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Spider Robinson has great news! On top of his upcoming Blackstone Audio release, Variable Star, Spider writes: “…after I finish recording The Stardance Trilogy [for Blackstone], they’re going to let me read [Robert A. Heinlein’s] Rocket Ship Galileo – the first book I ever read in my life.”
[props to SciFiDimensions.com]
My head may explode from happiness…
I finally spotted them on Amazon.com:
“Shadows Kingdoms is the first volume of The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, presenting all of Howard’s Work from the classic magazine Weird Tales, meticulously restored to its original texts. This volume begins with Spear and Fang, Howard’s first professional fiction sale, and concludes with Red Thunder, a gripping sword & sorcery tale. Series characters present in this volume include King Kull and Solomon Kane. A 5 disc CD-Audio edition.“
There is also a listing for an MP3 CD edition of the same volume!
The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Shadow Kingdoms
By Robert E. Howard; Read by ????
5 CDs or 1 MP3-CD – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Wildside Press / Audio Realms
Published: December 2006 / November 2006
ISBN: 0809562286 or 1897304129 (CD), 0809562278 (MP3-CD)
Stories include:
Two-Gun Musketeer: Robert E. Howard’s Weird Tales an introduction by Mark Finn, Spear and Fang, In the Forest of VillefFre, Wolfshead, The Lost Race, The Song of the Bats, The Ride of Falume, The Riders of Babylon, The Dream Snake, The Hyena, Remembrance, Sea Curse, The Gates of Nineveh, Red Shadows, The Harp of Alfred, Easter Island, Skulls in the Stars, Crete, Moon Mockery, Rattle of Bones, Forbidden Magic, The Shadow Kingdom, The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune, The Moor Ghost, Red Thunder
And perhaps even more exciting….
Original Stories Of Conan The Barbarian Volume 1: The Phoenix And The Sword
By Robert E. Howard; Read by ????
5 CDs – Approx 5.5 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Wildside Press / Audio Realms
Published: October 2006
ISBN: 0809562766 or 1897304080 (CD), 0809562758 (MP3-CD)
Stories included:
The Phoenix On The Sword
The Scarlet Citadel
The Tower Of The Elephant
Black Colossus
Gods Of The North
We knew that Fred Godsmark over at the hideously awesome Audio Realms was working on some audiobooks of Robert E. Howard’s works, but the official availability on Amazon makes them orderable! Place your preorders people, the bigger the pre-order demand, the more likely we are to get Volume 2 in each series faster.
Thanks to SFFaudio reader Esther for pointing out that the Audio Realms unabridged (and Excellent) Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock is Audible.com‘s Selection of the Day! That means you can get this Excellent title for $9.95 today only. Don’t miss it!
Elric of Melniboné
By Michael Moorcock, Read By Jeffrey West and Michael Moorcock
5 CD’s – 5.5 Hour [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audio Realms
Published: 2003
ISBN: 097315960X
Themes: / Epic Fantasy / Magic / War / Gods /
Click here for SFFaudio’s rave review of this title, from 6/29/2005.
Ed – $9.95 is the non-member price. The member price is only $6.97.
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
Bill DeSmett, author of the podiobook Singularity is planning on doing a wrap-up episode in a question-and-answer style. If you are a listener of this book and would like to get in on the action you have three options:
1. Email your question in plain text to: [email protected]
2. Record your question as an audio file and email it to [email protected]
3. Leave a voice mail by calling 206-888-2448
Questions can be about the characters in the book, what really goes on inside of a naked singularity, physics, Russian studies or anything else related to the novel or the author. More info can be found on the official Singularity website.
Evo of Podiobooks.com also adds “The best question or comment, as selected by our impartial panel of judges, will receive a free, autographed hardcover copy of Singularity.”
SFFaudio wishes to send a big thank you to the hosts and attendees of the Podcasting Suite at WorldCon 2006 Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights in the Hilton’s Suite 240 in Anaheim, California. These three nights were giant blast of goodness for us. Here’s a rundown of the folks who made it all possible:
Sponsoring the event was Podcast Ready, a cool company which provides software that will turn any internet connection into a podcast update source. Their software resides on your MP3 player and will search out all your latest subscirptions whenever it is plugged into any USB port (whether it is your personal computer or not).
Providing music was DJ Steveboy from the premier podcast providing workout tunes for your weekly workouts.
Thursday Night:
Hosted in part by Bluejack from The Internet Review Of Science Ficiton (and the podcast :: overclocked ::)
And by Marti McKenna from Aeon Speculative Fiction.
And by Evo Terra of Podiobooks.com
Friday Night:
Friday it was Escape Pod’s turn. The hosts were Stephen Eley, his wife and fellow narrator Anna Eley, as well as E-Pod slush pile reader Scott Janssens.
Saturday Night:
Evo once again hosted a night of debauched poetry slamming. A wonderful time was had by all.
Some of the podcasting attendees at the three nights were:
Jack Mangan of Jack Mangan’s Deadpan Podcast and the podiobook Spherical Tomi.
Nora Fleischer of the podiobook Discovered Country; Or The Adventures Of Rosemary The Librarian.
Matthew Wayne Selznick of the Brave Men Run podiobook.
Christiana Ellis of the podiobook Nina Kimberly The Merciless
Cory Doctorow from the fiction podcast “Craphound: The Literary Works of Cory Doctorow” podcast and BoingBoing.net.
Mark Jeffrey of The Pocket And The Pendant podcast novel.
Paul Fischer from the Balticon Podcast
Bill DeSmett of Singularity podiobook.
James Patrick Kelly from The Free Reads Podcast (which released JPK’s hugo nominated novella, Burn as well as Men Are Trouble and numerous short stories).
I took a camera to Worldcon and have posted a number of the pics from the podcasting suite’s three parties into my Flickr account. I also made a general Worldcon set, click on through to see them both.
Paul Fischer from the Balticon Podcast has posted an exclusive podcast recorded at the Hugo Loser’s Party (AKA The Hugo Nominees party) held at LACON IV (Worldcon 2006). Paul talked to some big names, David Brin, Robert Silverberg, Cory Doctorow, James Patrick Kelly, Peter S. Beagle and Ellen Datlow
Download the MP3 HERE or subscribe to the podcast via this feed:
http://www.balticonpodcast.org/bcpc.rss