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Audible.com has a “secret sale” on right now that promises selected titles for $9.95 each. This is pretty good – it includes several works by Orson Scott Card, Heinlein’s Rocketship Galileo, and one I hadn’t seen before, Kate Wilhelm’s Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang. There are also classics like Brave New World and 1984, stuff by Le Guin and Koontz, etc.
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Zombie Astronaut, has a special set of Lovecraftian MP3s posted up. It is the 70th anniversary of old Howard Philip’s death today! The first of the titles listed below is the most mysterious, it is what sounds to be an unabridged reading of the complete Herbert West, Re-Animator serial. There is a lot of hiss, but the volume is good. The others are radio dramatizations from the 1940s and 1960s.
Herbert West, Re-Animator
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by ????
2 MP3s |Part 1 MP3| & |Part 2 MP3| – Approx. 89 Minutes [UNABRIDGED|
Publisher: ???
Published: ???
The Dunwich Horror
By H.P. Lovecraft; Performed by a full cast
1 |MP3| – Approx. 26 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: Suspense
Broadcast: 1945
The Rats In The Walls
By H.P. Lovecraft; Performed by Erik Bauersfeld and others
1 |MP3| – Approx. 29 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: KPFA / The Black Mass
Broadcast: 196?
The Outsider
By H.P. Lovecraft; Performed by Erik Bauersfeld and others
1 |MP3| – Approx. 22 Mintues [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: KPFA / The Black Mass
Broadcast: 1968
The fine folks over at Dream Realm Enterprises have informed me that the podcast of their hit series, Robotz of the Company, has been updated now through Season 3, Episode 5. Head over and subscribe, and you can catch up on Seasons 1 and 2 as well!
Podcast feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobotzOfTheCompany
MMM Commentaries is podcast of video enthusiasts, Trevor, David and Geoff from Brisbane, Australia who record alternate commentaries for their favourite films and TV shows. Luckily for us their main interest is in Science Fiction and Fantasy media. Commentaries from MMM include episodes of the new series of Doctor Who, Futurama, and Blake’s 7. Movies already commetaried run the gamut from Star Wars and Star Trek to Batman Begins and Flash Gordon. Interspersed between the podcast commentaries are numerous meta podcasts that Individual commentaries are available for download from the website and the podcast feed is right here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/mmmcommentaries
SciFi Smackdown, the latest podcast spinoff of Slice Of SciFi, has show #1 up and ready for your geek edumusement. Listeners to SFSD are invited to send in voicemail, email, and “telepathic mojo” t the show’s hosts. You can feed them ammunition on the topic of which, of any two given Sci-Fi icons, would win in a deathmatch. Think of it as a Jack Mangan’s Duel Of The Fates but done with the technical manuals.
The first match-up, the one that spawned the SFSD podcast:
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) vs. Battlestar Galactica (re-imagined edition)!
Who will win? You’ll have to listen to find out!
Download the first show |MP3|, or subscribe via the podcast feed:
http//www.scifismackdown.com/feed/
Broken Sea Audio, has now gone live with their Planet Of The Apes audio drama (the one I was spreading rumours about). It looks like a number of other exciting sounding projects in progress too! Broken Sea is another umbrella audio group like Pendant Productions and Darker Projects. That’s a good thing. I listened to the first part of their Planet Of The Apes show and am very interested to see where it is going to go. You can get in on the action by clicking on over to the main site (which seemingly has new features being added by the hour). I’ve also had the chance to listen to the first instalment of their Grog & Gryphon show. Which is a “sword and sorcery fantasy in the tradition of Conan the Barbarian and Lord of the Rings.” Vampires, Amazons, Goblins with attitude, werewolves, ghosts, heroes and evil forces of the dark permeate this tale of high fantasy….
In a distant kingdom, a ragged group of adventurers are forced together to fight a forgotten prophecy of evil. The thread unifying these diverse warriors and mystics- the Grog and Gryphon tavern…Written and Produced by Broken Sea big-wig Bill Hollweg.
Here’s the podcast feed for Grog & Gryphon:
http://www.brokensea.com/grog/grogfeed.xml
And we’ve got the podcast feed for The Planet Of The Apes show too:
http://www.brokensea.com/pota/potafeed.xml
Listen out for more Broken Sea audio soon, I think it will be sounding good!