Release Week

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Release Week: Niven and Harrington's The Goliath Stone, Christopher Priest's The Adjacent, Madeline Ashby's iD, Paul S. Kemp's A Discourse in Steel, Calvino's Invisible Cities, and Ballard's The Drowned World

Posted on 2013-06-26 at 15:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

JUNE 19-25, 2013: June goes out with quite a bang -- limiting the picks to even the four pairs below still leaves titles of interest in the "also out this week" listings, such as a literary historical fantasy from Andrew Sean Greer and Jeff Noon's follow-on to Vurt; it's also another big week for self-published releases with David D. Levine, M.R. Mathias and Hugh Howey all publishing well-produced audiobooks of their works.

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

I'll start the pairings with two top-flight concurrent new

Posted in Release Week | Tagged christopher priest, italo calvino, jg ballard, john lee, kevin hearne, larry niven, luke daniels, madeline ashby, melissa scott, paul s. kemp

Release Week: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Lexicon, Wisp of a Thing, Before the Fall, The Indigo Pheasant, Dark Eden, and Ken Scholes' Requiem

Posted on 2013-06-19 at 15:45 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

JUNE 12-18, 2013: Well, there's no question on the most-anticipated title this week, Neil Gaiman's first novel for adults since 2005: The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel. But there's also a cerebral thriller from Max Barry, one of last year's most missing audiobooks in Chris Beckett's Dark Eden, a trio of second books in a series, and a full-cast narrated book 4 in Ken Scholes' "Psalms of Isaak" series, Requiem. Enjoy! And, not to worry, if (as it is for me) Gaiman's book is the one to most catch your

Posted in Release Week | Tagged alex bledsoe, chris beckett, daniel rabuzzi, dark eden, francis knight, ken scholes, lexicon, max barry, neil gaiman, the ocean at the end of the lane

Release Week: Will McIntosh's Love Minus Eighty, Jon Steele's Angel City, Elizabeth Moon's Limits of Power, and Jason Sheehan's A Private Little War

Posted on 2013-06-12 at 15:38 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

JUNE 5-11, 2013: After an absolutely over-packed release week last week, there's a bit of a calm before more big releases next week -- Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and Max Barry's Lexicon for starters). Still, several audiobooks really catch my eye and ear this week, ranging from the latest standalone novel from Will McIntosh, to a follow-on to war journalist Jon Steele's The Watchers, to the latest novel in Elizabeth Moon's Paksennarion series, to a debut sf novel from food editor Jason

Posted in Release Week | Tagged elizabeth-moon, jason sheehan, jon steele, will mcintosh

Release Week: The Shining Girls, Liminal States, Shattered Pillars, Siege and Storm, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, The Wall, The Constantine Affliction, Clockwork Fairy Tales, Bullettime, The Choir Boats, and more

Posted on 2013-06-06 at 05:06 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

MAY 29-JUNE 4, 2013: I really, really should have posted a "Release Midweek" this weekend, as I hardly know where to start in recapping this first release week in June. Do I highlight the baker's dozen of Audible productions of ChiZine titles from last Wednesday, highlighted for me by Nick Mamatas' Bullettime and Daniel Rabuzzi's The Choir Boats? Do I focus instead on the concurrent new releases, and if so do I go with adult novels, young adult, anthologies, or maybe even a non-genre pick? Or do I

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Release Week: Mur Lafferty's The Shambling Guide to New York City, Chuck Wendig's The Blue Blazes, Emma Newman's Any Other Name, and Hugh Howey's Shift

Posted on 2013-05-29 at 18:33 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

MAY 22-28, 2013: It's a mammoth release week to (more or less) close May, ahead of a gigantic release day Wednesday (today) which I'll cover both in a post of its own and of course in a bit lesser detail in the next release week roundup. It's also a particularly big release week for self-published (a.k.a. "indie") titles again, and while Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio snags two of my picks of the week, my top pick is probably no surprise to anyone at this point. In the "seen but not heard" listings it's

Posted in Release Week | Tagged chuck wendig, emma newman, hugh howey, mur lafferty

Release Week: Will Self's Umbrella, Mark T. Barnes' The Garden of Stones, Dan Krokos' The Planet Thieves, and a free Neil Gaiman short

Posted on 2013-05-22 at 14:25 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

May 15-21, 2013: A bit of a lull after last week's haul, but certainly none the lesser in top-level impact as a long, long hoped-for literary fiction title is here this week in the form of Will Self's Booker-shortlisted Umbrella. But don't worry, sf/f fans, whether "sf" or "f" strikes your fancy there are a few audiobooks to check out this week as well, of course. There's also a particularly strong crop of "indie" releases (see a selection of those in the "also out this week" listings) as well as a few more

Posted in Release Week | Tagged dan krokos, neil gaiman, will self

Release Week: Brandon Sanderson's The Rithmatist; Antti Tuomainen's The Healer; Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors; World War Z; The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl; Fiction River; and John Scalzi's The Human Division

Posted on 2013-05-15 at 17:15 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

May 8-14, 2013: It's a very, very crowded middle release week in May, with a long list of new audiobooks including new books in translation, a new YA novel from Brandon Sanderson, Neil Gaiman voicing one of his earlier collections, and finally an "unabridged" (scare quotes explained later...) US recording for World War Z. And more. How long is the list? Very long. I grudgingly winnowed things down to ~~six~~ seven picks, but others (a non-fiction Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass

Posted in Release Week | Tagged brandon sanderson, john scalzi, neil gaiman, world war z

Release Week: The Kings and Queens of Roam, Odds Against Tomorrow, Tales of Majipoor, and The Crystal Shard

Posted on 2013-05-08 at 19:46 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

MAY 1-7, 2013: May is here, and the first release week brings quite a haul, so let's get right to it:

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

The Kings and Queens of Roam: A Novel by Daniel Wallace, read by Angela Brazil for AudioGO. Out concurrent with the print/ebook release from Touchstone, it's the first new novel since 2007 for Wallace, the author of Big Fish. Here it's a story blending tall tales, folklore, and magical realism in, well, "Wallace"-ian fashion; is the magic "real"? Does it matter if it is? "Helen and

Posted in Release Week | Tagged daniel wallace, stefan rudnicki

Release Week: Joe Hill's NOS4A2, Wesley Chu's The Lives of Tao, Allen Steele's Apollo's Outcasts, and Ballard's The Drought

Posted on 2013-05-01 at 14:54 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

APRIL 24-30, 2013: April goes out with a howl and a bang, with more than a quartet of excellent titles, ranging from concurrent new horror and humorous sf releases, to one of last year's most "missing in audio" young adult sf titles, to one of sf's classic stories of climate change. Next week is another huge crop of high-interest titles as publishers start ramping up for summer reading and listening, so you'd better get started!

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

From the author of the novels Heart-Shaped Box and Horns a

Posted in Release Week | Tagged allen steele, joe hill, wesley chu

Release Week: Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni, Neil Gaiman's The Silver Dream, Sarah Prineas' Summerkin, and David Niall Wilson's Nevermore

Posted on 2013-04-24 at 15:56 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

APRIL 17-23, 2013: Though it's not a tremendously crowded release week, there are great picks in adult, teen, and kids audiobooks, ranging from the latest in a long line of strong debut fantasy novels in 2013 (Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni) to a sequel to Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves' InterWorld, and more. (In "meta coverage" notes, this week seems to belong to Harper Audio, whereas last week I noted strong weeks for Hachette Audio and Audible Frontiers.) Without further preamble: