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The Orbit Books blog has announced that iTunes UK is offering a “Pre-Release Audiobook” of Matter by Iain M. Banks. This is the complete, unabridged version. Its priced at £21.95. The abridged hardcopy CD version streets February 7th 2008. No word on a North American release for the unabridged version yet.
[via SFSignal.com]
Posted by Jesse Willis
StarShipSofa podcast has a great audio story this week by none other than SF legend Bruce Sterling called We See Things Differently. It came out in 1989 and was part of his short story collection for his anthology Globalhead.
It is my aim to publish the very best of SF stories by world class writers and Bruce Sterling is one of those writers. All our stories will be delivery free through our feed and will always be available through our Sofa Audio part of the site.
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Posted by Tony C. Smith
BBC7’s the 7th Dimension is re-broadcasting their action-packed reading of a novelette by Leigh Brackett. The Last Days of Shandakor was originally published in April 1952 issue of Startling Stories magazine and was first broadcast on BBC7 back in March 2007.
NOTE: This is being broadcast in 2 parts on successive Sunday evenings with repeat broadcasts at 12:30am (Monday).
The Last Days Of Shandakor
By Leigh Brackett; Read by Nathan Osgood
Broadcast in 2 parts – Approx. 50 minutes [UNABRIDGED?]
Broadcaster: BBC 7 / 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Sunday January 28th and Sunday February 3rd 2008
This is another new commission for the 7th Dimension.
An epic space adventure written in which Mars is portrayed as a dying planet where desperate Earthmen compete with the last Martians and other alien races for lost knowledge and hidden power.
And remember BBC7 provides the Listen Again service to catch it for 6 days following the broadcast!
One of the Yahoo! Groups I belong to had a recent discussion of the old “Classics Illustrated” comic books. Good times there. This brought up the following files…
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Based on the novel by Jules Verne; Performed by a full cast
1 MP3 (from a 45 RPM record) & 1 PDF (from a comic book) – Approx 13 Minutes & 24 Pages [AUDIO COMIC]
Publisher: Peter Pan Records
Published: 19??
Product #: PR42
UPC: 071083001987
For similar goodness, be sure to check out a site I mentioned last Spring… Power Records Plaza is a blog devoted to those 1970s and 1980s record companies that put out comics with sound. Lots of new additions have been posted there since my last visit. Have a visit yourself, you’re sure to find hours of nostalgia and fun.
Posted by Jesse Willis
The guerrilla audio producers at Broken Sea Audio Productions have finished monkeying with their production of The Planet Of The Apes and the entire podcast audio drama is now complete!
All you maniacs, go check it out damn you! God damn you all to podcast hell …. rather, get the entire 13 part series via the podcast feed:
http://www.brokensea.com/planetoftheapes/feed
Posted by Jesse Willis
The Sci Pod Books podcast, run by Mark Nelson, has some of the best free audiobooks on the net. Nelson is a busy guy of late, as he is transitioning from an amateur audiobook narrator to professional audiobook narrator! Look for more of his work promoted here soon. On his free podcast you’ll find an unabridged dramatized reading of one of my favorite H.P. Lovecraft tales The Statement Of Randolph Carter as well as the first chapter of his reading of Plague Ship by Andre Norton – with more chapters to come. Also available, and complete in three parts is: Police Operation by H. Beam Piper!
Subscribe to the feed:
http://rss.mac.com/marknelson2/iWeb/SciPodBooks/SciPodCast/rss.xml
Posted by Jesse Willis