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LibriVox: Last Enemy by H. Beam Piper

Sunday, May 10, 2009 Jesse Willis

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LibriVox If anybody should have his middle name changed to “audiobook” it’s Mark Douglas Nelson. Mark has now completed his sixth H. Beam Piper audiobook.

This story, Last Enemy, is part of Piper’s “Paratime” series. As with all the others this one is a public domain audiobook based on a public domain story. The original publication being in Astounding Science Fiction’s August 1950 issue. Thanks Mark!

Last Enemy
By H. Beam Piper; Read by Mark Douglas Nelson
5 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 2 Hours 39 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: May 9th, 2009
An undercover Paratimer has disappeared on assignment while in an alternate time line, and it’s up to Verkan Vall of the Paratime Police to save her. To do so, he must infiltrate a universe in which assassination is an honorable profession, and reincarnation a scientific fact. Will Verkan Vall survive in a world of killers and the undead?

Podcast feed:

http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/last-enemy-by-h-beam-piperlast-enemy-by-h-beam-piper.xml

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LibriVox: Hunters Out of Space by Joseph E. Kelleam

Friday, May 8, 2009 Jesse Willis

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LibriVox Here’s the latest audiobook to be completed as part of our 3rd Annual SFFaudio Challenge. First published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories May 1960 issue! We can thank narrator Elliot Miller for the reading, Betty (aka LibraryAnne) for the proof-listening, and Mary (aka AmethystA) for organizing it all. This is Elliot’s first solo project but he’s already got his sights set on another Challenge title: Murray Leinster’s The Pirates of Ersatz

Hunters Out of Space
By Joseph E. Kelleam; Read by Elliot Miller
19 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 4 Hours 29 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Publlished: May 7, 2009
Jack Odin has returned to the world of Opal, the world inside our own world, only to find it in ruins. Many of his friends are gone, the world is flooded, and the woman he swore to protect has been taken by Grim Hagen to the stars. Jack must save her, but the difficulties are great and his allies are few.

Podcast feed: http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/hunters-out-of-space-by-joseph-kelleam.xml

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Subterranean Press: Rude Mechanicals by Kage Baker (PODCAST)

Thursday, May 7, 2009Thursday, May 7, 2009 Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Back in the spring of 2007 Subterranean Press was offering a free audiobook version of SF&F author Kage Baker’s “short novel” Rude Mechanicals. The files are still active and downloadable. Which is cool as the audiobook is read by Mary Robinette Kowal!

Now, thanks to the science of HuffDuffing, there’s a podcast feed for it too!

Rude Mechanicals
By Kage Baker; Read by Mary Robinette Kowal
10 MP3s – Approx. 2 Hours 43 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Published: April 2007
|MP3 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 Chapter 10|
The year is 1934, the scene is a Wood Near Athens — temporarily relocated to the environs of the Hollywood Bowl, as German theater impresario Max Reinhardt attempts to stage his famous production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Fortunately for Reinhardt, he has immortal assistance in the person of Literature Specialist Lewis, a cyborg working undercover for Dr. Zeus Incorporated, masters of time travel. Lewis is tasked with preserving Reinhardt’s promptbooks for future Company profits at auction. Unfortunately for Reinhardt, there are complications… For Joseph, Lewis’s fellow cyborg, is on the case as well, attempting to salvage a botched mission of his own. It involves the lost treasure of the Cahuenga Pass, a missing diamond, a third-century pope, burglary, disguises, car chases, and a legendary Hollywood party spot. All of which interact, more or less disastrously, with Lewis’s mission and Reinhardt’s Shakespearean extravaganza. Will the show go on?

Podcast feed:

http://huffduffer.com/jessewillis/tags/rude_mechanicals/rss

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TOR.com: The Last Son Of Tomorrow by Greg van Eekhout

Thursday, May 7, 2009Thursday, May 7, 2009 Jesse Willis

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Tor.com has been placing stories on its website since its launch back in July 2008. They’ve also been placing MP3 readings of many of these stories these files there too. For whatever incomprehensible reason they just haven’t put these files together into a podcast. So now, thanks to HuffDuffer.com, I have!

In the new Tor.com stories feed you’ll find the latest story…

The Last Son Of Tomorrow
By Greg van Eekhout; Read by Greg van Eekhout
1 |MP3| – Approx. 14 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Tor.com
Published: May 2009

…and all the others with MP3 files too.

Subscribe to the podcast:

http://huffduffer.com/jessewillis/tags/tor.com/rss

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LibriVox: Gulliver Of Mars by Edwin L. Arnold

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Jesse Willis

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LibriVox First published as Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation, in 1905, this novel is a precursor to, and the likely inspiration for, Edgar Rice Burroughs’s classic A Princess of Mars (1911). Despite my not having heard of it before now the novel has a long history of adaptation. Ace Books reprinted Arnold’s novel in paperback in 1964, retitling it Gulliver of Mars [sic]. A more recent Bison Books paperbook edition (from 2003) called it Gullivar of Mars.

Arnold’s novel bears a number of striking similarities to Burroughs’s. Both Gullivar and Burroughs’s protagonists are American servicemen who arrive on an inhabited planet Mars by apparently magical means.

A 2007 paperbook sequel exists: In Edgar Allan Poe on Mars: The Further adventures of Gullivar Jones Gullivar Jones appears alongside a young Edgar Allan Poe (in a series of two linked stories).

Marvel Comics adapted the character for the comic book feature “Gullivar Jones, Warrior of Mars” in issues #16-21 of Creatures on the Loose (March 1972 – Jan. 1973). The story was written by Conan comics scribe Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, and SF novelist George Alec Effinger. The series then moved to Marvel’s black and white magazine, Monsters Unleashed #4 and #8 (1974). Marvel’s version modernized the setting, recast Gullivar as a Vietnam War veteran (think Heinlein’s Glory Road).

Did I mention I just picked up the first volume of Alan Moore’s League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen? Apparently the next volume includes cameos by both Gullivar and John Carter!

I love LibriVox!

Gulliver Of Mars
By Edwin L. Arnold; Read by James Christopher
20 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 6 Hours 16 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: May 3rd 2009
This escapist novel first published in 1905 as Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation follows the exploits of American Navy Lieutenant Gulliver Jones, a bold, if slightly hapless, hero who is magically transported to Mars; where he almost outwits his enemies, almost gets the girl, and almost saves the day. Somewhat of a literary and chronological bridge between H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jones’ adventures provide an evocative mix of satire and sword-and-planet adventure.

Podcast feed:

http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/gulliver-of-mars-by-edwin-l-arnold.xml

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FREE novel @ Audible: The Merchant of Death by D. J. MacHale

Tuesday, May 5, 2009Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Jesse Willis

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Audible.com is giving away (to those folks with accounts) the first book in D.J. MacHale’s “Pendragon” series…

The Merchant of Death, Pendragon, Book 1
By D.J. MacHale; Read by William Dufris
Audible Download – 12 Hours 10 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Brilliance Audio / Audible.com
Published: May 2009
Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal 14-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby: he is going to save the world. And not just Earth as we know it. Bobby is slowly starting to realize that life in the cosmos isn’t quite what he thought it was. And before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution. If Bobby wants to see his family again, he’s going to have to accept his role as savior and accept it wholeheartedly. Because, as he is about to discover, Denduron is only the beginning.

The download comes in to parts. This audiobook will only be free until May 12th 2009.

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