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LibriVox: Hunters Out of Space by Joseph E. Kelleam

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

LibriVoxHere’s the latest audiobook to be completed as part of our 3rd Annual SFFaudio Challenge. First published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories May 1960 issue! We can thank narrator Elliot Miller for the reading, Betty (aka LibraryAnne) for the proof-listening, and Mary (aka AmethystA) for organizing it all. This is Elliot’s first solo project but he’s already got his sights set on another Challenge title: Murray Leinster’s The Pirates of Ersatz

LibriVox Science Fiction - The Hunters Out Of Space by Joseph E. KelleamHunters Out of Space
By Joseph E. Kelleam; Read by Elliot Miller
19 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 4 Hours 29 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Publlished: May 7, 2009
Jack Odin has returned to the world of Opal, the world inside our own world, only to find it in ruins. Many of his friends are gone, the world is flooded, and the woman he swore to protect has been taken by Grim Hagen to the stars. Jack must save her, but the difficulties are great and his allies are few.

Podcast feed: http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/hunters-out-of-space-by-joseph-kelleam.xml

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LibriVox: The Stars, My Brothers by Edmund Hamilton

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

LibriVoxMy favourite new LibriVox up-and-comer is Gregg Margarite. I’m totally loving his reading of Harry Harrison’s Deathworld. After I finish that I’ll be turning my attention to this…

Edmond Hamilton (1904 – 1977) had a career that began as a regular and frequent contributor to Weird Tales magazine. The first hardcover publication of Science Fiction stories was a Hamilton compilation, and he and E.E. “Doc” Smith are credited with the creation of the Space Opera type of story. He worked for DC Comics authoring many stories for their Superman and Batman characters. Hamilton was also married to fellow author Leigh Brackett.

Published in the May, 1962 issue of Amazing Stories The Stars, My Brothers gives us a re-animated astronaut plucked from a century in the past and presented with an alien world where the line between humans and animals is blurred.

LibriVox Science Fiction - The Stars, My Brothers by Edmund HamiltonThe Stars, My Brothers
By Edmond Hamilton; Read by Gregg Margarite
2 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 83 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: April 26, 2009
“He was afraid—not of the present or the future, but of the past. He was afraid of the thing tagged Reed Kieran, that stiff blind voiceless thing wheeling its slow orbit around the Moon, companion to dead worlds and silent space.”

Podcast feed:
http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/the-stars-my-brothers-by-edmond-hamilton.xml

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LibriVox: Rebels Of The Red Planet by Charles L. Fontenay

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

LibriVoxPaul Campbell writes in to say:

Last year I read Rebels of the Red Planet for the Second Audiobook Challenge. Now Mark Douglas Nelson has just released his own recording of the same title through LibriVox.

Cool! I’m a big fan of Mark Douglas Nelson’s narration.

Check it out folks…

LibriVox Science Fiction - Rebels Of The Red Planet by Charles L. FontenayRebels Of The Red Planet
By Charles L. Fontenay; Read by Mark Douglas Nelson
9 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 5 Hours 9 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: April 24, 2009
Dark Kensington had been dead for twenty-five years. It was a fact; everyone knew it. Then suddenly he reappeared, youthful, brilliant, ready to take over the Phoenix, the rebel group that worked to overthrow the tyranny that gripped the settlers on Mars. The Phoenix had been destroyed not once, not twice, but three times! But this time the resurrected Dark had new plans, plans which involved dangerous experiments in mutation and psionics. And now the rebels realized they were in double jeopardy. Not only from the government’s desperate hatred of their movement, but also from the growing possibility that the new breed of mutated monsters would get out of hand and bring terrors never before known to man.

Podcast feed:

http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/rebels-of-the-red-planet-by-charles-l-fontenay.xml

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And check out Paul’s original recording too… it’s HERE and over on Podiobooks.com.

[Thanks Paul!]

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LibriVox: The Beetle by Richard Marsh

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

LibriVoxa panel from The League Of Extraordinary GentlemenAttentive readers of Alan Moore’s The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen may have noted this panel…

…according to Jess Nevins, of The Fourth Rail, it depicts a “giant beetle in [a] vacuum tube.” and asserts that it

“is the Beetle, from Richard Marsh’s The Beetle (1897). In that novel, a shapechanging Egyptian princess, who can take the form of a giant, malign beetle, a beautiful androgyne, and an old woman or man, pursues a vendetta against a British M.P.”

Prior to the release of The Beetle as a LibriVox audiobook I hadn’t even heard of it. But a little online research indicates that The Beetle came out the same year as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and initially outsold it! How did I not hear of this book before?

LibriVox Horror Audiobook - The Beetle by Richard MarshThe Beetle
By Richard Marsh; Read by various readers
48 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 11 Hours 56 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: April 24, 2009
A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh’s novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker’s Dracula, George du Maurier’s Trilby, and Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu novels. Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered by Wilkie Collins and others in the 1860s, The Beetle is narrated from the perspectives of multiple characters, a technique used in many late nineteenth-century novels (those of Wilkie Collins and Stoker, for example) to create suspense.

Podcast feed:

http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/the-beetle-by-richard-marsh.xml

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LibriVox: Victory by Lester del Rey

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

From LibriVox and the reader of This Crowded Earth (Robert Bloch) and the Deathworld (Harry Harrison) comes…

LibriVox Science Fiction - Victory by Lester del ReyVictory
By Lester del Rey; Read by Gregg Margarite
2 MP3 Files – Approx. 1 Hour 38 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: March 30, 2009
“It seemed Earth was a rich, and undefended planet in a warring, hating galaxy. Things can be deceptive though; children playing can be quite rough—but that ain’t war, friend!” – Victory is the story of an undefended Earth in a warring galaxy. First published in Astounding Science Fiction, August, 1955.
Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3|

Podcast feed:

http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/victory-by-lester-del-rey.xml

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LibriVox: The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

LibriVoxHere’s another Edgar Rice Burroughs novel that I hadn’t heard of prior to its release on LibriVox. For fans like me who are daunted by the prospect of trundling through one of the many series books by Burroughs this is a good place to start as this is a standalone novel. First published in the February 1916 issue of “All Around Magazine.”


LibriVox Science Fiction - The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Lost Continent
By Edgar Rice Burroughs; Read by Lucy Lo Faro
9 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 4.5 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: April 2009
Originally published under the title Beyond Thirty. The novel, set in the year 2137, was heavily influenced by the events of World War I. In the future world depicted in the novel, Europe has descended into barbarism while an isolationist Western Hemisphere remains sheltered from the destruction. The title Beyond Thirty refers to the degree of longitude that inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere are forbidden to pass.

Podcast feed:

http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/the-lost-continent-by-edgar-rice-burroughs.xml

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