Thursday, November 1, 2007

New Releases from Random House Audio for late November

Thursday, November 1, 2007Sunday, November 4, 2007 Jesse Willis

Here are a few reasons to buy stock in Random House Audio this winter!

Selections From Dreamsongs: Volume II
By George R.R. Martin; Read by various
14 CDs -17 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 11/27/2007 |AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW @ audible.com|
ISBN: 9780739357149
Included in VOLUME II are acclaimed stories such as Sandkings, which won both the Nebula® and Hugo awards, and the Bram Stoker Award–winning The Pear-Shaped Man. Featuring extensive author commentary, DREAMSONGS, VOLUME II, is an invaluable chronicle of a writer at the height of his creativity—and an unforgettable listening experience for fans old and new.

Selections From Dreamsongs: Volume III
By George R.R. Martin; Read by various
17 CDs – 20 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 11/27/2007 |AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW @ audible.com|
ISBN: 9780739357163
Included in Volume III are acclaimed stories such as the World Fantasy Award winner “The Skin Trade” as well as the first novella in the Ice and Fire universe, “The Hedge Knight,” plus two never-before-published screenplays. Featuring extensive author commentary, Dreamsongs, Volume III, is an invaluable chronicle of a writer at the height of his creativity–and an unforgettable listening experience for fans old and new.

The Darkest Evening Of The Year
By Dean Koontz; Read by Kirsten Kairos
8 CDs – 9 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 11/27/2007
ISBN: 9780739332962
Amy Redwing’s risk-taking on behalf of desperate dogs is legendary. With money she inherited from a source she will never discuss, she founded and runs a group that rescues abandoned or abused golden retrievers. She has a treasury of astonishing rescue stories — and she’ll be broke by the time she’s forty if she carries on funding the work. Is it this reckless devotion to her work that prevents her making a commitment to the love of her life, Brian McCarthy? It seems so when a particularly thrilling and bizarre rescue brings Nickie into her care. Nickie is instantly recognized as pack leader by Amy’s own two dogs, and her bond with Amy is like no other dog’s.

Blade Runner (AKA Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?)
By Philip K. Dick; Read by Scott Brick
8 CDs – 9 Hours 30 Mins. [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 11/27/2007
ISBN: 9780739342756
The future. The people who remain on Earth live in cluttered cities where radiation poisoning causes illness and gene damage. All animals are endangered. Rick Deckard owned a sheep once, it died, now an electric replica allows him to maintain the illusion of animal ownership – something important in his religion.

Star Wars: Legacy Of The Force – Fury
By Aaron Allston; Read by Marc Thompson
5 CDs – 6 Hours 30 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 11/27/2007
ISBN: 9780739324004
The seventh book in the “Legacy of the Force” series.

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2 FREE shorts from 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

Thursday, November 1, 2007Thursday, November 1, 2007 Jesse Willis

OnlineAudio

Two free short stories are available from the collection 20th Century Ghosts, the first, which is available as an MP3 is entitled Scheherazade’s Typewriter. It is a hidden track, a story tucked out of sight in the acknowledgments page – don’t look for it in the book’s table of contents. The second is Dead-Wood, which is available for free to Audible.com members.

Horror audiobook - short story - Scheherazade’s Typewriter Scheherazade’s Typewriter
By Joe Hill; Read by David Ledoux
1 |MP3| – Approx. 7 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Harper Audio
Published: October 2007
Elena’s father died an unpublished, unsuccessful writer. But his dream of literary success didn’t die with him, and one night not long after his passing, his electric typewriter comes banging back to life, spinning new stories all on its own.

Horror audiobook - short story - Dead Wood Dead-Wood
By Joe Hill; Read by David Ledoux
1 DRM’d download* – Approx. 4 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
AVAILABLE FROM: Audible.com
RELEASED: October 2007
If people can be ghosts, why not trees? After all, something that doesn’t know it’s alive, obviously can’t be expected to know when it’s dead….
*On Audible.com’s page for this story you can play the entire story in the “listen to a sample” player.

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New podiobooks from Lafferty and Sigler

Thursday, November 1, 2007 Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Two of the original podiobook stars have brand new podcast novels out today!

Playing For Keeps
By Mur Lafferty; Read by Mur Lafferty
PODCASTER: PlayingForKeepsNovel.com
STATUS: Begun November 1st 2007
Keepsie Branson owns a bar in the shining metropolis of Seventh City. This is an urban landscape overflowing with egotistical heroes and manipulative villains. In a world like this, where there are lots of ‘supers’, there are a few folks with superpowers that just don’t measure up.
Listen to the promo HERE.

Nocturnal
By Scott Sigler; Read by Scott Sigler
PODCASTER: ScottSigler.com
STATUS: Begun November 1st 2007
Something lives deep beneath the streets of San Francsico. Something that has been there for centuries, something that comes out at night … to feed on the dregs of society. A sub-culture, with its own myths, its own legends of leader named The King that will lead them out of bondage, and their own demon, a hunting shadow known only as Savior.
Listen to the promo HERE.

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