There isn’t much to the Blake’s 7 Blakecast, even the webpage for it is disabled. But on the other hand, the content, recorded in spring 2007 and podcast in mid-2007, is excellent. If you’re intrigued by the new Blake’s 7 audio series it’ll be well worth a listen! Download the 2 MP3s directly…
Blake’s 7 Audio Adventures Trailer |MP3|
Episode 1 |MP3| (an interview with series writer Ben Aaronovitch)
…or subscribe to the podcast feed:
http://www.blakecast.com/podcast/
Posted by Jesse Willis
Maureen O’Brien of the Maria Lectrix podcast, has finished up a very cool sounding novel called Brain Twister. The author, Mark Phillips, “marries SF adventure with slapstick comedy” in what ended up being a Hugo Award nominated novel (it lost to Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers.
“Hmmmm…. Mark Phillips? Who’s that?” you ask.
Well, Mark Phillips was the pseudonym used for SF collaborations between Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. As Mark Phillips, Garrett and Janifer produced three SF novels featuring FBI agent Kenneth J. Malone. The stories originally appeared in slightly shorter versions in Astounding Science Fiction magazine, edited by John W. Campbell, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In fact, the first novel, Brain Twister (AKA That Sweet Little Old Lady) made the cover of the September 1959 issue (pictured above) and had several wonderful internal illustrations too HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE (all of the pics and the text can be found at Project Gutneberg HERE). Have a listen after you have a look…
Brain Twister
By Mark Phillips; Read by Maureen O’Brien
13 MP3 Files – Approx. 5 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Maria Lectrix
Podcast: 2007
Agent Malone, FBI, is charged with investigating leaks in a secret government program. For assistance, he recruits a powerful psi from a mental institution who believes she is Queen Elizabeth I of England. The problem is, she may be right.
Download the complete and unabridged audiobook HERE. Or subscribe to Maureen’s Science Fiction podcast feed:
http://marialectrix.wordpress.com/category/fiction/science-fiction/feed/
Posted by Jesse Willis
CBC Radio engineer, producer and director (The Adventures Of Apocalypse Al, Afghanada) Greg DeClute tells me that Canadia: 2056 now has a full fledged website!
Amongst the info already found there are an Episode Guide, a Cast List, and a Photo Gallery. DeClute says that later in January we can expect to see a “Canadia: 2056 contest” and a “behind the scenes video of the making of the show”!
And here’s a link back to our listening guide for U.S. listeners.
Posted by Jesse Willis
P.S. Free The Adventures Of Apocalypse Al!
Mark Kalita, the narrator for the audiobook version of Robert E. Howard’s Red Nails informs me that he has completed his challenge title! This is the third completed title in our Second Annual SFFaudio Challenge. All 7 of the 7 chapters of this novella are available for download COMPLETE and UNABRIDGED! Woohooo!
Red Nails – A Tale Of Conan
By Robert E. Howard; Read by Mark Kalita
7 MP3s – Approx. 3.5 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Broken Sea Audio Productions / Hooligan Audiobooks
Published: December 2007 – January 2008
“Red Nails, a tale featuring the legendary Conan the Barbarian, was written by Robert E. Howard and began its written serialization in the July 1936 issue of Weird Tales. This thrilling audio novella begins with pirate-adventuress Valeria of the Red Brotherhood on the run after slaying a notable brigand. She is followed by Conan and the two soon fight their way to a great, walled city inhabited by two warring peoples. The adventure seekers soon find themselves embroiled in the feud and mayhem ensues as the city’s rulers make unholy plans for the mighty Cimmerian and his feisty female companion. Listen now as an ancient evil returns from oblivion and a wicked sorceress seeks to gain immortality at the cost of our Hyborian heroes!”
|Chapter 1 MP3|Chapter 2 MP3|Chapter 3 MP3|Chapter 4 MP3|
|Chapter 5 MP3|Chapter 6 MP3|Chapter 7 MP3|
Posted by Jesse Willis
The third and final one hour show of the new Blake’s 7 audio drama series has just aired on BBC7’s The 7th Dimension! “Liberator” wraps up the entire three cycle run of recorded Blake’s 7 re-imagination by B7 Media. You can hear it via the “listen again” feature for the next 6 days, after which, consider purchasing the Higher-Fi-er quality versions in the form of the CD sets HERE.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Canadia: 2056 is available for order at the CBC Store online today (unfortunately its not cheap at $49.95 CDN)! My suggestion, ask your local library to bring one as there is no foreseeable podcast version coming.
Canadia: 2056
By Matt Watts; Perfomed by a full cast
5 CDs – Approx. 5 Hours [RADIO DRAMA]
Publisher: CBC Audio
Published: January 21, 2008
Product ID: ERART00217
This entertaining sci-fi comedy series is written by one of Canada’s best-loved comedy writers, Matt Watts. The United States has launched an armada to destroy an alien threat. Canada sends the nation’s only publicly-funded spacecraft, The Canadia – a ship with a single purpose – to plunge the Americans’ toilets
Posted by Jesse Willis
P.S. Free The Adventures Of Apocalypse Al!
