Here’s an interesting lecture, by Simon J. James, about H.G. Wells’ The First Men In The Moon recorded August 30, 2013.
Note that the audio for the video cuts-out for about 3 minutes starting at the 17 minute mark.
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Galaxy News Radio: The Silver Shroud
The Silver Shroud is a “radio drama” found within Fallout 4!
The star of the The Silver Shroud radio drama is the titular fedora-and-trench-coat-wearing superhero – a hero in the mould of The Shadow and The Red Panda. His mission is “shielding the innocent and judging the guilty” of Boston, Massachusetts. He wields a silver Thompson submachine gun.
In the serialized episodes above we meet his companion heroine named “Mistress Of Mystery” (she also goes by the epithets “Nightmare Of Night”, “The Deceptive Detective”, and “The Dark Dick”).
In fact, the whole Silver Shroud super-hero phenomenon ties in with an in game line of superhero comics called “Hubris Comics.” In game you can find issue of Unstoppables! scattered around Boston.
It seems The Unstoppables were a Justice League-like (or Avengers-like) team of super heroes in the pre-war era (cicrca 2070). Other heroes in the Unstoppables universe include the Conan The Barbarian-like Grognak (who also has his own comic book series) as well as someone named “Inspector” and “Manta Man” (who seems to be Hubris’ version of Aquaman or The Sub-Mariner).
And by the way, a similar radio drama was embedded within Fallout 3. And here it is:
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The Homecoming by Ray Bradbury
Here’s an Octobery treat for you, The Homecoming by Ray Bradbury as read by Scott Lefebvre.
Timothy feels like an outsider at his family reunion – he just doesn’t fit in; he doesn’t drink blood, he can’t fly, and isn’t immortal – not the rest of the family, which is made up of witches, vampires and werewolves.
Here’s Lawrence’s stunning illustration of The Homecoming from Famous Fantastic Mysteries, December 1952:
“Homecoming”, as it was first titled, was first published in Mademoiselle, October 1946, and was “plucked from the pile of unsolicited manuscripts” by Mademoiselle’s editorial assistant, Truman Capote. This came, apparently, after its rejection by Weird Tales – a market where Bradbury had often earlier seen print. Mainstream publication lead to mainstream awards, and to more mainstream publications. But, it also showed up, as did so many of Bradbury’s works as reprints in genre magazines, like Famous Fantastic Mysteries, and in more recent years even as picture book version, with illustrations by Dave Mckean.
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The Vampyre by Dr John Polidori
Once thought to have been written by Lord Byron, The Vampyre is one of the earliest fictions about vampires. It precedes Bram Stoker’s Dracula by 78 years!
In the summer of 1816 Europe suffered a climate abnormality. Holed up in a chateau near Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont and Dr John Polidori were kept inside by three days of rain. To pass the time indoors yhe five romantics read aloud from a French anthology of German ghost stories, Fantasmagoriana. Inspired by these, and their own experiences, both Mary Shelley and Dr John Polidori would produce their own fantastic tales. Mary Shelley’s was of course Frankenstein, Polidori’s was The Vampyre.
Check out narrator Gregg Wagland‘s worthy reading of The Vampyre by Dr John Polidori.
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StarShipSofa: Men of Greywater Station by George R. R. Martin and Howard Waldrop
StarShipSofa No. 389 is a reading of Men of Greywater Station by George R. R. Martin and Howard Waldrop
The narrator is Nick Camm.
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Podcast feed: http://www.starshipsofa.com/feed/
And here is Stephen E. Fabian’s illustration from the original publication in Amazing Stories, March 1976:
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