December 2006 – Page 2

Billibub Baddings Podcast Novel– Special Preview

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A special preview by Tee Morris of his book, Billibub Baddings And The Case Of The Singing Sword. This podcast novel is scheduled to appear on Podiobooks in February. But Tee is giving a special holiday gift to his fans.

Tee’s podcast The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy is offering up this 53:22 beginning of this podcast novel with a Dwarf named Billibub Baddings in gangland Chicago.

Download the [MP3]

or subscribe to the The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy by pasting this line in your favorite podcatching device:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSurvivalGuideToWritingFantasy

posted by The Time Traveler

Audible Daily Deal is The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold

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Audible.com has posted a daily special ($9.95) on Lois McMaster Bujold’s The Vor Game. This was a Hugo award winner (“Best Novel of 1991”), and we reviewed it last year. It was also a 2005 Audie Award Nominee.

Here’s the outline:

Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with high expectations of ship command, but is disappointed with an assignment as meteorologist to Lazkowski Base, an arctic training camp. His tenure in the windy, snow-covered north is cut short when Miles narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits. After a brief stay under ‘house arrest’, Miles is re-assigned to investigate a suspicious military build-up near a wormhole nexus. Reviving his undercover persona as mercenary Admiral Miles Naismith, his routine information-gathering duty expands to a rescue mission when the Emperor of Barrayar disappears during a political conference on a nearby space station. Miles must use his considerable negotiating skills to avoid a showdown between competing powers for control of the wormhole, find the Emperor, and watch his back for the arctic base commander seeking bloody vengeance.

posted by Jesse Willis

Second Shift podcast offers Limited Edition hardcopy

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The folks at Second Shift , a super-fun original audio drama series, have released a “limited edition” three-CD set of the first five episodes of their first season! These are regular audio cds and can be played on any CD player – but added to them are bonus features you can access on your computer. Each of the Limited Edition CDs is signed by the cast and crew, and is individually numbered up to #40. Proceeds go to supporting the show!

Second Shift The Beginning

Second Shift is the tale of three college students who, while waiting in line for the opening of the latest genre blockbuster movie, are transported into a fantasy world where magic works, at least sometimes.

If you’re too poor to pony up the $12.00 then just plop this feed into your podcatcher and listen the free way:

http://www.secondshiftpodcast.com/xml/2shift.xml

posted by Jesse Willis

Podiobooks posts Badge Of Infamy by Lester del Rey

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Podiobooks.com has just posted up the first 10 chapters of Steven H. Wilson’s reading of Badge Of Infamy by Lester del Rey. There are a total of 15 chapters in this 1957 novel. When it is completed it will be another entry in the SFFaudio “Make An Audiobook, Win An Audiobook Challenge.”

This short novel was originally published in Satellite Science Fiction in June of 1957. It first appeared in book form in 1963, and still later in 1973 as a Ace Double paired with another now public domain del Rey novel The Sky is Falling.

Badge Of Infamy
By Lester del Rey; Read by Steven H. Wilson
15 MP3s – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Podiobooks.com
Status: STARTED

Daniel Feldman was a doctor once. He made the mistake of saving a friend’s life in violation of Medical Lobby rules. Now, he’s a pariah, shunned by all, forbidden to touch another patient. But things are more loose on Mars. There, Doc Feldman is welcomed by the colonists, even as he’s hunted by the authorities. But, when he discovers a Martian plague may soon wipe out humanity on two planets, the authorities begin hunting him for a different reason altogether.

Head on over to Podiobooks.com to subscribe!

posted by Jesse Willis

The Time Traveler Show #11 Beyond Lies The Wub by Philip K. Dick

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The Time Traveler Show podcast #11 has the best podcast short story of the season as its latest episode! The story itself has absolutely nothing to do with Xmas, except in the sense that it is a gift from the Time Traveler to all the good little boys and girls out there in podcastland. Come to think of it, the Time Traveler and Santa Claus do have a lot in common!

Anyway, TT’s Xmas gift to us is an unabridged reading of Philip K. Dick’s short story, Beyond Lies The Wub. This was Dick’s first ever published tale. Apparently the Time Traveler even went all the way back to 1952 to try to get Dick to read it for us. Unfortunately Phil wanted to know how big the paycheck would be for it. When TT told him it’d be a ‘pro bono’ job, Phil went into a long rambling harangue about how ‘poor’ he was, that all he ever got to eat was ‘horsemeat’ and that if he’d had a time machine, like the Time Traveler did, he’d be using it to make goddamned money. Said Phil:

“Just think of the possibilities! You could buy cheap color televisions from 1975 and sell them to the people of 1951, you’d make an absolute killing! It’d be a captive market.”

This got Phil up off the couch and over to his typewriter – maybe he was inspired or something. The Time Traveler gave up and zipped forward to 2006 and got an excellent reader named Mac Kelly to narrate it for us instead. Almost as good I say!

To read the complete show notes for podcast #11 click HERE or download the show MP3 directly by clicking HERE.

Better yet, subscribe to the feed, phil your Xmas stocking automatically:

http://www.timetravelershow.com/shows/feed.xml

posted by Jesse Willis

The Lipstick Aliens Podcast

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The Lipstick Aliens, Lynne and Cat, are two “Sexy sci-fi fan girls” who host a podcast about genre TV, movies, toys, games and even musical theatre. Additional material covered includes interviews with purveyors of podcast fiction! Interviewees so far include the likes of J.C Hutchins, Mur Lafferty and Scott Sigler.

Subscribe to the podcast with the feed:

http://lipstickaliens.libsyn.com/rss

posted by Jesse Willis