Orson Scott Card’s latest aural essay is up on Audible.com. This month Card’s talks about Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War!
Go check it out, or just have a listen |MP3| to hear what Card thinks about JH’s masterwork!
Posted by Jesse Willis
Month: December 2008
FREE Audible Audiobook: Black River by Dean Koontz
Free DEAN KOONTZ Audiobook! To help promote the fact that Microsoft’s Zune is now compatible with Audible.com the latter is giving away Dean Koontz’ Black River. You’ll need an Audible account, but not necessarily a Zune. Get it now HERE.
Black River
By Dean Koontz; Read by Scott Brick
Audible Download – 2 Hours 11 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible.com
Published: 2007
Master of suspense Dean Koontz creates an undercurrent of terror in this story set deep in the dark and troubled town of Black River. Burned-out Hollywood screenwriter Bo Aikens is fed up with life in Los Angeles. He heads out of the hustle and bustle of the big city and arrives in picturesque Black River in Northern California, seeking relaxation and artistic inspiration. In small, idyllic Black River, nearly everyone is happy, contented, and welcoming of strangers. But despite the beautiful setting, Bo begins to feel unsettled after several disturbing incidents. He discovers that all of his money has been transferred to a bank account in Black River, and a house has been purchased for him by someone on “his” instructions. Troubled by various, peculiar twists of fate, Bo decides to leave Black River. As he becomes entangled in a nightmarish plot, preventing his return home, it suddenly seems clear to Bo that his perfect little hideaway captures more than just the imagination of its visitors.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Morphology, longevity, incept dates: Philip K. Dick’s 80th birthday
Pirate Cat Radio has an interview with David Gill of the Philip K. Dick devotional blog Total Dick Head. The interview aired on Friday December 12 from 11:59pm to 2am. Have a listen to the |MP3| in celebration of the Philip K. Dick’s 80th birthday.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Fatherland
Fatherland
Full cast audio drama in five parts
Based on the novel by Robert Harris
Adapted by John Dryden
Monday, Dec. 15 through Friday, Dec. 19
9:30AM, 8:30PM & 1:30AM GMT
The year is 1964, and it’s a week before Hitler’s 75th birthday. Nazi Germany won the Second World War, Churchill is living in exile in Canada, Joseph Kennedy is President of the United States, and King Edward and Queen Wallis are puppet monarchs of the United Kingdom. In this dimension, history took a very different turn in 1942 to the one we are familiar with.
If you enjoy alternate histories be sure to check out this audio drama adaptation of Robert Harris‘s novel set in an imaginary post-war Germany. In the story, Berlin cop Xavier March begins to uncover a terrible secret at the heart of the totalitarian state. See, nazis…they really needed to lighten up a bit, but they didn’t and they certainly don’t in this chilling story. Fatherland stars Anton Lesser, Peter Ellis and Andrew Sachs, is very well produced and gets a solid recommendation from yours truly.
Remember that all BBC7 programs stay online for six days so if you miss one just check the schedule.
Posted by RC of Radio Tales of the Strange & Fantastic
CBC Radion One’s Tapestry interviews: Anne Rice
CBC Radio One’s excellent Tapestry (a program about spirituality, faith and religion) talks to Anne Rice about her books and her religion. Anne Rice promises not to write about Vampires now that she’s rediscovered her faith. Host Mary Hynes knows how to do an interview, and this is a good one. Also on this particular show Wanita Bates travels to Iceland “where belief in elves is something of a national pastime.”
Have a listen |MP3| or subscribe to the podcast:
http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/tapestry.xml
Posted by Jesse Willis
P.S. CBC free Al!
LibriVox: The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
New from Librivox and the prolific narrator Mark F. Smith, comes the novella sequel to the Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Like Doyle’s other famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger was based on a real person. Doyle modeled Challenger on a professor of physiology named William Rutherford, who had lectured at the University of Edinburgh while Conan Doyle studied medicine there. The Poison Belt was first published in 1913 in The Strand magazine.
The Poison Belt
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Read by Mark F. Smith
6 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 3 Hours 19 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: December 04, 2008
Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World, Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him. What he soon informs them is that from astronomical data and just-received telegraphs of strange accidents on the other side of the world, he has deduced that the Earth is starting to move through a region of space containing something poisonous to humankind. Shutting themselves tightly up in Challenger’s house, they start to consider what may be done. But as their countrymen start to drop, will their oxygen last long enough to determine and implement a solution?
Podcast feed:
http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/the-poison-belt-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle.xml
Posted by Jesse Willis