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New Releases – S.M. Stirling, Mary Shelley, Frank Herbert

Thursday, March 27, 2008Thursday, March 27, 2008 Jesse Willis

New Releases

Another in S.M. Stirling’s alternate planet series (a parallel world first introduced in The Sky People), have a listen to the Dragon Page interview/chat with Stirling |MP3|, it too sounds like a cool book, The Sky People earned an SFFaudio Essential designation…

In The Courts Of The Crimson Kings
By S.M. Stirling; Read by Todd McLaren
10 CDs or 1 MP3-CD – 13 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
EAN: 9781400106103 (CDs), 9781400156108 (MP3-CD)
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: March 2008
On Mars, early hominids evolved civilization earlier than their earthly cousins, driven by the needs of a harsh world growing still harsher as the initial terraforming ran down. Without coal, oil, or uranium, their technology was forced onto different paths, and the genetic wizardry of the Crimson Dynasty united a world for more than 20,000 years. Now, in a new stand-alone adventure set in this world’s 2000 AD, Jeremy Wainman is an archaeologist who has achieved a lifelong dream: to travel to Mars and explore the dead cities of the Deep Beyond, searching for the secrets of the Kings Beneath the Mountain and the fallen empire they ruled.

Unhyped, unbalyhooed, and probably the last novel that needs to be re-recorded, never the less I think the fact that Simon Vance is narrating makes this a worthy edition…

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
By Mary Shelley; Read by Simon Vance
7 CDs or 1 MP3-CD – 8 Hours 30 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: February 2008
EAN: 9781400106349 (CD), 9781400156344 (MP3-CD)
Mary Shelley’s tragic story of a scientist who created a monster is perhaps even more compelling today than when it was written nearly two centuries ago. The brilliant Victor Frankenstein fashions a new form of life only to discover, too late, the irreparable damage he has caused.

Here’s the first in a new batch of old, non-Dune, Herbert novels getting their first unabridged releases…

Hellstrom’s Hive
By Frank Herbert; Read by Scott Brick
10 CDs, 1 MP3-CD – 4 Hours 30 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
EAN: 9781400105649 (CDs), 9781400155644 (MP3-CD)
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: March 2008
America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: insects. First published in Galaxy magazine in 1973 as “Project 40,” Frank Herbert’s vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Radio Free Bliss

Thursday, March 27, 2008Thursday, April 14, 2011 Jesse Willis

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Radio Free Bliss is the newly-launched podcast by KS Augustin that features interviews with SF&F&H and romance authors on a “reasonably idiosyncratic basis” (2 a month, but when exactly depends on everyone’s schedules). Augustin sez of her latest show, “We discuss Joanna Russ, feminism, speculative fiction, humidity and the Mason-Dixon Line.” and the guest interviewee doing that discussion with her is speculative fiction writer, Sue Lange. Have a listen |MP3| or subscribe to the feed at this URL:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/RadioFreeBliss

Posted by Jesse Willis

StarShipSofa narrates Jeff VanderMeer

Thursday, March 27, 2008Wednesday, December 15, 2010 Tony

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StarShipSofa leaves behind the BSFA and moves deeper into space. Just for your information, Ken MacLeod’s Lighting Out was the winner. Not my first choice – but hey, what do I know?

This week on Aural Delights we have a cracking story my Jeff VanderMeer called Shark God Versus Octopus God. This is such a great story narrated brilliantly by Grant Stone. So… dust off the BSFA and sit yourself down on the SOFA… we have a story to tell. Blast Off!

And yes…. Jesse….. I’m informed back shows coming in two weeks… er… maybe three… watch this space.

Subscribe to the podcast via this feed:www.starshipsofa.com/rss

Posted by Tony C. Smith

StarShip Sofa is the featured at Sci Fi Weekly magazine!

Thursday, March 27, 2008Thursday, March 27, 2008 Jesse Willis

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StarShip Sofa is featured as the “site of the week” on the Sci Fi Channel’s online Sci Fi Weekly magazine! Check it out… HERE. Congrats Tony – and take that line in the review about it being unfortunate that “the older shows aren’t available online” to heart! Everyone wants to listen to the old shows!

Posted by Jesse Willis

Hey Want To Watch A Movie? Blade Runner – The Final Cut

Thursday, March 27, 2008Monday, March 22, 2010 Jesse Willis

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The latest Hey Want To Watch A Movie? podcast (which is a fan commentary track for DVDs) talks about Blade Runner – The Final Cut. And I’m one of the commentators! Join Christiana Ellis, Mike Meitin, Brandon Hill, Adam Morey, MA in PA, Dan Taber, Susan Z, The Biscuit and me!

We talk about the different versions of BR, Bubblegum Crisis, the Blade Runner PC adventure game, Twin Peaks, Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, the essential character of film (vs. books), I Am Legend (movie and novel), eXistenZ, Adam Smith’s The Theory Of The Moral Sentiments, Impostor, Dark City, Back To The Future, Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure, David Lynch’s Dune, the audiobooks of Dune, Chinatown, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Scott Brick, George Guidall, Gremlins, Callista Flockhart, and Indiana Jones and The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, E.T. and lots more. Needless to say we come to dozens of conclusions, including the fact that every single person in the movie is a replicant (actors too) – or something like that.