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Best of November 2010 in Audible.com SFF: Catherynne M. Valente's The Habitation of the Blessed

Posted on 2010-11-30 at 10:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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Narrated by Ralph Lister for Brilliance Audio, Valente begins the series A Dirge for Prester John with The Habitation of the Blessed, my pick for the best of November 2010 in new science fiction and fantasy releases at Audible.com. John is a legendary church figure whose letters to Constantinople told of a rich, magical land of which he had become king. Here, Lister brings the three principle storylines to

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Best of October 2010 in Audible.com SFF: Iain M. Banks's Surface Detail

Posted on 2010-10-31 at 09:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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My pick for the best new science fiction and fantasy release at Audible.com in October 2010 is: Surface Detail: A Culture Novel by Iain M. Banks, narrated by Peter Kenny (Hachette Audio).

Publisher summary:

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. And it begins with a murder.

Lededje Y’breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose

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Best of September 2010 in Audible.com SFF: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed

Posted on 2010-09-30 at 09:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic 1974 novel The Dispossessed is brought wonderfully to audio courtesy a Harper Audio production of an excellent Don Leslie narration. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, it is also (and much less impressively, I might add!) my pick for the best new science fiction and fantasy audiobook at Audible.com in September 2010.

The publisher’s summary is brief: “Shevek, a brilliant physicist

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