The finalists for this year’s Audie Awards were announced on Feb. 23rd. Here are some genre-related nominees:
The finalists for the SCIENCE FICTION award are:
The Callahan Chronicles
Written by: Spider Robinson
Read by: Barrett Whitener
Blackstone Audiobooks
Darwin’s Children
Written by: Greg Bear
Read by: Scott Brick
Books on Tape, A Division of Random House, Inc.
Dune: The Machine Crusade
Written by: Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Read by: Scott Brick
Audio Renaissance, A Division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, and Books on Tape, A Division of Random House, Inc.
Monstrous Regiment
Written by: Terry Pratchett
Read by: Stephen Briggs
Harper Audio
Still Life With Crows
Written by: Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Read by: Rene Auberjonois
Time Warner AudioBooks
Among the nominees for CHILDREN’S TITLES FOR AGES 8+ is:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Written by: J.K. Rowling
Read by: Jim Dale
Listening Library
Phoenix also shows up in the PACKAGE DESIGN category, and as a nomination for Jim Dale for SOLO NARRATION – MALE. George Guidall is up for the same award for Don Quixote from Recorded Books, and Campbell Scott for Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake.
And in the AUDIO DRAMA category:
The Chronicles of Narnia
Written by: C. S. Lewis
Performed by a Full Cast
Focus on the Family
which also appears in the PACKAGE DESIGN and ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION categories.
See all the nominees at the Audio Publisher’s Association website. The winners will be selected on June 4 at the Audie Awards, a black-tie event at the Harold Washington Public Library Center in Chicago.
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
There’s lots of great science fiction stuff over on Canada’s