A members-only sale at Audible, this one dubbed Win-Win, with $4.95 titles running through September 18. The sale page sorts out titles by author last name groupings, so here is my scan-through for interesting titles:
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It’s only today that I finally found the sale page, but I’d mentioned this somewhat “quiet” sale over on Facebook and Twitter. The long and short of it is that a whole big list of ACX (Audible’s Audiobook Creation Exchange) titles have been on sale for $5.95, with members still getting their discount which brings them down to $4.16. Among the full list of titles, this includes all the Neil Gaiman Presents titles,among some others below. I still don’t see a full and complete list of the $5.95 titles, but here’s some of the best that I’ve found:
- Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners and The Privilege of the Sword by
- The Drowning Girl By Caitlin R. Kiernan, Narrated by Suzy Jackson -- this is a fantastic book and audiobook, one of the best new books of 2012
- Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan
- Light and Viriconium by M. John Harrison
- Pavane by Keith Roberts
- Lost and Found: The Taken Trilogy, Book 1 by Alan Dean Foster, read by Oliver Wyman
- The Icarus Girl: A Novel By Helen Oyeyemi, Narrated by Bahni Turpin
- Recursion By Tony Ballantyne, Narrated by Simon Vance
- All of the Crossroad Press titles, including Velvet Dogma By Weston Ochse, and Etched Deep & Other Dark Impressions By David Niall Wilson
The complete list of 25 Beachcomber Sale titles has now been revealed, after this somewhat strange “follow the clues” sale placed 5 books on sale for $6.95 each day for 5 days. The prices will stick around until August 31, and here are the SF/F titles:
- 1984: New Classic Edition By George Orwell, Narrated by Simon Prebble — Length:11 hrs and 26 mins
- Brave New World By Aldous Huxley, Narrated by Michael York — Length:8 hrs and 5 mins
- Ex-Heroes By Peter Clines, Narrated by Jay Snyder and Khristine Hvam — Series: Ex-Heroes, Book 1 — Length:8 hrs and 2 mins
- Ashes: Ashes Trilogy, Book 1 By Ilsa J. Bick, Narrated by Katherine Kellgren — Length:11 hrs and 6 mins
- Under the Never Sky By Veronica Rossi, Narrated by Bernadette Dunne Flagler — Length:9 hrs and 39 mins
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea By Jules Verne, Narrated by David Case and Frederick Davidson — Length:11 hrs and 21 mins
In Fiction, along with adventure and classics like Treasure Island and Moby-Dick and others, there’s one of my favorite short audiobooks, that being The Old Man and the Sea By Ernest Hemingway, Narrated by Donald Sutherland. At 2 hrs and 30 mins, it’s a most excellent pairing of narrator and subject.
Audible’s having another members-only 2-for-1 sale through August 14. Listed by author last name, here are the titles which catch my eye:
- The Scar By Sergey Dyachenko and Marina Dyachenko, translated by Elinor Huntington, Narrated by Jonathan Davis for Audible Frontiers — Length:15 hrs and 17 mins — Release Date:02-28-12
- The Magician King: A Novel By Lev Grossman, Narrated by Mark Bramhall for Penguin Audiobooks — Length:15 hrs and 48 mins — Release Date:08-09-11 — one of my favorite audiobooks, sequel to an absolutely great audiobook, as both author and narrator “maintain the perfect knife’s edge between the fragile and the real, charting well the heady waters of a truly worthy sequel to one of the new century’s great fantasies.”
- Swan Song By Robert McCammon, Narrated by Tom Stechschulte for Audible, Inc. — Length:34 hrs and 22 mins — Release Date:11-15-11
- Sheepfarmer’s Daughter: The Deed of Paksenarrion, Book 1 By Elizabeth Moon, Narrated by — Series: Deed of Paksenarrion, Book 1 — Length:15 hrs and 53 mins — Release Date:03-16-10
- Blood Engines: A Marla Mason Novel By T. A. Pratt, Narrated by — Series: Marla Mason, Book 1 — Length:10 hrs and 24 mins — Release Date:02-16-09
- The Disappeared: A Retrieval Artist Novel By Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Narrated by — Series: Retrieval Artist, Book 1 — Length:10 hrs and 9 mins — Release Date:05-20-08
- Flashforward By Robert J. Sawyer, Narrated by Mark Deakins for Blackstone Audio — Length:10 hrs and 26 mins — Release Date:06-18-08
- The Black Prism By Brent Weeks, Narrated by Cristofer Jean for Hachette Audio — Series: Lightbringer, Book 1 — Length:22 hrs and 6 mins — Release Date:08-25-10
Audible is already in the midst of its Paperback Sale and has announced as well a new 3 for 2 sale, ending August 1, with “each book a part of a popular series”.
The sale includes among others:
- Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars)
- Dan Simmons’s Hyperion Cantos (Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion)
- Charles Stross’s Laundry Files (The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue, The Fuller Memorandum)
- William Gibson’s Sprawl (Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Count Zero)
- Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files (books 2-7, 9-13)
- Lois McMaster Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan Saga (many books) Stephen King’s The Dark Tower (1-4)
- Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth
- Cherie Priest’s Clockwork Century (Dreadnought and Ganymede)
Billed as “100 audiobooks for as low as $5.95 each”, Audible.com is having a Paperback Sale through July 28, with a pretty good haul of interesting sf/f titles. Here’s the ones which most caught my eye, $5.95 unless otherwise noted:
- The Rook: A Novel By Daniel O’Malley Narrated by Susan Duerden — Length:17 hrs and 51 mins
- A Discovery of Witches By Deborah Harkness, Narrated by Jennifer Ikeda — Series: All Souls, Book 1 — Length:24 hrs and 2 mins ($8.95)
- Delirium By Lauren Oliver, Narrated by Sarah Drew — Series: Delirium Trilogy, Book 1 — Length:11 hrs and 41 mins
- Macbeth: A Novel By A. J. Hartley and David Hewson, Narrated by Alan Cumming, David Hewson, and A. J. Hartley — Length:9 hrs and 45 mins
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone By Laini Taylor, Narrated by Khristine Hvam — Length:12 hrs and 32 mins
- Monster Hunter Alpha By Larry Correia, Narrated by Oliver Wyman — Series: Monster Hunter, Book 3 — Length:18 hrs and 52 mins
- Pure By Julianna Baggott, Narrated by Khristine Hvam, Joshua Swanson, Kevin T. Collins, and Casey Holloway — Length:14 hrs and 9 mins
- Changeless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel, Book 2 By Gail Carriger, Narrated by Emily Gray — Series: Parasol Protectorate, Book 2 — Length:10 hrs and 33 mins ($8.95)
- Leviathan Wakes By James S.A. Corey, Narrated by Jefferson Mays — Length:19 hrs and 9 mins ($8.95)
- A Wind from the South: Raetian Tales, Book 1 By Diane Duane, Narrated by Jessica Almasy — Length:13 hrs and 21 mins
- Lost in a Good Book: A Thursday Next Novel By Jasper Fforde, Narrated by Emily Gray — Series: Thursday Next Novels, Book 2 — Length:12 hrs and 59 mins ($8.95)
- Wizard’s First Rule: Sword of Truth, Book 1 By Terry Goodkind, Narrated by Sam Tsoutsouvas — Series: Sword of Truth, Book 1 — Length:34 hrs and 10 mins ($8.95)
- Tiger’s Curse By Colleen Houck, Narrated by Annika Boras and Sanjiv Jahveri — Series: Tiger’s Curse, Book 1 — Length:15 hrs and 45 mins ($8.95)
- Firebird: An Alex Benedict Novel By Jack McDevitt, Narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck — Series: Alex Benedict, Book 6 — Length:11 hrs and 40 mins
- Oath of Swords: War God, Book 1 By David Weber, Narrated by Nick Sullivan — Series: War God, Book 1 — Length:14 hrs and 49 mins
- The Cloud Roads and The Serpent Sea By Martha Wells, Narrated by Christopher Kipiniak — Series: Books of the Raksura, Books 1 and 2 — (book 1 is $8.95)
Through Noon Eastern Time on May 21, Audible.com is having a 48-hour Customer Favorites $7.95 sale. There is a handy Sci-Fi & Fantasy tab, though there are sf/f titles lurking under the Thriller, Fiction (a lot), and Romance tabs as well. Here’s what most caught my eye in the sf/f tab:
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Howl’s Moving Castle By Diana Wynne Jones, Narrated by Jenny Sterlin — Length:8 hrs and 34 mins — which I got to gush about over on The Functional Nerds blog as part of the Diana Wynne Jones 2012 blog tour
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The Wise Man’s Fear: Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2 (2011) By Patrick Rothfuss, Narrated by Nick Podehl — Series: KingKiller Chronicles, Book 2 — Length:42 hrs and 59 mins — one step down from the wonderful first book, The Name of the Wind, is still in rarified air
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The Windup Girl (2009) By Paolo Bacigalupi, Narrated by Jonathan Davis — Length:19 hrs and 34 mins — winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and John W. Campbell awards
And there’s a whole lot more worth giving a look at:
Using a special mini-cart, and if you happen to have piles of credits lying around you can “3 for 2” more than once, Audible.com has been running a 3 books for 2 credits sale for the past week which ends tonight at midnight Eastern Time (US). In the sale are books by David Anthony Durham (books 2 and 3 of Acacia), Robert J. Sawyer (WWW: Watch and Wonder), R. A. Salvatore (Forgotten Realms: Transitions), Jo Walton (Small Change trilogy), Margaret Weis (Dragonvarld trilogy), Scott Westerfield (Behemoth and Goliath in his Leviathan trilogy), Peter F. Hamilton, Mark Hodder (Burton & Swinburne series), and more. It’s organized by author last name across 5 partitions, so… happy hunting.
Audible.com’s Semi-Annual Half-Price Sale lists 1000+ titles, ending April 27 at Noon ET. Organized into the major categories, there’s helpfully a Sci-Fi and Fantasy listing, but it’s quite a doozy at 131 results. So! Here’s my usual rundown of the (too many, still) titles which caught my eye with a (somewhat) shorter list of PICKs:
As the 200+ books are listed by section by author last name, though there’s an Editors’ Picks section as well, this doesn’t make it that easy for the sf/f listener to get a glance at all the titles. (Though what I generally do is check my wish list, sorted by price, to see what sorts up at $4.95.) So, here’s my glance-through (not every sf/f title, particularly in the urban fantasy and paranormal romance side of things you’ll want to check the listings for yourself) of Audible.com’s latest “Win-Win” sale, which ends March 13.
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