"It's difficult keeping up with the cross-continuity, but I think Cosmouse just gave The Saturnian Scraphunter his Ultimate Pacifier to use against Galactapuss..."

Promise. Please do this. Please. The other ones were a lot of fun

looking forward to it,
t.
(full disclosure: I have two months of unholy data analysis and I can't read while that's going on. But listening to the Eyrie stories make things much, much better.)

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"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - HST

Oh, God, I just realized there's a bit where I'd have to sing, too. Well, it'd be inhuman of me to expect people not to laugh at that. :)

>(full disclosure: I have two months of unholy data analysis and I
>can't read while that's going on. But listening to the Eyrie stories
>make things much, much better.)

Hmm. Well, all right, I'll see what I can do. The reason I can't promise, btw, isn't simple laziness, it's because sometimes my talking-parts don't quite cooperate - lingering effect of the Great Brain Adventure, I think - and I get so disgusted doing retakes after being unable to say "invincible" three or four times in a row. (That's why there's no audio version of Manhunt.)

--G.
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Not disgusted as in ashamed, disgusted as in oh-the-hell-with-this. :)

--G.
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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

I'm probably not explaining it very well, but if you're so excited about this story (and the possibility of recording it), then I can't help but get excited about it too :) Mazal Tov on making it to the end, and I look forward to reading (and listening to) the final product!

offsides

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>

Yeah, I know what you're driving at. It has to do with inflection - there are a lot of different ways to say the same sequence of words, and depicting dialogue in text, there's only so much you can do with adverbs. When the author's doing the reading, he knows how he heard the characters deliver their lines, and it can inform his reading. For instance, there's no way for me to reproduce the timbre or frequency range of Tali's voice - I'll be hard pressed just to get her accent somewhere near right - but I do know more or less what's going on in her head when she's talking, and it makes a difference in the finished product.

Mind you, "read by the author" isn't automatically a good thing to see on an audiobook. Some authors have the insight, but can't turn in the performance. Stephen King, for example. He may know what's going on in his characters' heads, but he just hasn't got the voice for the job. Very nasal, sounds like he has a cold. The read-by-the-author edition of The Gunslinger is just excruciating.

--G.
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>Mind you, "read by the author" isn't automatically a good thing
>to see on an audiobook. Some authors have the insight, but can't turn
>in the performance. Stephen King, for example. He may know what's
>going on in his characters' heads, but he just hasn't got the voice
>for the job. Very nasal, sounds like he has a cold. The
>read-by-the-author edition of The Gunslinger is just
>excruciating.
>
Well, yes, but you have a decent voice for this sort of thing, at least in my opinion. There are also people who can get the inflection and so forth right (or at least close enough that it sounds right :)), even though they aren't the author. But most of the time those people are just good actors anyway, and also have excellent speaking voices...

[...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
#include <stdsig.h>

Of course we won't! We're in New Jersey, it wouldn't do any good.

<grin>

-- Bob
(Looking forward to both text and spoken versions. Really.)
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