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Robert J. Sawyer @ audible.com

Friday, December 28, 2007 Jesse Willis

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Seven Robert J. Sawyer novels are going to be released exclusively through audible.com. Sawyer writes:

“I’ve been a very satisfied Audible.com customer since March 2001, and so I’m particularly delighted to report that Audible.com has jut bought audio-book rights to seven of my novels.”

The titles are: Calculating God, Hominids, Humans, Hybrids, Wake, Watch and Wonder. The last three there haven’t been released in print form yet.

No word on when they’ll all be released or who’ll be narrating them yet. The narrator definitely won’t be RJS though.

It’s kind of too bad they didn’t contract for his first novel (and my favorite RJS book) Golden Fleece, it’s a Hard-SF murder mystery set aboard an interstellar ship powered by a Bussard-ramjet.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Podiobooks.com’s TOP 20 for 2007

Friday, December 28, 2007Friday, December 28, 2007 Jesse Willis

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The Podiobooker Blog, the blog for Podiobooks.com, has posted the 20 most popular podiobooks of 2007. They are, in alphabetical order:

7th Son: Book 2 – Deceit J.C. Hutchins	The Arwen Timothy Callahan	Badge Of Infamy Lester Del Rey	Billibub Baddings Tee Morris
Crescent Phil Rossi	Eastern Standard Tribe Cory Doctorow	The Failed Cities Monologues Matt Wallace	Forever Fifteen Kimberly Steele
Full Share Nathan Lowell	Half Share Nathan Lowell	Heaven – Season 2: Hell Mur Lafferty	Heaven – Season 3: Earth Mur Lafferty
How to Disappear Completely Myke Bartlett	The Immortals Tracy Hickman	In The Service of Samurai Gloria Oliver	Jack Wakes Up Seth Harwood
Number One with a Bullet Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff	Quarter Share Nathan Lowell	Shadow Falls: Season One Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff	The Silk Code Paul Levinson

As you can see there’s quite a few podiobooks that still need our attention. Which of these have you enjoyed? Which have you loved? Which have you hated?

Personally, I’ve got my eye on those Nathan Lowell titles.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Canadia: 2056 news!

Thursday, December 20, 2007Thursday, December 20, 2007 Jesse Willis

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Just read the confirmation we’ve been hoping for. The official Inside The CBC blog, when talking about CBC Radio One’s winter schedule, said this:

“We’ll also be taking an off-kilter look at Canada – U.S. relations with our comedy series Canadia 2056. The show follows the adventures of the crew of the spaceship Canadia, the lone Canadian ship on a mission with the U.S. Space fleet as they set out on a pre-emptive strike against the planet Ipampilash. Canadia 2056 will air Wednesday nights at 11 p.m. and Friday mornings at 11:30 a.m.”

Now all we’d need to make 2008 a banner year would be for the CBC to release The Adventures Of Apocalypse Al!

Posted by Jesse Willis

audible.com’s big Science Fiction and Fantasy push continues

Thursday, December 13, 2007Saturday, December 15, 2007 Jesse Willis

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We’ve some exciting news regarding audible.com. Earlier this year we told you about audible’s big push for more Science Fiction and Fantasy. Since then the staff at audible.com have been acquiring new titles and new providers at a serious clip. Now we’ve got more news on that front. Here’s the list of some of the upcoming releases – I’m almost certain these are all ‘exclusive to audible’ titles. Included amongst them are the follow up book to our latest SFFaudio Essential designee!

Macmillian Audiobooks being released exclusively through audible.com:

Escapement
By Jay Lake
Release date: June 2008

Rainbow’s End*
By Vernor Vinge
Release date: December 2007
*this year’s Hugo winner (novel)

Jumper: Griffin’s Story*
By Steven Gould
Release date: January 2008
*the movie comes out Feb 14th

Spin
By Robert Charles Wilson
Release date: Q1 2008

Axis
By Robert Charles Wilson
Release date: Q1 2008

The Ghost Brigades
By John Scalzi
Release date: Q1 2008

Territory
By Emma Bull
Release date: Q1 2008

“In house” produced Audible exclusives:

Saturn Returns (Astropolis Book 1)
By Sean Williams
Release date: soon

Centotaxis*
By Sean Williams
Release date: soon
*a novella related to Saturn Returns (“essentially it’s Book 1.5”)

Posted by Jesse Willis

New audiobook column: @ The Fix

Wednesday, December 5, 2007Wednesday, December 5, 2007 admin

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Scott Danielson has been writing about audiobooks for donkey’s years. Starting back in November he got one more outlet for his itchy fingers. His column in a new online Science Fiction and Fantasy review magazine called The Fix is cleverly titled “Audiobook Fix“. December is the second month of publication – in the latest column (December) you’ll find he covers the Writers of the Future, Vol. 23 audiobook and A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card. Find it here!