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Release Week: Kosmatka, Pagliassotti, Zebrowski, Cherryh, Julavits, Medina, and more...

Posted on 2012-03-14 at 14:58 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

A prolific and intriguing release week is led by The Games By Ted Kosmatka, Narrated by Scott Brick for Random House Audio — “This stunning first novel from Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Ted Kosmatka is a riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics. Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games envisions a harrowing world that may arrive sooner than you think. Silas Williams is the brilliant

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Release Week: Tanith Lee's Tales from the Flat Earth and A. Lee Martinez's Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain

Posted on 2012-03-07 at 15:07 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Leading a fairly quiet first Tuesday in March in terms of new audiobook releases are the five books in Tanith Lee’s series Tales from the Flat Earth, all read by Susan Duerdan for Audible Frontiers:

“Night’s Master is the first book of the stunning arabesque high-fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth, which, in the manner of The One Thousand and One Nights, portrays an ancient world in mythic grandeur via connected tales. Long ago when the Earth was flat, beautiful, indifferent Gods lived in the

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Release Week: TC McCarthy's Exogene, Michael Swanwick's Dancing with Bears, Sergey and Marina Dyachenko's The Scar, and Elizabeth Hand's Available Dark

Posted on 2012-02-29 at 03:49 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

February goes out with quite a splash, with T. C. McCarthy’s Exogene: The Subterrene Trilogy, Book 2, Michael Swanwick’s Dancing with Bears: A Darger and Surplus Novel, Sergey and Marina Dyachenko’s The Scar, and Elizabeth Hand’s Available Dark.

EXOGENE: Read by Bahni Turpin for Blackstone Audio and released concurrently with the mass market and e-book from Orbit, Exogene sets up as a much more traditional military sf novel than did the author’s debut, 2011’s Germline. Germline was read by Donald Corren, an

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Release Week: Eric Flint's 1632, Elizabeth Moon's Echoes of Betrayal, Larry Niven, and The Technologists

Posted on 2012-02-21 at 18:43 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Published in print by Baen in 2000, 1632 became a bestseller and spawned a bestselling series of alternate history and its own fanfiction magazine, its own track at Dragon*Con, and who knows what else. Synopsis: A small bit of

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Release Week: Stephen King's The Stand; Reese, Kittredge, and Simmons; Zebrowski, Gunn, and Lieber

Posted on 2012-02-15 at 15:30 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Coming in at nearly 48 hours, the big title this audiobook release week is The Stand By Stephen King, narrated by Grover Gardner for Random House Audio:

Not only is the recording unabridged, it’s the “complete and uncut” version of King’s classic post-apocalyptic tale, “includ[ing] more than 500 pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation.” First published in it’s “abbreviated” (yet still doorstopping) form in 1978 and

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Release Week: Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed, Oliver Wyman narrates a Swanwick masterwork, and the return of Neil Gaiman Presents

Posted on 2012-02-07 at 15:24 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

My most anticipated release of a packed week in audiobooks is Throne of the Crescent Moon By Saladin Ahmed, Narrated by Phil Gigante for Brilliance Audio [IndieBound MP3-CD link | iTunes Audiobook link]:

Published concurrent with the DAW hardcover, Ahmed’s debut is a welcome new voice in fantasy. Beginning with a short, dark prologue of torture which introduces us to a powerful, evil raiser of ghuls known as “the gaunt man” and his jackal-faced assistant, we are then introduced to our atypical hero, Dr

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Release Week: Lost and Found, When Worlds Collide

Posted on 2012-02-01 at 13:40 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

A fairly quiet release week to end January, with the most interesting titles for me being previously released books.

The first is Lost and Found: The Taken Trilogy, Book 1 By Alan Dean Foster, Narrated by Oliver Wyman for Audible, Inc.:

Originally published in 2004 by Del Rey: “Not so long ago Marcus Walker was just another young commodities trader in Chicago, working hard and playing harder. But that’s all in the past, part of a life half forgotten-a reality that vanished when he was attacked while

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Release Week Wednesday: The Curious Case(s) of Burton & Swinburne, Against the Light, KKR, PKD, and more

Posted on 2012-01-25 at 14:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

A fairly big release week is highlighted for me by the complete Burton and Swinburne series by Mark Hodder, narrated by Gerard Doyle for Audible Frontiers:

Out concurrently with the Pyr print release of Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon: Burton & Swinburne, Book 3, getting all three of these groundbreaking steampunk/sf books is a huge addition to the world of sf audiobooks. The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack: Burton & Swinburne, Book 1 (2010) was the first steampunk book to win the Philip K

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Release Week Wednesday: The Flame Alphabet, Shadows in Flight, and The Coldest War

Posted on 2012-01-18 at 19:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

For this release week (Tuesday, Jan 17) my top audiobook picks are The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus and Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card, along with The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis.

The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus is out from Recorded Books (Knopf, Jan 17, 2012) — a story of a world where the voices of children become lethal to their parents, and a boy who sets out in search of a cure. I’m not that impressed by the audiobook cover:

So here is the book cover as well:

On Audible: The Flame Alphabet B

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Release Week Wednesday: Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson

Posted on 2012-01-11 at 13:03 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

My pick of the audiobooks out this release week is Distrust That Particular Flavor [Goodreads | not yet available at Audible.com] By William Gibson, Read By Robertson Dean for Tantor Audio:

Published last week in print, this collection of essays comes to us from, essentially, the voice of Gibson in audio, as Dean has narrated recent Gibson novels Spook Country and Zero History with more than aplomb, perfectly capturing the voices of Hollis Henry and (in particular) Milgrim, as well as last year’s new

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