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Naxos Audiobooks: Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft

Friday, October 1, 2010 Jesse Willis

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Free, for a limited time, from the new Naxos Audiobook entitled The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories comes this unabridged reading of Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft! It’s read by the talented William Roberts. Cha-ching!

Dagon
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by William Roberts
1 |MP3| – Approx. 17 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks
Published: October 2010
The testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who plans to commit suicide over an incident that occurred early on in World War I when he was a merchant marine officer. First published in 1919.

And check out the also excellent Audio Realms version HERE.

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Full Cast Audio: Clean As A Whistle by Bruce Coville FREE for a limited time

Friday, October 1, 2010 Jesse Willis

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To promote the upcoming release of Oddly Enough, a collection of nine short stories about “vampires, werewolves, ghosts, unicorns” Full Cast Audio, and Bruce Coville, are offering a free short story. It doesn’t have any vampires, werewolves, ghosts or unicorns, but it does have “a demented Scottish brownie.”

It comes in four parts, and runs just slightly over an hour. I’ve added it to my HuffDuffer feed.

Clean As A Whistle
By Bruce Coville; Read by a full cast
4 MP3s – Approx. 1 Hour 8 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Full Cast Audio
Published: 2010
Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3| Part 3 |MP3| Part 4 |MP3|

And here’s another of the wonderful behind the audiobook FCA videos to go with it:

[via Mary Burkey’s Audiobooker Blog]

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Recent Arrivals: Macmillan Audio: The Way Of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Thursday, September 30, 2010 Jesse Willis

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Ye gods! This is the first audiobook that I’ve genuinely worried might break my scanner. In short, it’s looooong – weighing in at a titanic 45.5 hours on 36 CDs. The Way Of Kings is the first in a proposed 10 book series! Check out the resonant voice of Michael Kramer in the sample MP3 below, it’s terrific!

The Way Of Kings: Book One Of The Stormlight Archive
By Brandon Sanderson; Read by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer
36 CDs – Approx. 45.5 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: August 31, 2010
ISBN: 9781427209757
Sample |MP3|
Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel Of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every bit as ambitious and immersive. Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter. It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them. One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable. Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity. Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar’s niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan’s motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

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Recent Arrivals: Full Cast Audio

Thursday, September 30, 2010 Jesse Willis

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Alexandria LaFaye is the SOLO reader on this FULL CAST AUDIO audiobook. It’s a seeming contradiction: How can an audiobook be both read by a full cast and just one narrator? Maybe you’re thinking dissociative identity disorder? Nah. There’s an easier explanation. Full Cast Audio has started a new imprint called “One Voice” in which you get a traditional solo unabridged narration from a company known for having every audiobook performed by a Full Cast.

Water Steps
By A. LaFaye; Read by A. LaFaye
3 CDs – Approx. 3 Hours 30 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Full Cast Audio
Published: April 2010
ISBN: 9781936223145
Kyna has a deep-seated (and well-earned) fear of the water. So when her adoptive parents announce that they have rented a summer house on Lake Champlain, she begs to be left behind for the summer. Alas, this is not possible. Yet even at the lake Kyna does her best to avoid the water, exploring instead the forests and hillsides, documenting them with her camera. But when her new friend, Tylo, draws her into his quest for strange water creatures, Kyna finds herself pulled into unexpected discoveries – not only about the lake, but about her own strange heritage. A novel that pulses with a passion for nature and the natural world, Water Steps is rich with love and loss, longing and renewal, a bit of mystery and a touch of fantasy. With an extraordinary gift for dialect, author A. LaFaye brings its rhythms to vivid life in this haunting reading.

And this one is a Norweigan-to-English translation of Jo Nesbø‘s first kid’s book (he also writes hard-boiled crime novels). William Dufris, who turns up in quite a few Full Cast Audio casts, narrates. Sadly, the package does not clearly state if he also provided the farts.

Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder
By Jo Nesbø; Read by William Dufris
4 CDs – Approx. 4 Hours 15 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Full Cast Audio
Published: May 2010
ISBN: 9781936223176
Nilly is new to the neighborhood, but he is quick to make friends: Doctor Proctor, an eccentric professor; and Lisa, who is teased by the twin terrors Truls and Trym. Nilly and Lisa help Doctor Proctor develop his latest invention, a powder that makes you fart! The powder makes Nilly and Lisa very popular at school when they sell it for fifty cents a bag. And they get revenge on Truls and Trym by giving them a dose of extra-strength powder that shoots them up into a tree. All is good fun… until someone steals the industrial-strength powder—which was supposed to make Doctor Proctor famous—to use for evil purposes…

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New Releases: Night Of The Living Trekkies by Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall

Thursday, September 23, 2010 Jesse Willis

If you like Star Trek and zombies, there’s a book for that. I’m not sure how good the audiobook would be, even after listening to the sample MP3 below, but I am sure the book trailer is most excellent.

Night Of The Living Trekkies
By Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall; Read by Zach McLarty
Audible Download – Approx. 6 Hours 41 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: August 2010
ISBN: 9780307877369
Provider: Audible.com
Sample |MP3|
This sci-fi /zombie/comedy/adventure follows a group of rag-tag Trekkies getting together for the fifth annual FedCon (billed as the “largest Starfleet Convention in the western Gulf Coast region”). Our heroes are dressed in homemade uniforms and armed with prop phasers but soon find themselves defending their hotel and convention center against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Suddenly, all of their useless knowledge about particle physics and old Star Trek episodes has genuine real-world applications! And while hotel employees and regular civilians are dying left and right, our Trekkies summon strength and courage by emulating their favorite starship-voyaging characters. Packed with hundreds of gags referencing Star Trek, comic books, and fan conventions, Night Of The Living Trekkies reads like the strange lovechild of Galaxy Quest and Dawn Of The Dead. Journey to the final frontier of zombie science-fiction mash-ups!

[via Bish’s Beat]

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LIBRIVOX: The Planet Strappers by Raymond Z. Gallun

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Jesse Willis

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LibriVox In his 1977 essay introduction to The Best Of Raymond Z. Gallun, entitled Raymond Z. Gallun, The Quiet Revolutionary, John J. Pierce wrote:

“[Gallun] never bothered with self-promotion. He never even tried very hard to get people to pronounce his name right (it rhymes with ‘balloon’ being an old dutch name, so don’t say ‘gallon’). He let his science fiction speak for itself.”

After trying to pronounce it myself I’m still not sure if the narrator of The Planet Strappers (by Raymond Z. Gallun), Richard Kilmer, has it right. It sounds like he pronounces Gallun, “gah-lun” and not “gah-luhn.” Or should it be “gal-uhn” or maybe “guhl-oon”? I can see why Gallun never bothered trying to clear this up. In any case, Kilmer’s reading of this 1961 novel is clean, uninflected and voluminous in volume – a solid straight reading. I’ll have to get back to you on whether this novel speaks to me.

The Planet Strappers
By Raymond Z. Gallun; Read by Richard Kilmer
16 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 7 Hours 25 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: September 21, 2010
The Planet Strappers started out as The Bunch, a group of student-astronauts in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They wanted off Earth, and they begged, borrowed and built what they needed to make it. They got what they wanted–a start on the road to the stars–but no one brought up on Earth could have imagined what was waiting for them Out There!

Podcast feed: http://librivox.org/rss/3747

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[Thanks also to Barry Eads and Jeanie]

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