New Audiobook Imprint Available for Public Libraries

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Recorded BooksEditor, anthologist and blogger John Joseph Adams points us to this February 15th 2008 press release…

Recorded Books, LLC, the world’s premier publisher of unabridged audiobooks since 1979, announces the release of a new imprint of audiobooks that will be available for immediate release to public libraries—Science Fiction. With the growing popularity of the science fiction and fantasy genres, fans are demanding more sci-fi literature on audiobook. The Sci-Fi imprint from Recorded Books features many award-winning authors, including Piers Anthony, Terry Brooks and Ursula K. Le Guin. Among the current releases are Now and Forever by Ray Bradbury, The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman, and Blindsight by Peter Watts. Recorded Books, which operates a New York City recording studio, employs award-winning Broadway and Off-Broadway actors to record some of the world’s most popular and critically acclaimed titles.

Thanks JJA!

Posted by Jesse Willis

LibriVox: She by H. Rider Haggard

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

LibriVox“She is a classic of the imagination, a milestone and foundation stone of a whole sector of fantastic novels upon which others have built and still build novels of wonder. The sector is that of the lost land, the lost race, the wonder that lies over the next mountain or beyond the farthest sea.” – Donald A. Wollheim (author of H. Rider Haggard’s Empire of the Imagination)

Complete and unabridged, H. Rider Haggard’s She! What’s that you say? You’ve been hankering for a story about a lost civilization ruled by gorgeous 2000 year old female-despot? That’s even what you thought the word Fantasy meant for all these years? Don’t know what I’m talking about?

She was a 19th century best-seller from the author of King Solomon’s Mines, its another tale set in Africa. A mysterious African kingdom in fact. It explores themes of “imperial arrogance, sexual obsession, power and isolation” and it’s all wrapped up in a high adventure format. Best of all, it’s out now in the form of a Public Domain audiobook from LibriVox!

Fantastic Adventure Audiobook - She by H. Rider HaggardShe
By H. Rider Haggard; Read by various
29 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – 11 Hours 36 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: February 2008
At 5 years old Leo Vincey is left in the care of a Cambridge professor by the name of Horace Holly. His father leaves him a strange casket which he is to open on his 25th Birthday. On opening the Casket Leo and Horace discover the strange history of Leo’s ancestors. Leo and his adoptive father Horace must travel all the way to Africa in order to uncover the solve his family’s strange history.

Podcast feed:

http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/she-by-h-rider-haggard.xml

Posted by Jesse Willis

Audio Drama: Some New OLD WOUNDS, Firefly / Serenity style

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Firefly: Old Wounds - Wedding DayThe Sonic Society (and Sonic Cinema), which is currently chaired by Jack Ward and Shannon Hilchie, have released the first half of a new addition to their intensely popular Firefly: Old Wounds show. Part one of the SPECIAL is available now |MP3|. The concluding installment should come out next week. Entitled “Wedding Day” it’s a fan tale from Joss Whedon’s Firefly / Serenity. Front and foremost in the special are the characters of Simon Tam and Kaylee Frye. Here’s the official description:

Jack Ward and Shannon Hilchie reprise their roles as Simon Tam and Kaylee Frye from the Firefly: Old Wounds series. Bringing a whole cast of new actors and characters to Joss Whedon’s Firefly universe, Jack J. Ward wrote this hour long feature which explores the relationship between Kaylee and her family, and her growing relationship with Simon. Set just after the Serenity movie, Kaylee decides to go home to visit with her family for Christmas. Simon, on the other hand has been rendered unconscious, boxed up in a crate, and left on the drop zone just outside of the town. The hilarity begins when Simon is drawn between various factions of the town, in his search to discover just exactly where he is and how he got there. Kaylee, comes face to face with some difficult family issues and her own guilt.

Subscribe to the Sonic Society feed via this url:

http://sonic.libsyn.com/rss

Posted by Jesse Willis

Neil Gaiman Readings at Last.fm

Charles

SFFaudio Online Audio

Neil Gaiman just uploaded his story Harlequin Valentine up at Last.fm. Here is the |MP3|.

Here are other readings available to download for free:

Nicholas Was… |MP3|

Instructions |MP3|

A Writer’s Prayer |MP3|

Babycakes |MP3|

In the End |MP3|

Posted by Charles Tan

Jeremiah Tolbert’s “Instead of a Loving Heart” at Escape Pod

Charles

SFFaudio Online Audio

Jared Axelrod reads Instead of a Loving Heart by Jeremiah Tolbert over at Escape Pod. Here is the |MP3|.

Subscribe to the podcast via this feed:

http://escapepod.org/podcast.xml

Posted by Charles Tan

StarShip Sofa podcasts By The Falls by Harry Harrison

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Star Ship SofaThe latest short story from the StarShip Sofa podcast is a tale first published in the January 1970 issue of “Worlds Of If” magazine. It garnered a nomination for a Nebula in its time and still holds power. Host Tony C. Smith sez we should be able to download all of these tales from the SSS wbsite on a sub-page he’s dubbing “Aural Delights.” Cool!

By The Falls by Harry HarrisonBy The Falls
By Harry Harrison; Read by Grant Stone
1 |MP3| – Approx. 21 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: StarShip Sofa
Podcast: February 2008
It was the rich damp grass, slippery as soap, covering the path, that caused .Carter to keep slipping and falling, not the steepness of the hill. The front of his raincoat was wet and his knees were muddy long before be reached the summit. And with each step forward and upward the continuous roar of sound grew louder. He was hot and tired by the time he reached the top of the ridge–yet he instantly forgot his discomfort as he looked out across the wide bay.

Posted by Jesse Willis