I had recently told you about the Ray Bradbury Radio Archives that Sci-Fi London has posted online. They have now added a Robert A. Heinlein Radio Archive, which includes The Green Hills of Earth, The Roads Must Roll, and Destination Moon, amongst others. You can listen to them online or download them for your permanent collection.
I have commented before about the Sci-Fi London audio archives of old time radio shows they are posting on line. This new addition to the collection is quite nice: the Ray Bradbury Radio Shows. They include such gems as And the Moon be still as bright, The Veldt, and an assortment of stories from The Martian Chronicles, and you can listen to them online or download them for your permanent collection.
I first read this book when I was 14 years old, and immediately wanted to see it on the big screen. There have been various versions and attempts at it in the past, and strangely enough my favorite one so far features a former porn star as the Princess of Mars. But with the release of this trailer, I don’t think it is a contest any more. This will be the definitive version of ERB’s John Carter of Mars. Even if they did drop the of Mars part out of the title.
For the second week in a row, no real new genre releases but they have turned one of the better books by a good author into a film I will be going to see: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. And once more, John le Carré’s hero Smiley gets put through the wringer for our enjoyment. They put together a quality cast for this project as well, in my opinion it should be a good counterbalance to enjoy against next weeks Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows release.
Did you know that in 1969, Salvador Dali did a series of illustrations for that surreal classic, Alice in Wonderland? It is true, and the book itself is not cheap; the second video tells you how to identify it, so you don’t waste your $30K to $60K (depending on where you find a copy). The final video segment is from the 1933 version of Alice, with W.C. Fields and quite a few other folks you should have no problem recognizing.
I don’t normally do two blog entries on the same day, but I had to say goodby to Anne McCaffery, author of so many quality books, including the Dragonriders series, The Ship Who series, and so much more. This event is hardly a surprise, as she was 85 and had been missing things like Dragoncon this year for health reasons. But every time we loose an author of this caliber we are all the worse for it, for there will be no more tales to stir the blood and stimulate the imagination from them. The post that summed up who she was and what she meant best so far is from Jenna Busch, another geek like me but wearing a body of a different gender. OK, she might also be a bit more eloquent than I am, which probably explains why her posting moved me the way it did. Thank you, Anne, for all the wonderful dreams and adventures; see you on the other side.