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Release Week: 15 February 2022

Posted on 2022-02-15 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• Elric of Melniboné: Volume 1: Elric of Melnibone, The Fortress of the Pearl, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, and The Weird of the White Wolf By: Michael Moorcock, with an introduction by Neil Gaiman, read by Samuel Roukin for Recorded Books -- "When Michael Moorcock began chronicling the adventures of the albino sorcerer Elric, last king of decadent Melniboné, and his sentient vampiric sword, Stormbringer, he set out to create a new kind of fantasy adventure, one that broke with tradition and

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Release Week: 8 February 2022

Posted on 2022-02-08 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• The This By: Adam Roberts, read by Elliot Fitzpatrick for Gollancz -- "The This is the new social media platform everyone is talking about. Allow it to be injected into the roof of your mouth and it will grow into your brain, allowing you to connect with others without even picking up your phone. Its followers are growing. Its detractors say it is a cult. But for one journalist, hired to do a puff-piece interview with their CEO, it will change the world forever."

• Echo By: Thomas Olde Heuvelt, read

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Release Week: 1 February 2022

Posted on 2022-02-01 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• Recitatif: A Story By: Toni Morrison, read by Bahni Turpin, with and introduction written and read by Zadie Smith -- "In this 1983 short story - the only short story Morrison ever wrote - we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at

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Release Week: 25 January 2022

Posted on 2022-01-25 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• Devil House: A Novel By: John Darnielle, read by the author for Macmillan -- "From John Darnielle, the New York Times best-selling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling. Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That’s what his mother always told him. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success - and a movie adaptation - to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable

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Release Week: 18 January 2022

Posted on 2022-01-18 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel By: Sequoia Nagamatsu, read by a full cast for Harper -- "For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague - a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice."

• Ghost of a Marriage By: Richard Dansky, read by: Sam Rosenthal for

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Release Week: 11 January 2022

Posted on 2022-01-11 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• To Paradise: A Novel By: Hanya Yanagihara, read by Edoardo Ballerini, Catherine Ho, BD Wong, Feodor Chin, and Kurt Kanazawa for Random House -- "From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries (1893, 1993, and 2093) and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss, and the elusive promise of utopia."

• Daughter of the Moon Goddess: A Novel By: Sue Lynn Tan, read by Natalie Naudus for Harper -- "A captivating debut

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Release Week: 4 January 2022

Posted on 2022-01-04 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• The School for Good Mothers: A Novel By: Jessamine Chan, read by Catherine Ho for Simon and Schuster -- "In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance."

• The High House: A Novel By: Jessie Greengrass, read by Camilla Rockley, Sam Newton, and Mariam Abu-Hejleh for Simon and Schuster -- "In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to make

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Release Week: 28 December 2021

Posted on 2021-12-28 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Link to last week

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What ever happened to Sam's "Release Week" roundup posts? They're on reddit!

Posted on 2017-03-02 at 02:27 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I've realized that I never made any kind of "formal" post or announcement here on the blog, when I moved the "Release Week" roundup posts from here to reddit's /r/audiobooks... So... Yeah... Sorry about that. I've been a moderator there for quite a long time now, and when push came to shove for that particular column, the formatting, linking, images, and such just became a bit too much to both write up here and then sanitize a bit for posting over there, and I just took to using the more or less "barebones"

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Release Week: Rudy Rucker's Software, Michael Underwood's The Younger Gods, Daniel Abraham's The Price of Spring, Shae Ford's Dragonsbane, Mary Rickert's The Memory Garden, Russell H. Greenan's It Happened in Boston?, Multiverse, and Rick Wilber's Field of Fantasies

Posted on 2015-01-03 at 04:38 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

DECEMBER 17-31, 2014: I went ahead and extended this pair of weeks one extra day to give a clean cutoff to 2014. It was a fantastic year of audiobooks (and of course Dave and I will be here with some best-of-the-year picks in due course) and 2015 looks every bit as packed as we consider a preview of what's to come. In the meantime, the last half of the last month of 2014 had some surprises, with all eight picks again coming off the "seen but not heard" listings -- though a few of them are from just a few

Posted in Release Week | Tagged chris sorensen, daniel abraham, derek perkins, dragonsbane, fate's forsaken, field of fantasies, gardner dozois, greg bear, luke daniels, mary rickert, michael underwood, multiverse, neil shah, poul anderson, rick wilber, robert fass, rudy rucker, russell h greenan, shae ford, software, tavia gilbert, the price of spring, the younger gods