Free audiobook of Stross's Heinlein-meets-Wodehouse science fiction novella "Trunk and Disorderly"

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 13, 2008 1:21 AM | permalink

Subterranean Press has produced a free MP3 audiobook of Charlie Stross's comic science fiction novella "Trunk and Disorderly."

Charles Stross is damned funny, both in person and on the page. You’ll have to take my word on the first count. As to the second, here’s a P. G. Wodehouse meets Robert A. Heinlein as filtered through Mr. Stross’s sensibilities. In other words, it’s funny and indescribable as hell, and probably my favorite story this year.

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#1 posted by jennee , March 13, 2008 2:06 AM

Awesome. I wanted to start listening to audiobooks again and didn't know where to look first... this is going to be perfect.

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#2 posted by jennee , March 13, 2008 4:01 AM

...no archive with all the mp3s, sucks :(

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#3 posted by jazzmodeus , March 13, 2008 4:31 AM

What do you mean, Jennee? The link goes to a page with a list of 13 mp3s. I'm downloading them now.

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#4 posted by AceJohnny , March 13, 2008 5:21 AM

@3: Jennee means that it's a pain to download each of the 13 files individually.
I agree.

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#5 posted by jennee , March 13, 2008 5:27 AM

Exactly. I was expecting something Librivox style - separate mp3s plus an archive.

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#6 posted by jazzmodeus , March 13, 2008 8:47 AM

Ohhhh... It's not a pain if you have the Downthemall extension for Firefox, so I didn't even notice.

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#7 posted by codesuidae , March 13, 2008 8:47 AM

Try the "Download Them All" extension for FireFox. All I had to do to download all the files was right click the page, select "DownloadThemAll..." from the context menu, then click OK. The extension automatically recognized the audio file links (and maybe the sequential numbers) and selected only those files from the available content.

That's two clicks to download the entire thing, direct to my mp3 player, using multiple download streams for each file to maximize bandwidth usage.

It's my favorite extension.

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#8 posted by You , March 13, 2008 9:15 AM

My middle finger is so sore from all that right-clicking. Free stuff just isn't what it used to be. :)

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#9 posted by Orky , March 14, 2008 12:31 PM

for i in `seq -w 1 13`; do wget "http://scalzi.com/trunk/tdc$i.mp3"; done

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#10 posted by GammaBlog , March 14, 2008 4:05 PM

"High on pink noise." Ha! Thanks, this is delightful.