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TED CHIANG gets his own AUTHOR PAGE

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Ted Chiang (source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/1283502265/sizes/l/) I’ve added a new TED CHIANG listing to our AUTHOR PAGES section. There you’ll find all and every Ted Chiang story and audio interview that we know about. And, I’ve created a special Ted Chiang podcast through a service called HuffDuffer. In it you’ll find all three known podcast Ted Chiang stories and an interview with him too. If you haven’t tried a Ted Chiang tale, now’s your perfect chance. Plug this feed…

http://huffduffer.com/jessewillis/rss

…into your podcatcher, or use the iTunes 1-click HERE.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Paradox: CONAN audiobook coming in June 2009

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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).

Posted by Jesse Willis

a POUL ANDERSON author page

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I’ve added a complete and unabridged (I think) listing of all and every audiobook and radio drama associated with POUL ANDERSON. You’ll find it under our AUTHOR PAGES section.

And, for those interested in recording a Poul Anderson story — there is a new listing over on Manybooks.net featuring a 1955 Poul Anderson story called The Barbarian. It should be a fun listen as it spoofs Robert E. Howard’s Conan.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Hugo Nominees 2009

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The 2009 Hugo Nominations have been announced. Very interesting is the nomination of the METAtropolis audiobook in the Dramatic Presentation, Long Form category. It’s there competing against four films: The Dark Knight, WALL-E, Hellboy II, and Iron Man. I hope this nomination brings some attention to the growing audiobook industry – is it time for an Audio category? |Here’s the review we did of METAtropolis|

All of the novel nominees are available on audio, except for Charles Stross’s Saturn’s Children:

Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Audiobook from Macmillan Audio)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman |More info in SFFaudio Review|
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow |More info in SFFaudio Review|
Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross
Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi (Audiobook from Macmillan Audio, exclusive to Audible.com)

Congrats to all the nominees!

Posted by Scott D. Danielson

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

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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

Signed Neil Gaiman poster up to auction on eBay

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So after sitting on it for a month, hoping they’d get really nostalgic and want to see it framed, I’ve gone and listed the signed THE GRAVEYARD BOOK on eBay. |HAVE A LOOK|

After initially showing it off around the school my idea was to get it framed or at least laminated so their grubby little paws wouldn’t ruin it. But I was completely outvoted. Perhaps letting the kids vote on what to do with it was too democratic an impulse? Yep. It was a quasi-unanimous vote – with one kid thinking it’d be nice (at first) to have it in the classroom – but eventually the general impetus was to sell-sell-sell-it and split the proceeds among the group (that last part is my interpretation as they all pretty much agreed they each deserved the entire amount for themselves). It’s almost like a class full of Ferengi kids.

My hope is that they’ll at least use some of the $$ that come for buying more books.

If you’re a Gaiman collector with more of a sentimental side than my little ferengis go and bid HERE is the listing (it ends in 10 days).

Posted by Jesse Willis