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My plans for this blog in 2012!
Posted on 2012-01-02 at 03:17 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Whew. 2011 is barely a day over, and here I am planning a hole year of blogging about science fiction and fantasy audiobooks. First, a couple of changes:
- I’m probably going to listen to fewer than 80 audiobooks this year. I want to take better advantage of the reading time I do have — those times where I could have been sitting and reading but instead have been sitting and listening. So instead of an 80-20 split on audiobooks vs. “real reading” I’m hoping to bring it closer to 50-50.
- I’ve been covering too many releases, even in brief these take time. So, I’m going to start trying to filter even more, going from a “am I a bit interested in this?” to “would I listen to this tomorrow if I had the time, or will this be on my wishlist in a month?”
That said, my rough plans for the year are to give this blog a little more structure, with (interspersed with short reviews and other bits) “Interview Mondays”, “Release Week Wednesdays”, and “Feature Fridays” — whether those features are reviews, previews, articles, or guest features. Well, thanks for following along so far, I’m looking forward to a great 2012, starting with my first “Interview Monday” tomorrow with The Guilded Earlobe’s Bob Reiss. See you then!
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Sam Without Pants
Posted on 2012-01-01 at 22:59 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Hey, this one’s personal!
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Audiobook release day: Hal Duncan's Vellum: The Book of All Hours and Douglas Hulick's Among Thieves
Posted on 2011-12-30 at 20:18 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
I wasn’t planning on posting today, but then two books popped up which have been high up on my “where’s the audiobook?” list for a while. The first is Vellum: The Book of All Hours By Narrated by Audible, Inc.:
Duncan’s acclaimed 2005 novel: “It’s 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human; now they are unkin, transformed by the ancient machine-code language of reality itself. They seek The Book of All Hours, the mythical tome within which the blueprint for all reality is transcribed, which has been lost somewhere in the Vellum – the vast realm of eternity upon which our world is a mere scratch.”
The second is Among Thieves: Tale of the Kin Series #1 By Narrated By Tantor Audio:
This one was on my “where’s the audiobook?” list for 2011, so it appears I should have waited another week: “Drothe has been a member of the Kin for years, rubbing elbows with thieves and murderers while smuggling relics on the side. But when an ancient book falls into his hands, Drothe finds himself in possession of a relic capable of bringing down emperors - a relic everyone in the underworld would kill to obtain.”
ALSO OUT TODAY:
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Audible's "Holiday Relief Sale" includes titles from Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Robert J. Sawyer, and more
Posted on 2011-12-29 at 16:08 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Audible’s $9.95 Holiday Relief sale goes through January 3, and while there’s a breakout for Fiction the list of 75 titles there isn’t broken down further into genre categories. So, along with a few others that catch my eye:
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In which I geek out over audiobooks on Episode 85 of The Functional Nerds podcast
Posted on 2011-12-28 at 17:48 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: In which I geek out over audiobooks on Episode 85 of The Functional Nerds podcast
Thanks again to John Anealio and Patrick Hester for having me on, and it was great to talk with John DeNardo as well.
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Audiobook release week, 27 December 2011
Posted on 2011-12-28 at 04:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
OUT PREVIOUSLY THIS WEEK:
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2011 in review, 4 of 4: My picks for the year's best in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks
Posted on 2011-12-23 at 13:24 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
This is the last of four posts looking back at 2011 in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks, after my year in listening, what I missed, and the most missing audiobooks. Here, I lay out my picks for the year’s best in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks!
I already spilled the beans on my pick for the best new audiobook of the year, that being Glimpses By Narrated by
This is an authentic book of a time that was and of timeless music that almost was, and true human characters moving between them. I enthusiastically recommend it.”
That said, there were a lot of really good audiobooks this year and I wanted to single out a few more.
RUNNERS UP, BEST OVERALL:
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The Guilded Earlobe reviews Isla J. Bick's Ashes (and offers some post-apoc survival advice)
Posted on 2011-12-23 at 12:57 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews Isla J. Bick’s Ashes (and offers some post-apoc survival advice)
Bob offers a “full service” review here, even adding some helpful tips to surviving a zombie apocalypse.
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2011 in review, 3 of 4: Where's the audiobook?
Posted on 2011-12-21 at 19:22 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
This is the third of four posts looking back at 2011 in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks. I started with my year in listening and continued with a look into what I missed. Here, I’ll gripe at the world with my list of the most missing audiobooks of the year — those books I wanted to listen to but for which there was no audiobook. Lastly, I’ll lay out my picks for the year’s best in science fiction and fantasy audiobooks. But now: Where’s the audiobook?
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The perils and rewards of having a public "where's the audiobook?" list
Posted on 2011-12-21 at 17:05 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
I have done a terrible job of categorizing, sorting, and updating my list of missing audiobooks, as the arrival this year of several on my “where’s the audiobook?” list attests. But on the plus side, sometimes folks see the list and let me know that, hey, some of those books are coming. And I get to pass that info along, which is quite fun. So without further adieu, Audible contacted me to let me know about some of the titles they (or someone they know about) has in the works for 2012:
Glory Road by Robert Heinlein – Blackstone Audio is producing, look for it in 2012.
Mark L. Van Name’s Jon & Lobo series – these are currently in production; Books 1-4 will be available at the end of March, and Audible will have the new book on May 1.
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