{"id":3120,"date":"2006-08-12T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:33:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:33:19","slug":"audio-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/08\/12\/audio-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One staple of any good science fiction con is the dealer room.  I&#8217;m sure they could call it something else, but the vaguely druggie name is actually approrpriate for all the addictive things you can discover there and absolutely must buy.  Last night I picked up a book and devoured the first fifty pages during supper.<br \/>This morning I discovered Allen Kaster and his table of audio books.<a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/1600\/IMG_0074.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/320\/IMG_0074.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>We talked for a while as I asked all about his business.  His is one of those typical American stories.  He traveled and couldn&#8217;t get enough good science fiction audio books for his own use, so he started the business of publishing stories on cassette and now on CD&#8217;s.  He does a mail order business from his website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiotexttapes.net\/\"> AudioText &amp; Infinivox<\/a> while maintaining a real life as a Chemistry teacher.<\/p>\n<p>It was fascinating to listen to his story, and of course I was full of un-needed advice on where to advertise.  Honestly, I haven&#8217;t bought any audiobooks, except for those I found as podcasts on iTunes, but having experienced that, I may just bite the bullet.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.  His website takes PayPal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One staple of any good science fiction con is the dealer room. I&#8217;m sure they could call it something else, but the vaguely druggie name is actually approrpriate for all the addictive things you can discover there and absolutely must buy. Last night I picked up a book and devoured the first fifty pages during&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/08\/12\/audio-science-fiction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Audio Science Fiction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[396,197],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Ok","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3121,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions\/3121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}