The Evolution of Science Fiction discussion

The Kindle ebook of The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle is free through the 16th of July. The Audible audiobook is then 2.99 via Whispersync.

If you read e-books, the current Humble Bundle is great. A bunch of Nebula winners.

By current, I mean mid-May 2018. Get 'em while you can!

If you like audio books, Skyboat Media (Blackstone Audio Books) has launched a KickStarter campaign.

We have been invited by the wonderful folks at KICKSTARTER to launch a DRIP campaign. KICKSTARTER is for projects, and DRIP is for people. Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir would like your support to continue to journey through this wonderful world of genre audiobooks: searching out rights, producing forgotten gems, recording spectacularly complicated multi-voice productions and generally finding your and their audiobook bliss.

We want this to be about you, too. Bringing you into our world of books and stories. And our particular slant as independent publishers and narrators.

I signed up as a founding member which is $4/month.
https://d.rip/skyboat
It gets me one of 5 different free audiobooks. I'm choosing Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown. They're also working on The King in Yellow, although that's not one of the free books.

I really like Skyboat. Rudnicki is one of my favorite narrators. He's the voice for the Matt Helm novels, another bunch of old favorites.

I like that 'searching out rights' bit. If they follow through on that with more dedication and success than I've noticed librivox, for example, doing, it would be worth it for me. Especially if they take requests. I can't tell you how many times I look at an older book here on goodreads, feel confident that I should be able to find it on gutenberg/ librivox/ open library, and can't.

They don't pop books out too fast, Cheryl. They do a marvelous job with them, but each takes a lot of prep from the little I've heard & read. One nice thing is they're a fairly small group, so often answer questions & comments on FB & other places. Stefan corrected me on part of my review of The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay when I got the sex of one of the people wrong. They did a great job on that production.

Cheryl wrote: "Especially if they take requests. I can't tell you how many times I look at an older book here on goodreads, feel confident that I should be able to find it on gutenberg/ librivox/ open library, and can't. h..."

If you want to make requests you can always do it via the proof reading site which feeds project Gutenburg - www.pgdp.net
If the book is out of copyright (pre 1923), and a copy of the book is available e.g. on Internet Archive, there is normally somebody happy to run it (although it may take a few months). They've run and posted to PG several books I requested earlier this year.

Oh, excellent, thank you.