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The Secret Cavern Of Read Along Treasures has Doctor Who

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Do you like Doctor Who? If you do I’d bet Tom Baker’s portrayal of the Doctor is your favorite incarnation. Yep, he’s mine too. Do you also like vampires? You do? Me too! We have so much in common… which is why I think you’d like to see what the folks at The Secret Cavern Of Read Along Treasures have just posted up. Indeed, it is a rare UK release of an old Doctor Who audiobook…

Doctor Who: State Of Decay
By Terrance Dicks; Read by Tom Baker
2 MP3s (1 Cassette) – Approx. 55 minutes [ABRIDGED]
Publisher: Pickwick Talking Books
Published: 1981 (Out Of Print)
Product #: PTB 607
|Part 1 MP3| Part 2 MP3|
Trapped in an alternative universe the Doctor lands on a sinister planet ruled by an unholy trio of tyrants. Aided by Romana and the faithful K-9, the doctor must discover the dreadful secret of the dark tower and face the awakening horror that lies beneath it.

posted by Jesse Willis

Audible has a Vonnegut interview

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Audible.com has a FREE downloadable interview with the recently deceased Kurt Vonnegut. You have to be an audible member to get it though. In the interview Vonnegut talks with his long-time attorney and agent, Donald Farber, about his classic novel Slaughterhouse Five (first published in 1969). Vonnegut died at the age of 84 on April 11, 2007. Click on over to get it HERE.

Interview With Kurt Vonnegut
10 Minutes – [INTERVIEW]
Subject Kurt Vonnegut; Interviewer Donald Farber
Publisher: Harper Audio / Audible.com
Published: 2007
Length: 10 min.

posted by Jesse Willis

2 versions of A Pail Of Air up on Zombie Astronaut

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The Zombie Astronaut has again posted up two adaptations of the same script, this time its Fritz Leiber‘s classic short story A Pail Of Air.

Alfred and Effie live on an Earth that has been knocked off it’s orbit and is drifting without the warmth and light of the Sun. The last radio station went off the air a year before their son, Bud was born. They survive in an apartment building, slowly burning what coal they can find to keep warm and keep the air from freezing. Then one day when Bud went out to get a pail of frozen air, he saw a light moving through the building across the way…

WNBC X-Minus One |MP3|
WMUK Special Projects Future Tense |MP3|

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Broken Sea offers Logan’s Run

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Broken Sea Audio is posting new shows like mad, with a stunning collection of all-original programs coming out day after day, but they also have a new companion show to their homage to their Planet Of The Apes audio drama, Logan’s Run ! It isn’t just a book and an SF movie anymore, now its an audio drama too!

Get the first part: Logans Run Chapter 1: Carousel |MP3|

Sometime in the 23rd century…the survivors of war, overpopulation and pollution are living in a great domed city, sealed away from the forgotten world outside. Here, in a seemingly perfect world, mankind lives only for pleasure. There’s just one catch: Life must end at thirty unless reborn in the fiery ritual of Carousel.

Paste the following link in to your favorite podcatcher to subscribe to the show:

http://www.brokensea.com/logan/loganfeed.xml

posted by Jesse Willis

Escape Pod #101 features Hugo Award winning Mike Resnick: The 43 Antarean Dynasties

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Escape Pod issue #101 features another excellent Mike Resnick story, with this one being a Hugo winner you can’t go wrong. To make it even more impressive the tale is performed by Steven Burley and Gregg Taylor of Decoder Ring Theatre fame – you won’t want to miss it! The story, The 43 Antarean Dynasties was first published in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine’s December 1997 issue.

EP101: The 43 Antarean Dynasties
By Mike Resnick; Read by Steven Burley and Gregg Taylor
1 MP3 File – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Escape Pod
Podcast: April 12th 2006
A proud tourist guide, shows the ancient sights of his alien world to a family from Earth.

Also of note is the recent announcement that Escape Pod will spinoff yet another weekly fiction podcast this summer! This as yet unnamed show will feature all FANTASY stories, allowing Escape Pod to specialize in all Science Fiction! There’s a thread on the Escape Pod discussion forums that details all the contest rules and regs but here’s the main stuff briefly:

The Rules:
* E-mail your name ideas to [email protected].
* An eligible name must have the .org domain available.
* Maximum one entry per person per day.
* The contest ends at midnight PST on April 15, 2007 (hey that’s tomorrow!!!!)

The Prize:
A new 2 GB iPod Nano with every Escape Pod episode preloaded on it! COOL!

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H.G. Wells Month – FREE MP3 short story: The Magic Shop

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Thought Audio‘s mission is to pump more thought provoking spoken word into daily life. Mission accomplished! They’ve got classics, non-fiction and a bit of Specualtive Fiction too! Among their plenteous resources are complete readings of Jack London’s Call Of The Wild, Anthem by Ayn Rand and a short story by H.G. Wells The Magic Shop…

The Magic Shop
By H.G. Wells; Read by Michael Scott
5 MP3 Files – Approx 27 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: ThoughtAudio.com
Published: 2006

This is a charming tale from H.G. Wells about a young boy named Gip who visits a magic shop for his birthday with his father. But this is not just any magic shop – the shopkeeper insists that this is a genuine magic shop. The story is an entertaining adventure as Gip, like any young boy of his age, experiences the pure enjoyment of true magic while his skeptical father grapples with having to draw the line between slight of hand and genuine magic.

posted by Jesse Willis