Day: June 13, 2009

LibriVox: Starman’s Quest by Robert Silverberg

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

LibriVoxHey now! Check out the FREE audiobook of Robert Silverberg’s second ever novel, a “juvenile” written by a juvenile…

“This was my second novel, which I wrote when I was 19, in my junior year at Columbia. I’ve written better ones since. But readers interested in the archaeology of a writing career will probably find much to explore here.”
-Robert Silverberg 17 May 2008

Starman’s Quest is probably most famously remembered for employing the “twin paradox.” Other elements included in the book include a dystopian/utopian earth of the 37th century. Earth overpopulated and jobs are few and far between for anyone who isn’t in a hereditary guild. There’s also “a kind of enforced consumerism” in which it is considered immoral to save money – “everyone must buy, buy, buy.” The only legal profession open to those without a guild is gambling.


LibriVox - Starman's Quest by Robert SilverbergStarman’s Quest
By Robert Silverberg; Read by Dawn Larsen
20 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 5 Hours 17 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: June 12, 2009
Traveling at speeds close to that of light, spacemen lived at an accelerated pace. When one of the twin boys left the starship, he grew older while his twin in space barely aged. So the starship twin left the ship to find what happened to his brother who was aging away on earth.

Podcast feed: http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/starmans-quest-by-robert-silverberg.xml

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Futurama audio: interview and comic book

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

BBC Radio 6The news just reached me that Futurama (so long confined to the briar patch of straight to DVD sales) is being renewed by Fox – I guess that old saw about when pigs fly and the recent h1n1 pandemic (swine flu) promoted the renewal eh?

Is Firefly next?

To celebrate Futurama‘s revival here’s a 2008 BBC Radio 6 interview with John Di Maggio (Bender) |MP3|.

And…

Did you know there is a Futurama quasi-audiobook (it’s a fan reading of issue #1 of Futurama Comics)!

Futurama Comics #1: Monkey Sea, Monkey DOOM!Futurama Comics #1: Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!
Written by Eric Rogers; Read by Philbot
24 Zipped MP3 Files – Approx. 18 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Provider: Futurama Madhouse
While digging a large hole to hide one of Professor Farnsworth’s inventions that he’s hiding from the police, Fry, Bender and Leela find a time capsule from the 20th century. This capsule has loads of old junk in it, and Fry, seeing this, begins to miss all the things he used to have. While reading an old comic, he finds an ad for some sea monkeys, and purchases some from an old store that sells 20th century stuff. Unfortunately, the sea monkeys don’t impress his friends as much as he wanted them to; at least not until they come into contact with the professor’s gamma radiation, and begin to grow, and grow, and grow!

[via Futurama Madhouse]

Posted by Jesse Willis