Robert E. Howard – Page 34

Logan’s Run – inspired by greatness

Friday, May 15, 2009 Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Bill Hollweg, the audio dramatist who adapted Robert E. Howard’s Queen Of The Black Coast, also worked on an adaptation of Logan’s Run. He recently scanned the first few pages of MTI edition of the novel upon which the movie, and BSAP’s own fan adaptation, were based. There are TWO FULL PAGES detailing who and what the authors were inspired by…

Can you spot all the RADIO DRAMAs on the list?

Logan’s Run
By William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
Paperback book with stills from the film
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1967 /1976
ISBN: 0553025171

First dedication page:

Logan's Run dedication page 1

Second dedication page:

Logan's Run dedication page 2

Here’s the podcast feed for Broken Sea Audio Productions audio drama of Logan’s Run:

http://brokensea.com/logansrun/feed/

Posted by Jesse Willis

Zombie Astronaut: ADOLPH THE BARBARIAN

Thursday, April 16, 2009Thursday, April 16, 2009 Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

“Lords of Lite-brite! How can this be?”
-Gonad: The Barbarian

GONAD (Lite-Brite)

It looks as though the Zombie Astronaut has had his own bizzare and wonderful reaction to the CONAN ATTACKS FANS story we ran a while back. His latest episode of The Frequency Of Fear features an all barbarian cast – including that of BSAP’s Conan himself (Stevie Farnaby). But, no doubt due to legal threats by CONAN PROPERTIES INTERNATIONAL, the Conan cameo has had his name changed… Robert E. Howard’s CONAN shall now be known as GONAD: THE BARBARIAN (at least for the purposes of this parody).

The Zombie Astonaut’s Frequency Of Fear: #53 – Adolph The Barbarian
1 |MP3| – 1 Hour 40 Minutes [AUDIO DRAMA]
Podcaster: The Zombie Astronaut’s Frequency Of Fear
Podcast: April 12th 2009

There are plenty of other familiar voices in the show including those of: Jack Ward (from Sonic Society and Sonic Gold), Paul Mannering (of Broken Sea Audio Productions) and even the banshee-like David Lee Roth (as himself)! In between the original material is a bunch of barbaric audio oddities including…

From the Power Records album… Conan: Shadow Of The Stolen City … Conan: The Crawler In The Mists … Conan: The Thunder Dust and more. But beware of the horrifically awful storybook audio drama: HE-MAN: The Power Of The Evil Horde its moral core is so hideously repugnant it will both rot your teeth and quease your inner ear simultaneously.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Paradox: CONAN audiobook coming in June 2009

Sunday, March 29, 2009Sunday, July 5, 2009 Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Meego Conan A Paradox Entertainment representative has posted this on the Conan.com forums:

We are glad to announce that the popular Robert E. Howard series published by Random House/Del Rey is coming as audiobooks from Tantor Audio. First out, starting in June 2009 with one release each month, are the three Conan books [The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, The Bloody Crown of Conan, The Conquering Sword of Conan], followed by “Bran Mak Morn: The Last King“, “The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard“, “Kull: Exile of Atlantis” and “The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane“.

Details go on to say that Todd McLaren will be the narrator. Here’s a sample of his voice |MP3|. Plans are for the audiobooks to be in the cd, mp3-cd and “mp3 download (online only)” formats. That last seems rather unlikely as Tantor will probably be selling direct downloads through Audible.com (which doesn’t offer MP3).

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Conan: The UNCOPYRIGHTED – The Hour Of The Dragon by Robert E. Howard

Friday, March 13, 2009Sunday, July 5, 2009 Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

So, just because the folks at BROKEN SEA are sitting on the CONAN AUDIO sidelines that doesn’t mean there isn’t any other FREE CONAN AUDIO coming straight from the legitimate source (ROBERT E. HOWARD). If the Robert E. Howard story is PUBLIC DOMAIN in your nation, why make your own audiobook?

Conan: The Uncopyrighted - Robert E. Howard fiction in the PUBLIC DOMAIN

“Indeed, at the moment there are no works of REH published prior to 1963 that I can point to with absolute certainty as being owned by Paradox Entertainment, with the possible exception of the works that appeared in Argosy and the poems that first appears in Always Comes Evening.”

-Paul Herman (editor of Robert E. Howard books @ Wildside Press and author of Another Thought)

Here are two Robert E. Howard’s Conan tales we’ve already told you about…

Conan SHORT STORY:

Gods of the North
By Robert E. Howard; Read by Rowdy Delaney
1 |MP3| – Approx. 21 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: September 21st 2008
A winter war in the mountains of Vanaheim and a bit of gossamer are all that stand between Conan of Cimmeria and a frosty beauty who spurns him. First published in Fantasy Fan, March 1934. Alternate titles include: The Frost Giant’s Daughter, The Frost King’s Daughter. |WIKISOURCE|

Conan NOVEL:

Hour Of The Dragon
By Robert E. Howard; Read by Morgan Saletta
Podcast – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcast: Dragon Hour / The Hour of the Dragon
Podcaster: November 2008 – ????
Chapters 01 |MP3| Chapters 02 |MP3| Chapters 03 |MP3| Chapters 04 |MP3| Chapters 05 |MP3|
Follow Conan and his struggle to overcome the dark necromancy that has cast him from the throne he won! Quake at the dark and evil arts wielded against him in this chapter by chapter audiobook production of Robert E. Howard’s The Hour of the Dragon. The original work was published in four parts in Wierd Tales from December 1935 to April 1936, and later appeared as Conan the Conqueror (1950). |WIKISOURCE|

Podcast feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHourOfTheDragon

For more Robert E. Howard stories in the audio format check out our ROBERT E. HOWARD page.

Posted by Jesse Willis

The SFFaudio Podcast #027

Podcast

The SFFaudio Podcast #027 – Jesse and Scott are joined by Rick Jackson (The Time Traveler). Today we talk about new audiobooks, the ongoing CONAN situation, and libraries. Should libraries be renting Zunes to patrons?

Talked about on today’s show:
Ted Chiang, Eclipse 2, Blackstone Audio, The Green Hills Of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein, Apollo 8, Brotherhood Of The Wolf by David Farland, Bellewether by Connie Willis, Corsair by Clive Cussler, James Bond is fantasy?, Quantum Of Solace, Sahara, coming from Wonder Audio… The Fabulous Clipjoint by Frederic Brown, Tantor Media doing Robert E. Howard audiobooks, Conan Properties International versus Broken Sea Audio, New Zealand’s new copyright legislation, reductio ad absurdum, copyrights and trademarks, Clark Ashton Smith, downloading audiobooks through libraries, WMA format, Overdrive vs. NetLibrary, PC Gamer Podcast – ‘X-Box 360, Wii and Playstation 3 are giant DRM keys’, libraries rent DVDs?, ‘government shouldn’t be doing what business can do’.

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Tantor Media doing Robert E. Howard audiobooks

Sunday, March 1, 2009Sunday, March 1, 2009 Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Meego Conan A February 28th, 2009 Paradox Entertainment press release (in Swedish), indicates that Random House/Del Rey has signed a deal with Tantor Media to release the “CONAN” licensed Del Rey’s series of paperbooks by Robert E. Howard as audiobooks. Paradox is the parent company for Conan Properties International.

I expect Tantor to do a terrific job with these. Tantor already has many other public domain texts in its audiobook catalogue, including works by Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Of course this whole situation still smells godawful coming as it does less than a week after Paradox’s subsidiary sent another bogus legal threat to Broken Sea Audio Productions (a non-profit fan audio group). Hopefully the horrific stink CPI’s put on the CONAN brand won’t rub off on Tantor’s R.E.H. productions.

Posted by Jesse Willis