Years ago I remember an audio edition of the three Classic Episode volumes released in 1991. These had all of the original Blish adaptations in audiobook. I cannot find anything about these anywhere online or find a way to get ahold of them. Does anybody here know anything about these audiobooks or how to get them?
Star Trek: The Classic Episodes Audiobook
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I was Star Trek collecting books -- and audiobooks -- at the time, and I never saw any such audiobook. In 1991, Star Trek audiobooks were being abridged down to one or two 90-minute cassettes. These would've been something like 30 hours each. It just didn't happen.
At least, not for bookstores. It's possible somebody did something like that for blind readers, but if so, it may not be available anywhere today.
I have been compiling an Trek audiobooks page (since 2006) and have never heard of the Blish books being so treated. Those three anniversary volumes did not include the two Harry Mudd episodes. (They came out again in "Mudd's Enterprise" by JA Lawrence, with "The Business as Usual, During Altercations", a while later. Essentially a reprint of "Mudd's Angels" with new cover art.)
My page is at http://therinofandor.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-hear-star-trek.html - and needs an overhaul with info on the newer unabridged audios, ie. that have come after "Star Trek Into Darkness" (narrated by Alice Eve).
The Blish ST novels were discussed on "The SFFaudio Podcast" #143
https://www.sffaudio.com/tag/james-blish/
https://www.sffaudio.com/tag/james-blish/
EDIT: Ok, found three links on what appears to be a torrent site. Comments date back to 2013, but recent additions complain the files need to be "reseeded". Surely not official releases? There are also seemingly "free" illegal downloads for stuff that would make Pocket/Gallery's authors (and Simon & Schuster Audio's creative teams) very angry. (No narrator info re the Blish stories.)
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