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Blackstone Audiobooks OVERSTOCK SALE awesome audiobooks $5.00 each

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Blackstone AudiobooksBlackstone Audiobooks is having an absolutely amazing overstock sale! 114 titles are on sale, almost all of them for a rock bottom $5.00 each!

Check out these titles and the AMAZING prices!

KING KONG $5.00 – 5 CDs
By Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper. Novelization by Delos W. Lovelace; Read by Stefan Rudnicki
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CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY $5.00 – 7 Cassettes
By Robert A. Heinlein; Read by Lloyd James
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SUPERMAN RETURNS $5.00 – 8 CDs
By Marv Wolfman; Read by Scott Brick
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DEATH MATCH $5.00 – 10 Cassettes
By Lincoln Child; Read by Barrett Whitener
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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO NARNIA $5.00 – 4 CDs
By Jonathan Rogers; Read by Brian Emerson

SFFaudio EssentialV FOR VENDETTA $5.00 – 8 CDs
By Steve Moore; Read by Simon Vance
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Colonial Radio Theatre: Buck Alice and the Actor Robot

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Colonial Radio TheatreJack Ward from The Sonic Society points us to an exciting new post on his site…

“Colonial Radio Theatre announced today they are mixing it up with Walter Koenig and Sci-Fi!

Jerry Robbins from Colonial Radio Theatre announced today that they will be producing a science fiction audio drama- and not just ANY sci-fi show, but a classic book written by none other than Walter Koenig famous for such roles as Chekov from Star Trek and Bester from Babylon 5.

Buck Alice and the Actor Robot is a favourite novel by Koenig and Colonial Radio is thrilled to produce with Koenig who is said to also perform in this audio show!

Stand by… Science Fiction in Audio Drama just got a whole lot cooler!”

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Behind the sounds at CBC Radio One’s Canadia: 2056

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Canadia: 2056Matt Watts, star and author of Canadia: 2056, has been nominated for the ACTRA Award for “Outstanding Performance – Voice” for his work on Canadia: 2056. Congrats Matt!

To celebrate, CBC’s released two short videos to the Canadia: 2056 website.

1. Sound Designer Anton Szabo shows the different sound qualities in the studio where Canadia: 2056 is recorded. |VIDEO|

2. The writer and series star Matt Watts talks about the creation of Canadia: 2056 was recorded. |VIDEO|

Next week’s episode is a good one…

Episode 6:
Written by David Tomlinson & Matt Watts
Air Dates: February 6th (repeats Feb. 8th)
“Anderson pines for Connie his first love. The crew loses the ability to navigate the ship when they are controlled by a cloud. The up side is that the cloud grants them wishes, the down side is that the cloud grants them wishes.”

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Podiobooks.com to offer audiobooks

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Podiobooks.com Podiobooker PodcastJason Penney of the All The Billion Other Moments blog, has written in to say:

“I thought it might be of interest to the readers of SFFAudio that Podiobooks.com is looking to add “Audiobook” versions of some titles (for a fee) at some time this year. Currently it seems this will consist of large file downloads with the in between stuff edited out (so it will be more like getting something from Audible.com than a bunch of podcasts). Since the site is run primarily by podcasters who are not primarily Audiobook listeners they are looking for input into what people want out of this service. Currently there don’t seem to be too many audiobook listeners taking part, so this is a good chance for those who do to let themselves be heard. Also, I’ve started a group in the Community for folks who are primarily audiobook listeners as opposed to podcast listeners.”


Indeed, I’ve been asking Evo Terra, my friend at Podiobooks, to make this happen for a while now. I’m one of those audiobook people. I love podcasts, but I’m an audiobook person too. I’m glad to hear that its is under serious consideration and that the consultations have begun. The audiobook listenership really doesn’t seem to have crossed over into the podcast serialized novel format – and this means that if successful, Podiobooks will be offering just that hook for the many audiobook only folks out there. If you’re an audiobook person who just hasn’t got what a podiobook is (podcast novel), why not add your input to the discussion?

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Scott Brick releasing Stephen R. Donaldson’s The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant as audiobooks

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. DonaldsonOne of the hottest audiobook narrators in the business is Scott Brick. Brick has recently installed a home studio and has been recording some of his favorite titles – which means there’s goin g to be some very interesting news for Fantasy fans shortly. Brick’s first release, coming soon, is…

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
By Stephen R. Donaldson

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Stephen R. Donaldson. It was followed by The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, also a trilogy, and The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, a planned quartet. The main character is Thomas Covenant, a cynical writer afflicted with leprosy, shunned and despised by society, who is destined to become the heroic saviour of an alternate world – or, perhaps, only of his own sanity. Throughout six novels published between 1977 and 1983, Covenant struggles against the evil Lord Foul – “The Despiser” – who intends to break the physical universe to escape its bondage and wreak revenge upon his arch-enemy “The Creator”. Many elements of the story correspond to those of Richard Wagner’s epic “Ring Cycle”, but with inverted values.
-from Wikipedia

As to why these books, Brick had this to say:

“I’m actually putting out The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant myself, and it should be in all the usual places: audible, iTunes, eMusic, Overdrive and Net Library, as well as iAmplify and a few others. It’ll also be available on my own site, ScottBrickPresents.com. I will likely be partnering with a major publisher for [hard copy] distribution, but this is essentially self-published. I just saw that no-one was recording it and thought what a shame it would be for people to miss this series. I literally sacrificed my final grades my freshman year at UCLA because I couldn’t put this series down. Awesome, awesome books.”

UPDATE:
Scott Brick has asked I point out that the first title he will be releasing is actually Fatal Revenant, the most recent book in the series. If all goes swimmingly with it he plans on releasing the earlier titles afterwards. I’ve got my fingers crossed!

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