18 at 00:41 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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Audiobook release day: Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs (and a whole lot more)

Posted on 2011-08-16 at 15:42 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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With front cover praise from David Drake (“Southern Gods is scary, smart, and effective both as Lovecraftian fiction and as a Southern Regional novel set in 1951”) and a recent “Big Idea” feature on Scalzi’s Whatever blog, Southern Gods is John Hornor Jacobs’s debut novel from Night Shade Books. Out in print late last month, Brilliance Audio has produced an Eric G Dove narration of the novel which is out today.

It’s

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Just added at Audible.com: A Blight of Mages by Karen Miller (and some other things)

Posted on 2011-08-14 at 20:20 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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A Blight of Mages is the latest audiobook from Karen Miller, narrated by Eileen Stevens:

Teaser: “Hundreds of years before the great Mage War, a land lies, unknowing, on the edge of catastrophe….” Miller’s “Mage” books number in quite the several, and it’s been a series I’ve wanted to jump into several times but just haven’t found the time. Yet. I need to find a reading guide to figure out where to begin…

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Interviews and conversations at Locus

Posted on 2011-08-14 at 18:19 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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I’ve been terrible at updating here over the past week, for which I beg you to accept my sincerest apologies. There are two new things to mention:

1) an amazingly fun podcast I did with Karen…

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Albert Brooks's 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America

Posted on 2011-08-11 at 12:58 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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The Guilded Earlobe has quickly gone from being unknown to me to being my absolutely favorite source of audiobook interviews. Today he takes a look at one of the audiobooks I passed on along the way this year, Albert Brooks’s 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America:

Here’s the start of the review:

Genre: Future History

Quick Thoughts: While 2030 has its flaws, I found it to be a compelling read

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Audiobook release day: The Magician King by Lev Grossman, read by Mark Bramhall

Posted on 2011-08-09 at 13:51 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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Leading a 4-pack of interesting releases at Audible.com today is Lev Grossman’s The Magician King, read by Mark Bramhall:

It’s a wonderful novel, and already a few chapters into the audiobook … so very happy once again with Bramhall’s narration of this world. Several reviews have started showing up (last month The Guilded Earlobe reviewed the audiobook as an A+), yesterday CNN had a brief review along with an interview,

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