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Audible.com's "The Best of 2011 So Far"
Posted on 2011-06-23 at 17:34 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Audible.com's "The Best of 2011 So Far"
Audible.com has posted a mini-site feature for “The Best of 2011 So Far”, which includes Solaris: The Definitive Edition and The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive (non-fiction) in its “Editors Picks” while “Customer Favorites” includes Solaris as well as:
- The Wise Man’s Fear: Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2 by Patrick Rothfuss [my review]
- The Throne of Fire: Kane Chronicles, Book 2 (YR)
- Fuzzy Nation by John
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iTunes sale on first audiobooks in a series includes Lev Grossman's The Magicians for $5.95 (ITMS link)
Posted on 2011-06-21 at 21:43 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Lev Grossman’s 2009 novel The Magicians is one of my all-time favorite audiobooks. Mark Bramhall does a wonderful job on the narration, and there it is, in a “first book in a series” sale in the iTunes Music Store.
Other interesting titles at a glance: Eragon by Christopher Paolini (YA), Redwall (Book 1) by Brian Jacques (YR), The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan (YR), Darkly
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Released today on Audible: The Tenth Anniversary Edition of American Gods by Neil Gaiman, with a new full cast production
Posted on 2011-06-21 at 17:57 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
This is one of my favorite books from one of my favorite authors, and while the existing audiobook is a very good one-narrator performance from George Guidall, for the 10th anniversary edition of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods there’s “updated and expanded” text and a 4-person cast production from Harper Audio.
Publisher’s Summary:
Read more...First published in 2001, American Gods became an
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Welcome to my guide to the audio world of science fiction and fantasy
Posted on 2011-06-20 at 18:05 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Hello, and welcome to yet another blog. This one sets out to cover, twice monthly or so with occasional additional updates, what’s out there to listen to in terms of speculative fiction, focusing on new releases of science fiction and fantasy audiobooks at Audible.com. One post to begin each month with a preview of what’s coming, and another post at the end of the month to recap what I enjoyed hearing. I hope you like it and that you’ll play along, either submitting your own picks and/or asking
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Best of May 2011 in Audible.com SFF: China Mieville's Embassytown
Posted on 2011-05-31 at 09:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Best of May 2011 in Audible.com SFF: China Mieville's Embassytown
Narrated by Susan Duerden, whose previous titles include Android Karenina, China Mieville’s Embassytown is my pick for the best science fiction and fantasy title to be released at Audible.com in May.
Here’s the publisher’s summary:
Read more...China Miéville doesn’t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer—and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field—with Embassytown, Miéville has
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Best of April 2011 in Audible.com SFF: Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Posted on 2011-04-30 at 09:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Charles Yu’s short September 2010 novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Pantheon) finally arrived at Audible.com in April 2011, courtesy of a Recorded Brooks production of a James Yaegashi narration, and it’s my pick for Audible.com’s best Science Fiction and Fantasy release of April 2011.
On to the publisher summary:
Read more...Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of
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Best of March 2011 in Audible.com SFF: Lewis Shiner's Glimpses, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki
Posted on 2011-03-31 at 09:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Best of March 2011 in Audible.com SFF: Lewis Shiner's Glimpses, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki
Lewis Shiner’s 1993 novel Glimpses won the 1994 World Fantasy Award, and has been brought to wonderful life by Stefan Rudnicki. It’s a marvelous audiobook, and my pick for the best Science Fiction and Fantasy audiobook release at Audible.com in March 2011.
Onto the publisher’s summary and some glowing blurbs:
Read more...Ray Shackleford is trying to deal with the death of his father and the collapse of his marriage
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Best of February 2011 in Audible.com SFF: David Halperin's Journal of a UFO Investigator narrated by Sean Runnette
Posted on 2011-02-28 at 10:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Let me get this out of the way first: Prolific non-fiction author and eminent Judaic scholar David Halperin’s debut novel Journal of a UFO Investigator (Viking, Blackstone Audio) is not properly science fiction. It is, however, a wonderful book, and Sean Runnette’s narration brings it wonderfully to life, and it is, to quote Bull Spec reviewer Richard Dansky, “a novel about what science
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Best of January 2011 in Audible.com SFF: Orson Scott Card's The Lost Gate, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki
Posted on 2011-01-31 at 10:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
The Lost Gate: Mithermages, Book 1 by Orson Scott Card, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, starts a new modern fantasy for bestselling author Card. Rudnicki as always delivers, and Card’s setting, on which he’s worked quite a while (as he detailed in an interview with The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy), is reminiscent of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods in that it incorporates most every known pantheon into a
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Best of December 2010 in Audible.com SFF: Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch
Posted on 2010-12-31 at 10:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: Best of December 2010 in Audible.com SFF: Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch
Russian urban fantasist Sergei Lukyanenko’s audiobooks have been a long while coming, but they were worth the wait, and they are my pick(s) for the best new science fiction and fantasy release of December 2010 at Audible.com. Paul Michael narrates Audible Frontiers productions of all four Watch books, all published in the wee hours of 2010:
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