The Day the Earth Stood Still w/ Sodom & Gommorah

Time Traveler

SFFaudio Online Audio

The Time Traveler Show #28 has Sodom and Gommorah, Texas by R.A. Lafferty read by Gwendolyn Jensen-Woodard co-owner of Imagination Lane , an Audio Drama Production group.
The Time Traveler has a nice fireside chat (without the fire) with narrator William Coon.  We talk about some of titles that William has narrated including The Day the Earth Stood Still: Selected Stories of Harry Bates.  We talk about Farewell to the Master, the short story that the movie was based upon.The Day the Earth Stood Still

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Audibooks the old fashioned way: reading aloud

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Commentary

Back before recording technologies like the rotating wax cylinder, reel to reel, and the Sony minidisc people used to practice the art of audiobook without actually recording it. They called it “reading aloud” – for kicks I’ve been practicing this archaic art for years. Most often I like to do it with a group, in which people take turns reading from the pages of the paperbook, either page by page, character by character, or chapter by chapter.

Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book and Coraline being read by Matt, T.K., Erica, Sue and Jenny

From left to right in the top row, holding their first edition, first printing, hardcovers of Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book are:

Matt, T.K., Erica, Sue and Jenny!

To be quite fair, these little rotters didn’t really think much of the book when they first started reading it (at home alone). But when in class I read aloud the section in which the ghouls describe their favourite drink (the ooze that accumulates at the bottom of lead lined coffins) a round robin of “Ewwww!”, “Disgusting!”, and “Grosss!” was followed by a growing appreciation of the book and a commitment to reading it in class as well as at home. We finished The Graveyard Book a week or two back, and now our current book is Coraline – with a mix of library paperback, library hardback and new movie tie-in editions. After Coraline we’ll have to figure out which book to do next. Anybody have any suggestions?

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Why Copyright? A documentary

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Fair Copyright For CanadaHere’s a documentary outlining some of the history and issues surrounding the new proposed copyright and anti-circumvention of DRM legislation for Canada. Included in the doc is SF audiobook author Karl Schroeder (who wrote an Aurora Award winning SF novel that imagined a world full of DRM). The doc illustrates examples from peer to peer (P2P), DVD region coding, garage door openers, open source software, Microsoft Vista, Sony’s rootkit, ebooks, and libraries. RSS only folks will have to click through to watch it.

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The SFFaudio Podcast #016

Podcast

The SFFaudio PodcastThe SFFaudio Podcast #016 – is really strange and very good – we talk about Dean Koontz, talking dogs, praise Robert J. Sawyer, his audiobooks and much more! Book covers, cover art, they matter!

Talked about on today’s show:
Audible.com, the new Audible Frontiers new releases, review of The Speed Of Dark, Mary Robinette Kowal, Blackstone Audio, The Selected Stories Of Philip K. Dick, Star Trek, Pandora’s Star, Judas Unchained, Peter F. Hamilton, Star Wars, Mike Resnick, The Last Colony, John Scalzi, Zoe’s Tale, William Dufris, Anathem, Robert J. Sawyer, Flashforward, Tantor Media, A Case Of Conscience, James Blish, 100% FREE Audiobook Black River by Dean Koontz (which is an SF suspense novella), Microsoft’s Zune now compatible with Audible.com, Dean Koontz, Dragon Tears, Jay O. Sanders, talking dogs, our new DEAN KOONTZ author page, Intensity, Seize The Night, Fear Nothing, Dean Koontz short stories that should be audiobooked: Nightmare Gang, Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein, RJS’ Flashforward as a TV series? = they’ll do it like the did The 4400, CERN, RJS predicted the current pope!, murder mystery Science Fiction, Illegal Alien, review of Calculating God, Golden Fleece, dinosaurs, Robert J. Sawyer’s weakest novel = End Of An Era (?), review of The Terminal Experiment, Wake, the WWW trilogy, available RJS audiobooks, Shed Skin, BBC Radio documentary on Wikipedia: The Wikipedia Story, Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation, The Wordy Shipmates, Vowelette, what “they” are doing wrong with audiobooks: no table of contents sux! No map sux!, Stefan Rudnicki‘s Skyboat Productions, Resonance, A.J. Scudiere, geology, magnetic polar reversal, review of Posing As People, Orson Scott Card, Mike Resnick’s Audible.com editorial, Stalking The Unicorn, Stalking The Vampire, cover art matters, Total Dick Head’s 2 hour celebration of Philip K. Dick’s 80th birthday.

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