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H. G. Wells Month – Gresham College

H.G. Wells Month

Gresham College in central London, U.K., enrolls no students and grants no degrees – it provides lectures free to the public. Students who attend in person get outstanding lectures by prestigious professors. Students who can’t attend in person can watch or listen via Gresham College website! Former professors have included Sir Christopher Wren, the legendary Robert Hooke and more recently Ian Stewart (a mathematician and Science Fiction author). Among the many fascinating lectures archived on the website since 2002 is one by Professor Martin Campbell-Kelly on the subject of the origins of the World Wide Web. Prominent within the lecture is Campbell-Kelly’s thoughts on the role of H.G. Wells’ book The World Brain (1938). The lecture is available in the RealPlayer format and is entitled “From World Brain To World Wide Web.”

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The Time Traveler Show #17 participates in our H.G. Wells Month

H.G. Wells Month

The Time Traveler Show podcast #17 is all about our author of the month, H.G. Wells! Upfront is the announcement of a new guest-host contest that The Time Traveler is holding. Prizes included, besides the chance to host one of the best podcasts in the podosphere, are SIGNED copies of awesome Charles Stross audiobooks, and an advanced reading copy of Tobias Buckell‘s newest novel! The meat in this chronological sandwich is a reading of H.G. Well’s 1901 short story, The New Accelerator, is read by Bromley native Tim Rowe. Wells too was born and raised in Bromley, a suburb of London, and so that’s why I think this reading is likely to be the most faithfully accented Wells story ever attempted. Even better, Rowe has a melodic professional delivery. Check it out…

The New Accelerator
By H.G. Wells; Read by Tim Rowe
1 MP3 File – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Time Traveler Show.com
Podcast: April 2007

Subscribe to the podcast to listen for free:

http://www.timetravelershow.com/shows/feed.xml

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H.G. Wells Month – The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells Month

Mr. Ron of the Mister Ron’s Basement podcast, is one of most experienced podcasters in all of podcasting. He has produced more than 700 shows in more than two years! His is a daily podcast of funny stuff from the public domain. Not much of it has been SFF audio related, but there is an H.G. Wells story from way back in his archives. Here’s how Mr. Ron describes his contribution to our H.G. Wells Month…

Episode #175 of Mister Ron’s Basement is H. G. Wells’ 1899 story, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, which Wells himself rewrote as a screenplay for the wonderful 1936 Movie of the same name starring Roland Young. The musical intro and outro is also special – selections from a 1912 recording of ‘I’m The Guy’ penned by legendary cartoonist Rube Goldberg.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles
By H.G. Wells; Read by Ron Evry
1 MP3 – Approx. 37 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Mister Ron’s Basement
Podcast: October 2005
A man who vigorously asserts the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them! After being thrown out of a bar for what is thought to be a trick, he tests his powers, they work! Worried, he seeks advice from the local clergyman with hilarious results.

You can subscribe to the podcast, and visit the basement daily, via this feed:

http://slapcast.com/rss/revry/index.xml

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

H.G. Wells Month

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.

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H.G. Wells Month continues with the StarShipSofa Podcast on H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells Month

StarShipSofa has done a show on H.G. Wells! Voyage #34 of the Sofa goes all the way back in time to the “grandfather” of Science Fiction, the immensely influential Herbert George Wells. This show was done in conjunction with the MMM Commentaries podcast (and SFFaudio?). Download the StarShipSofa Wells show |MP3| or subscribe to the StarShipSofa podcast feed:

http://starshipsofa.libsyn.com/rss

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SFFaudio Author Focus month "H.G. Wells" Arpil 2007

Author Of The Month

H. G. Wells Last year in the Spring we had our first ever “Author Focus Month” (on Harlan Ellison). This month, we’re going to reach back to the late 19th century and early 20th for our next author! Throughout April 2007 we’ll be giving particular attention to H.G. Wells. Wells is well represented in audio, with stories, novels and non-fiction all available from professional publishers and amateur narrators. We’ll bring reviews of some of these, links to FREE online sources for more and anything else H.G. Wells related that we can think of. Some of our podcast partners will also be providing Wells content for the occasion. If it hasn’t been declared officially anywhere else you heard it here first… April 2007 is H.G. Wells Month!

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