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Look Into The Sun by James Patrick Kelly is COMPLETE

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A free audiobook download of the Creative Commons 3.0 licensed novel Look Into The Sun by James Patrick Kelly, first published in dead tree form back in 1989, is now complete. This is Kelly’s second long form book recorded for his Free Reads podcast. The first was the Nebula Ward winning Burn (also available). Jim sez:

“After a brief vacation, I look forward to posting more of my work on Free Reads. I am an audiobook aficionado, and it is my ambition to have one of the most extensive libraries of Creative Commons podcasts of any professional science fiction writer.”

We’re looking forward to it Jim!

Look Into The Sun
By James Patrick Kelly; Read by James Patrick Kelly
34 MP3s – Approx. 11 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Podcast: James Patrick Kelly’s FREE READS
Podcast: March – November 2007
A disillusioned architect reluctantly accepts an offer from the alien Chani to travel to their world and undertake his most important commission–the construction of a monument to their “immortal” priestess.

Get all 34 parts of this novel by subscribing to the podcast via this feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/freereads

Posted by Jesse Willis

Librivoxateers talk about Science Fiction and its impact on their lives (and narrations)

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Cori hosts the latest LibriVox community podcast wich talks about science fiction and talks to science fiction narrators. Mark Nelson, Kaffen (AKA Mark F. Smith), AntonEpp, wondermidget (AKA Chrystal Layton), Starlite (AKA Esther), thistlechick (AKA Betsty) and Jazbees all talk about their fondness for reading and narrating Science Fiction. Have a listen |MP3|. You wont find a more friendly community of vocal SF aficionados.

To subscribe to the LibriVox community podcast plug this url into your podcatcher:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibrivoxCommunityPodcast

Posted by Jesse Willis

New from Librivox: The Return by H. Beam Piper & John J. McGuire

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We love LibriVox and all of their amazing volunteers! Today’s specific love goes out to the shadowy admins that make it possible and to Reynard T. Fox for narrating this 1960 novella! Hip hip huzzah!

Here’s the teaser:

“The isolated little group they found were doing fine— but their religion was most strange—and yet quite logical!”

The Return
By H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire; Read by Reynard T. Fox
2 MP3 Files – 1 Hour 21 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: November 4th 2007
Two-hundred years after a global nuclear war, two explorers from a research outpost, that largely survived the cataclysm, discover a settlement of humans who have managed to maintain their civilization despite ferocious cannibal neighbours, the Scowrers. However, the explorers must turn detective in order to understand the mystery of their hosts philosophy and religion.

Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3|

Podcast feed:

http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/the-return.xml

Posted by Jesse Willis

KAMN, Ringworld. Nuff said.

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Episode #34 |MP3| of the Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas podcast is all about Larry Niven’s RINGWORLD! David, Brian and Summer discuss the Hugo and Nebula Award winning 1970 novel. The talk also ranges out into the spinoff Man-Kzin Wars novels, and the newest novel set in Known Space, Fleet of Worlds. Subscribe to the podcast with this feed:

http://www.kickassmysticninjas.com/shows/feed/

Posted by Jesse Willis

Recent Arrivals – Old Man’s War by John Scalzi

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A substantial coup for Audible.com (and the iTunes Audiobook Store) this Hugo nominated and very popular novel is exclusively available as a download.

Old Man’s War
By John Scalzi; Read by William Dufris
Audible Download – Approx. 10 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: macmillan audio / audible.com
Published: October 2007

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First, he visited his wife’s grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce – and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So, we fight, to defend Earth and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity’s resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don’t want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You’ll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You’ll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you’ll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets. John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea of what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine. And what he will become is far stranger.

posted by Jesse Willis

The Orange Box: Portal, features Jonathon Coulton’s “Still Alive”

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The Orange Box is a bundle of Half-Life 2 games featuring an innovative new first person Science Fiction puzzle adventure game called Portal. I’ve just finished playing it. It’s absolutely wonderful, but just as wonderful is the closing theme song, written by the skullcrushingly genius Jonathan Coulton. Have a listen to “Still Alive” after completing the game, and then download the |MP3| of it.

Posted by Jesse Willis