Jesse Willis over at SFF Audio offers up a challenge to audiobook makers: record some more public domain scifi. They’ve got a great list of Books that Ought to Be Recorded, including:

• The Secret Of The Ninth Planet by Donald A. Wollheim
• The Sky Is Falling by Lester Del Rey
• Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster
• The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• A Strange Manuscript Found In A Copper Cylindner by James De Mille
• The Galaxy Primes by E.E. Doc Smith

I’m not sure about the public domain status of all of these, but they’ve been added to our Book Suggestions thread, and hopefully we’ll get some of them done to make Jesse happy.

Note to any SFF readers planning to take up the challenge: if you don’t mind having your work in the Public Domain, why not consider recording with us? Here’s how it all works: Volunteer for LibriVox

Anyone who has spent even a few minutes on the LibriVox forums knows Kara, the most tireless of our volunteers, and I suspect the most prolific (according the the New York Times, and they should know, Kara has contributed more than 200 individual chapters to LibriVox!).

Kara also embodies the spirit of LibriVox and everything wonderful about this place: she loves books, loves reading and listening, loves recording, better yet loves organizing things, and she is kind and patient with newbies and crusty vets alike. And she has, since September of 2005, the very earliest days, given so much energy to this project … the unsecret secret is that LibriVox probably never would have gone very far without Kara.

all this as a little intro to say, thank you, and: Happy Birthday Kara!