The January 8 release of A Memory of Light is inching closer, but you can get an earful of the audiobook now, read by narrators Kate Reading and Michael Kramer.

Listen to Chapter 2, “The Choice of an Ajah”:

For those having trouble seeing the audio widget, try listening here.

Meanwhile, Macmillan Audio’s preorder campaign for the audiobook edition of A Memory of Light is in full swing, meaning there are now Wheel of Time phone covers out in the wild.

[How to get one]

In Robin Sloan’s new novel, Clay Jannon has stumbled upon a job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore and stumbled into some sort of crazy mystery. What follows is a literary adventure story full of technological puzzles and a good old-fashioned love for books. At the center of it all, there is a fictional trilogy called the Dragon-Song Chronicles. Clay and his best friend were obsessed with the fantasy series as kids and it comes up again now that they are adults.

[A new fantasy novel hiding in an audiobook. Preview it now!]

In anticipation of the fourteenth and final installment in the epic Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, Macmillan Audio has created custom Wheel of Time covers for the iPhone*.

The A Memory of Light audiobook goes on sale the same day as the hardcover (January 8th, 2013) and will of course be narrated by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer, who have voiced the entire series. While January is still far away for fans that have been anxiously awaiting this conclusion, Macmillan Audio wants to reward you for ordering early. The first 2,000 people who preorder the audiobook edition of A Memory of Light on CD between 8/31/12 and 12/7/12 will receive the phone cover. The program will be available for preorder wherever audiobooks on CD are sold in stores and online. To redeem, send Macmillan Audio proof of purchase via this upload form or regular mail. A full list of sweepstakes rules can be found here.

* Fits iPhone4 and iPhone4s. iPhone is a registered trademark of Apple, Inc. Apple, Inc. has not authorized or endorsed this promotion.

Samantha Beerman is spreading the word about audiobooks. Check out the array of free audiobook excerpts she provides here on Tor.com.  

This Tuesday, Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston release a new installment in the beloved Ender Universe. Earth Unaware takes place well before Ender Wiggin saved the human race by annihilating the alien Formics in Ender’s Game. This is where it all started. This is the story of the First Formic War.

Orson Scott Card once said, “The ideal presentation of any book of mine is to have excellent actors perform it in an audio format.” Fortunately, Earth Unaware is available in audio and with excellent actors performing it. Like many of Card’s previous audiobooks, Earth Unaware features a superb multi-voice cast led by Stefan Rudnicki. Other voices on the program include seasoned narrator Scott Brick and actress Emily Janice Card, who just so happens to be Orson Scott Card’s daughter.

[Listen to some of it for free and see where the Cards are touring]

New Year, new Dune. While it’s nearly 2012 for us, for the characters in Sisterhood of Dune it is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines was destroyed in the Battle of Corrin.

Changes are brewing in the Dune universe, but one thing that hasn’t changed is the audiobook narrator. Scott Brick, the longtime Dune go-to voice, is back. For each book, he checks in with authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson and consults with Frank Herbert’s pronunciation guide to make sure he’s getting every word right. Scott delivers the authenticity along with the adventure.

Listen to an excerpt from the audiobook here:

Samantha Beerman is spreading the word about audiobooks. Check out the array of free audiobook excerpts she provides here on Tor.com. 

You know Michael Scott from his popular Nicholas Flamel series. This time, though, he’s working with Colette Freedman to bring you an exciting adult novel. And we’re bringing you the audiobook.

In this spellbinding new saga there are thirteen ancient treasures with the potential for great good or absolute evil. Now someone is gathering them together with thrilling magic and murder following.

Narrator Kate Reading reads The Thirteen Hallows. You can trust her to handle the story. She’s the female voice behind The Wheel of Time, Brandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings and more in the fantasy and science fiction realm.

Get an earful of the adventure with this clip from the audiobook:

Samantha Beerman is spreading the word about audiobooks. Check out the array of free audiobook excerpts she provides here on Tor.com.

Back when we first acquired the Mistborn audiobooks, we released them as digital downloads and the response was incredible!

This time around we’re offering The Alloy of Law as both a digital download and on physical CDs. Now you can listen to narrator Michael Kramer give perfect voice to Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn universe in whichever format you prefer.

Kramer has been the voice of all of Sanderson’s Mistborn audiobooks as well as the entire Wheel of Time series so you know he’s got the chops. For more proof, listen to him read Chapter 1 of The Alloy of Law here:

Samantha Beerman is spreading the word about audiobooks. Check out the array of free audiobook excerpts she provides here on Tor.com.

You’ve read the comics. You’ve watched the show. You’ve gotten excited about the book. Now it’s time to introduce you to the audiobook.

The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga reveals the backstory of the greatest villian in the Walking Dead universe: The Governor. In the audiobook edition, all that evil is brought to your ears thanks to the narration of Fred Berman. He has the creepiness factor perfected.

When asked to pick a few of the best clips from the audiobook, our producer was like a kid in a candy store. He couldn’t choose! Listen to one below and know that there are plenty more where that came from in the full program.

Samantha Beerman is spreading the word about audiobooks. Check out the array of free audiobook excerpts she provides here on Tor.com.

David Weber’s newest novel How Firm a Foundation is the latest in his Safehold series that includes Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distressed, and the top ten New York Times bestseller A Mighty Fortress.

If you love the story but can’t find time to cram in hundreds upon hundreds (upon hundreds) of pages of reading let audiobooks come to your rescue. How Firm a Foundation is available as 29 hours of audio goodness read by Charles Keating. You can listen while driving in the car, cleaning the house, or sitting on the couch and staring into space... wherever you like!

Get a taste of what you’re in for with this excerpt of Chapter 1 from the audiobook:

Samantha Beerman is spreading the word about audiobooks. Check out the array of free audiobook excerpts she provides here on Tor.com.

It’s here! The Cowboys & Aliens movie has finally arrived in theaters... which naturally means it’s time to talk about the audiobook of the Cowboys & Aliens novelization.

Narrator Fred Berman does an excellent job with the historical western meets science fiction story. Just press play and listen up. You’ll be so sucked in you may just have visions of Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford collaborating in an epic showdown for survival.

Get a sneak peek at the story with this Chapter 1 excerpt from the audiobook:

Samantha Beerman is spreading the word about audiobooks.

The highly anticipated finale to the story started in Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin is here. In Vortex, the mysteries of the Hypotheticals are finally revealed.

Acclaimed narrator Scott Brick is the voice of the series on audiobook… and also a big fan. He eagerly awaited the conclusion to the trilogy just like the rest of us, and now that it’s here he says, “I still can’t quite believe how amazing it is, I’m still in awe of the ending. Getting to work on science fiction this good, so consistently good throughout the entire trilogy, is extraordinary.”

Listen to Chapter 1 from the audio edition of Vortex below and then tell us what you think:

Samantha Beerman is spreading the word about audiobooks.

Tor.com recently featured an excerpt of The Quantum Thief by Rajaniemi Hannu, but it”s always nice to experience content in a new way. Enter the audiobook!

Narrator Scott Brick reads the audio edition and he”s got nothing but good things to say about The Quantum Thief. (I believe his exact words were “freaking brilliant.”) Asked for a more formal opinion, Brick responded with “I”ve been blessed to narrate many of the best science fiction books of all time, but the moment I finished The Quantum Thief I had to ask myself, Might this be the best one, ever?”

[Free audio excerpt below the cut]

In keeping with Tor.com’s Dystopia Week, Ann Aguirre’s new young adult novel Enclave welcomes you to the apocalypse.

Deuce, a Huntress, lives in a New York City that has been decimated by war and plague, and where most of civilization has migrated to underground enclaves. Paired with Fade, a teenage Hunter who lived Topside as a young boy, the two discover Freaks are attacking neighboring enclaves. But when they bring this information to the elders, Deuce and Fade are exiled and forced to survive above ground.

[Free audio below the cut]

The Halo: Evolutions audiobook is a finalist in the Science Fiction/Fantasy category of the upcoming 2011 Audies competition! For those unaware, the Audies are the Oscars of the audiobook world. Everyone dresses up, sits down, and honors the best audiobooks of the past year.

The other audios in the category with Halo are Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison, Feed by Mira Grant, The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison, and WWW: Watch by Robert J. Sawyer.

We have to wait until May 24 to find out whether Halo or one of these other notable science fiction/fantasy titles takes home the prize, but until then we have a different Halo title on the brain: the recently released Halo: Cryptum written by Greg Bear and read by Holter Graham.

Listen to a clip here:

Tell us what you think.

Samantha Beerman is spreading the word about audiobooks.

For as long as I’ve worked at Macmillan Audio, I’ve been fielding questions about Robert Jordan’s Winter’s Heart audiobook.

“Why is Winter’s Heart so incredibly hard to find on CD?”

“When will I finally be able to buy the CD version of Winter’s Heart?”

And so go the laments.

Well, lament no more. It’s been years since the physical audiobook was readily available, but Winter’s Heart on CD (and digital download) is now here!

[Audio and giveaway below the cut]

We’ve got a treat for those of you who enjoyed the excerpt of Hellhole, the new trilogy from the writing team of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, out from Tor Books on March 15th. Macmillan Audio has provided a free audio excerpt encompassing Chapter Two! So give your eyes a break and let your ears do the work.

Longtime Dune narrator Scott Brick lends his services as the voice of this brand new epic series. Brick’s had plenty of experience turning Herbert and Anderson’s words into audio gold and he doesn’t disappoint here. Happy listening!

Samantha Beerman is spreading the word about audiobooks.