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James Harris’ blog, Auxiliary Memory, has a great article on Alfred Bester’s Fondly Fahrenheit as well as some other interesting thoughts.  He has some kind things to say about Wonder Audio’s audiobook version of said classic.  Here’s some of James’ commentary on the story:

   Alfred Bester wrote science fiction in the 1950s, during a time when social and psychological issues were just as important as space opera and time travel, and “Fondly Fahrenheit” features a Sweeney Todd deranged android that sharply contrasts with the clean and wholesome Asimov robots. This is a strangely adult story marketed in a genre mainly targeting the adolescent, and in a strange way can be considered disturbing, both in subject matter, but also to the field of science fiction of its day. Like I’ve implied, I considered Bester weird, stranger than A. E. Van Vogt, but not as far out as Philip K. Dick whose career came after Bester’s. “Fondly Fahrenheit” is an android story and pairs well with Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the novel the brilliant Sci-Fi film Blade Runner was based on.

Read the full entry at Auxiliary Memory.

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Michael Bekemeyer reads Harry Harrison’s The Velvet Glove

Harry Harrison’s Links:
Official Website
Wikipedia Entry
Official News Blog
 
Michael Bekemeyer’s Links:
Scatterpod
2Bpictures.com
2Bpictures Podcast

I noticed a verbal slip I made while relistening to the show.  I say that “Harry was the author of. . .” instead of “Harry is the author of. . .”  It’s diffulcult to go back and fix, so I’m letting it stand.  But I’m well aware that Harry is alive and well.

Music:
I’m Going to Get Me a Robot Man
by Ben Light & His Surf Club Boys

A funny robot sex song from the 1940s that actually swings.

Podcasts Promos:
Scatterpod
Dial P is for Pulp

News Blog:

Jesse Willis of SFFaudio.com also did this cool image for the show.

Robot Covers

	The Velvet Glove first appeared in Fantastic Universe 11/56

 

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Wonder Audio, the publishing arm of the Time Traveler Show, is now releasing a line of eBooks.  These will be available at Fictionwise.com.  Wonder Audio will use the imprint, Wonder eBooks, for it’s titles.  The first title is Jack Williamson’s classic SF/Horror novella, The Wolves of Darkness.  Available now for under $2 at Fictionwise.com.

When Clovis McLaurin received an urgent letter from his father, Dr. Ford McLaurin, he rushed in the dead of winter to his father’s ranch. Clovis arrives to find the local townspeople are being attacked and killed by a pack of wolves.

As he journey’s to his father’s ranch, a scientist who has been doing revolutionary experiments, he is attacked by wolves. But wolves are not the only thing running with the pack. Stella Jetton, the daughter of his father assistant, is running with the wolves dressed in only a silk slip in the bitter cold. Clovis recognizes the blood-stained face of the girl that he loves–except for those strange eyes–those are not Stella’s eyes.

How could his father’s experiment untap the unimaginable horror that Clovis is about to confront?

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Three big stories for the price of none.  Makin’ up for lost time.  Read by three excellent narrators.

Prone by Mack Reynolds;
Read by Corey Redekop

Corey is the author Shelf Monkey.  A novel of bookish addiction.  Check out his site and read the reviews.  He turns out to be an excellent narrator as well.  You can also listen to talk and reading he did at a live event.

An Incident on Route 12 by James H. Schmidtz
Read by Mark Nelson

Mark Nelson is recording short stories and novels for Wonder Audio.  He’s done some excellent novels and stories for LibriVox.  They’re free and Mark rocks.  What more could you want?  See his LibriVox titles.

Will You Wait? by Alfred Bester
Read by Pat Bottino

Pat is a professional voice actor that has done work for Blackstone Audio, Infinivox, and others.  Will You Wait? is the back-up story from the Wonder Audio title Fondly Fahrenheit/Will You Wait?, which is available now from Audible.

Promo: SFFaudio.com, because the site rules (and yes I’m an editor there).

Background Music by Eddie Cano and his Orchestra from his LP Deep in a Drum.

And special thanks to Curly Howard!

Thanks for listening.

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