Rakesfall, a new novel by Vajra Chandrasekera, author of the excellent, nebula award winning: The Saint of Bright Doors, is about to be published on the 18th of June.
It is now available for preorder on audible for $8.80.
This sale price is available until the 17th of June.
Jagannath by Karen Tidbeck is on the Audible Plus catalog at the moment.
This is a great introduction to Tidbeck's work. Usually I pause between short stories in a collection by the same author, the same way I pause between books by the same author, so the reading doesn't get monotonous.
Karen Tidbeck's work is different enough to keep me excited at every twist and turn.
Weird, Dark, thought provoking, familiar enough yet different.
A reimagining of Ender's Game with AI and reality TV.
This is not a novel about a reality show. It's a theme not the prism through which the story is told.
Max Berry's novels are usually light hearted even though they deal with serious issues. Don't expect levity from Providence, it is darker than his usual fair and eventually more powerful.
The Last Human by Zack Jordan is on sale on Audible.
"Most days, Sarya doesn't feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy. Most days, she's got other things on her mind. Like hiding her identity among the hundreds of alien species roaming the corridors of Watertower Station".
This is a brilliant novel with a ton of sci-fi tropes and concepts crammed into it.
Aimed at a YA audience new to SF it will still thrill a more experienced Sci-fi reader with references to well known works.
Kind of like an animated film for the whole family with references aimed at the parents peppering a story ark meant for a younger audience.
"A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles".
(I haven't read it yet, but heard good things and am getting it myself)
Coming up this evening, from one Sam reads another, as we return to the short stories of Mark Twain! Turns out, he could spin a yarn from anything. Come on over in an hour to listen in! https://www.twitch.tv/Chilliteracy
There's a 2 for 1 sale on Audible and I'd lie to recommend two of the offerings.
These are two sci-fi novels with very different vibes yet both excel at what they do.
Chilling Effect is a comedy adventure by Valerie Valdes.
A romping adventure where the heroine keeps jumping from the pan into the fire with a good dose of Latin American culture references and a sprinkling of Sci-Fi references that become a full homage during the end game.
Ammonite is a somber sci-fi feminist adventure drama by Nicola Griffith.
This gem from 30 years ago was recommended to me by The StoryGraph.
I had no idea such great women characters were available back in the early 90s.
The setting on a quarantined planet where only women survived a plague lends itself to a wide gamut of women characters that defy gender roles and allows the work to age well since missing technologies can be attributed to the isolation.
There are some echoes of the movie Alien and themes from the Bene Gesserit of Dune, but this is in no way Alien or Dune
Every time I'm reminded of this novella, I want to reread it. A wonderful story and amazing audio performance by Penelope Rawlins.
It is the tale of the girl who popped the bubble, the girl who forced people to face the lies they tell themselves and face their cognitive dissonance.
She is not sorry, she is the one adjusted to the harsh reality of a blue ball apocalypse.
One of the publishers I narrate for, Hedon Press, has run afoul of Amazon / Audible. I just learned that 11 audiobooks I narrated are being taken down. (Yes, it's rotten.) I'm in talks with Audible, more on that as I know more.
The audiobooks are for the moment still for sale through Apple Books. If you want them, get them FAST before they're gone for good.
I cannot in good faith recommend that anyone sign a contract through ACX to be paid in whole or in part in royalties because ACX/Audible is prepared to take down audiobooks without warning to narrators and leave us no recourse to be paid for our work.
I'm horrified that this is the outcome of my case. Please avoid this situation for yourselves.