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Monday, December 7, 2009 Jesse Willis

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Is it kind of sick that I listen to the Windows Weekly and MacBreak Weekly podcasts mostly for their Audible.com commercials?

While listening to the latest Windows Weekly show Leo Laporte referenced a recent episode of This Week In Tech (TWiT) (#223) in which they had SF author Jerry Pournelle as a guest. Now I’m going to have to add yet another TWiT show to my podcatcher. Here’s the Jerry Pournelle episode |MP3|

MacBreak Weekly Podcast feed: http://leoville.tv/podcasts/mbw.xml
Windows Weekly Podcast feed: http://leoville.tv/podcasts/ww.xml
This Week in Tech Podcast feed: http://leoville.tv/podcasts/twit.xml

[via my mom]

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FREE @ Audible.com: RINGWORLD by Larry Niven

Monday, December 7, 2009Monday, December 7, 2009 Jesse Willis

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Drop that tasp and grab this link! I’ve got a FREE and UNABRIDGED version of Larry Niven’s Ringworld! You’ll need an Audible.com account. Hurry now, there’s no telling when this offer will dry up so grab it while you can!

Ringworld: Free Version
By Larry Niven; Read by Tom Parker (aka Grover Gardner)
FREE Audible Download – Approx. 11 Hours 15 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 1996
Provider: Audible.com
Welcome to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. It is 93 million miles in radius – the equivalent of one Earth orbit or 600 miles long – 1,000 meters thick, and much sturdier than a Dyson sphere. What other advantages are there to this world? The gravitational force created by a rotation on its axis of 770 miles per second means no need for a roof. Walls 1,000 miles high at each rim will let in the sun and prevent much air from escaping.

Larry Niven’s novel Ringworld won the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmars, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.

|READ OUR REVIEW|

[via This Week In Tech]

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Fast Ships, Black Sails A PIRATE ANTHOLOGY

Monday, December 7, 2009 Jesse Willis

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Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger–and, yes, plunder. Oh, the Devil does love a pirate–and so do readers everywhere.

Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself…

Night Shade Books published Fast Ships, Black Sails an anthology of fantastik pirate stories in 2008. Since then there have been two audiobook versions made of the 18 stories contained within the collection. If more get turned into audiobooks I’ll add them to this post!

PC064: Castor On Troubled Waters
By Rhys Hughes; Read by Alasdair Stuart
1 |MP3| – Approx. 27 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: PodCastle
Podcast: August 4, 2009

EP226: Pirate Solutions
By Katherine Sparrow; Read by Sarah Tolbert, Kate Baker, Nate Periat, and Steve Eley
1 |MP3| – Approx. 42 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Escape Pod
Podcast: November 26, 2009

Contents:
Introduction: “Raising Anchor” by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Boojum by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake by Naomi Novik
Avast, Abaft! by Howard Waldrop
I Begyn as I Mean to Go On by Kage Baker
Castor on Troubled Waters by Rhys Hughes |MP3|
Elegy for Gabrielle, Patron Saint of Healers, Whores and Righteous Thieves by Kelly Barnhill
Skillet and Saber by Justin Howe
The Nymph’s Child by Carrie Vaughn
68˚06’N, 31˚40’W by Conrad Williams
Pirate Solutions by Katherine Sparrow |MP3|
We Sleep on a Thousand Waves by Brendan Connell
Pirates of the Suara Sea by David Freer & Eric Flint
Voyage of the Iguana by Steve Aylett
Iron Face by Michael Moorcock
A Cold Day in Hell by Paul Batteiger
Captain Blackheart Wentworth by Rachel Swirsky
The Whale Below by Jayme Lynn Blaschke
Beyond The Sea Gate Of The Scholar-Pirates of Sarskoe by Garth Nix

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BBC Audio: Hearts, Keys, and Puppetry by Neil Gaiman and the Twitterverse

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Jesse Willis

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Proving that Twitter is good for more than fomenting revolutions and letting people know what you’re having for lunch, BBC Audiobooks America has assembled a collaborative audiobook written by Neil Gaiman and the “Twitterverse.” It’s available for FREE |HERE| and I’ve assembled the disparate MP3 files into a HuffDuffer podcast feed too.

Hearts, Keys, and Puppetry
By Neil Gaiman and the Twitterverse; Read by Katherine Kellgren
9 MP3 Files or HuffDuffer Podcast – Approx. 1 Hour 45 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: BBC Audio
Published: December 1, 2009
So began the Twitter Audio project, with a dazzling first line penned by New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. What followed was an epic tale of imaginary lands, magical objects, haunting melodies, plucky sidekicks, menacing villains and much more. From mystical blue roses to enchanted mirrors to pesky puppets, this classic fable was born from the collective creativity of more than one hundred contributors via the social network Twitter.com in a groundbreaking literary experiment. Together, virtual strangers crafted a rollicking story of a young girl’s journey with love, forgiveness, and acceptance.

Chapter 1 |MP3| Chapter 2 |MP3| Chapter 3 |MP3| Chapter 4 |MP3| Chapter 5 |MP3| Chapter 6 |MP3|
Chapter 7 |MP3| Chapter 8 |MP3| Chapter 9 |MP3|

Podcast feed:

http://huffduffer.com/tags/hearts_keys_and_puppetry/rss

iTunes 1-Click |SUBSCRIBE|

[via BBC Audiobooks America]

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The Inheritors (An Extravagant Story) by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford

Tuesday, December 1, 2009Sunday, November 29, 2009 Jesse Willis

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Mike Hagerty, in response to the Fourth Annual SFFaudio Challenge, has recorded and posted a 1901 Science Fiction(y) collaborative novel by two giants of English literature. You can currently get the entire audiobook for FREE either via LearnOutLoud.com or Archive.org. There are plans afoot to get it up on LibriVox.org as well (which will provide a very handy podcast feed). Thanks so much Mike!

The Inheritors (An Extravagant Story)
By Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford; Read by Mike Hagerty
7 MP3 Files o 7 OGG Vorbis Files – Approx. 6 Hours 28 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Archive.org / LearnOutLoud.com
Published: November 2009
The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It looks at society’s mental evolution and what is gained and lost in the process. Written before the first World War, its themes of corruption and the effect of the 20th Century on British aristocracy appeared to predict history. In the novel, the metaphor of the “fourth dimension” is used to explain a societal shift from a generation of people who have traditional values of interdependence, being overtaken by a modern generation who believe in expediency, callously using political power to bring down the old order. Its narrator is an aspiring writer who himself makes a similar transition at a personal level only to feel he has lost everything.

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NPR: Neil Gaiman Asks: Heard Any Good Books Lately?

Monday, November 30, 2009 Jesse Willis

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There’s a brief “open mic” segment on today’s episode of NPR’s Morning Edition that I think you’d all like to hear:

Neil Gaiman, a self professed lover of audiobooks, is evangelizing the audiobook. For his segment he’s done some interviews with some audiobook movers and shakers. He’s spreading the good word, taking on the specific arguments of the unbelievers, and generally praising the audio medium. Have a listen…

Or download the |MP3|. Incidentally a click through to the NPR page on this segment also reveals two extended interviews with narrator Martin Jarvis…

and David Sedaris…

[via Audible.com’s Twitter feed]

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