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Audio release day: T.C. McCarthy's GERMLINE
Posted on 2011-07-26 at 13:57 by Sam
Link: Audio release day: T.C. McCarthy’s GERMLINE
Germline: The Subterrene War, Book 1 is just out at Audible.com and elsewhere. It’s the debut novel from South Carolina author T. C. McCarthy and Bull Spec reviewer C.D. Covington calls it “equal parts The Forever War and Hammer’s Slammers”. McCarthy, a former CIA analyst, weaves a tale of genetically engineered soldiers at war in a future Russia-US conflict in Kazakhstan. An embedded journalist begins to lose himself in the war and the drugs the soldiers use to keep super-ready. Publisher’s Weekly calls it “Compelling…. Recalling the work of Remarque, Willi Heinrich, and especially Michael Herr, McCarthy’s delirious narrative avoids cliché and raises intriguing questions about what it means to be human.”
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Another source of audiobook reviews: Axiom's Edge's "The Audio Files"
Posted on 2011-07-15 at 16:16 by Sam
Link: Another source of audiobook reviews: Axiom’s Edge’s “The Audio Files”
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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Lev Grossman's The Magician King
Posted on 2011-07-14 at 15:09 by Sam
Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Lev Grossman’s The Magician King
“With its grand fantasy adventure told in tandem with a tale of devastating realism The Magician King may possibly be the best fantasy novel of a year full of great contenders. Grade: A+”
Argh. Still a few weeks to wait for the public release. Tick, tick, tick…
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This week's Sync free audiobooks: Beowulf and Revenge of the Witch
Posted on 2011-07-14 at 14:09 by Sam
Link: This week’s Sync free audiobooks: Beowulf and Revenge of the Witch
Get ‘em while they last.
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Just added at Audible.com: J.G. Ballard's 2003 novel Millennium People
Posted on 2011-07-13 at 14:26 by Sam
Link: Just added at Audible.com: J.G. Ballard’s 2003 novel Millennium People
J. G. Ballard is a writer of which I’ve heard much, but from whom I’ve read nearly nothing. Today, courtesy an AudioGO production of a David Rintoul narration, Audible.com added Millennium People to its catalog:
The explosive J. G. Ballard renaissance, which began with the 2009 publication of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, now continues with his first novel to be published in America in a full decade. “Wonderfully warped, darkly comic” (The Economist), Millennium People tells the story of David Markham, a psychologist who is searching for the truth behind a bomb that exploded on a Heathrow baggage carousel, killing his ex-wife. Infiltrating a shadowy protest group responsible for her death, David finds himself succumbing to the charismatic charms of the group’s leader, who hopes to incite a violent rebellion against the government by his fanatical adherents, the spiritually and financially impoverished members of Britain’s white middle class. A shockingly plausible and extremely unsettling vision of society in collapse, Millennium People “dissects the perverse psychology that links terrorists with their innocent victims” (New Statesman).
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Something I missed in the Audible.com paperback sale: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest for $5.95
Posted on 2011-07-12 at 17:30 by Sam
Or it might not be that I missed it, because this morning Audible.com added another stack of books to its Paperback Sale, including The Word for World Is Forest by narrated by
At a shade over 5 hours, it is a short listen, but it’s one I’ve been hoping to pick up as I’ve heard such great things about the book.
Other books of interest I didn’t see the first time around:
- Kindred by
- Best Served Cold by
- Moonrise by narrated by
- One Second After by
- The Moon Is a Harsh MistressUNABRIDGED by
- Oath of Fealty by
- The Sailor on the Seas of Fate: An Elric Novel by
- Kafka on the Shore by
- Gateway by arrated by
- House of Suns by arrated by
- Consequences: A Retrieval Artist Novel and Extremes: A Retrieval Artist Novel by arrated by
- Armor by
- Minority Report and Other Stories (Unabridged Stories) by
- Non-genre alert! A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life written and read by
- Needle by
And a pair of John Scalzi novels narrated by Wil Wheaton: The Android’s Dream and Agent to the Stars:
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I Make Up Worlds: World SF: (Global) Women in SF Roundtable
Posted on 2011-07-12 at 14:13 by Sam
Link: I Make Up Worlds: World SF: (Global) Women in SF Roundtable
With: Aliette de Bodard (France), Joyce Chng (Singapore), Csilla Kleinheincz (Hungary), Kate Elliott (US), Karen Lord (Barbados), Ekaterina Sedia (Russia/US).
I’ve excerpted quotes but there’s lots more on the actual roundtable which you can find here.
Joyce: I feel that – as what I have…
A great roundtable over at the World SF blog. Side note: Lord and Sedia both have great audiobooks to check out:
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A Dance with Dragons brings George R. R. Martin's series A Song of Ice and Fire back to audio
Posted on 2011-07-12 at 14:10 by Sam
Link: A Dance with Dragons brings George R. R. Martin’s series A Song of Ice and Fire back to audio
Well, the wait is finally over. George R. R. Martin’s series A Song of Ice and Fire continues with book 5, A Dance with Dragons:
Once again narrated by Roy Dotrice, it’s a 2-credit download right off the bat this time. But for nearly 50 hours of Dotrice’s narration of this long-awaited book? I don’t think that’s deterring too many people. Me? I’m glad I saved up an extra credit for this one.
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The Best of All Possible Worlds. Indeed!
Posted on 2011-07-11 at 18:39 by Sam
Link: The Best of All Possible Worlds. Indeed!
The news for July 2011 at my agency says it all:
US and UK rights to Karen Lord’s The Best of All Possible Worlds have sold to Del Rey and Jo Fletcher Books respectively.
Thanks to my amazing…
Great news for readers, congrats to Karen Lord (and Del Rey)!
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Android Audible App - A Great Way to Listen to Audiobooks
Posted on 2011-07-11 at 03:41 by Sam
Link: Android Audible App - A Great Way to Listen to Audiobooks
I have an HTC Evo and I am in love with the Audible for Android Application. Again being an accoutant I love statistics. This app shows you the number of hours that you have listened, has badges that you can obtain as well as tracks the size of your library. I always have my phone with me so I can listen whenever I have a few free minutes.
Also quick FYI for audiobook lovers who have an iPhone, Audible also has an iPhone app as well.
I also love the 1.5x narration speed option — not available on the iPod player app on iPhone. 2x is way too fast.
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