DS9: A Stitch in Time audio book petition
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My CD set is finally on the way! I ended up getting the digital download with my monthly Audible subscription as well, because the CD seemed to have stalled even though it was shipping to others.
I bought my example of the book at Amazon four years ago. I guess I was lucky to get one to a decent price.
I think I’m going to get the CD too when I get back home. Then I’ll have the trifecta lol. I love the book and the audio version is great too — I mean, what a treat it being read by the author/actor? And unabridged. Most (all?) of the audiobooks read by actors in the past have been abridged.
Given how most characters in Trek seem to "write" by dictating to a computer rather than actually writing things down (a conceit for the benefit of the television/film format), I've often figured that A Stitch in Time is probably a transcription of a memoir that Garak dictated aloud. So an unabridged audiobook version performed by Robinson might be considered the more genuine article.
That’s really kind of lovely, imagining him in his quarters, pacing around dictating as he tries to let the day’s events wash away and process his thoughts. Or maybe as he’s lone in his shop stitching, as it were. Or on Cardassia after the fall, just trying to keep it together, writing to Bashir.
My CD copy finally arrived. They used an entire CD just for a 3-page PDF featuring two small maps!
(And the DS9 logo on it appears to be a LQ one that has been AI upscaled.)
The track breaks seem largely arbitrary. I think I might task myself to do some mp3 joining and renaming at some point. Maybe I'm 2% OCD.
(And the DS9 logo on it appears to be a LQ one that has been AI upscaled.)
The track breaks seem largely arbitrary. I think I might task myself to do some mp3 joining and renaming at some point. Maybe I'm 2% OCD.
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How’s the audiobook going @Rosendust?
Omg the extract is soooo nostalgic
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/A-Stitch-in-Time-Audiobook/B0C8WGLRPQ?
Robinson's voice!
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/A-Stitch-in-Time-Audiobook/B0C8WGLRPQ?
Robinson's voice!
I just finished the audiobook and it was truly a delightful experience. So engaging and no other narrator could have done it justice.
I joined Audible to get it - so happy. I love his Odo, it's such a lovely version of him
Now can @Una McCormack get Robinson to read The Never-Ending Sacrifice? Or her other books? It'd be wonderful!
Now can @Una McCormack get Robinson to read The Never-Ending Sacrifice? Or her other books? It'd be wonderful!
I'm down. I want Robinson to read literally everything about Cardassia.
Yeah, it would be nice for them to go into the Star Trek back catalog and read older stuff, as has been done for Doctor Who and Marvel tie-ins.
^ Totally.
Unabridged though. Actors have done a number of half-assed audiobooks in the past (Doohan, Takei, Frakes, others) that you can find low quality rips of on YouTube, but they’re all like 2 hours long. If I’m going to listen to an audiobook it has has has to be unabridged. Especially if it’s something like this were the non-plot necessary world-building is such a big part of the experience.
(EDIT: is it just me of has TrekBBS started using a new autocorrect that changes more than the last word you wrote?)
Unabridged though. Actors have done a number of half-assed audiobooks in the past (Doohan, Takei, Frakes, others) that you can find low quality rips of on YouTube, but they’re all like 2 hours long. If I’m going to listen to an audiobook it has has has to be unabridged. Especially if it’s something like this were the non-plot necessary world-building is such a big part of the experience.
(EDIT: is it just me of has TrekBBS started using a new autocorrect that changes more than the last word you wrote?)
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Speaking of world-building, the giants of that I’d love to listen to audiobooks of would be The Never-Ending Sacrifice (Robinson might be interesting here, Una McCormack’s too), Spock’s World, The Romulan Way, and maybe one on the Klingons…which would people recommend, The Burning House maybe, given how different The Final Reflection is? (I haven’t read it; would anyone who has want to comment on The Burning House?)
It certainly would be interesting to hear the (attempted) pronunciation of those Rihannsu names!
For a moment I read that as "A Burning House is a cookbook," which I guess could apply to any cookbook if you're a bad enough chef.
Certainly not half-assed, especially the first few years "with Leonard Nimoy as the voice of Spock". Even though some of these audio productions were only 90 or 180 mins each, they had newly-composed music and were usually abridged for audio with the involvement of the novelists themselves (and later by George Truett). The Spock sections were reconceived for audio as Science Officer's Logs, a clever device to summarise sequences to fit the whole story onto one or two audiocassettes.
They were not the books. They were entertaining productions featuring known Trek actors.
These were in the days when unabridged audio books were really only made for the Vision-Impaired Community. The Simon & Schuster Audioworks were commercially viable, on one, two or four cassettes, and several won awards for their innovations. Furthermore, the three "Captain Sulu Adventures" were exclusively written for "3D" audio, at 70min duration each.
It certainly would be interesting to hear the (attempted) pronunciation of those Rihannsu names!
I once emailed Duane Duane for her comments on the colour and style of Harb Tanzer's mustach. She answered! (It was for a custom action figure, and I read that she had complained about his hair colour in the DC comic.
"Spock's World" did get a 1989 abridgement in audio, at 180 min. (Nimoy and Takei.)
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For my mileage, a 90-minute audio production, with or without a writer’s modest consent (what are they going to do, not take the money), is a half-assed audiobook, regardless whether or not they get the entire cast back for it. “Audio production” is to audiobook as processed cheese food product is to cheese. I want the full, unabridged and uncensored, whole story from start to finish. To lose myself in it as it was meant to be. The actors voices themselves are somewhat just a gimmick if the story itself isn’t all there. I don’t want a Trek “experience,” I want Trek.
Also I’ve tried listening to a number of them online and they leave a lot to de desired. Doohan’s Data I remember in one of them sounding like a beep boop robot out of an 80’s B-movie.
What makes Stitch’s audiobook so great is that it has the unabridged text expertly brought to life by a great actor telling the tale as the character writing it (dictating it?) would have. That it’s the originator of the character themselves is wet dream territory.
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