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Title: The Ghost Islands

Author: Meatball Fulton

Narrator: Robert Lorick, Dave Adams

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-05-10

Publisher: ZBS Foundation

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dramatizations

Publisher's Summary:

In the small Caribbean town of San Miguel, Jack and Mojo begin to hear stories of islands that appear and disappear. They soon discover there are strange ghost-like beings that visit the town when the islands appear. They are called, Luc-an-oona (those who bless us). But when one of Jack's crew visits the ghost island, strange things begin to happen.

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Title: Ruby 1

Subtitle: The Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe

Author: Meatball Fulton

Format: Original Recording

Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-05-10

Publisher: ZBS Foundation

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 81 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dramatizations

Publisher's Summary:

On the planet Summa Nulla (crossroads of the galaxy, high point of nothing) someone is manipulating the media. And Ruby, smart, tough, sexy detective that she is, is hired to track down the male-factors. The swinging Andriod Sisters perform speak-satirical songs as Ruby, the funny, fast-paced galactic gumshoe, encounters some pretty weird planetary inhabitants on her quest for truth and the intergalactic way.

Members Reviews:

Enjoyable but Quirky.

I listened to this story on radio a number of years ago and was delighted to find it here. It is one of those listens that you just have to let it happen and not analyze it to death. It is a fun "Sci-Fi" story.

Loved It

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

First listened to this accidentally 15 years ago. Looking forward to the rest of the series

What was one of the most memorable moments of Ruby 1?

The Moles Pinball Fight scene

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Cooler than Bond

I love this story.

They really should make this into a movie. Maybe someday they will. Or maybe a 3D animated movie.

I used to listen to Ruby on the radio. It is fun.

I used to listen to Ruby on the radio. It is a fun diversion like Dreams of Rio or Saratoga Springs.

"A good one."

As the summary says, this is a full cast production, an audio drama with more than one voice actor. It also somewhat resembles opera or musical in that the individual chapters / dialogues are narrated / played on top of a song / soundscape each. (To make that clear, the dialogue still remains just that - it is, for the most part, not sung, nor does it rhyme, even if sometimes its rhythm may playfully interact with that of a song.)

I found this combination to be very enjoyable, and to boost the book's replay value immensely.

The subject matter is somewhat tongue in cheek sci-fi. Its for the most part light tone, the music, the exaggerated but mostly lovable characters, and the fact that the production seems more concerned with mood than with every last bit making perfect sense and every loose end being tied up make for easy listening and amusing entertainment, if not necessarily for a vast intellectual challenge.

The music is fun and usually suits the dialogue it goes with, and the voice talent is well chosen. The concept is a nice break from regular audiobooks.

The "book" convinced me enough to buy several more "Rubys", of which this is the best so far (especially compared to later ones that are longer, having lots of "dry spells" with no songs, and don't beef up on the story to make up for it).

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Title: The Phantom Menace (Dramatized)

Subtitle: Rory Rammer, Space Marshal

Author: Ron N. Butler

Narrator: David Benedict, Jack Mayfield, Thomas E. Fuller

Format: Original Recording

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-09

Publisher: Atlanta Radio Theatre Company

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dramatizations

Publisher's Summary:

Come away with us now to the far off future days of AD 1985, after men have landed on the moon! When Space Marshal Rory Rammer and his sidekick "Skip" Sagan guard the rule of law and the rights of the innocent from the skies of Earth to the orbit of the moon!

A longtime fan favorite series comes to audio with five thrilling episodes. Hear our intrepid Marshal and his eager young cadet as they navigate the inner solar system in their rocket ship, the Silver Star, matching wits with space pirates, a mad French scientist, a bloodsucking alien from beyond our galaxy, an asteroid miner, and...a television production company.

Editorial Reviews:

Kids will love listening to Rory Rammer, Space Marshal: The Phantom Menace. With three lively narrators, exciting music, and plenty of sound effects, young listeners will be immediately transported from Planet Earth to outer space, where encounters with space pirates, robots, and a machine called the "phantasmatron", make the 16-minute episode fly by. Whether performing space aliens or humans, the narrators of this audiobook will entertain its audiences with high humor and outrageous adventure. Not to be missed!

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Title: Classic Radio Sci-Fi

Subtitle: The Time Machine (Dramatised)

Author: H.G. Wells

Narrator: Robert Glenister, William Gaunt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-09

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dramatizations

Publisher's Summary:

It opens in 1943, when Wells is recording a talk for the Home Service in which he questions mankind's future. After the broadcast, he spends the evening with American journalist Martha, and tells her the astonishing news that his bestselling book The Time Machine was not fantasy but fact.

Wells explains that he was actually present at the dinner party in Richmond fifty years earlier, when the Time Traveller returned from his first fateful journey into the future. He reveals to Martha the full story of the Time Traveller's encounter with the Eloi and the Morlocks - and what really happened to him afterwards...

Members Reviews:

Terrific classic: beautifully performed

Robert Glennister is superb. The book is a definitive read for any science fiction fan.

Awesome

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Loved every minute of it. The sound effects, the multiple actors/readers, a great experience.Highly recommended.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Classic Radio Sci-Fi?

All of them

Which scene was your favorite?

The scary ones

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yep

good retelling.

one of the better BBC ones. 9 year old and 7 year old totally engrossed

great adaption

very much enjoyed. brilliant voice acting and an excellent adaption from book to radio drama

Very good

This radio drama is very good. The casting is good. And the story unfolds really takes you in. A great adventure.

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Title: Classic Radio Sci-Fi

Subtitle: Chocky

Author: John Wyndham

Narrator: Sacha Dhawan, Owen Teale, Cathy Tyson

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-08

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dramatizations

Publisher's Summary:

Based on a novel by John Wyndham, this full-cast radio drama was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.

Members Reviews:

AMAZING Radio Adaptation of the Book!

Any additional comments?

I honestly don't think the production staff/actors behind this radio play could have done a better job of encapsulating the essence of the story and theme in Wyndham's work. You really get a sense of the confusion and trauma that this little boy is going through, along with the mystery of whether or not the voices in his head are real or imagined.

9.4 / 10

Classic Sci-Fi done well

Great cast, interesting story. I wish my father was as rational! Recommended listening if you like the works of Wyndham or Kneale.

Pleasantly surprised

Would you listen to Classic Radio Sci-Fi again? Why?

I am for sure planning on listening to this again. It was quite a ride.

What did you like best about this story?

I liked the characters a lot and the soundtrack was amazing.

Have you listened to any of the narratorss other performances before? How does this one compare?

N/A

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The conversation between chocky and the dad was mesmerizing.

Any additional comments?

Definitely a good story, highly recommended.

First rate

I loved this book when I first read it long ago. This dramatization captures the story in great detail. The acting is so professional it seems effortless. And the gradual ramping up of tension is done very well. I recommend this.

entertaining

Not my favourite Wyndham novel but very entertaining anyhow. I liked the voice of Chocky & it was the perfect length for this short-ish book. I enjoy BBC dramas.

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Title: Posing as People

Subtitle: Three Stories, Three Plays

Author: Orson Scott Card, Scott Brick, Aaron Johnston, Emily Janice Card

Narrator: Scott Brick, Emily Janice Card, Stefan Rudnicki

Format: Original Recording

Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-31-07

Publisher: Skyboat Productions

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dramatizations

Publisher's Summary:

"Clap Hands and Sing" shows us a lonely, but rich and powerful, old man who has only one wish before he dies: To go back in time and take an opportunity for love that he once let slip by. But what will it do to the young girl who used to love him?

"Lifeloop" pretends to be reality TV 24 hours a day. In fact, they're really actors. But when your character is you, without any break, how exactly do you have a "real" life? And how can a fellow actor tell you that he loves you, when that's what the script also calls for him to say?

"Sepulchre of Songs" is about a heartbreakingly lovely girl who lost her arms and legs many years ago, and now yearns to be free, not just of the rest home where she lives, but of her body. Is the alien being who wants to trade places with her real or the product of her own imagination? And can her therapist's growing love for her keep her from fleeing, either into space or the dark

recesses of her own mind?

Posing As People includes performances of the plays as well as readings of the original stories.

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Title: Dry Smoke and Whispers

Subtitle: The Shadowman Saga 1

Author: Sam A. Mowry, David Loftus, Suzan Zeitlin, more

Format: Original Recording

Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-07

Publisher: MJR Sound Design

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dramatizations

Publisher's Summary:

These are dark times in Quaymet, brought on by the discovery of light - namely, a new power source, Solarium. But where do the elements of this boon to civilization come from? And who's directing how it's sold and used? Emile meets the ally - or is it enemy? - of a lifetime, a Man of Power who killed Song's father and now seems intent on killing him. Soon, Song and Henchard are drawn into a battle even they may not survive, as they go up against an empire that's being consumed by an ancient evil.

Members Reviews:

another goodie

these productions either grab you right off the bat or leave you wondering, "What the .....?" I love them. Strange, surreal and fun! well-acted, nice sound fx.

Excellent value, excellent production

First point, the reason for the long running time is that this version contains the two sequels Murder on the Huddleston Ferry and Allies of the Overseers so there is no need to get them separately.

The quality of this production is top notch, with a good balance of thrills and tongue in cheek humour.

Story wise, it's very addictive. Really pulls you in to his intergalactic/dimensional struggles.

Acting wise it's superb, all the actors take to their roles with gleeful abandon of any seriousness which really helps bring it to life.

All in all, I flipping love it!

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Title: Diamond of Death

Author: Adventures of Superman

Format: Original Recording

Length: 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-07

Publisher: Radio Spirits, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 40 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dramatizations

Publisher's Summary:

Debuting on March 12, 1940, The Adventures of Superman was an instant hit. It starred Clayton "Bud" Collyer in the dual roles of Superman and Clark Kent, and was a radio mainstay until its final episode in March 1951. In all, "Bud" Collyer played his most famous roles in more than 2,000 episodes.

Critic Reviews:

"The long-running adventure serial...was one of the hallmarks of the Golden Age of radio....Superman was never able to fly as high on television as he had for an adventure-filled decade in radio's theater of the imagination." (Anthony Tollin, "Superman on Radio")

Members Reviews:

A great classic journalist detective story!

If you could sum up Diamond of Death in three words, what would they be?

Exciting and interesting!

What was one of the most memorable moments of Diamond of Death?

The nurder of the chaufer and the disaperence of the diamond explained.

Which character as performed by the narrator was your favorite?

Clark Kent/Superman - as always the actor Bud Collier is spot on with his potrayal of the classic DC Superhero!

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Kept me interested the entire length of the episode!

Any additional comments?

Looking forward to more episodes of this series and of this quality that I have come to expect from Radio Spirits!

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Title: The Greatest Show in the Universe (Dramatized)

Author: Tom Corbett, Space Cadet

Format: Original Recording

Length: 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-18-07

Publisher: Radio Spirits, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dramatizations

Publisher's Summary:

Tom Corbett, Space Cadet began its dramatic life as a TV series from 1950-1955. The radio version had a short run in 1952. Tom Corbett was based on the character from Robert A. Heinlein's novel, Space Cadet. This two-part episode originally aired on May 20 and May 22, 1952.

Critic Reviews:

"Probably the best remembered children's space program of the 1950s....With technical advice supplied by Willy Ley, internationally renowned rocket specialist, Tom Corbett was scientifically more accurate than the unintentionally hilarious Captain Video." (Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan, Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future)

Members Reviews:

Enh.

I guess this is just a reminder of how hokey some of the old radio serials were. This is nothing exceptional-- just another episode of a serial that was vaguely inspired by Heinlien. It wasn't a waste of time, but I doubt I will listen to it again.

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Title: Adventures of Superman, Vol. 4

Author: Adventures of Superman

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-07-07

Publisher: Radio Spirits, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 36 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dramatizations

Publisher's Summary:

In this action-packed serial, which aired from April 3 to 12, 1940, Superman is faced with the mystery of a missing explorer - and an even more mysterious sacred emerald of the Incas. Does the jewel hold the power to save the human race?

Clayton "Bud" Collyer plays the dual roles of Superman and Clark Kent, as he did for more than 2,000 episodes. The Adventures of Superman was a radio mainstay until its final episode in March 1951.

Critic Reviews:

"The long-running adventure serial...was one of the hallmarks of the Golden Age of radio....Superman was never able to fly as high on television as he had for an adventure-filled decade in radio's theater of the imagination." (Anthony Tollin, "Superman on Radio")

Members Reviews:

Superman, the Adventure Wont Stop

Would you consider the audio edition of Adventures of Superman, Vol. 4 to be better than the print version?

even when superman has all the great strength of Kypton with him on earth, it is interesting that he can not save everyone. even he can not save everyone from death, especially when stuck as Clark Kent. but the reporter is able to continue to help in the end make sure everyone's able to get to a happy end.

What does the narrator bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

the old radio shows have really cheesy sound effects that helped with he imagination to experience the joys of the program

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, being a hour long it is easy to do

Any additional comments?

If you ever need to call for help superman is always there to give his aid. If you ever have a hard time trying to decide what to listen to, the ten minute shows are great to help give a short fun entertainment that will never grow old