Escape Pod Podcast has vintage Silverberg!

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Escape PodEscape Pod has dug way back, to 1972 in fact, to bring us a vintage Robert Silverberg short story called When We Went To See The End Of The World. I liked it, and it is quite modern, despite being 34 years old.

EP086: When We Went To See The End Of The World
By Robert Silverberg; Read by J.C. Hutchins
1 MP3 File – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Escape Pod
Podcast: December 28th 2006

Here’s the Grand Master’s own description of his Hugo nominated and oft reprinted tale:

“In a time of constant turmoil and disaster (rampant mutant viruses, terrorist bombings, pollution, and so on), a travel agency starts offering time-travel trips to see the end of the world. Among the keep-up-with-the-Joneses crowd, it’s the fashionable thing to do. The odd part is, everybody who goes sees something different.”

Dean Koontz Podcast back with more Koontz content

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Back in June someone in the marketing department at Random House thought it a smart move to get Dean Koontz to start a podcast to help promote his books. Goodness knows people might read his books if they just get a little promotion. There was a steady drip of Koontz talking about the business of writing, for three months in fact. Recently though the dead feed was revived – probably to coincide with Koontz’s novel Brother Odd.

Subscribe to the feed, get reacquainted with the guy:

http://www.randomhouse.com/audio/podcasts/dean_koontz_rss.xml

Mark Nelson is narrating another audiobook for the SFFaudio Challenge!

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Mark Nelson, the narrator of The Green Odyssey by Philip Jose Farmer, has staked his claim for another title from the SFFaudio Challenge list! Behold our art for it…

Librivox Audiobook - The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper

This is Mark’s second entry in our challenge – if you’ll recall, back in November I challenged anyone to turn in any one of a number of previously unreleased public domain novels into an unabridged single voiced audiobook. As an incentive, I offered a BRAND NEW unabridged commercial audiobook to the first person to complete and release one of the books from the list. Mark did it and it was an absolutely terrific audiobook! I am super-juiced at the idea he’s doing another.

Look for The Cosmic Computer AKA “Junkyard Planet” by H. Beam Piper to show up on the pages of LibriVox in “a couple of weeks”!

Congratulations again Mark and thanks!

Now since my original challenge will soon be running out of the original batch of audiobooks (at least two out of the three Blackstone Audiobooks I purchased for the event are going to be mailed out shortly), I’d like to ask what you SFFaudio readers would like to see included in the SECOND CHALLENGE!

YUP, that’s right, we’re going to add to the list and RENEW the challenge with more incentive audiobooks. So I’ll ask you folks. Which, of the more modern Science Fiction, Fantasy (and Horror if there are any) public domain books on Manybooks.net or Project Gutenberg would you like to see added to the list? I’ll also ask you what kind of commerical audiobooks you would like to see given out by us as the incentive for the SECOND CHALLENGE? Post your thoughts! Make your voice count! And claim your titles!

Mortal Ghost by L. Lee Lowe a new YA Fantasy Podcast Novel

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Podcast Novel - Mortal GhostFinally, someone has named the main character of their Young Adult Fantasy novel after me! I knew it would happen sooner or later. Now even if my name was not the inspiration – but really, how can we doubt it – we should all probably check out the pilot podcast for Mortal Ghost a new novel by L. Lee Lowe. The first episode is now available for online listening or direct download |MP3|. It is read by a young theatre student from the UK. Regular podcasting should begin in January 2007. Here’s the description:

It’s a fiery hot summer, and sixteen-year-old Jesse is on the run. An oddly gifted boy, he arrives in a new city where the direction of his life is about to change. He’s hungry and lonely and desperate – and beset by visions of a stranger who is being brutally tortured. And then there are Jesse’s own memories of a fire…

Now that sounds hot! find out for yourself, subscribe to the podcast feed:

http://www.lleelowe.com/home/?feed=rss2

CBC Radio One’s The Best Of Ideas Podcast has The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Anderson

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Podcast - CBC Radio One - The Best Of IdeasCBC Radio One‘s program IDEAS is my favorite Canadian daily radio show, its podcast, The Best Of Ideas is five times too infrequent for me – at just once a week – but it isn’t often enough that I get a chance to talk about it. Thankfully the host, Paul Kennedy, has syndicated his reading Hans Christian Anderson’s Christmas classic The Fir Tree (a Danish fairy storie) in the latest podcast. This is a delightfully melancholic tale that is eminently suitable for listening to after the event of Xmas itself.

I won’t provide a link to a direct download on this one (though you can find it here) because I’d like to try to convince you of keeping The Best Of Ideas in your podcatcher, the show is just that good:

http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/ideas.xml

Billibub Baddings Podcast Novel– Special Preview

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{Podcast / Podiobook - Billibub Baddings And The Case Of The Singing Sword by Tee MorrisA special preview by Tee Morris of his book, Billibub Baddings And The Case Of The Singing Sword. This podcast novel is scheduled to appear on Podiobooks in February. But Tee is giving a special holiday gift to his fans.

Tee’s podcast The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy is offering up this 53:22 beginning of this podcast novel with a Dwarf named Billibub Baddings in gangland Chicago.

Download the [MP3]

or subscribe to the The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy by pasting this line in your favorite podcatching device:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSurvivalGuideToWritingFantasy