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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Sam Danis
Sacrilege is poised to become one of the most terrifying horror stories of the year. The Audible Original follows an African American family vacationing together at a luxury game reserve in Zimbabwe, but a trip meant to help them reconnect instead unearths familial and local trauma—and turns into the stuff of nightmares. Caleb McLaughlin of Stranger Things stars, playing Dashon, the family's teenage son.
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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Sam Danis
Emilia Hart, the author of Weyward, returned this year with The Sirens, an ambitious new novel ripe with history and magical realism. In this brief interview, she shares her research process, her own family connection to the story, and why mermaids have such deep appeal. Sam Danis: This story, told in multiple timelines, seems like it’s been percolating for a while for you. Can you talk about the genesis of it?
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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Sam Danis
In her new book, the culture critic explores the pitfalls of parenting tech in our hyper-connected world. New York Times culture critic Amanda Hess’s first book examines the digitization of the parenting experience—from pre-conception through birth and beyond—and the “eerie familiarity” it offers.
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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Sam Danis
Daryl Gregory discusses the real road trip that inspired his modern "Canterbury Tales."Daryl Gregory (Spoonbenders) is known for his genre-bending stories, ripe with absurdism and irreverent humor, yet full of heart. His latest, When We Were Real, may just be his most ambitious yet. The novel follows a bus full of tourists on a weeklong journey to see the Impossibles—glitches and anomalies in the digital simulation they live in—who find themselves confronting some very real emotions along the way.
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2 months ago | 
audible.com | Sam Danis
The author and poet didn’t like the way a classic ballad about rival sisters ended—so she wrote her own. In 2019, Amal El-Mohtar and co-author Max Gladstone made waves with the epistolary sci-fi masterpiece This Is How You Lose the Time War. Six years later, we’re thrilled to finally get a debut novella from Amal. The River Has Rootsflaunts the writer’s gift for lyricism and adds a musical twist.
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2 months ago | 
audible.com | Sam Danis |Susanna Clarke |Helen Phillips
After a revealing and compulsive second season of Severance, we’re faced with another wait for the next—though hopefully it won't be quite as long as we had to wait for Season 2. If you’re not ready to sever ties with the show, fear not. These listens all capture some of the qualities that make Severance so compelling—from the eerie liminality of the office space, to the threat of malicious and mysterious corporate overlords, to the absurdity of modern working culture. Piranesi lives in the House.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
audible.com | Sam Danis
Note: Text has been lightly edited for clarity and does not match audio exactly. Sam Danis: Hello, Audible listeners. This is Sam, Audible’s sci-fi and fantasy editor, and I'm thrilled to be chatting with Matt Dinniman, author of the LitRPG sensation Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which is now seven books in with the release of This Inevitable Ruin. He's also an artist and musician, and we are here today to discuss the whole series.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
audible.com | Sam Danis
The actor-turned-writer first found her storytelling home in audio with her podcast All Things Undone. She was a natural choice to adapt award-winning author N.K. Jemisin’s stories into an audiodrama. We talked with her about the genesis of this project and the future of her audio work. Sam Danis: How did this project come to be?
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
audible.com | Sam Danis
The cult-favorite author on queer representation, being an autistic buckaroo, and why horror is like a form of exercise. Note: Text has been edited and does not match audio exactly. Sam Danis: Hi, I'm Sam, Audible's sci-fi and fantasy editor, and I'm beyond thrilled to be talking with the incomparable Hugo-nominated author Chuck Tingle. He is the prolific writer of so, so many delightful erotica stories and novellas, known, of course, as Tinglers.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
audible.com | Sam Danis
Note: The following is an edited transcription of Stories in 360 Degrees, an audio essay featuring conversations with sound design and production experts as well as samples from selected Audible productions available in Dolby Atmos. Text has been edited and does not match audio exactly. Sam Danis:
Hi, I'm Sam Danis. I'm an editor here at Audible where specifically I focus on sci-fi and fantasy. I have a confession.
