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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jul 2, 2016 23:44:10 GMT
What are books you'd like to see BF adapt as full cast audios, maybe even as series?
A lot of great sci-fi is out there, waiting to be tapped. Lords of Light, Barsoom, The Forever War, This Is the Way the World Ends, Childhood's End, even lesser works by big authors like H.G. Wells' Food of the Gods could be interesting.
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Post by shutupbanks on Jul 3, 2016 2:55:30 GMT
Jules Verne: 80 Days fits the episodic BF style perfectly, while <i>From The Earth To The Moon</> and its sequels would be great serials.
Roger Zelazny's Amber books would be great as audios.
Georgette Heyer's Regency comedies would be perfect for audio.
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Post by muckypup on Jul 3, 2016 3:06:40 GMT
It's not a book but Sweeney Todd would be a good addition to the classics range
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Post by omega on Jul 3, 2016 3:06:52 GMT
Aristophanes plays. Small casts and the Chorus pretty much expositing.
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Post by chrisscorkscrew on Jul 31, 2016 7:45:43 GMT
I'd like to see some Diana Wynne Jones adapted. Her children's books like Howl's Moving Castle would be great as full-cast audios, but I'm really thinking about her books for adults - such as The Dark Lord of Derkholm with its pilgrim parties of tourists visiting a pretend fantasyland, or the fabulous A Sudden Wild Magic in which a pirate universe is leeching off the ideas of Earth and which spectacularly ends with an anarchic conga line of witches and monks. Brilliant and not as well known as it deserves.
Chriss C.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Aug 13, 2016 23:31:54 GMT
Aristophanes plays. Small casts and the Chorus pretty much expositing. Would there be interest from BF's usual customer base though? |
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Post by kimalysong on Aug 14, 2016 1:13:40 GMT
The Count of Monte Cristo. Would probably have to be more than one though because it's a long book.
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Post by agentten on Aug 14, 2016 3:57:03 GMT
I'd love to hear Big Finish tackle Dune.
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Post by omega on Aug 14, 2016 4:51:32 GMT
A proper adaptation of Ray Bradbury' Martian Chronicles, not the mess Radio 4 made that Big Finish put out.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Sept 14, 2016 23:05:42 GMT
I'll just say it: I want a Big Finish Flashman series.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Sept 15, 2016 2:06:53 GMT
The Count of Monte Cristo. Would probably have to be more than one though because it's a long book. I've long thought that it would be interesting to have BF Classics take something like The Count Of Monte Cristo and do it as a 8 or 10 part adaptation. |
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Dec 20, 2016 16:51:07 GMT
Gulliver of Mars
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Post by fingersmash on Dec 22, 2016 18:12:26 GMT
Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, some Lovecraft, and a fairytale boxset would be interesting. And continuing the Oz series because I really enjoyed The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Post by theotherjosh on Dec 23, 2016 16:16:30 GMT
Jules Verne: 80 Days fits the episodic BF style perfectly, while <i>From The Earth To The Moon</> and its sequels would be great serials. Roger Zelazny's Amber books would be great as audios. Georgette Heyer's Regency comedies would be perfect for audio. I didn't know there were other Zelazny fans on the board! Huzzah! I am a HUGE fan, so I'd love to hear any adaptations. Amber and Lord of Light are well suited for audio plays. I have them as audio books and I revisit them both every year or two. I think A Night in the Lonesome October would be extremely well suited to the format. Hmm…additionally 1. Roadmarks (Time travel!) 2. Jack of Shadows (I was thinking of this one when I was reading the Hell Bent thread on this forum) 3. My name is Legion 4. And Call Me Conrad/This Immortal 5. Isle of the Dead 6. Doorways in the Sand 7. Donnerjack (Not well regarded, but I'm sentimental about this one, since it was the final long form work of his that I read. And shorter works 1. For a Breath I Tarry 2. The Last Defender of Camelot 3. He Who Shapes/The Dream Master 4. A Rose for Ecclesiastes 5. The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth 6. This Moment of the Storm 7. 24 Views of Mount Fuji, by Hokusai 8. The Keys to December 9. The Furies 10. Divine Madness |
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Post by glutamodo on Dec 23, 2016 17:52:08 GMT
When I was much younger, I had the opportunity to read a lot of the old Edgar Rice Burroughs novels from the first half of last century. While a few of them were Tarzan and Mars, I never really got into either series. However the "Center of the Earth" (Pellucidar) series, I did like that one, and I have read through it more than once. (I remember book 3, Tanar of Pellucidar, being my favorite) I would certainly acquire and listen to those if BF or any of the other usual audio companies did a new adaptation of them.
Modern day novels: Back in the 1990s, a friend got me turned onto author Tad Williams, and I ended reading nearly all of his works. Years later, I managed to acquire his first two "big" series, Memory Sorry and Thorn, (a sprawling multi-character epic fantasy) and, Otherland, (a similar story structure, but sci-fi and in the future) in their initial unabridged audiobook editions. Those audios were part of the Books For The Blind program, and not intended for sale or distribution to anyone not in that program. So I was pretty lucky to be able to get them (I will say, that despite being very basic, they were good readings). I did learn that those were finally supplanted by official, for-sale commercial readings in recent years. I think partly because Tad has finally gone and started writing sequels to MST (the first of which should land on my front porch in hardcover, in just a few weeks)
Anyway, just about any of Tad's works, would be an instant-pre-order for me, if I found that BF had it on their to-do list. I doubt they would though, as his books and/or series almost always run LONG. Too long I think, to work as an audio series, without a lot of cutting and splicing, which would probably annoy the hell out of me.
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Post by shutupbanks on Dec 24, 2016 7:41:21 GMT
Modern day novels: Back in the 1990s, a friend got me turned onto author Tad Williams, and I ended reading nearly all of his works. Years later, I managed to acquire his first two "big" series, Memory Sorry and Thorn, (a sprawling multi-character epic fantasy) and, Otherland, (a similar story structure, but sci-fi and in the future) in their initial unabridged audiobook editions. Those audios were part of the Books For The Blind program, and not intended for sale or distribution to anyone not in that program. So I was pretty lucky to be able to get them (I will say, that despite being very basic, they were good readings). I did learn that those were finally supplanted by official, for-sale commercial readings in recent years. I think partly because Tad has finally gone and started writing sequels to MST (the first of which should land on my front porch in hardcover, in just a few weeks)
Anyway, just about any of Tad's works, would be an instant-pre-order for me, if I found that BF had it on their to-do list. I doubt they would though, as his books and/or series almost always run LONG. Too long I think, to work as an audio series, without a lot of cutting and splicing, which would probably annoy the hell out of me.
The Heart Of What Was Lost and The Witchwood Crown are the books I'm looking most forward to in the next 12 months: MST is possibly my favourite fantasy series full stop. Have you seen (or heard) this: www.audible.com.au/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Dragonbone-Chair-Audiobook/B012GSKQPC? |
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Post by shutupbanks on Dec 24, 2016 7:48:24 GMT
Jules Verne: 80 Days fits the episodic BF style perfectly, while <i>From The Earth To The Moon</> and its sequels would be great serials. Roger Zelazny's Amber books would be great as audios. Georgette Heyer's Regency comedies would be perfect for audio. I didn't know there were other Zelazny fans on the board! Huzzah! I am a HUGE fan, so I'd love to hear any adaptations. Amber and Lord of Light are well suited for audio plays. I have them as audio books and I revisit them both every year or two. I think A Night in the Lonesome October would be extremely well suited to the format. Hmm…additionally 1. Roadmarks (Time travel!) 2. Jack of Shadows (I was thinking of this one when I was reading the Hell Bent thread on this forum) 3. My name is Legion 4. And Call Me Conrad/This Immortal 5. Isle of the Dead 6. Doorways in the Sand 7. Donnerjack (Not well regarded, but I'm sentimental about this one, since it was the final long form work of his that I read. And shorter works 1. For a Breath I Tarry 2. The Last Defender of Camelot 3. He Who Shapes/The Dream Master 4. A Rose for Ecclesiastes 5. The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth 6. This Moment of the Storm 7. 24 Views of Mount Fuji, by Hokusai 8. The Keys to December 9. The Furies 10. Divine Madness I've read maybe half of those novels: I'm more familiar with his short fiction. He's an author whose work sounds great aloud. For myself, Damnation Alley would be a great introduction - it has some great scenes that would make amazing audio and could be done on one or two discs. |
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Post by glutamodo on Dec 24, 2016 9:20:32 GMT
Yes, I know of it. No, I have not heard it. And I have no need to, as I already have that other, excellent, reading of it that I mentioned above. |
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Post by ulyssessarcher on Dec 24, 2016 10:52:34 GMT
They aren't classic's yet, but they will be.
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, the adventures of Roland and his ka-tet, could only be done justice by BF. I've heard they are going to start a film series, but only Misery, and to a lesser extent the Green Mile, has came close to living up to his novels. Plus, I would love to hear Nick Briggs as Oy.
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