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BooksInMotion.com, a publisher we clearly don’t link to enough, is having a:
“Incredible 40% Off St. Patrick’s Day Sale!”
Now through St. Patrick’s Day (March 17, 2010) get 40% OFF your purchase of library, retail and downloaded audiobooks at BooksInMotion.com. Use coupon code “PADDY” at checkout. Offer not available for rental orders.
[Thanks to Erik Burggraaf for the tip!]
Posted by Jesse Willis
7th Anniversary Storypalooza continues!
Pulp Cover
By Gene Wolfe; Read by Mike Boris
24 Min – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: StarShipSofa (Aural Delights No 120)
Published: 2010
Themes: / Science Fiction /
This brilliantly narrated (by Mike Boris) story was part of the Aural Delights no 120 – Gene Wolfe podcast from StarShipSofa. Thanks Tony and crew for all the great stories and commentary week after week!
“Pulp Cover” is the story of a man who wants to marry his boss’s daughter, but loses out to a perfect man from Yale. At least, that’s what the story is about on the surface, but Gene Wolfe’s stories are much more than the top layer. Subtle and satisfying.
Listening to Gene Wolfe is something I haven’t been able to do often, but his stories are finally starting to show up on audio. Audible Frontiers recently published The Book of the New Sun. “Hunter Lake” appeared in The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine in 2003, and before that, the only audiobook I know of was a cassette from Audio Prose Library with “The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories” and “The Solar Labyrinth” on it, read by Wolfe himself. “The Tree is My Hat” was made into an audio drama at the World Horror Convention in 2002, and was included in StarShipSofa’s Aural Delights No 49. That’s all the Gene Wolfe audio I know of – any more out there?
Looks like an author page, Jesse!
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
LibriVox delivers another retro future audiobook, this time it’s a novellette collaboration between Ben Bova and Myron R. Lewis!
The Dueling Machine
By Ben Bova and Myron R. Lewis; Read by Gregg Margarite
3 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 2 Hours 24 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: February 28, 2010
The Dueling Machine is the solution to settling disputes without injury. After you and your opponent select weapons and environments you are injected into an artificial reality where you fight to the virtual death… but no one actually gets hurt. That is, until a warrior from the Kerak Empire figures a way to execute real-world killings from within the machine. Now its inventor Dr. Leoh has to prevent his machine from becoming a tool of conquest. First published in the May, 1963 issue of Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
Podcast feed: http://librivox.org/rss/4088
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[Thanks also to Betty M. and Barry Eads]
Posted by Jesse Willis
Jack J. Ward, of The Sonic Society podcast points me toward this new blog that reviews audio drama.
It’s called Audio Drama Review, and the reviewer blogs under the name “AudioDramaReviewer” – hey are you sensing a pattern here?
Audio Drama Review’s moto is:
“Reviews of Audio Drama, Radio Plays, old and new. Current companies and shows both professional and amateur.”
If you’re a fan of audio drama you should definitely check out this new blog!
Already reviewed are:
–Lightning Bolt Theater Of The Mind
My favourite part about this new blog is that the reviewer is taking the time to pointing out how much the website for each show sucks (or doesn’t). Making a decent show isn’t enough, it has to be accessible too!
Posted by Jesse Willis