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Orson Scott Card Selects Star Born by Andre Norton and published by Wonder Audio for the first title in an exciting new feature at Audible.com.

Here’s how Audible describes it:
Orson Scott Card Selects:

In an exclusive relationship, Audible is launching a monthly recommendation program with Hugo Award-winning Orson Scott Card, the author of the classic Ender’s Game, and one of the industry’s best-selling writers. Card will provide exclusive audio critiques of each selection.

“It’s easy for great novels and novellas to get lost in the bookstore - not everything can get front-of-store display!” Card said. “That’s what I’ll be doing with ‘OSC Selects’ - moving new and classic sci-fi and fantasy right to the front, so fans will have a better chance of noticing terrific stories performed by first-rate readers.”

“Orson Scott Card Selects” kicks off with the April selection, Star Born by Andre Norton.

Orson Scott Card calls Star Born - “Excellent, first rate, adult science fiction….”

Wonder Audio is the publishing company of The Time Traveler Show.  The Time Traveler has a smile on his face

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This is a big one folks! The Time Traveler’s Magnum Opus.  This show runs a little long at 78 minutes, but they’re all very good minutes.  Trust me :)  I’ll do all my thank yous at the end of the post.  If you like surprises, skip the show notes until after you hear the show.

The centerpiece of the show is the story “The Hammer of God” by Arthur C. Clarke read by Scott Brick with Gabrielle de Cuir.  This story appeared in the Audio Literature title The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke.

Scott Brick is an audiobook giant and the screenplay writer for the upcoming Rendezvous with Rama movie.  Scott shares some of his experiences with his close affiliations with Sir Arthur.

Scott also talks with Dean McCreary, production designer for Rendezvous with Rama.  And they both talk about the Arthur C. Clarke 2001 bash at the Playboy Mansion.  Not to be missed.

Audiobook narrator and producer, Stefan Rudnicki, then contribute some of his thoughts on working on this massive multi-volume audiobook project.  Stefan also shares a poignant tale of recording the project on 9/11.

After “The Hammer of God” we get to hear Vernor Vinge, from a future Time Traveler Show, tell how Arthur C. Clarke was a major influence on his life and work.

I then thrust the time machine into the past to hear a rare recording of a speech that Arthur gave during the 1965 Hugo ceremonies.  He entitles it “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love Stanley Kubrick.”

His tale of working on this new film that wouldn’t be released till 1968.  The film, of course, is 2001: A Space Odyssey!

This was given scant minutes before Stanley Kubrick, himself, would be awarded the best dramatic presentation Hugo for Dr. Strangelove.

I couldn’t resist placing an excerpt from an audio review by Orson Scott Card.  It has nothing to do with Arthur but it is a review for Star Born by Andre Norton.  It’s published by the Time Traveler’s own publishing company, Wonder Audio.  Pinch me, I must be dreaming.

Let the thank yous begin:

First thanks to Audio Literature for allowing me to podcast The Hammer of God.  It really started this project rolling.  For a good review and information about the separate volumes of The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, check out this review at The Fix written by Scott Danielson. You can also get a digital download of The Best Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke at Audible.
http://www.audlit.com/

Secondly to Scott Brick for being so generous with his time and talent, and for bringing Dean McCreary onboard.  And of course, thank you, Dean!
http://www.scottbrickpresents.com/

To Gabrielle de Cuir who appears on the show without even knowing it.  Read about her film “The Delivery.”
http://skyboatroad.com/film.html

Also thanks to Stefan Rudnicki. I loved your commentary and am glad I waited till your cold had passed to get it.  Other good things came my way in the meantime, like…
http://skyboatroad.com/

…the use of the recording of Arthur C. Clarke by the Science Fiction Oral History Association at http://www.sfoha.org/. 

To Vernor Vinge who was so gracious to do an interview with me.  Look for TTS #27 with Vernor as my special guest here in a couple of weeks.

Thanks to Jesse Willis at SFFaudio for the image tweak and removing the embarrassing typo.

And thank you, Arthur!

’til next time!

If you don’t like Sheckley, you must not have read (or listened) to him.

A Sheckley Trilogy: Three Classic Tales of Science Fiction
By Robert Sheckley; Read by Mark Douglas Nelson
2 hrs. - [UNABRIDGED]

Availiable at Audible and iTunes

Robert Sheckley, master of the science-fiction short-story form, created numerous tales of dark humor. He had an entertaining gift for looking at society with a warped mirror, enabling us to see ourselves in a clearer reflection.

“Keep Your Shape” is from the perspective of an alien race with the unseemly ability to change shape. In “The Seventh Victim”, murder is legal and sanctioned by society, and the gunman’s victim is a beautiful woman. And when a spaceship filled with diverse alien life forms is stranded without a star drive, they only have one chance of getting home again. That chance is with a “Specialist” from Earth.

These three works were originally published in Galaxy and The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy in 1953.