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Planish · Last edited by Planish on Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:06 am; edited 4 times in total

Planet of the Damned, by Harry Harrison

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/planet-of-the-damned-by-harry-harrison/

This project was a solo and is now being opened to collaborators! As such, it doesn't follow the standard LV template for collaboratives. If you have ANY queries about reading for this project, please post below or PM Cori.

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PD text source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/21873 (please read ONLY from this source, for copyright reasons.)
Target completion date: December 2008
Short description: <public doman summary to come> Folks recording or prooflistening this book are VERY welcome to write one!
Original publication date: 1962
Year of author's death : n/a, still living (If you are uncertain of the legality of recording this book in your country (it is only GUARANTEED to be Public Domain in the United States) please PM Cori to discuss. It's PROBABLY in the Public Domain in some other countries too, but not all, and this is based on legal theory, not documented case law and legal precedent. Cori is not a lawyer.)
File names: planetdamned_01_harrison.mp3
ID3 tags:
title: Chapter 01
artist: Harry Harrison
album: Planet of the Damned

There are no chapter titles.
Total word count: 55,677

Before recording, please check the Recording Notes:
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6427#6430

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Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
At the start of your recording, please say:

Chapter [##] of Planet of the Damned.
This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org.
Recording by <your name> (this line is optional.)
Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison.
Chapter [##]
At the end of your recording, please say:

End of Chapter [##]
Whoever gets the last chapter, please say the following instead:

End of Chapter 19.
End of Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison.

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There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry.

Planish · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:09 am Post subject:

I think for the two lines of the dedication, I might break up the standard intro slightly, and bracket it with a page-turn sound effect, like so:

earthcalling · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 6491 Location: London, England

Perfectly acceptable!
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Cori · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:02 am Post subject:

Are you MCing, ec, or can I get dibs..?
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earthcalling · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 6491 Location: London, England

The dibs is all yourses, Cori. I was only answering the question.

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Cori · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:53 pm Post subject:

Wonderful. Very Happy

Planish... a PM is coming your way with some important stuff in!
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Planish · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:01 am Post subject:

One down...

Title: Chapter 01
Artist: Harry Harrison
Album: Planet of the Damned
file size: 10.3 MB
duration: 00:11:16
URL: http://northernelectric.ca/librivox/planetdamned_01_harrison.mp3

It should be fit for word-perfect listening.

[edited Nov. 21, 2007 - no it isn't. I need to fix the intro, because it doesn't follow my template and is missing my name ]

[edit Nov. 29, 2007 - intro fixed, and new mp3 file uploaded.]

BTW: The page-turn sfx on either side of the dedication is totally original. I recorded it with my headset boom mic, using a big old hard-back copy of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame Vol. 1 (which seemed appropriate). Then I changed the pitch downward about two semitones (to give it more weight) and ran it through a lowpass filter effect so it didn't sound so much like tearing.
It's here - http://northernelectric.ca/librivox/page_turn.mp3 - if anybody else wants to use it.
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There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry.

PaulW · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:05 pm Post subject:

Cori · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:37 pm Post subject:

I did headhunt you, Paul. Very Happy

What a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon -- enjoy!
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Planish · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:44 am Post subject:

Planish · Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:41 am Post subject:

Chapter 2 in the can.

Title: Chapter 02
Artist: Harry Harrison
Album: Planet of the Damned
file size: 8.5 MB
duration: 00:09:19
URL: http://northernelectric.ca/librivox/planetdamned_02_harrison.mp3
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There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry.

Planish · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 8:00 am Post subject:

I'm putting "Planet of the d'Oh!" on the back burner for a week or so, until I've finish my contributions to Oscar Wilde's Reviews - http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7320
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There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry.

Planish · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:55 am Post subject:

Reviews appears to be a wrap, and the Summer's over. Time to get busy again.
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There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry.

Planish · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:38 am Post subject:

Shoot. Either I'm getting fussier, or my recording setup is getting noisier, requiring hours of editing to clean up the artifacts.

Fortunately, my wife got a new computer (a Mac Mini), so once we get files transferred to it I get her hand-me-down (twice as fast as mine) for editing AND I get to borrow her new one for recording, and it is almost dead silent compared to the others.

Stay tuned.
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There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry.

Planish · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:20 am Post subject:

Yay. My wife's brand-new Mac Mini is faster and much quieter. I'm getting much better results now, noise-wise.

New stuff (finally):

Title: Chapter 03
Artist: Harry Harrison
Album: Planet of the Damned
file size: 30.7 MB
duration: 00:33:30
URL: http://northernelectric.ca/librivox/planetdamned_03_harrison.mp3

It's ready for word-perfect listening.
[edited Nov. 21, 2007 - I fixed the intro and uploaded a new copy, file size and duration info above has been adjusted]
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There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry.