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rur@revupreview.co.uk - www.revupreview.co.uk The Rev Up Review, Number Thirty-Six: Title: RUR-2008-07-06 #36 The Rev Up Review Summer Edition Size: 38.7 MBDuration: 56'16 Use this FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator. Contents: 00.00 Intro music: Undertow by Reaman (ElectroBel) 00.12 Welcome01.35 Mystery sound contest winner (no prizes!)02.15 Nobilis Erotica Podcast 03.34 Review of The Sarah Jane Adventures 11.21 Dragon*Con Audio Blog - final part19.36 Interview with Scott Sigler 25.55 Peter S. Beagle's Come Lady Death at PodCastle 26.15 Tenuous Tales 26.24 Pieces Podcast 27.16 Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies 27.52 Music: Ha Ha Hey by Sarah Aubrey Podsafe Music Network32.22 From the Podosphere at The Fix Online 33.07 Interview with Mur Lafferty 43.05 Final part of Conspicuous Waste - Music: Diamond in Disguise from the album The Outsider by Chance's End (more at Podsafe Audio) 55.24 The Rev Up Review is a production of Willowsoft Communications 55.31 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. 55.38 Send feedback (text or mp3 audio comments) to rur@revupreview.co.uk.56.16 End

Pulitzer Prize winning author, Michael Cunningham, talks with James Michael Tyler about his daring new novel, SPECIMEN DAYS, his first since THE HOURS.

rur@revupreview.co.uk - www.revupreview.co.uk The Rev Up Review, Number Thirty-Five: Title: RUR-2008-01-06 #35 The Rev Up Review Resurrected Size: 34.9 MBDuration: 50'45 Use this FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator. Contents: 00.00 Intro music: Undertow by Reaman (ElectroBel) 00.56 Welcome01.42 Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned 02.50 Dragon*Con Audio Blog - part 3 (of 4)12.11 SFF Audio 13.22 Music from Cathy Miller and Gregory L. Mahan15.35 Interview with Michael R. Mennenga of FarPoint Media and the Dragon Page 19.53 Music from Gregory L. Mahan: Trip to Sligo 21.05 Mystery sound contest 22.48 Tenuous Tales 24.08 Mur Lafferty's Playing for Keeps 26.11 12 Volt Theater 27.25 Pseudopod: The Western Front by Patrick Samphire27.30 Variant Frequencies: The Mason's Son by Dennis Egan27.36 My interview on the Sci Phi Show 27.45 The Plitone Revisionist (also available at Podiobooks.com) 27.52 The Sci Phi Journal 28.17 Matthew Wayne Selznick: Brave Men Run, Writers Talking 40.50 StarShipSofa No 72 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (my review here)41.19 Part 2 of Conspicuous Waste - Music: Diamond in Disguise from the album The Outsider by Chance's End (more at Podsafe Audio) 49.49 The Rev Up Review is a production of Willowsoft Communications 49.56 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. 50.02 Send feedback (text or mp3 audio comments) to rur@revupreview.co.uk.50.45 End

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"The Elephant Vanishes," by Haruki MurakamiShort stories by one of my very favorite authors.

The narrative is taken over by Mr. Gilmore. We finally meet Sir Percival Glyde and find out his explanation of the letter. File size is 5 MB and the podcast is approximately 21 minutes long. Manual download link here. I plan on getting another episode out this week. I can't make up for all the lost time, but I'll try to at least gain ground. ~ e Technorati tags: Wilkie Collins, audiobooks Shop for: Literary gifts and Chess gifts

rur@revupreview.co.uk - www.revupreview.co.uk The Rev Up Review, Number Thirty-Four: Title: RUR-2007-10-07 #34 The Rev Up Review Thing Is Strange Size: 30.2 MBDuration: 43'51 Use this FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator. Contents: 00.00 Intro music: Undertow by Reaman (ElectroBel) 00.09 Welcome00.43 Dragon*Con Audio Blog - part 2 (of 4)07.22 DragonCon 2007 Flickr Set 07.31 Podcasting United Nations07.34 Wingin' It 3D Live 07.38 Review of Stranger Things TV 12.28 Music from Cathy Miller and Gregory L. Mahan 14.25 Feedback from James Hector and Vanamonde 14.51 Interview with Rob Walch of Podcast411, Today in Podcasting, Today in iPhone and Tricks of the Podcasting Masters 19.10 Tenuous Tales 19.53 Music from Cathy Miller and Gregory L. Mahan 21.41 Interview with J. C. Hutchins, author of the 7th Son trilogy, also available at Podiobooks.com 30.11 Podzone 2: SF Podcasting - The British Way available now in Interzone 212 30.24 StarShipSofa No 60 Interzone 30.41 New fiction serial: Part 1 of Conspicuous Waste - Music: Diamond in Disguise from the album The Outsider by Chance's End (more at Podsafe Audio) 42.58 The Rev Up Review is a production of Willowsoft Communications 43.04 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. 43.12 Send feedback (text or mp3 audio comments) to rur@revupreview.co.uk.43.51 End

rur@revupreview.co.uk - www.revupreview.co.uk The Rev Up Review, Number Thirty-Three: Title: RUR-2007-09-16 #33 The Rev Up Review DragonCon Edition Size: 29.2 MBDuration: 42'32 Use this FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator. Contents: 00.00 Intro music: Undertow by Reaman (ElectroBel) 00.19 Welcome00.53 Dragon*Con01.33 Dragon*Con Audio Blog - part 1 (of 4)14.31 DragonCon 2007 Flickr Set 14.46 Review of Zencore! Scriptus Innominatus 24.56 Clock Chimes: Jephson Gardens 25.27 Chris Fisher25.58 Music from Cathy Miller and Gregory L. Mahan 28.52 Interview with Jared Axelrod (Aliens You Will Meet and The Voice of Free Planet X) and J. R. Blackwell (Voices of Tomorrow) 365 Tomorrows 40.34 The Rev Up Review is a production of Willowsoft Communications 40.42 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. 40.49 Send feedback (text or mp3 audio comments) to rur@revupreview.co.uk.41.17 Music from Gregory L. Mahan: Stacks of Rye 42.32 End

rur@revupreview.co.uk - www.revupreview.co.uk The Rev Up Review, Number Thirty-Two: Title: RUR-2007-07-22 #32 The Rev Up Review is back Size: 16.7 MBDuration: 24'11 Use this FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator. Contents: 00.00 Intro music: Undertow by Reaman (ElectroBel) 00.08 Welcome00.49 Dragon*Con01.14 Podzone Interzone column01.30 The Plitone Revisionist is now complete at Podiobooks.com02.34 Feedback from Chris Fisher02.53 Feedback from Merrill 03.18 Contest: What's wrong with this? What time is it?04.13 Review of The Dead Light District 07.58 Michael Bekemeyer's Playback 08.13 Music: Be Real by Josh Zuckerman (Podsafe Music Network) 13.39 Jekyll 15.07 Wittering On 15.17 Joe Murphy Memorial Fund and Give Us A Minute 17.20 One-off short story: The Lungs of the World - read by Mark Jenkins. Music is Exodus by Taurus James at the Podsafe Music Network 22.52 The Rev Up Review is a production of Willowsoft Communications 22.58 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. 23.09 Send feedback (text or mp3 audio comments) to rur@revupreview.co.uk, but don't call the Rant Line! 24.11 End

HighBridge Company was honored to re-release this collection of Kurt Vonnegut short stories entitled BAGOMBO SNUFFBOX this June, and only saddened that the occasion was the death of the author. There isn't a critic, a student, or an aspiring writer who hasn't praised or cursed--or alternately praised and cursed--Vonnegut for his contribution to American writing. He forced us to think right when we thought we were just being entertained--and that made the review, or the book report, or our own work of fiction just that much harder to write. He raised the bar. And now he is gone.This short excerpt from the introduction is read by Vonnegut himself. Once you hear it, you'll know why we say "And you are, too. God bless you, Mr. Vonnegut." HighBridge Audio Book Excerpts presents BAGOMBO SNUFFBOX, (www.highbridgeaudio.com/bagsnufbox.html) by Kurt Vonnegut, with introduction read by the author.

rur@revupreview.co.uk - www.revupreview.co.uk The Rev Up Review, Number Thirty-One: Title: RUR-2007-03-25 #31 The Rev Up Review Darkly Scans Size: 24.1 MBDuration: 35'02 Use this FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator. Contents: 00.00 Intro music: Undertow by Reaman (ElectroBel) 00.13 Welcome00.45 Billibub Baddings and The Case of The Singing Sword 03.21 A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick07.29 DVD: A Scanner Darkly 10.09 Apple Store opening, West Quay, Southampton (pictures)10.29 Primeval 14.27 The Plitone Revisionist 16.16 Scott Sigler's Ancestor 17.47 TD0013's MS Walk 19.57 Joe Murphy 20.47 Podzone Interzone column 21.50 Music: It Came True by Catya Mare (Podsafe Music Network) 26.44 One-off short story: The Gatehouse - Music by Till Berg's Upstairs at the Podsafe Music Network 33.47 The Rev Up Review is a production of Willowsoft Communications 33.54 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. 34.00 Send feedback (text or mp3 audio comments) to rur@revupreview.co.uk, or call the Rant Line: 206-339-RANT (7268)35.02 End

2nd EDIT: If you downloaded this file before 4:15 pm PST please redownload for the corrected version. Here we go, the first novel attempted at The Public Domain Podcast! EDIT: Here is the corrected file to manually download. I've chosen this science fiction adventure by Jules Verne for the purpose. Its protagonist, John Strock, "head inspector in the federal police department at Washington" is charged with getting to the bottom of some very unusual occurences happening in the twentieth century US. I had not read this before and found myself drawn in by the first few chapters to find out more about this "Master of the World". This podcast contains Chapters 1: "What Happened in the Mountains" and 2: "I Reach Morganton" and is approximately 26 minutes long. The entire novel is comprised of 18 chapters. Some are shorter than others but I will most likely be doing 2-3 chapters per podcast. Administrative Feedback Needed After some research on spoken word recording, I decided to record this podcast at a lower setting, 32 kbps, so the mp3 file size is quite small, less than 10 Mb. Let me know if you notice a difference in the recording quality or have other issues with the file and would like me to go back to my other settings. Bonus Podcast? I'm thinking of offering another podcast during the weeks in which I'm reading part of a novel so folks who aren't interested in that particular novel won't have to wait 4 weeks to hear something else. I was thinking of choosing very short stories for the bonus podcasts, nothing too long since I'll have my hands full with the novel. Would that be a good idea? Or would it mess folks up who have scheduled to check my feed only once a week? I thought perhaps this bonus podcast could be offered on the Thursday of the week that I do novels but I'm open to suggestions. ~ e Technorati tags: Jules Verne, audiobooks Sponsors: OffLine T-shirts and Chessmates

We continue with our story this week after last hearing the letter written by The Master of the World in response to the offers made for his invention. This podcast is 20 minutes and 49 seconds and includes a short end note from me regarding the The Public Domain Podcast. File size is 7.2 Mb. Chapter titles are: 10 Outside the Law 11 The Campaign Manual download here. ~ e Technorati tags: Jules Verne, audiobooks Shop at: OffLine T-shirts

Part 1 of the novel, "The Woman in White" a serialized mystery/suspense novel by Wilkie Collins, a contemporary of Charles Dickens, who also wrote "The Fatal Cradle" heard as an earlier short story podcast. The novel is one of the first to be set up in an original way for the time period, in that it has different narrators to tell different parts of the story. In the introduction it is explained that we shall hear the tale as if we were a Judge listening to eye witnesses. This has been touted as the first mystery novel by some and was turned into a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber which had sporadic runs with different Companies in 2004, 2005 and 2006. I; however, shall not be singing in the podcast so if you can stomach that disappointment, come along for a fun ride into mystery and suspense. File size is 11 MB and the podcast is 30 minutes and 27 seconds in length. Manual download link here. ~ e Technorati tags: Wilkie Collins, audiobooks, musicals Shop for: Book & Quotation Lovers Gifts and Chess gifts

rur@revupreview.co.uk - www.revupreview.co.uk The Rev Up Review, Number Thirty: Title: RUR-2007-02-10 #30 The Rev Up Review on the Sofa Size: 29.1 MBDuration: 42'15 Use this FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator. Contents: 00.00 Intro music: Undertow by Reaman (ElectroBel) 00.13 Welcome00.57 One Among The Sleepless 02.53 Light On Light Through 03.55 Billibub Baddings and The Case of The Singing Sword 05.44 StarShipSofa 07.11 Interview with Tony C. Smith and Ciaran O'Carroll of StarShipSofa 41.12 The Rev Up Review is a production of Willowsoft Communications 41.18 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. 41.25 Send feedback (text or mp3 audio comments) to rur@revupreview.co.uk, or call the Rant Line: 206-339-RANT (7268)42.15 End

rur@revupreview.co.uk - www.revupreview.co.uk The Rev Up Review, Number Twenty-Nine: Title: RUR-2007-01-27 #29 The Rev Up Review Rift Shift Size: 22.6 MBDuration: 32'52 Use this FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator. Contents: 00.00 Intro music: Undertow by Reaman (ElectroBel) 00.09 Welcome00.36 Second Shift 02.25 Billibub Baddings and The Case of The Singing Sword 04.10 Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana by Tee Morris The Trivium - Music by Emily Richards at the Podsafe Music Network 31.40 Send feedback (text or mp3 audio comments) to rur@revupreview.co.uk, or call the Rant Line: 206-339-RANT (7268)32.10 The Plot Thingy 32.29 The Rev Up Review is a production of Willowsoft Communications 32.36 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. 32.52 End

rur@revupreview.co.uk - www.revupreview.co.uk The Rev Up Review, Number Twenty-Eight: Title: RUR-2006-12-31 #28 The Rev Up Review - PodcastCon UK Size: 24 MBDuration: 34'56 Use this FeedBurner link to download the mp3 file directly, or to add the feed to your aggregator. Contents: 00.00 Intro music: Undertow by Reaman (ElectroBel) and Welcome01.10 Happy New Year!01.32 The Queen's Christmas Message 02.51 PodcastCon UK 2006 03.21 Sebastian Prooth 03.41 Nicole Simon - Cruel to be Kind, Useful Sounds 03.52 Tom Hall - Lonely Planet 03.55 Heather Gorringe - Wiggly Wigglers 04.14 Chris Skinner 04.28 Brad Gibson - MacFormat 04.53 CC Chapman 05.50 John Buckley Dissident Vox 06.06 Slashed Seat Affair, Jimmy Golding, The Shakes Adam Curry 06.23 My YouTube video (2'30 taken with Canon A95) 06.28 Flickr photographs (use tag podcastconuk2006 to see all the pics)06.40 Martin Devaughan - Green Dragon 06.53 John Buckman - Magnatune 07.04 Creative Commons 08.07 Pete Cogle - PCPodcast 08.39 Paul Bonsor 09.06 Stealth Disco video on YouTube 09.32 Music: Janine by The Shakes (Podsafe Music Network) 12.57 Mike O'Hara - Fishbowl Acoustic 13.15 No background music!13.48 Plot Thingy Guide14.37 Tee Morris - Billibub Baddings and The Case of The Singing Sword; Legacy of Morevi: Book One of the Arathellean Wars 16.51 Number One with a Bullet 18.07 Wonder Audio: Coming Attraction by Fritz Leiber; The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick; The Wind People by Marion Zimmer Bradley 18.42 Pseudopod: Oranges, Lemons and Thou Beside Me by Eugie Foster 18.53 Escape Pod Flash: Act of Devil read by Mur Lafferty 19.18 RANT line call from Gary in California19.54 The Plitone Revisionist - www.paulsjenkins.net and www.podiobooks.com20.50 Who says I shouldn't do this? 20.58 Fiction serial: Part 4 of The Trivium - Music by Emily Richards at the Podsafe Music Network33.20 Send feedback (text or mp3 audio comments) to rur@revupreview.co.uk, or call the Rant Line: 206-339-RANT (7268)34.20 The Rev Up Review is a production of Willowsoft Communications 34.30 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. 34.56 End

Happy 2006! As promised, I'm returning to William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki series by request. This tale finds our intrepid ghost hunter visiting Ireland. In the book collection of these stories, this tale comes after "The Gateway of the Monster" but it can stand alone as its own work. "The House Among the Laurels" will be a two parter. Podcast length is 21 minutes, 50 seconds and the file size is 7.9 MB. Manual download here. ~ e Technorati tags: William Hope Hodgson, audiobooks Shop for: Geek gifts and Chess gifts

Well, this is it! The first Public Domain Podcast! Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat". Download it here! Or use this link to subscribe with an aggregator like iPodder or iTunes. Length is 23 minutes and it's the complete story read by yours truly. I have to be honest here, I chose The Black Cat because 1. its length wasn't too long 2. I hadn't read the story before so I was curious about it and 3. I'm a fan of Poe. You'll have to bear with me on some of my chosen phrasing for the story. I was essentially reading it on the fly and if I had been doing it professionally I would have added more subtlety into it. Still, it's my first podcast and I think it'll make for interesting listening. Background outro music is an excerpt from the song Goes Nowhere by Michelle Welsh from her album Sleep-Awake and was found from Staccato Music.

I've always liked this poem and find myself thinking of it whenever about to broach a subject... "The time has come..." I suppose it's an odd choice for Thanksgiving week for the US folks, but one can be thankful one is not an oyster! Manual download here. ~ e Technorati tags: Lewis Carroll, audiobooks Shop for: Geek gifts and Chess gifts

This is a special bonus podcast. I got to thinking that even at the rate of reading 2 chapters per podcast, it would take a number of weeks for me to finish reading a novel. Previously with my selections if you didn't like the story I was reading one week, you had only to wait another to hear something else. With a novel you might be waiting for a month. So I've decided to sprinkle in a bonus Thursday podcast every other week in which I'm involved with a novel. The bonus podcasts however will always be short to give my voice a break ;) This week I chose to read an excerpt from Lafcadio Hearn's, "In Ghostly Japan" in part due to listener Alexander's request for more Hearn in his comment he left in the blog last week. This story is told by Hearn about an acquaintance of his who in turn told him a story about divination. It mentions the Meiji, a time in Japan where they turned sharply to adopt the trappings of Western Civilization. This story had several Japanese terms which I was not familiar with. I have to thank my friend Jean for help in pronunciations though I'm sure I still butchered a few words. Jean has a store which carries japanese items like her Got Sake? t-shirt if you are in a shopping mood. On a final note, I was able to record this story in a quieter setting so those who noticed a bit of a humming in past recordings will be happy to note this one is quieter. However, I did not remember to bump up the bit rate so it is still at last week's level. I'll bump it up for next week. Enjoy the tale and be sure to check in on Monday when I continue reading "The Master of the World" by Jules Verne. ~ e Technorati tags: Lafcadio Hearn, audiobooks Sponsors: OffLine T-shirts and Chessmates Just a link to claim my Odeo Feed: My Odeo Channel (odeo/d0b98399f8444b36)