In progress: this page lists (reverse chronologically) the list of books I’m interested in an audiobook version of, but for which an Audible version does not exist. Where noted, an audiobook CD version exists.
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http://www.amazon.com/Guardeners-Tale-Bruce-Boston/dp/0982897596/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
The King of Elfland’s Daughter (Del Rey Impact) by Lord Dunsany and Neil Gaiman (Jul 6, 1999) (would love an audio edition of this 1924 novel complete with Gaiman reading his introduction)
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Dhalgren by Samuel Delany: http://www.amazon.com/Dhalgren-Samuel-R-Delany/dp/0819562998
The Last Man by Mary Shelley: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0192838652
Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler: http://www.amazon.com/Sarah-Canary-Karen-Joy-Fowler/dp/0452286476
The Cipher by Kathe Koja: http://www.amazon.com/Cipher-Kathe-Koja/dp/0440207827
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Malazan series
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Demolished Man !The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (1953 Hugo)
Canticle for Leibowitz !A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller (1961 Hugo) and the sequelSaint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (with Terry Bisson, 1997)
High Crusade !The High Crusade by Poul Anderson (1961 Hugo nomination)
Deathworld by Harry Harrison (1961 Hugo nomination)
Glory Road by Robert Heinlein (1963 F&SF serial; 1964 Hugo Award Nomination)
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (1967 Doubleday; 1968 Hugo Award): modern western characters in a Hindu-Buddhist-infused world
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner (1969 Hugo)
Past Master by R. A. Lafferty (1969 Hugo nomination)
Rite of Passage by Alexei Pashin (published 1968 Ace; 1968 Nebula Award; 1969 Hugo Award): a Shipboard teenager’s coming of age won told as a flashback
The Postman by David Brin (1985 Bantam; John W. Campbell Award for Best SF Novel 1986; Locus Award for Best SF Novel 1986; nominated for Hugo and Nebula)
Air by Geoff Ryman (2005 St. Martin’s Griffin; BSFA Award; James Tiptree, Jr. Award; Arthur C. Clarke Award; short list PKD Award, Nebula Award, and John W. Campbell Memorial Award)
Was… by Geoff Ryman (1992 Harper Collins; World Fantasy Award nomination focusing on the (in some cases, tragic) lives of disparate individuals linked to one another by L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
An unabridged version of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (2007 HarperCollins; Nebula Award, Locus Award; Hugo Award; shortlist BSFA Award and Edgar Allan Poe Award)
The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale (2001 Edgar Allen Poe Award winner; a CD audiobook exists)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1969)
Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson (1988, 2009) and his 1994 collection Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories and his 2009 satire The Left Left Behind (Outspoken Authors)
The Magic of Recluce (The Saga of Recluce) by L. E. Modesitt Jr. (1991)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji
AUTHORS
Kij Johnson (The Fox Woman; Fudoki)
Olaf Stapledon (Star Maker, Last and First Men, Odd John, Sirius, …)
Marc Laidlaw The Orchid Eater (1994)
David Gemmell (Legend)
Terry Bisson (Fire on the Mountain, Bears Discover Fire, The Left Left Behind, TVA Baby, …)
Geoff Ryman (Air, Was, …)
Cory Doctorow (not on Audible due to DRM (at last check, if my memory still serves), but some CD audiobooks exist)
Brenda Cooper (Building Harlequin’s Moon (with Larry Niven); The Silver Ship and the Sea; …)
David Gerrold (When Harlie Was One (1973 Hugo nomination) and The Man Who Folded Himself (1974 Hugo nomination)) though his short adoption-themed semi-autobiographical novel The Martian Child is narrated by Scott Brick
Minister Faust
J M McDermott (Last Dragon; Never Knew Another; Maze)
Alexei Pashin
SERIES
Mark L. Van Name’s Jon & Lobo series
David Drake’s The Books of the Elements (The Legions of Fire; Out of the Waters; ongoing)
James Maxey’s Dragon Age series (Bitterwood; Dragonforge; Dragonseed)
Vampire Empire: The Greyfriar by Clay and Susan Griffith (update: forthcoming from Buzzy Multimedia!)
D. Harlan Wilson’s Scikungfi trilogy (…; Codename Prague, The Kyoto Man)
Joel Rosenberg’s Guardians of the Glame (The Sleeping Dragon; …)
OTHERS BY DATE:
July 2011:
Rule 34 by Charles Stross — should be forthcoming
Seventh Signa by Stephen Gould — unknown
Mortality Bridge
July 2010:
Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord — now available!
Other:
Homefront
Among Others by Jo Walton
Zoo City by Lauren Beukes
The Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington
The Map of Time
Vellum
Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler
The Golden Age
Orange Eats Creeps
Firefly Rain by Richard Dansky
An Occupation of Angels by Lavie Tidhar (update: available from Iambik Audiobooks!)
Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (update: available!)
(Massively long list compiled elsewhere; slow to port over here. Low priority.)
Monsieur Rene: A Novel by Peter Ustinov (Prometheus Books, December 1999; Chivers Audio Books, April 2001) CD exists but $47.95 is a bit high for me.
IT DOES EXIST!
David Brin’s Uplift Saga (Sundiver: The Uplift Saga, Book 1; Startide Rising: The Uplift Saga, Book 2;
The Uplift War: The Uplift Saga, Book 3 all added in March 2008)
and Uplift Trilogy (Brightness Reef: The Uplift Trilogy, Book 1
in June 2009;Infinity’s Shore: The Uplift Trilogy, Book 2 in December 2009; and
Heaven’s Reach: The Uplift Trilogy, Book 3 in February 2010)
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler (added August 2008)Wild Seed added July 2009Parable of the Sower added June 2009Kindred added September 2007Parable of the Talents added September 2007
Greg Bear:
Darwin’s Radio (added July 2007) and
Darwin’s Children (added March 2004)
Elizabeth Moon’s
The Speed of Dark(2002 Orbit Books; Nebula Award 2003; Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist)
Susanna Clarke’s
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (added November 2004) with an interview by Neil Gaiman
Thalia Book Club: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell with Author Susanna Clarke (added May 2006)
Michael Chabon’s
Summerland: A Novel(added January 2007)and
Gentlemen of the Road (added October 2007)with a Fresh Air interview added May 2001
Fresh Air, Michael Chabonand another
Fresh Air, Michael Chabon and Jon Savage, May 3, 2007and another
The Bob Edwards Show, Michael Chabon, May 2, 2007andFresh Air, Michael Chabon and Steve BuscemiandFresh Air, Wanda Henry-Jenkins and Michael Chabon
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Riverworld Saga, Book 1 by Philip Jose Farmer (added March 2008)
Anathem by Neal Stephenson and
The Diamond Age
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (1960 Hugo)
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (1960 Hugo nomination)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein (1962 Hugo)
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1963 Hugo)
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper (1963 Hugo nomination)
Way Station (Clifford D. Simak, 1964 Hugo Award Winner, Audible release July 2008)
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (1964 Hugo nomination)
The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber (added September 2007; 1965 Hugo)
Dune by Frank Herbert and
This Immortal (Roger Zelazny, Audible release June 2008) (1966 Hugo Winners)
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Hugo 1967; Audible release October 2006)
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (Hugo nomination 1967; Audible release August 2009)
Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty Dance with Deathby Kurt Vonnegut (1970 Hugo nomination; November 2003 Audible release narrated by Ethan Hawke)
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut (short, Audible September 2005)
Ringworld by Larry Niven (1971 Hugo)
Several shorts by Clark Ashton Smith
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (1974 Hugo)
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (1975 Hugo)
The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (1975 Hugo nomination)
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1976 Hugo)
Gateway by Frederik Pohl (1978 Hugo)
Neuromancer (1985 Hugo)
Ender’s Game (1986 Hugo)
Speaker for the Dead (1987 Hugo)
Hyperion by Dan Simmons (1990 Hugo) and The Fall of Hyperion (1991 Hugo nomination)
Xenocide (1992 Hugo nomination)
A Fire Upon the Deep (1993 Hugo)
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1993 Hugo)
Red Mars by KSR (1993 Hugo nom.)
Green Mars by KSR (1994 Hugo)
Blue Mars by KSR (1997 Hugo)
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman (1998 Hugo)
The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons (1998 Hugo nom.)
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (1999 Hugo)
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell (1999 Hugo nom.)
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (2000 Hugo)
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (2000 Hugo nom.)
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TO CHECK:
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson (1971 Hugo nomination)Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg (1971 Hugo nomination)Star Light by Hal Clement (1971 Hugo nomination)Lathe of Heaven !The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin (1972 Hugo nomination)Time of Changes !A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg (1972 Hugo nomination; Nebula Award)
Gods Themselves !The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov (1973 Hugo winner)
The People of the Wind by Poul Anderson (1974 Hugo nomination)
Inverted World !The Inverted World by Christopher Priest (1975 Hugo nomination)
Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny (1976 Hugo nomination)
The Stochastic Man by Robert Silverberg (1976 Hugo nomination)
Dying of the Light by George R. R. Martin (1978 Hugo nomination)
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre (1979 Hugo)
Fountains of Paradise !The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke (1980 Hugo)
Little, Big by John Crowley (1982 Hugo nomination; 1982 World Fantasy Award)
Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov (1983 Hugo)
Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh (1989 Hugo)
Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling (1989 Hugo nomination)
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson (1989 Hugo nomination)
Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold (1992 Hugo)
Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling (1997 Hugo nom.)
Chronoliths !The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson (2002 Hugo nom.)
Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick (2003 Hugo nom.)
China Mieville’s other Bas-Lag novels Scar !The Scar (2003 Hugo nom.) and Iron Council (2005 Hugo nom.)
Years of Rice and Salt !The Years of Rice and Salt by KSR (2003 Hugo nom.)
(at 2004 or so in Hugo nominations)
