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Release Week: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam, Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman, Toby Barlow's Babayaga, and Seanan McGuire's Chimes at Midnight
Posted on 2013-09-04 at 19:05 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
AUGUST 28-SEPTEMBER 3, 2013: September kicks off with two of my most anticipated titles of the year, Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam and Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman. It also brings news from The Hugo Awards at this weekend's World Science Fiction Convention in San Antonio, where Mur Lafferty (The Shambling Guide to New York City) won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Author, and John Scalzi's Redshirts was named Best Novel. This week does not, however, bring all the audiobooks that were hoped for: in
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Release Week: The Returned, The Fall of the Kings, Ice Forged, Abaddon's Gate, Reanimators, and Shadows of the New Sun
Posted on 2013-08-28 at 17:55 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
AUGUST 21-27, 2013: It's quite a release week haul this week: a powerful debut in the form of Jason Mott's The Returned, the return of Neil Gaiman Presents with another full cast "illuminated production" in Ellen Kushner's Riverside series, a pair of Recorded Books titles first published in print by Orbit Books earlier this year, a concurrent new release read by one of the best narrators in the business, and a star-studded all-original anthology set in Gene Wolfe's New Sun milieu. And! There's several more
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged brandon sanderson, ellen kushner, gail z martin, gene wolfe, james mott, james sa corey, neil gaiman presents, oliver wyman, steelheart, the expanse
Release Week: The People in the Trees, Of Dice and Men, Night Film, and Lookaway, Lookaway
Posted on 2013-08-21 at 18:21 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
AUGUST 14-20, 2013: This week brings a strange speculative fiction from Hanya Yanagihara, a non-fiction on Dungeons & Dragons, a haunting literary mystery, a satirical historical fiction, and a pretty good crop of "also out this week" including the latest fantasy novels from Naomi Novik (with narrator Simon Vance) and Mark Lawrence, and the anticipated dystopian debut of young British writer Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season. As usual: Enjoy!
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
The People in the Trees By Hanya Yanagihara,
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Release Week: Chuck Wendig's Under the Empyrean Sky, Michael J. Martinez's The Daedalus Incident, Aimee Bender's The Color Master, and Kate Elliot's Cold Magic
Posted on 2013-08-19 at 14:23 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
AUGUST 7-13, 2013: Some concurrent new releases, another just-barely-delayed, and one of 2010's most missing in audio make for a varied list of picks this week, from teen dystopian CornPunk to space sf, to a story collection, and a couple of intriguing "genre in the mainstream" books as well. In particular, in the "also out this week", Victoria Lustbader's powerful novel Approaching the Speed of Light was a hard cut this week. Enjoy!
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
Under the Empyrean Sky: The Heartland Trilogy, Book 1
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Release Week: Three, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic, The Crown Tower, The Companions, Dragonwriter, and the New Space Opera
Posted on 2013-08-14 at 02:48 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
JULY 31-AUGUST 6, 2013: Debuts, prequels, sequels, and anthologies, oh my! You can't throw a dart without hitting something worth listening to in the first release week of August. Post-apocalyptic debut sf? Check. A prequel to a bestselling adventure fantasy series? Check. The latest in R.A. Salvatore's beloved, long-running series of Drizzt books? How about an all-star-studded anthology reflecting on the influence of Anne McCaffery? Check, and check. Enjoy:
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
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Release Week: The Darwin Elevator, Kill City Blues, Nexus, Frostarc, Antidote Man, and Jay Lake's City Imperishable
Posted on 2013-08-05 at 18:01 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
JULY 24-30, 2013: July comes to a close with: another in a long line of strong 2013 debuts, narrated by one of the best in the business; the latest Sandman Slim; a well-received late 2012 sf novel of near-future nano-drugs; an early 2013 self-published sf novel which first came to my attention for its striking cover art and is now here as well-produced self-published audiobook; an audio original; and the two novels in Jay Lake's City Imperishable series. And! Plenty more to pick from this week as well
Posted in Release Week | Tagged antidote man, jamie sutliff, jason m hough, jay lake, luke daniels, nexus, ramez naam, richard kadrey, sandman slim, simon vance
Release Week: American Elsewhere, The Teleportation Accident, and Carniepunk
Posted on 2013-07-24 at 18:15 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
JULY 17-23, 2013: I was set to write up a fairly quiet -- with the principal exception of the colorful-looking anthology Carniepunk -- release week, when Recorded Books unexpectedly dropped one of my most-anticipated titles of the year, Robert Jackson Bennett's American Elsewhere. It's months later than the print publication but still well ahead of the previously expected audio release. And! When digging through the non-sf/f catalogs, as I tend to do each release week just to make sure I'm not missing out
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Release Week: Countdown City, This is How You Die, The Long War, and Helen & Troy's Epic Road Quest
Posted on 2013-07-23 at 03:43 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
JULY 10-16, 2013: Well... yet another Release Week post coming nearly a week late. I could try to excuse this with time spent on a lot of additions to the "Coming Soon" listings, including Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam (September 3), James Gunn's Transcendental (August 27), Mur Lafferty's Ghost Train to New Orleans (March 4, 2014) and, well, too many to list up here. But! Honestly I've had it mostly ready since mid last week, and just couldn't find the time to finish it up. On the plus side, it allowed time
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged a. lee martinez, ben h. winters, machine of death, stephen baxter, terry pratchett, the long earth
Release Week: The Curiosity, Burton and Swinburne, The Flames of Shadam Khoreh, and David Tallerman's Crown Thief
Posted on 2013-07-15 at 18:18 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
JULY 3-9, 2013: Whew. Another nearly week late Release Week roundup. What gives? Have I forsaken all that is audio? No, just busy. My picks this week include two concurrent new releases, one from the "genre in the mainstream" side of the fence and the other the latest in Mark Hodder's series of "Burton and Swinburne" Steampunk adventures, along with two audiobooks which belatedly continue fantasy series. Also see the "also out this week" listings, particularly the return of the Fiction River original
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Release Week: Hannu Rajaniemi's The Fractal Prince, Django Wexler's The Thousand Names, Anthony Ryan's Blood Song, Melissa Marr's The Arrivals, Matt Haig's The Humans, and Stephen Graham Jones' Zombie Bake-Off
Posted on 2013-07-09 at 03:32 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
JUNE 26-JULY 2, 2013: July is off and running with a first release week to jump-start your summer listening plans. From hard-to-the-point-of-being-nearly-incomprehensible sf (Hannu Rajaniemi's The Fractal Prince) to a more The Hunger Games esque (with aliens!) book (Melissa Marr's The Arrivals) to first books in new epic fantasy series (Django Wexler's The Thousand Names and Anthony Ryan's Blood Song) to the latest in quite a string of literary authorial takes on sf (Matt Haig's The Humans), to... well, a
Posted in Release Week | Tagged anthony ryan, django wexler, hannu rajaniemi, scott brick, stephen graham jones
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