The Audio Publishers Association has announced the nominees for their 17th annual Audies awards, “devoted entirely to honoring spoken word entertainment.” The winners will be announced 5 June 2012.
The nominees, in all 28 categories, are available on this page. We’re listing the categories with nominees of interest to sf/f/h people.
Children’s Titles for Ages 8-12:
Countdown by Deborah Wiles, narrated by Emma Galvin (Random House Audio/Listening Library)
The Flint Heart by Katherine Paterson and John Paterson, narrated by Ralph Lister (Brilliance Audio)
Heart and Soul by Kadir Nelson, narrated by Debbie Allen (HarperAudio)
The Hidden Valley: The Incorrigible Children of Aston Place: Book II by Maryrose Wood, narrated by Katherine Kellgren (HarperAudio)
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz, narrated by Johnny Heller (Recorded Books, LLC)
Children’s Titles for Ages Up to 8:
Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson by Charles R. Smith, Jr., narrated by Dion Graham (Live Oak Media)
Django: World’s Greatest Jazz Guitarist by Bonnie Christensen, narrated by George Guidall (Live Oak Media)
Looking Like Me by Walter Dean Myers, narrated by Dion Graham and Quincy Tyler Bernstine (Live Oak Media)
Stone Soup by John J. Muth, narrated by BD Wong (Weston Woods)
When I Grow Up by Al Yankovic, narrated by Al Yankovic (HarperAudio)
Wolf Pie by Brenda Seabrooke, narrated by Andrew Watts (Recorded Books, LLC)
Fantasy:
The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez, narrated by Marc Vietor (Audible, Inc.)
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, narrated by Khristine Hvam (Hachette Audio)
The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini (Audible, Inc.)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After by Steve Hockensmith, narrated by Katherine Kellgren (Audible, Inc.)
Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures by Walter Moers, narrated by Bronson Pinchot (Blackstone Audio)
Fiction:
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, narrated by Will Patton (Audible, Inc.)
American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman, narrated by Neil Gaiman, Dennis Boutsikaris, Daniel Oreskes, Ron McLarty, Sarah Jones and a full cast (HarperAudio)
Heat Rises by Richard Castle, narrated by Johnny Heller (Hyperion Audio)
Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva, narrated by Simon Vance (HarperAudio)
Winds of War by Herman Wouk, narrated by Kevin Pariseau (Audible, Inc.)
Humor:
Bossypants by Tina Fey, narrated by Tina Fey (Hachette Audio)
Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson (Audible, Inc.)
In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks by Adam Carolla, narrated by Adam Carolla, (Random House/Books on Tape)
Shatner Rules by William Shatner with Chris Regan, narrated by William Shatner (Penguin Audio)
This Is an Audiobook by Demetri Martin, narrated by Demetri Martin (Hachette Audio)
Original Work:
Macbeth: A Novel by A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, narrated by Alan Cumming (Audible, Inc.)
METAtropolis: Cascadia by Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, Ken Scholes, Karl Schroeder, and Tobias S. Buckell, narrated by Rene Auberjonois, Kate Mulgrew, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Jonathan Frakes and LeVar Burton (Audible, Inc.)
The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, Vol. 3 by Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane, narrated by Stacy Keach and a full cast (Blackstone Audio)
Prayers: A Personal Selection by various authors, narrated by Michael York (eChristian, Inc)
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, narrated by Alessandro Juliani (Audible, Inc.)
The Witches of Lublin—Collector’s Edition by Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Schwartz and Yale Strom, narrated by Ellen Kushner and a full cast (SueMedia Productions)
Package Design:
Jane Austen: Classic BBC Radio Productions by Jane Austen, narrated by Angharad Rees and a full cast; Hannah Gordon and a full cast, Juliet Stevenson; Annette Crosbie (AudioGO/BBC Audio)
Kardashian Konfidential by Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian, narrated by Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian (Macmillan Audio)
NPR American Chronicles: The Civil War by NPR, narrated by various performers, hosted by Neal Conan (HighBridge Company)
One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost, narrated by Tavia Gilbert (Blackstone Audio)
Sherrilyn Kenyon Audio Coffin Box Set by Sherrilyn Kenyon, narrated by Fred Berman and Carrington MacDuffie (Macmillan Audio)
The Witches of Lublin—Collector’s Edition by Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Schwartz and Yale Strom, narrated by Ellen Kushner and Miriam Margolyes (SueMedia Productions)
Paranormal:
The Cypress House by Michael Koryta, narrated by Robert Petkoff (Hachette Audio)
Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison, narrated by Sophie Eastlake (Tantor Audio)
First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones, narrated by Lorelei King (Macmillan Audio)
Hard Magic by Larry Correia, narrated by Bronson Pinchot (Audible, Inc.)
Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia, narrated by Oliver Wyman (Audible, Inc.)
Science Fiction:
Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi, narrated by Wil Wheaton (Audible, Inc.)
The Cold Commands by Richard K. Morgan, narrated by Simon Vance (Tantor Audio)
Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi, narrated by Wil Wheaton (Audible, Inc.)
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey, narrated by Jefferson Mays (Recorded Books, LLC)
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, narrated by Alessandro Juliani (Audible, Inc.)
The Tears of the Sun by S.M. Stirling, narrated by Todd McLaren (Tantor Audio)