Ensuring their eternal damnation, hosts Tony and Ciaran stray from their regularly righteous path of Science Fiction author inquisition and instead hotly illuminate the subject of “Religious Themes” in Science Fiction on this week’s show. You can yourself download the damnable show directly |MP3| or should you so choose, subscribe to podcast and begin your own eternal damnation, via this feed:
http://starshipsofa.libsyn.com/rss
Not even a week ago we told you that James Patrick Kelly had recently started a for pay podcast with Audible.com, but that hasn’t stopped him from giving away his fiction in the form of audio. Quite the contrary! Jim has just started podcasting his 1989 novel Look Into The Sun through his venerable Free Reads podcast…
Here is the first |MP3| of the novel (27 Minutes), but don’t stop there, subscribe to the Free Reads podcast and get the whole novel:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/freereads
Thanks so much Jim!
BBC7’s The Seventh Dimension have two specially commissioned treats this week:
Doctor Who: Human Resources – An Eighth Doctor Adventure
2 Parts – [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Sunday at 6pm and 12am (UK Time)
Part one of a new two-part adventure of the vagabond Time Lord, look for part two next Sunday. The doctor’s companion Lucie has been headhunted by a respectable blue-chip firm in Telford, and the doctor confronts a terrifying enemy. Stars Paul McGann produced by Big Finish Productions.
Pattern Recognition
By William Gibson; Read by Lorelei King
5 Part reading – [ABRIDGED?]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Monday to Friday at 6.30pm and 12.30am (UK Time)
Cayce Pollard is a coolhunter. Her gifts are an innate ability in pattern recognition, a skill essential in trendspotting, and a unique allergy to, and therefore an ability to identify, winning logos. These gifts make her an indispensable tool for multinational marketing magnates.
Both programs and all their parts are re-listenable via BBC7’s time-shifting “Listen Again” feature.
This Is Our 1,000th Post!
Mark Nelson, the prolific narrator who has already completed 2 Novels for our Make An Audiobook Challenge has written in to say he’s completed yet another Science Fiction audiobook! This one is the short story collection that he’d told us about back in late January. Mark has assembled, from various public domain H. Beam Piper tales, a collection he’s calling Five Sci-Fi Short Stories by H. Beam Piper . The collection includes:
–The Answer (this one was on our 1st Challenge list – it first appeared in Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, December, 1959)
–Temple Trouble (Astounding Science Fiction, April 1951)
–Police Operation (Astounding Science Fiction, July 1948)
–Flight From Tomorrow (A novelette from the pages of Future combined with Science Fiction Stories magazine, the September/October 1950 issue)
–Graveyard Of Dreams (from Galaxy Magazine‘s February 1958 issue)
Five Sci-Fi Short Stories By H. Beam Piper
By H. Beam Piper; Read by Mark Nelson
9 MP3 Files or 1 Zipped File of MP3s – Approx. 5 Hour 16 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: February 2007
Stories Included:
1. The Answer |MP3|
2. Temple Trouble |Part 1 MP3|Part 2 MP3|
3. Flight From Tomorrow |MP3|
4. Police Operation |Part 1 MP3|Part 2 MP3|Part 3 MP3|
5. Graveyard Of Dreams |MP3|
Mark also reports that he’s got a story in a multi-contributor short horror collection (it is still going through proofing). Mark’s entry is The Beast With Five Fingers by William F. Harvey.
As much as I complain about amateurs rehashing readily available commercial public domain audiobooks like Dracula and Frankenstein when there are solid versions available for free I can’t fault em. Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 format designed for use in Florida’s public schools (the service is funded by a grant from the Florida Department of Education). Typical of the audiobooks available for download is the one below:
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
Preface And Letters |MP3|
Chapter 1 |MP3|
Chapter 2 |MP3|
Chapter 3 |MP3|
Chapter 4 |MP3|
Chapter 5 |MP3|
Chapter 6 |MP3|
Chapter 7 |MP3|
Chapter 8 |MP3|
Chapter 9 |MP3|
Chapter 10 |MP3|
Chapter 11 |MP3|
Chapter 12 |MP3|
Chapter 13 |MP3|
Chapter 14 |MP3|
Chapter 15 |MP3|
Chapter 16 |MP3|
Chapter 17 |MP3|
Chapter 18 |MP3|
Chapter 19 |MP3|
Chapter 20 |MP3|
Chapter 21 |MP3|
Chapter 22 |MP3|
Chapter 23 |MP3|
Chapter 24 |MP3|
To search the archives for more Speculative Fiction like Edgar Allan Poe, L. Frank Baum and Beatrix Potter in the public domain (and other less interesting genres) click HERE. But remember these are for educational use only. A maximum of twenty-five (25) mp3 files may be used in any non-commercial, educational project without special permission. The use of more than twenty-five mp3s in a single project requires written permission from the Florida Center for Instructional Technology.
Posted by Jesse Willis
UPDATE: Here’s the podcast feed for Lit2Go’s reading of Frankenstein:
