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Another Lester del Rey audiobook claimed in our "Challenge"

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Jeffery Tillotson has written in to say:

“I really like the idea of the challenge of SFFAudio.com. I enjoy listening to stories. From podcasts, to old time radio, to audio books. If I can help put more Science Fiction stories in audio format I think I should do just that.”

And so Jeff has claimed The Sky is Falling by Lester Del Rey from our original challenge. He is committed to having it done no later than March 31st, 2007. That’s just three months away!

In order to inspire Jeff to meet his self-imposed deadline we’ve got some art for him:

Audiobook - The Sky Is Falling by Lester Del Rey

Here’s a description of the novel:

Summoned from Earth by magic, Dave Hanson finds himself embroiled in the politics and engineering problems of an alternate Earth named Terah . . . for Terah’s sky has shattered, and he may be the one man in all the universe who can restore it! But science and sorcery, beautiful women, and fantastic monsters are just the beginning of his problems . . .

The Sky Is Falling was based on a story from 1954 called No More Stars. No More Stars was credited to Charles Satterfield, which in this case was actually a pseudonym for both Lester del Rey and Frederick Pohl, they collaborated on that original story. It was released as an expanded novel by del Rey in 1963, and then again in 1973 as half of one of the last Ace Doubles.

I look forward to hearing it Jeff!

posted by Jesse Willis

Mark Nelson is narrating another audiobook for the SFFaudio Challenge!

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Mark Nelson, the narrator of The Green Odyssey by Philip Jose Farmer, has staked his claim for another title from the SFFaudio Challenge list! Behold our art for it…

Librivox Audiobook - The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper

This is Mark’s second entry in our challenge – if you’ll recall, back in November I challenged anyone to turn in any one of a number of previously unreleased public domain novels into an unabridged single voiced audiobook. As an incentive, I offered a BRAND NEW unabridged commercial audiobook to the first person to complete and release one of the books from the list. Mark did it and it was an absolutely terrific audiobook! I am super-juiced at the idea he’s doing another.

Look for The Cosmic Computer AKA “Junkyard Planet” by H. Beam Piper to show up on the pages of LibriVox in “a couple of weeks”!

Congratulations again Mark and thanks!

Now since my original challenge will soon be running out of the original batch of audiobooks (at least two out of the three Blackstone Audiobooks I purchased for the event are going to be mailed out shortly), I’d like to ask what you SFFaudio readers would like to see included in the SECOND CHALLENGE!

YUP, that’s right, we’re going to add to the list and RENEW the challenge with more incentive audiobooks. So I’ll ask you folks. Which, of the more modern Science Fiction, Fantasy (and Horror if there are any) public domain books on Manybooks.net or Project Gutenberg would you like to see added to the list? I’ll also ask you what kind of commerical audiobooks you would like to see given out by us as the incentive for the SECOND CHALLENGE? Post your thoughts! Make your voice count! And claim your titles!

posted by Jesse Willis

Audible Daily Deal is The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Audible.com has posted a daily special ($9.95) on Lois McMaster Bujold’s The Vor Game. This was a Hugo award winner (“Best Novel of 1991”), and we reviewed it last year. It was also a 2005 Audie Award Nominee.

Here’s the outline:

Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with high expectations of ship command, but is disappointed with an assignment as meteorologist to Lazkowski Base, an arctic training camp. His tenure in the windy, snow-covered north is cut short when Miles narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits. After a brief stay under ‘house arrest’, Miles is re-assigned to investigate a suspicious military build-up near a wormhole nexus. Reviving his undercover persona as mercenary Admiral Miles Naismith, his routine information-gathering duty expands to a rescue mission when the Emperor of Barrayar disappears during a political conference on a nearby space station. Miles must use his considerable negotiating skills to avoid a showdown between competing powers for control of the wormhole, find the Emperor, and watch his back for the arctic base commander seeking bloody vengeance.

posted by Jesse Willis

Second Shift podcast offers Limited Edition hardcopy

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Second Shift PodcastThe folks at Second Shift , a super-fun original audio drama series, have released a “limited edition” three-CD set of the first five episodes of their first season! These are regular audio cds and can be played on any CD player – but added to them are bonus features you can access on your computer. Each of the Limited Edition CDs is signed by the cast and crew, and is individually numbered up to #40. Proceeds go to supporting the show!

Second Shift The Beginning

Second Shift is the tale of three college students who, while waiting in line for the opening of the latest genre blockbuster movie, are transported into a fantasy world where magic works, at least sometimes.

If you’re too poor to pony up the $12.00 then just plop this feed into your podcatcher and listen the free way:

http://www.secondshiftpodcast.com/xml/2shift.xml

posted by Jesse Willis

Blake’s 7 coming to Audio!

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Audio Drama - Blake's 7Roy, our exeptionaly talented British agent has found out that a UK-based independent media production company, B7 Productions, has announced the return of the cult television classic, Blake’s 7 as a series of original audio dramas. Cognoscenti of a certain age will remember that the original Blake’s 7 television series aired between 1978 and 1981 in the UK. You can read the original press release HERE, but suffice it to say it sounds like B7 has been “re-imagined” with a number of very professional actors. The series is to be comprised of 36 five minute audio dramas and will debut in spring 2007. A special ‘extended’ CD edition should also be released to retail in the month following broadcast.

About … Blake’s 7:

In the original series, Terry Nation, one of Britain’s foremost television writers of the 1960’s and 1970’s, gave the world a vision of the future, a future where the galaxy is ruled by the iron fist of a galactic federation, in which freedom and justice are things of the past. Into this vision he cast a small band of outlaws, who by pure chance found themselves in control of the most powerful space vessel in the known galaxy – the Liberator. Led by the enigmatic Roj Blake this group of rebels would strike at the very heart of the Federation and change the face of science fiction television forever.

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Shamelessly stolen story from Slice Of SciFi – Daleks in Trek Verse?

Jesse Willis

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Podcast - Slice Of Sci-FiSFFaudio has shamelessly stolen this entire post from the awesome Slice of SciFi news website:

First it was the Klingon and the Romulan Empires, the Mirror Universe followed by the Borg and Dominion – but until now, Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets have never come up against an enemy as terrifying as this menace from outside the normal fabric of Trek’s space and time. The Daleks have Invaded.

Battlestar Galactica vrs. the Enterprise? Childsplay! Darker Projects takes a serious look at what would happen if the Daleks from the Doctor Who universe were to find themselves on the other side of a rift in the time/space continuum right smack in the Star Trek verse.

In “Gateway,” Part I of episode “Invasion,” when all contact is lost with the Starship Defiant and Starbase Gateway, the covert operatives of Section 31 are sent to investigate. Only to make a dark discovery. Aboard the Nosferatu, Section 31 investigates this rift and a new threat it has brought into an area of space that not even the Dominion want anything to do with.

Part 2 of “Invasion” is called “Doomsday Unleashed” and continues the story as the invading forces advance into the galaxy, Captain Dalonna considers making a deal with the Federation’s greatest enemy – if there is any hope of stopping them. Meanwhile Mak comes face to face with the one enemy he’d believed destroyed long ago.

Written and directed by Eric Busby, “Section 31″ from Darker Projects is one of the most creative and exciting audio fan productions on the net today and one which Slice of SciFi highly recommends for all Trek enthusiasts and lovers of great scifi serials.

Thanks for this story SoSF guys!

posted by Jesse Willis