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Random House has posted up a tremendous website for Scott Sigler’s new audiobook/paperbook (and podiobook) Infected. It has more promotion than you can shake a pair of chicken scissors at…
Visit the SITE to see video, play games, listen to audio, social network, check out the author tour info and lots and lots more!
I smell success (and a lots and lots of blood).
Posted by Jesse Willis
Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in MP3 format designed for use in Florida’s public schools (the service is funded by a grant from the Florida Department of Education). We’ve previously linked to their very serviceable reading of Frankenstein (BTW I’ve just now added a link to the NEW podcast feed for it).
Today I thought I’d point you at this classic of Victorian literature…
Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions
By Edwin A. Abbott; Read by Laurey(?) Montgomery
22 MP3 Files – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Lit2Go / iTunes U
Published: 2006?
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) is a classic 19th century novella that satirizes the social hierarchy of Victorian society using mathematical figures and ideas.
These recordings are copyrighted by the University of South Florida and are for educational use.
Preface to the second and revised edition |MP3|
Part 1: This World
1: “Of the Nature of Flatland” |MP3|
2: “Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland” |MP3|
3: “Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland” |MP3|
4: “Concerning the Women” |MP3|
5: “Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another” |MP3|
6: “Of Recognition by Sight” |MP3|
7: “Concerning Irregular Figures” |MP3|
8: “Of the Ancient Practice of Painting” |MP3|
9: “Of the Universal Colour Bill” |MP3|
10: “Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition”|MP3|
11: “Concerning Our Priests” |MP3|
12: “Of the Doctrine of Our Priests” |MP3|
Part 2: Other Worlds
13: “How I Had a Vision of Lifeland” |MP3|
14: “How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland” |MP3|
15: “Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland” |MP3|
16: “How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland” |MP3|
17: “How the Sphere, Having in Vain Tried Words, Resorted to Deeds” |MP3|
18: “How I Came to Spaceland, and What I Saw There” |MP3|
19: “How, Though the Sphere Showed Me Other Mysteries of Spaceland, I Still Desire More; and What Came of It”|MP3|
20: “How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision”|MP3|
21: “How I Tried to Teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to My Grandson, and with What Success”|MP3|
22: “How I Then Tried to Diffuse the Theory of Three Demensions by Other Means, and of the Result” |MP3|
No podcast feed is available (yet), but you can find the files in the “iTunes U” section of iTunes by doing a search.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Scott Danielson’s column, “Audiobook Fix“, for April is up and ready to read on TheFix-Online.com site. It’s primary focus is on the audiobooks of Arthur C. Clarke. Check it out HERE.
Posted by Jesse Willis
This first one came out April First, but no foolin’ this one’s for real! A podiobook success story like no other – the first major print release from Scott Sigler is an audiobook! Random House is comparing Sigler’s technothriller,Infected (AKA Infection) to the works of Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Crichton, and Stephen King!
Infected – Director’s Cut
By Scott Sigler; Read by Scott Sigler
9 CDs – 12 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: April 1st 2008
ISBN: 9780739328859
Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common – they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science. Meanwhile Perry Dawsey – a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey – awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected.
Also from Random House (and coming later this month)…
The Crystal Skull
By Manda Scott; Read by Susan Duerden
CDs – [ABRIDGED]
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: April 15th 2008
ISBN: 9780385340106
In a spellbinding blend of history, myth, and science, a thriller that sweeps from the secrets of the Mayans to the court of a sixteenth-century queen to a shattering end-times prophecy.
Posted by Jesse Willis
A little publicity can go a long way – here’s proof. That interview with me on PodioMedia Chat |MP3| got heard by the folks at The Texas Radio Theatre Company. And that got them all fired up over the idea of the 2nd Annual SFFaudio Challenge – and so they’ve staked a claim for themselves…
And it’s a suitably Texas-sized project…
The Texas Radio Theatre Company is taking on…
Lone Star Planet (AKA A Planet For Texans) by John Joseph McGuire and H. Beam Piper!
Texas Radio Theatre member, Reg Platt, will be narrating!
This novel was the Winner of a Prometheus Award for Best Classic Libertarian SF Novel. It is a tongue-in-cheek tale featuring a planet full of Texans whose dinosaur-sized cattle have to be herded with tanks, and whose system of government derives its character from H.L. Mencken’s essay The Malevolent Jobholder. Plus it has some damn cool cover art…
Now, if we can only find an English speaking narrator from Iceland to record Space Viking…
Posted by Jesse Willis
Audible.com has just added “a slew of Hugo/Nebula winning and otherwise classic sci-fi titles from Recorded Books.” None of these has been available previously in digital audio – and most have been difficult to find in physical CD (as Recorded Books has been a staunch supporter of the cassette format). Available now from Audible are..
The Terminal Experiment
By Robert J. Sawyer [READ OUR REVIEW]
To Say Nothing of the Dog
By Connie Willis [READ OUR REVIEW]
Blue Mars
By Kim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars
By Kim Stanley Robinson
Doomsday Book
By Connie Willis [READ OUR REVIEW]
Sundiver: The Uplift Saga, Book 1
By David Brin
Startide Rising: The Uplift Saga, Book 2
By David Brin [READ OUR REVIEW]
The Uplift War: The Uplift Saga, Book 3
By David Brin
The Forever War
By Joe Haldeman [READ OUR REVIEW]
Forever Peace
By Joe Haldeman
Timescape
By Gregory Benford [READ OUR REVIEW]
To Your Scattered Bodies Go: Riverworld Saga, Book 1
By Philip Jose Farmer
And, Audible also sez that Red Mars [READ OUR REVIEW] (notably absent from the list above) is “coming – soon, we hope….!”
Posted by Jesse Willis