Day: May 19, 2009

Maria Lectrix: Old Crompton’s Secret by Harl Vincent

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Maureen O’Brien, of the prolific Maria Lectrix podcast, has started a new project. She’s going to be recording an entire pulp magazine. She’s already recorded the “Table Of Contents” |MP3| and the first story too! Here’s that tale, From the February 1930 issue of Astounding (then called Astounding Stories of Super-Science) comes…

Astounding Stories Of Super-Science February 1930Old Crompton’s Secret
By Harl Vincent; Read by Maureen O’Brien
1 |MP3| – Approx. 1 Hour [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Maria Lectrix
Podcast: May 2009
Provider: Archive.org
“a little story of the dark side of science and men’s dreams.”

Sez Maureen of this reading:

I was a bit intimidated at first, because pre-Campbell Astounding gets dismissive remarks from many historians of sf. But these stories are solid pulp tales by solid pulp writers. Don’t expect them to be more than they are, and you’ll have a great time.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Rocket Science 1966 – 1967

Scott D.

SFFaudio News

The Fix - Short Fiction ReviewRecently posted over at The Fix: Short Fiction Review is my latest Rocket Science column, covering Hugo-winning short fiction from 1966 and 1967.

From 1966: “”Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman” by Harlan Ellison. Ellison reads this himself in the Voice from the Edge: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream audio collection. |SFFaudio Review|

From 1967: Novelette: “The Last Castle” by Jack Vance. I don’t know of an audio version of this one. The only Jack Vance audiobook I know of is from Wonder Audio – “The Devil on Salvation Bluff”. I’d certainly welcome a Vance audio collection – he’s great.

Also from 1967: Short Story: “Neutron Star” by Larry Niven. The only audio version of this one that I’m aware of is from an old Books on Tape version of Niven’s Beowulf Schaeffer collection called Crashlander. Long out of print, and I can’t think of any other versions.

Posted by Scott D. Danielson

Audible.com: FREE Fairy Tales + FREE Poe + MORE FREE

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

There are a couple of “Audible Fairy Tales” titles for kids available for FREE from Audible.com. You will need to have an Audible.com account already but if you do you’re golden with these…

Audible Fairy Tales - The True History Of Little Golden HoodThe True History Of Little Golden-Hood
By Andrew Lang; Read by Leo Laporte
Audible Download – 9 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible.com / Audible Fairy Tales
Published: 2008
You know the tale of poor Little Red Riding-hood, that the Wolf deceived and devoured, with her cake, her little butter can, and her grandmother? Well, the true story happened quite differently, as we now know. First of all, the little girl was called and is still called Little Golden-hood; secondly, it was not she, nor the good grand-dame, but the wicked Wolf who was, in the end, caught and devoured.

Audible Fairy Tales - Beauty And The BeastBeauty And The Beast
By Andrew Lang; Read by Roscoe Orman
Audible Download – 51 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible.com / Audible Fairy Tales
Published: 2008
Once upon a time in a very far-off country, there lived a merchant who had been so fortunate in all his undertakings that he was enormously rich. As he had, however, six sons and six daughters, he found that his money was not too much to let them all have everything they fancied, as they were accustomed to do.

But that isn’t all! An Audible Kids account (which you can get FREE if you already have a regular Audible.com account) will get you even more gems…

Audible / Reading Is Fundamental

I’m listening to the E.A. Poe tale in there now. It’ll freak your kids out right and proper!

[via the Teaching Learners With Multiple Needs blog]

Posted by Jesse Willis