Audible is offering some series-beginning audiobooks for $4.95! A few of the genre titles on the list:
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The whole list (which I assume will display only to Audible members) is HERE.
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
Day: February 2, 2010
Comics: Robert E. Howard’s Queen Of The Black Coast as adapted by Petri Hiltunen
Has your hard drive got room for 19.92 MB of pure awesome? If so be sure to download this AMAZING 46 page comic book adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s Queen Of The Black Coast as illustrated by Petri Hiltunen.
It is available in the .CBR format (which is readable using a piece of software called CDisplay).
Queen Of The Black Coast |CBR|
Like the terrific, but quashed, BrokenSea Productions audio drama adaptation before it (which is still available via torrent and on Archive.org |HERE|) this will probably make the Conan Properties/Paradox Entertainment goons lament their ghoulishly spurious claims on all things Robert E. Howard.
Most of Robert E. Howard’s fiction is public domain, including Queen Of The Black Coast. This awesome adaptation shows exactly why it should be. Great art is made by artists building upon the art of the past, not by ghoulishly hoarding licensees.
The Cover:
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[Thank CROM!]
Posted by Jesse Willis
Asimov’s March 2010: On The Net: THE PRICE OF FREE Pt.1
James Patrick Kelly, SF author, has been a columnist for Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine for “ten plus years.” His “On The Net” column is about Science Fiction on the internet. You know it’s a good column when it mentions SFFaudio (check out the February 2006 issue). His latest column, in the March 2010 issue of Asimov’s, is titled:
On the Net: THE PRICE OF FREE [ Part I ] by James Patrick Kelly
For it Kelly took inspiration for it from an audiobook we told you about back in September (you can get Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson for FREE). Kelly points out, with links, the many of the ways that a radical price, $0.00, is being used on the internet.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Recent Arrival: Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
By Lynne Jonell; Read by Lynne Jonell and The Full Cast Family
6 CDs – 6 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Full Cast Audio
Published: 2010
ISBN: 9781934180686
From the good folks at Full Cast Audio:
Emmy was a good girl – too good, perhaps. The rat, whose cage sat on the counter next to Emmy’s desk, was not so good. On the other hand, he was the only one in Emmy’s class who would talk to her. The rest of the kids barely knew she existed. Even her teacher didn’t seem to know she was there! Only her nanny, the lovely-but-sinister Miss Barmy, really pays her much attention. And Emmy would rather she wouldn’t . . .
Why does the rat talk to Emmy and no one else? Why do Emmy’s schoolmates barely notice she exists? And what is Miss Barmy really after?
Teasing out the answers to these questions will plunge Emmy into a wild adventure where everything she holds dear – including her parents’ lives! – is at risk.
This delightful and hilarious book garnered four starred reviews – and has an all star cast! Not only did we bring in author Lynne Jonell to narrate, father and daughter team Tate and Tim Green (yes, the same Tim Green who is the bestselling author of FOOTBALL HERO) play Emmy and the Rat. We had a blast recording this one, and it’s guaranteed listening fun.
“Listening fun”, indeed! ALL of Full Cast Audio’s titles are fun – give them a try!
Posted by Scott D. Danielson