David Stifel, of The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs website, sent me the pics of his new home recording studio booth. You may recall that David joined us for SFFaudio Podcast #137 in which we discussed A Princess Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (and his wonderful narration of it). Check these out:
I find it baffling that I’ve never posted anything like this before. Get it? BAFFLING!
The SFFaudio Podcast #150 – Scott, Jesse, Tamahome, and Kristin (A.K.A Terpkristin) talk about recently arrived audiobooks, new releases and more.
Talked about on today’s show:
Scott’s recent arrivals, Philip K. Dick’s The Penultimate Truth and The Crack In Space, Futurama, Allan Kaster’s Timeless Time Travel Tales, “say that five times fast”, Jesse and Luke’s time travel podcasts Sfbrp 151 & 152, “mindblown”, Resurrection by Arwen Elys Dayton, “pen name?”, Theodore Sturgeon’s To Marry Medusa (A.K.A The Cosmic Rape), Tam thinks it’s random, Stephen on Goodreads liked it, Robert Silverberg’s short story Passengers is mentioned again, Gregory Bear’s Primordium (Halo: The Forerunner Saga, #2), Kristin is a recovering Halo player, Sixth Column by Robert A. Heinlein (1949), in the year of Pearl Harbor, a fifth column, “I got nothin”, Dieter Zimmerman’s Brad Lansky And The 4D-Verse audiodrama |READ OUR REVIEW|, good audio like Ruby, Against The Light by Dave Duncan, “here’s one for the haters”, Them Or Us(Hater, #3) by David Moody, Hater (Hater, #1), |READ OUR REVIEW|, “that review still gets comments”, Kristin thinks Gerard Doyle is a good narrator, Farewell To The Master by Harry Bates — it inspired The Day The Earth Stood Still, “is there a theremin?”, Ben Bova and Bill Pogue’s The Trikon Deception, Scott likes Bova’s Grand Tour series, Pogue was an astronaut, “how do you go to the bathroom in space?”, Jesse’s new releases, The Comedy Is Finished by Donald Westlake will be the next readalong, Audiogo sells BBC audiodrama and audiobook mp3s, a new A Princess Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook, narrated by Scott Brick, hope the movie is good, no nudity, is David Stifel (“That Burroughs Guy“) upset?, he appeared on Sffaudio 137, Tam likes Scott Brick narrating the John Corey books like Plum Island by Nelson DeMille, “wise ass detective”, Philip K. Dick’s Upon The Dull Earth And Other Stories, Jesse helped spur that into creation, now we pick random interests, The Stand by Stephen King is 47 hours, it used to be half as long, Jenny couldn’t stay awake for Insomnia, Larry Niven’s A World Out Of Time, a corpsicle, The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson, revenge version of Robin Hood, Fritz Leiber, George Zebrowski space opera?, Mars Needs Books!, A Llull In The Compass, James Blaylock was a steampunk pioneer, Avram Davidson’s Rork!, Larry Correia does magic noir, Elizabeth Hand’s Cass Neary books seem like an older TheGirl With The Dragon Tatoo (Generation Loss and Available Dark), Lev Grossman’s review of book 2, “she’s boiling hard”, The Odyssey narrated by Gandalf, Tam wasn’t super excited by Peter F. Hamilton’s A Quantum Murder (Greg Mandel, #2), Kristen gets converted to superheroes with Wildcards #1 edited by George R.R. Martin, Heroes, Elmore Leonard’s Raylan, Justified tv show, cross breeding from book to tv, psychotic nurse, short descriptions, Elmore’s 10 rules of writing, he likes Margaret Atwood’s descriptive powers, never write ‘Suddenly’, Tam likes Jennifer Pelland’s ebook Machine, James Patrick Kelly told Jennifer “don’t take out the vomit“, you may find it ‘squicky‘, Jennifer Blood comic in one minute, Scarlet comic in one minute, chicks that kick ass, copying or transferring a consciousness, what good does a copy do me?, transporters?, Think Like A Dinosaur by James Patrick Kelly (dramatized version linked here — nope it’s gone), Kristin and Jenny need to watch Star Trek, Norman Spinrad, The Doomsday Machine, a sock dipped in cement, Old Man’s War, Tam’s favorite 1st 2 chapters are in Altered Carbon, hard boiled future
Tantor Media has a new recording of A Princess Of Mars and it’s narrated by the very popular Scott Brick. They’re offering the first chapter as an MP3 download for account holders.
And the sale price right now is just $9.99.
On a side note, isn’t it nice to see that Phobos has grown out of it’s awkward potato shaped adolescence and blossomed into a nice Mercury shaped moon?
After watching this mightily impressive video pitch, by the guy who did Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow, I hardly think I need to see the forthcoming Disney adaptation!
If you’re interested in reading the Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter stories be sure to check out David Steifel’s new audiobook website BurroughsGuy.com where the first five Barsoom audiobooks are now available for purchase.
David, who talked to us about the first book in the series for SFFaudio Podcast #137, writes:
Princess [A Princess Of Mars] goes into retirement Feb. 7, 2012
On February 7, 2012, A Princess of Mars, will be retired from this site. After that, listeners may listen to the first two episodes here free of charge, but will need to purchase it to hear the remainder. It may be purchased at http://www.burroughsguy.com.
This action is being taken to help generate revenues to allow me to continue podcasting more of these novels.
In a recent podcast David suggested we treat his audiobooks as shareware. That is, buy them if you can, listen to the podcast episodes if you can’t afford it.
So, if you’re poor, snap up A Princess Of Mars via the podcast feed now, or if you’re able to afford the shareware pricing of $12.99 USD send David some cash, he’s got a great voice, terrific pronunciation of all those Barsoomian names and the acting chops to deliver all the story, action, and drama right and proper.
I had forgotten that Luke Burrage’s Science Fiction Book Review Podcast used to be, occasionally, available as a live video feed. Take for example his SFBRP #069 from October 23, 2009 show (still available as a video).
So, it looks to me like the video was not something that was really needed. But it is interesting to see how Luke’s setup worked. Since then Luke has replaced the video with a still photograph of himself posed with whichever book (or audiobook) he is reviewing – I love these, (HERE‘s my current favourite).
And of course the audio version of SFBRP #069 is also available: |MP3|