Posts tagged: skyboat media
Casting Call: Skyboat Media's Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir on Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever
Posted on 2016-02-26 at 17:59 by Sam
I've been a huge fan of Skyboat Media for a long time -- anybody who brings more Lewis Shiner and Manly Wade Wellman audiobooks into the world gets my support, and that's the tip of the iceberg -- and when I saw that Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir were planning to produce a full cast version of Harlan Ellison's classic Star Trek teleplay "The City on the Edge of Forever" I was definitely intrigued. When I saw the behind-the-scenes sound check with Scott Brick as Spock, and Brick's studio selfie with
Read more...Posted in Casting Call, Interviews | Tagged gabrielle de cuir, harlan ellison, kickstarter, scott brick, skyboat media, stefan rudnicki
November #WhispersyncDeal roundup: A Calculated Life, Off to Be the Wizard, The Broken Sword, I Am Princess X, Ella Enchanted, and more, and! a glance through Audible's "Treat Yourself" sale, and! Downpour.com's Black Friday sale (UPDATED)
Posted on 2015-11-27 at 05:31 by Sam
As promised, you've got more than 48 hours this time! But there's a lot to look over, as among the 299 Whispersync for Voice-enabled Monthly Deals in Kindle Books
First, though, the usual
Read more...Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged anne charnock, bronson pinchot, cherie priest, downpour.com, jennifer marie brissett, john scalzi, luke daniels, marko kloos, mary robinette kowal, oliver wyman, poul anderson, redshirts, samuel r delany, scott meyer, skyboat media, stefan rudnicki, susan duerden, the broken sword, wil wheaton, wild-cards
Release Week: Steve Erickson's Zeroville, Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders, Robert W. Chambers' The Maker of Moons, and Luisa May Alcott's A Whisper in the Dark
Posted on 2014-12-27 at 05:06 by Sam
DECEMBER 10-16, 2014: For the first time in (at least recent) memory, all four of my picks for the week come off the "never before in audio" list, with none of the books even being released this decade and some being well out of copyright in text, and all under some of the best narrators in the field. There's still more backlist audiobooks and even more concurrent new releases also out this week, from the 50-audiobook "The Saint" series in its mind-boggling entirety to David Drake's Skyripper to Jane Yolen
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged a whisper in the dakr, bronson pinchot, cassandra campbell, claire bloom, gabrielle de cuir, jane smiley, louisa may alcott, ralph lister, robert w chambers, skyboat media, stefan rudnicki, steve erickson, susan hanfield, the greenlanders, the maker of moons, zeroville
Release Week: Manly Wade Wellman's The Old Gods Waken, Eric Flint's Islands, Peter F. Hamilton's The Abyss Beyond Dreams, Daniel Abraham's A Shadow in Summer, Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and Tim Robbins reads Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Posted on 2014-10-24 at 17:07 by Sam
OCTOBER 15-21, 2014: Appalachian folk magic from the legendary Manly Wade Wellman, a full cast radioplay adaptation of an Eric Flint novella, new space sf, backlist epic fantasy from Daniel Abraham, Pynchon's postmodern epic Gravity's Rainbow, and Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian tale Fahrenheit 451 under the voice of Tim Robbins headline this week's releases which also include: Ytasha Womack's Rayla 2212, Chuck Palahniuk's Beautiful You, Eliza Granville's debut novel Gretel and the Dark read by Stefan
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged daniel abraham, eric-flint, fahrenheit 451, george guidall, gravity's rainbow, islands, john lee, manly wade wellman, peter f hamilton, ray bradbury, rayla 2212, skyboat media, stefan rudnicki, tantor, thomas pynchon, tim robbins, ytasha womack
Release Week: The Doubt Factory, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future, The Lottery and Other Stories, and As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
Posted on 2014-10-17 at 17:27 by Sam
OCTOBER 8-14, 2014: October continues to be a month of bountiful harvests in terms of audiobooks, as my first pass for picks came up with 16 titles to strongly consider. So! After the four picks, do check out the "also out this week" (and perhaps even the "also also out this week") listings. The "seen but not heard" titles include Julia Elliott's The Wilds, Blake Butler's 300,000,000, Beth Bernobich's The Time Roads, and Kerry Howley's Thrown, so there's certainly plenty to read if your ears get tired
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged as king, as you rish, ben lerner, billy crystal, brian ruckley, bronson pinchot, cary elwes, cassandra campbell, chimpanzee, christine lakin, darin bradley, emma galvin, forrest aguirre, glory obriens history of the future, greg bear, heraclix and pomp, john shirley, paolo bacigalupi, shirley jackson, skyboat media, stefan rudnicki, the doubt factory, the free, the lottery, the princess bride, war dogs
Release Week: Bears Discover Fire, The Quick, Rogues, The Fever, high-end sf sequels, and Luke Daniels, Luke Daniels, Luke Daniels
Posted on 2014-06-21 at 13:35 by Sam
JUNE 11-17, 2014: There is an absolute avalanche of outstanding audio this week, comprised mostly of audiobooks we've been anticipating for a good while now, but led by a breathtaking surprise: Terry Bisson's 1993 collection Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories. There's high-end sf (Cibola Burn, The Long Mars, On the Steel Breeze), there's historically-set fantasy (The Quick), there's comedic fantasy (Spell or High Water) and urban fantasy (Shattered, Half-Off Ragnarok) and an sf/thriller hyrbid (A Better
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged a better world, adjoa andoh, alastair reynolds, bears discover fire, cherie priest, cibola burn, erik davies, gardner dozois, george rr martin, gillian flynn, james sa corey, janis ian, joe abercrombie, joe barrett, kevin hearne, kirby heyborne, lauren owen, luke daniels, marcus sakey, megan abbott, michael fenton-stevens, neil gaiman, on the steel breeze, patrick rothfuss, rogues, roy dotrice, scott meyer, shattered, simon slater, skyboat media, spell or high water, stefan rudnicki, stephen baxter, terry bisson, terry pratchett, the fever, the iron druid chronicles, the long mars, the quick
Breaking news: Wil Wheaton to narrate Robin Sloan's The Dragon-Song Chronicles
Posted on 2014-04-01 at 18:12 by Sam
April 1, 2014, Durham, North Carolina:
In Robin Sloan's wonderful 2012 novel Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Clark Moffat's fantasy series The Dragon-Song Chronicles seemed so very much like real books that I looked them up in a few places -- and I was certainly not the only one -- before realizing that, duh, they're fictional artifacts of the novel. Well played, Mr. Sloan. Still, the novels seemed so thoroughly developed, with plot summaries and complete excerpts -- narrated by author Sloan to great ef
Read more...Posted in April 1 | Tagged fsg originals, robin sloan, skyboat media, the dragon-song chronicles, wil wheaton
Release Week: The Republic of Thieves, Lost Cantos of the Ouroboros Caves, Cemetery Plot, and The Book(s) of Cthulhu
Posted on 2013-10-23 at 19:41 by Sam
OCTOBER 16-22, 2013: Roughly a half hundred new audiobooks in the roundup this week, headlined by the briefly-delayed audiobook for the long-awaited third book in Scott Lynch's acclaimed The Gentlemen Bastards series, The Republic of Thieves. The remainder of my picks this week probe the corners of the audiobook world a bit, finding another fantastic production from Skyboat Media, an ACX-published tale of overcrowded cemeteries, and a pair of Lovecraftian anthologies. In the "also out" listings, Audible has
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