Author Focus – F. Paul Wilson

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F. Paul Wilson F. Paul Wilson is an award-winning author of dozens of novels and more than a hundred short stories. While he considers himself a “Thriller writer” his storytelling spans many genres. Wilson’s books cover everything: Horror, Adventure, medical thrillers, and of course Science Fiction and Fantasy too. He is most famous as the author of the popular “Repairman Jack” series. Wilson has had a fair number of his tales produced to audiobooks, but quite a few of them are out of print. Here’s the complete listing:

The Keep
By F. Paul Wilson; Read by Michael Prichard
10 Cassettes – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Books On Tape
Published: 1983 (OUT OF PRINT)
ISBN: 073660846X
In the spring of 1941, a message is received from a German Army commander stationed in a remote castle high in the Transylvanian Alps: “Something is murdering my men.” An SS extermination squad is sent to destroy the enemy, presumed by the military to be partisans.

The Touch
By F. Paul Wilson; Read by ?????
? Cassettes – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Books On Tape
Published: 1986/1987/1988 ? (OUT OF PRINT)
ISBN: 9998438845 / 5557087567
After twelve years of practicing medicine, Dr. Alan Bulmer develops a supernatural ability to heal, but the miraculous power carries a potentially lethal price.


The Select by F. Paul WilsonThe Select
By F. Paul Wilson; Read by Elizabeth Shue
2 Cassettes – Approx. 3 Hours [ABRIDGED]
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audioworks
Published: 1994 (OUT OF PRINT)
ISBN: 0671883186
Quinn Cleary is smart, idealistic and poor. She’s been accepted at The Ingraham, a prestigious medical school, where a select few receive the finest education free of charge. But something is terribly wrong at The Ingraham. Quinn notices subtle changes in the bright, hand-picked students. Then she stumbles upon the silent, staring patients in locked Ward C.

Mirage
By F. Paul Wilson and Matthew J. Costello; Read by ????
2 Cassettes – Approx. 3 Hours [ABRIDGED]
Publisher: Soundelux Audio Publishing
Publisher: 1996 (Out of print)
ISBN: 1559352396
A team of doctors creates a virtual reality scanner that allows them to enter a person’s memory and watch it via videocasette recorder. Neuropsychologist Julie Gordon decides to use the device to enter the mind of her twin sister, Samantha, who has lapsed into a coma in Paris. Julie’s looking for the neural pathway that is blocking Samantha’s mind, but in the process of probing Samantha’s memory, Julie makes shocking discoveries about the fire that killed their parents.*INCLUDES: “An exclusive author interview.”

Seeing Ear Theatre Interactive Audio DramaDerelict
By F. Paul Wilson and M.J. Costello; Performed by a full cast
RealAudio – [INTERACTIVE AUDIO DRAMA]
Publisher: The Sci-Fi Channel / Seeing Ear Theatre
Published: 1997 (NOW TAKEN OFFLINE)
A mining crew found it floating on the outer reaches of the asteroid belt. When they saw what it was, they called the marines. Now an exploration team has entered the floating hulk of a ship… abandoned, lifeless. Or so they think.

Conspiracies by F. Paul WilsonConspiracies
By F. Paul Wilson; Read by F. Paul Wilson
1 CD – [UNABRIDGED SELECTION]
Publisher: WyrdSisterS ProductionS / Gauntlet Press
Published: 1999?
The audio CD of F. Paul Wilson reading a dramatization of a scene from his novel Conspiracies.

Horror / Fantasy Audiobook - Midnight Mass And Other Great Vampire StoriesMidnight Mass And Other Great Vampire Stories
Edited by Martin H. Greenberg; Read by various narrators
4 Cassettes – 6 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Dove Audio / Phoenix Audio / Audible.com
Published: 1999 / 2002
ISBN: 0787119040, 1590402456
“From the horrifying to the humorous, some of today’s finest authors share stories about one of mankind’s oldest imagined evils, the vampire.”
Includes:
“Bite Me Not, or Fleur de Fur” by Tanith Lee
“Food Chain” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
“Moonlight in Vermont” by Esther Freisner
“Madeleine” by Barbara Hambly
“Victims” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“Seat Partner” by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
“Midnight Mass” (a novella) by F. Paul Wilson (read by Theodore Bikel)

Masque by F. Paul Wilson and M.J. CostelloMasque
By F. Paul Wilson and M.J. Costello; Read by Michael Prichard
9 Cassettes – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Books On Tape
Published: 2000
ISBN: 0736655980
Tristan is the perfect spy. He’s a “mime,” an artificially created and cloned human who’s metamorphic DNA can be programmed to transform him into a “masque” – a perfect genetic copy of anyone. Mimes can be turned into anyone their corporate city-state owners want, until the stress of assuming masques causes a meltdown.

leftThriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night
Edited by James Patterson; Read by various readers
? CDs or ? MP3 CDs – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 2006
ISBN: 1423321758 (CDs) or 1423321774 (MP3-CD)
This hefty collection contains just one short story by F. Paul Wilson

Dark Voices Vol. 6 Sex Slaves of The Dragon TongDark Voices VOL. 6: Sex Slaves Of The Dragon Tong
By F. Paul Wilson; Read by F. Paul Wilson
Chapbook and 1 CD – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Borderlands Press
Published: June 2007
ISBN: 188032590X
A short story paying homage to the pulp era.

Conspiracies by F. Paul WilsonBloodline
By F. Paul Wilson; Read by
? CDs – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Publisher: October 2007
ISBN: 1423346041
It starts off simply enough. (Doesn’t it always?) Jack has been on hiatus since the tragic events in Harbingers. With his beloved Gia’s encouragement he dips his toe back into the fix-it pool.

Interviews:

Free Talk Live |MP3|

Book Expo Podcast |MP3|

Without Your Head |WMA|

Pod Of Horror
|MP3|

StarShipSofa interviews Stephen R. Donaldson & reads a short story

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Podcast - Star Ship SofaThe StarShipSofa boys have finally aired the podcast about Stephen R. Donaldson that they’ve been promising since early 2007. Tony and Ciaran talk about Donaldson and then interview him! They chat and about The Gap Series, the ongoing Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant and lots more.

Part 1 |MP3| is the interview and talk about the Donaldson’s novels.
Part 2 |MP3| is talk about Donaldson’s short stories, and includes an unabridged reading of a Donaldson short story…

Mythological Beasts by Stephen R. DonaldsonlMythological Beasts
By Stephen R. Donaldson; Read by Ciaran O’Carroll
1 |MP3| – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: StarShipSofa
Podcast: July 2007
This thoughtful Fantasy tale first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction‘s January 1979 issue.

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Podiobook Chat goes in-depth with Tee Morris author Billibub Baddings

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Podcast - Podiobook ChatPodiobook Chat has a terrific interview with the dynamic and sagacious podcasting legend Tee Morris. Host Chris Moody talks to Tee about his novels and especially about his latest, which wrapped up recently: Billibub Baddings And The Case Of The Singing Sword, is Tee’s Hardboiled Fantasy/Mystery. You can hear the interview |MP3| and download the complete podcast of Billibub through podiobooks.com. Chris has also posted a special “web only” |MP3| episode with Tee, which means it isn’t available on the podcast feed. That one’s a raw unedited continuation of their conversation with lots of dead-air and such, but getting more Tee always has its charms.

The Podiobook Chat podcast feed is here:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/podiobookchat

Jesse Willis

Prisoners Of Gravity summer re-run series

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Online AudioPart of the inspiration for SFFaudio came from Prisoners Of Gravity, a bizarre (in television terms) TV show about a hard-core nerd named “Commander Rick.” Frightened by the seemingly every-day worsening of the world around him, Rick filled his Camaro with his favorite books of SF, Fantasy and comics then straped a rocket to the roof. Blasting off the Earth, he left the atmosphere, and then promptly crashed into a secret telecommunications satellite. There, he became a pirate broadcaster overriding the signals of television broadcasts and replacing them with SF/F and comic theme shows.

As I’ve reported before, Rachelle Shelkey and her PoG fansite, Signal Loss, have been endeavoring to make episode trading doable. I sent her my entire collection of VHS tapes, and have now received them back on DVD-R, along with some episodes I’ve never seen before. To further promote the idea Rachelle is running a cool Summer YouTube re-run program to promote the DVD trading. Rachelle writes:

“We’re having a Prisoners Of Gravity online reruns event. Every week a new episode of Prisoners Of Gravity will be uploaded to YouTube. One episode a week July 1st until September 21st! This’ll be a fun way to get the word out there and a chance to hopefully find people with episodes we don’t yet have.”

I’m superjuiced at the prospect, Rachelle already has had some episode offers (someone found some extremely rare season one episodes!). Crazy! And you will be too once you start watching these shows – you’ll be absolutely rabid for it. If you have some Prisoners Of Gravity episodes contact Rachelle through her PoG announcing blog. If not, have a watch, you’ll still dig the heck out of this terrific 20th century TV show.

Prisoners Of Gravity youtube Channel

posted by Jesse Willis

FAST FOOD Audiobook Promotion @ Wendy’s in USA and Canada

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Wendy's RestaurantsWendy’s restuarants in the USA and Canada have kids fantasy audiobooks as the current “Kid’s Meal” premiums! A purchase of a kid’s meal will get you an audiobook and a promotional code for a 25% discount on Listening Library audiobook orders. Unforunately, the promo code is not valid for Harry Potter audiobooks.

By the way, the promo code, as listed on the official website, is: wendys

Here are the four available premium titles, but bear in mind it may be that different local restaurants offer different titles at different times:

The Curse Of The Cheese Pyramid
By Geronimo Stilton; Read by Edward Hermann
1? CD – [UNABRIDGED?]
Publisher: Listening Library / Wendy’s Restaurants
Published: June 2007
The story about a mouse reporter sent to Egypt.

Dinosaurs Before Dark
By Mary Pope Osborne; Read by Mary Pope Osborne
1? CD – [UNABRIDGED?]
Publisher: Listening Library / Wendy’s Restaurants
Published: June 2007
This is a tale from The Magic Tree House Collection, which we reviewed back in January.

Arthur’s Mystery Envelope
By Marc Brown; Read by Mark Linn-Baker
1? CD – [UNABRIDGED?]
Publisher: Listening Library / Wendy’s Restaurants
Published: June 2007

Junie B. Jones Has A Monster Under Her Bed
By Barbara Park; Read by Lana Quintal
1? CD – [UNABRIDGED?]
Publisher: Listening Library / Wendy’s Restaurants
Published: June 2007

First ever Mack Reynolds audiobook

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Podcast - The Time Traveler ShowThe Time Traveler Show podcast #19 has a never before heard short story by Mack Reynolds. Reynolds is one of my favorite “b-list” writers. He always tells a compelling story from an off-kilter perspective. This is, as far as I’m aware, the first ever audio adaptation of any Mack Reynolds tale. Hopefully it will be the first of many more. Also, be sure to have a listen to The Time Traveler’s exclusive interview with SF writer Tobias Buckell author of Crystal Rain and Raggamuffin, from show #18 MP3.

The Time Traveler Show #19 Slow Djinn by Mack ReynoldsSlow Djinn
By Mack Reynolds; Read by Jeremiah Costello
1 MP3 File – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Time Traveler Show.com
Podcast: July 2007

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