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Posted on 2011-08-09 at 13:39 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Read more...Out today!!! Many exclamation points!!!!
Josh raved about The Magician King on our “To BEA and Back Again” ep. Jenn is reading it now in prep for Lev Grossman’s release party at WORD Brooklyn tonight (if you are in New York, YOU SHOULD GO!) and sharing quotes here, here, and here. Rebecca just read The Magicians and can’t wait to get to this one.
It’s unanimously a Bookrageous favorite! And if that doesn’t convince you, can we tell you about the time Lev Grossman recited “The Owl and the
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Previewing August 2011 (and remarking on its first week)
Posted on 2011-08-05 at 19:53 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
August is already well upon us, with the first week bringing a spectacular list to audio. I already noted the First Friday titles Among Others (by Jo Walton) and All the Lives He Led (by Frederik Pohl), and there’s a few more already out this month that warrant immediate notice: 1968’s Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner and 1960’s A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller. Brought to Audible.com via Macmillan Audio and Blackstone Audio, respectively, they are two of the great works of sf and I’m very
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Best of July 2011 in Audible.com SFF: T.C. McCarthy's GERMLINE
Posted on 2011-08-05 at 19:24 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Best of July 2011 in Audible.com SFF: T.C. McCarthy's GERMLINE
In a month of blockbusters (A Dance with Dragons, Ghost Stories, Vortex, Flashback) it was a more under-the-radar release which most impressed me in July. So, a bit belatedly, my pick for the best of July 2011 in Audible.com SFF is: Germline: The Subterrene War, Book 1 by arrated by
One of the reasons this “Best of July” post is coming almost a week into August is that Germline was released near the end of
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James Marsters to narrate the audio version of The Greyfriar: Vampire Empire!
Posted on 2011-08-05 at 18:22 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: James Marsters to narrate the audio version of The Greyfriar: Vampire Empire!
Raleigh authors Clay and Susan Griffith, primarily known for their work on comics, burst onto the f/sf scene with their 2010 Pyr novel The Greyfriar, book 1 in their Vampire Empire trilogy. Earlier this year, Buzzy Multimedia announced it had acquired the audio rights to the series, and the speculation began on who would be picked to narrate the series. Well, the speculation is over, as James Marsters (“Spike” on the
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Audible.com "First Friday" for August 2011: Among Others and All the Lives He Led
Posted on 2011-08-05 at 17:52 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Audible.com "First Friday" for August 2011: Among Others and All the Lives He Led
It’s here! I’ve been waiting for this to come out in audio since January. Narrated by none other than Katherine Kellgren, Jo Walton’s novel Among Others (Tor, January 2011) leads off Audible.com’s “First Friday” for August.
Described as: “Startling, unusual, and yet irresistibly listenable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of
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Audible.com July 2011 Customer Favorites
Posted on 2011-08-05 at 17:43 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Audible.com July 2011 Customer Favorites
Another month, another top-10 from Audible.com in their Monthly Customer Favorites series. It’s a genre-heavy month, with:
- Vortex by narrated by
- Ex-Patriots by arrated by
- Hammered: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book 3 by arrated by
- A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 5 by narrated by
But there’s also a non-genre book I keep hearing
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Audio release day: T.C. McCarthy's GERMLINE
Posted on 2011-07-26 at 13:57 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Audio release day: T.C. McCarthy's GERMLINE
Germline: The Subterrene War, Book 1 is just out at Audible.com and elsewhere. It’s the debut novel from South Carolina author T. C. McCarthy and Bull Spec reviewer C.D. Covington calls it “equal parts The Forever War and Hammer’s Slammers”. McCarthy, a former CIA analyst, weaves a tale of genetically engineered soldiers at war in a future Russia-US conflict in Kazakhstan. An embedded journalist begins to lose himself in the war and the drugs the soldiers
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Another source of audiobook reviews: Axiom's Edge's "The Audio Files"
Posted on 2011-07-15 at 16:16 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Another source of audiobook reviews: Axiom's Edge's "The Audio Files"
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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Lev Grossman's The Magician King
Posted on 2011-07-14 at 15:09 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Lev Grossman's The Magician King
“With its grand fantasy adventure told in tandem with a tale of devastating realism The Magician King may possibly be the best fantasy novel of a year full of great contenders. Grade: A+”
Argh. Still a few weeks to wait for the public release. Tick, tick, tick…
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This week's Sync free audiobooks: Beowulf and Revenge of the Witch
Posted on 2011-07-14 at 14:09 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: This week's Sync free audiobooks: Beowulf and Revenge of the Witch
Get ‘em while they last.
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