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I, Libertine
Few know that 2006 was the 50th anniversary of the publication of the very odd book I, Libertine. In honor of this event and as our first audiobook, we at Uvula Audio have put together an audio book version of this classic for public consumption. A new chapter will be podcast each week for 13 weeks.
I, Libertine was the result of a practical joke by late-night radio raconteur Jean Shepherd. Shep was highly annoyed at the way that the best-seller list was being compiled in the mid 1950's. Apparently, it was not being determined solely on the sales of books, but also on the requests for the books at bookstores. Shep could not leave this alone so he started urging his listeners to go to bookstores and ask for a book that he created whole-cloth on the air. He made up the author (Frederick R. Ewing) of this imaginary novel, a title (I, Libertine), and even gave it a basic plot for his followers to use on disbelieving bookstore clerks. Shep eventually proved his point that the process of choosing best-sellers was flawed when he was able to get his book onto the best-seller list before it even existed!
Soon not only was there a huge demand for the novel, but it had reportedly been banned in Boston. Ian Ballantine engaged Theodore Sturgeon to write a novel to match the rumor, from Shepherd's outline. Betty Ballantine is supposed to have written the final chapter after an exhausted Sturgeon fell asleep on the Ballantines' couch, having written most of the novel under deadline in one marathon typing session. The novel was released simultaneously in hardcover and paperback editions, on September 13, 1956, with Shepherd seen as Ewing in the photo on the back. The front cover painting by Kelly Freas includes certain hidden images and inside jokes, and a quote "Gadzooks, quoth I, but there's a saucy bawd!".
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Rated PG
Hamlet and Eggs
Myron Abramowitz is a retired, New York City police detective transplanted to Georgia. His "big city" detective agency has been hired by two rich heiresses to find their kidnapped father. This seems pretty straight-forward to Myron at first, but to his dismay he quickly discovers that so far south of the Mason-Dixon Line there are more things than he can possibly imagine in his philosophy . Hamlet and Eggs was written and narrated by J.J. Campanella.
The podcasts are now archived below and at the following podcast link: http://www.uvulaaudio.com/Books/Books.xml
Rated PG
The Standards of Creation
The Standards of Creation is a new, sprawling science fiction novel by J.J. Campanella.
What will the world be like in a hundred years when personal computers are a bit too personal? When your genome can be analyzed in seconds to tell you all your inborne weaknesses and strengths? When a new heart or kidney can be printed out like we would print a letter today? When anti-viruses will be engineered to wipe out diseases? How will humanity change when we can travel the Solar System? Will humankind just carry old grudges into space?
Elysium Colony: The first Martian Colony was founded in the 2050's by the Euro-American Space Agency. After being around almost fifty years, the colony is no longer the outback. It has become a place of peace, commerce, and civilization-- more peaceful than Earth. Unfortunately, human memories are long and problems come to every paradise.
Yarrow Hayes: Award winning genetic researcher. He is faced with difficult decisions as his laboratory funding dries up and his research is threatened. Hayes is one of the first generation of Martian colonists in Elysium Colony. He has not been on Earth in twenty-five years, but a fateful trip back to Terra is forced upon him.
Alex Arodyne: brash, young and annoying-- but a genius in viral engineering. Alex has been handed some information about the Elysium Colony that horrifies him and moves him to action. He has no idea how far-reaching the effects of his discovery will be.
Cordelia Bellefont: Undercover investigator for the NATO Police. She has lived as someone more than human for years, but now that the last vestiges of her humanity are threatened, she will need to take actions that may change her life forever.
Geraldine Springmartin: Corporate maurader and heir to a multi-billion dollar empire that spans the Solar System. She and her family have set their sights on exploiting Yarrow Hayes as he slips into a whirlpool of desperation.
Liu Ming: Agent for the Chinese Ministry of State Security. He is a man whose job is finding out the secrets of others and protecting those of his country. He is an ethical man, but one who will go to extremes to ensure the safety of his own people.
When you hold the fate of the world in your hands, what are the standards of creation?
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Book Review of the Standards of Creation on Science Fiction and Fantasy Audio website by Julie Davis
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Rated M for Language and Mature themes
H.P. Lovecraft's SF Horror classic: The Shadow Out of Time
A year before his death in 1937, H.P. Lovecraft published The Shadow Out of Time in the magazine Astounding in 1936. It has been called his “single greatest achievement in fiction", citing "its amazing scope and sense of cosmic immensitude, the gulfs of time it opens, and the titanic sweep of the narrative".
The story indirectly tells of The Great Race of The Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time. The Yithians accomplish this by switching bodies with hosts from the intended spacial or temporal destination. The story implies that the effect when seen from the outside is similar to demonic or spiritual possession.
The story is told through the eyes of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, a Turn Of The Century American economics professor from Miskatonic University who is "possessed" by a Yithian. He fears he is losing his mind when he unaccountably sees strange vistas of other worlds and the Yithian library city. However, while he was experiencing a Yithian existence in earth's ancient past, the Yithian occupying his body was experiencing a human one in the present day.
But that was only the beginning of the horror . . . .
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Rated PG-13 for Horror themes and Possession
The P.G. Wodehouse comedy Jeeves In the Morning is now podcasting! This is one of Wodehouse's funniest!
The Wodehouse bookcast will orginate from this address: www.uvulaaudio.com/Books/Books.xml
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Rated PG for silly British insults (actually the recording is fine for all ages, but most kids will be confused by the typical Wodehouse madness)
The Mating Season is the sequel to Jeeves in the Morning, but as with most of Wodehouse’s books, it can be read all on its own and it will still make perfect sense—or at least as much sense as any of these books ever do.
The Mating season concerns Bertie who finds himself at a place called Deverill Hall pretending to be his old pal Gussie Fink-Nottle, and, of course, Gussie shows up pretending to be Bertie. Bertie must do all he can to keep the Fink-Nottle/Bassett romance intact (for we know the fate that awaits Bertram otherwise), and this, complete with two other rocky romances, keeps Bertie on his toes throughout. Enjoy!
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rated PG for mild genocidal violence --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This podcast of The Full Armor of God is a two part science fiction novella from J. J. Campanella. It posits the question of what might happen if the Islamic jihad against the west succeeded. In short, what if the terrorists won? Would there be anything left of western civilization to stand in their way to total domination? What might arise out of the dust of the west that could resist the martial efforts of a dozen nations. . . ? This story suggests one possibility . . . By the way, that wonderful crusader pictured in the webpage photo above was painted upon the nosecone of a WWII fighter plane. It can be observed in the flesh at a hangar in the New England Air Museum. Rated M for violence and adult themes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit continues to peek in on the wonderful world of Jeeves and his nit of a boss Bertie Wooster. Once again Bertie finds himself unwillingly engaged to the imperious Lady Florence Craye and disaster threatens from all sides. While Florence tries to cultivate his mind, her former fiance, Stilton Cheesewright, threatens to beat his body to a pulp, and her new admirer, the bleating poet Percy Gorringe, tries to borrow a thousand pounds. To cap it all off, Bertie has incurred the disapproval of Jeeves by growing a mustache. Throw in a disappearing pearl necklace, Aunt Dahlia's magazine "Milady's Boudoir," her cook Anatole, the Drones Club Darts match, and Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Trotter from Liverpool, and you have all the ingredients for a classic Wodehouse farce. http://www.uvulaaudio.com/Books/Books.xml
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Justice Incorporated tells the story of Richard Benson, a 1940s pulp hero like no other. Out of tragedy, a hero is born! In the roaring heart of the crucible, steel is made. In the raging flame of personal tragedy, men are sometimes forged into something more than human. Wealthy and successful at an early age, Richard Benson was preparing to enjoy a long and happy life with his family when crime took away his wife and young daughter. Once he was just a man, but now he is a machine of vengeance dedicated to the extermination of all crime. A figure of ice and steel, but more pitiless than both, Benson has become a symbol to crooks and killers--a terrible, almost impersonal force, masking cold genius and a nearly supernatural power behind a face as white and still as a dead man's mask. Only pale eyes, like ice in a polar dawn, hint at what awaits criminals when they invoke the rage of millionaire adventurer Richard Benson - The Avenger! Rated PG for 1940's pulp violence-- nothing graphic, but not for little kids --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.uvulaaudio.com/Books/Books.xml
Rated PG for silly British insults (believe it or not there are some adult words in this one)
A celebration of the 76th anniversary of Lester Dent's pulp masterpiece:
Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
Volume 1 (Introduction)
Rated PG for cartoon type violence--nothing intense
E.E. Doc Smith's Spacehounds of IPC: A Space Tale of the Inter-Planetary Corporation
When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's crack liner Arcturus took off on a routine flight to Mars, it turned out to be the beginning of a most unexpected and long voyage. Attacked by a mysterious spaceship, the liner crash-landed on Ganymede. The survivors first had to master that world's primeval terrors, then construct a new spacecraft, and finally, find a way to deal with the warring intelligences of the Jovian system. Spacehounds can do all these things, given time, resources, and freedom from attack. But . . .
Now Streaming: J.J. Campanella's SF novela The Full Armor of God
P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
Rated PG for silly British silliness
For Adult/Kids simulcast, Now podcasting: Paul Ernst's, Justice Incorporated
Coming in July, 2009: P.G. Wodehouse's How Right You Are, Jeeves
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