Author: Jesse Willis

The Classic Tales Podcast: The Lurking Fear by H.P. Lovecraft

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The Classic Tales PodcastThe Classic Tales Podcast, and its host B.J. Harrison, feature unabridged classics you’ll be sure to dig. All the standouts, Poe, Dickens, Conan Doyle, Hawthorne, Stevenson, and Hardy are present, but there are lesser known authors represented too. The latest two podcast feature one sure to please SFFaudio readers: H.P. Lovecraft’s The Lurking Fear!

You can subscribe to the podcast via this feed:

http://classictales.podshowcreator.com/feed.aspx?feedid=1258

The Lurking Fear by H.P. LovecraftThe Lurking Fear
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by B.J. Harrison
2 MP3s – Approx. 68 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: The Classic Tales Podcast
Podcast: May 2008
The Lurking Fear. The Silent Death. Thunder calls it forth. It moves without detection. It kills without mercy. It terrorizes a mountainside. No one knows why, and no one knows exactly how, but when the heavens bellow their thunder, human lives are lost. Is it the ghost of an unavenged man? Is it a wolf beast, obeying the primal call of heaven? One diligent reporter finds out, and the knowledge drives him to delirium.

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LibriVox Science Fiction Audiobook – Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton

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Ace Books published Storm Over Warlock as F-109 and F-329 in paperback form in the 1960s. Nearly a half century later the first audiobook version was published – today! Narrator R.J. Davis also has another Norton set for release very soon too.

LibriVox Science Fiction Audiobook - Storm Over Warlock by Andre NortonStorm Over Warlock
By Andre Norton; Read by R.J. Davis
19 Zipped MP3s or Podcast – 7 Hours 18 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: May 15th 2008
The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and forth across the base with methodical accuracy. And a single cowering witness, flattened on a ledge in the heights above, knew that when the last of those yellow-red bolts fell, nothing human would be left alive down there.

Get this free audiobook via podcast:

http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/storm-over-warlock-by-andre-norton.xml

Posted by Jesse Willis

Audio Realms an update

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Audio RealmsThough fairly quiet of late, Audio Realms has been busy recording some classic SF, Fantasy and Horror that we’ll be telling you a lot more about very soon. The ringleader there, Fred Godsmark, says he’ll be following up the recently released Andre Norton novel “Voodoo Planet” (details of which have just been added to our ANDRE NORTON author’s page) with an unabridged release of Norton’s The Time Traders!

Audio Realms recently won accolades for their 2007 release called Little Fuzzy. That’s H. Beam Piper’s best loved novel! The acclaim came from none other than Publisher’s Weekly magazine! Little Fuzzy won “Best Fantasy AudioBook for 2007!”

Currently available from this Audio Realms are classics like:

The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Out of Time’s Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Further, a new “urban horror” imprint of Audio Realms saw the release of two sure fire hits:

Hide And Seek by Jack Ketchum and
The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon

And their popular Dark Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft series is up to Volume 6 now too! But it doesn’t all end there. The near future portends even more goodies:

The Rising by Brian Keene
The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Things That Are Not There by C.J. Henderson
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
People Of The Dark by Robert E. Howard (this includes a Conan story, Queen Of The Black Coast)

And even a Weird Tales collection!

Fred’s going to be sending review copies of a lot of these. That will make some serious internecine fighting in the SFFaudio review clubhouse. Which reminds me, I need to add some more obsidian shards to the end of my club.

Posted by Jesse Willis

S.A. Bodeen, an interview and an exerpt

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An excerpt from S.A. Bodeen's The CompoundNaNoWriMo author S. A. Bodeen‘s first novel is available as an unabridged audiobook from Brilliance Audio. It’s also the featured excerpt of the latest Billiance Bits podcast. Have a listen |MP3| directly, or subscribe to the Brilliance Bits podcast via this feed:

http://www.brillianceaudio.com/podcasts/channel1/channel1.xml

And in related audio…

The SciFi Dimensions PodcastBodeen’s also the featured guest on the 6th episode of the new SciFi Dimensions Podcast Have a listen to that |MP3| interview or one of the other shows (featuring the likes of J.C. Hutchins, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Scott Sigler) subscribe to that feed:

http://www.scifidimensions.com/podcast/feed/

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Commentary: LibriVox makes being cool look easy

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LibriVoxI really like the attitude of the people over on LibriVox.org. In one thread on the LibriVox forums a first time poster makes note that ‘LibriVox titles are being sold on eBay for $’. Like that guy I too was quite shocked and a little dismayed when I found that out. Here’s me thinking:

These audiobooks are available for free and yet some people are actually SELLING them!?!?! How dare they!


But as Puffin1, a long time LibriVoxateer so sensibly points out…

“It’s okay. We [LibriVox] don’t mind. Everything we do is in the public domain. Thanks for your concern. Welcome to LibriVox. Have fun!”

How cool is that?

It really sums up the LibriVox attitude too. Another LibriVoxer, David Barnes (AKA earthcalling), pointed out that… ‘the seller credits LibriVox … and is providing a service that LibriVox doesn’t provide – namely audiobooks on CD.’

Their whole attitude is positive and relaxed, their idea is “the more recordings are ‘out there’, the better!” As it turns out, it’s actually a very good thing that a lot of the sellers on eBay are selling these audiobooks. eBayers looking for audiobooks can discover LibriVox that way.

One such person is a Texan named R. J. Davis (aka Rick).

Rick described himself as “mostly retired” and a “two year cancer survivor.” I’d describe him as one cool mostly retired cancer survivor who narrates audiobooks. Rick found LibriVox through one of these eBay retailers, and has, since joining in December 2007 (!), started narrating public domain Science Fiction for LibriVox! He’s already read individual short stories like:

“Time and Time Again” by H. Beam Piper
“Warning from the Stars” by Ron Cocking
“Stairway To The Stars” by Larry Shaw

And he’s solo-completed entire novels like:

Key Out of Time by Andre Norton
The Time Traders by Andre Norton

And Rick’s got two more Norton novels forthcoming…

Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton
The Defiant Agents by Andre Norton

Rick is what I’d call a real audiobook fan. LibriVox makes being cool look easy, and that’s pretty amazing because narrating an audiobook is bloody hard work.

Posted by Jesse Willis