ryoder 1,590 #1 March 9, 2018 Story: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-returns-with-the-original-cast/ Episode 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09th4hf Check out who is providing the voice of the Guide Mark II."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bob_Church 7 #2 March 10, 2018 ryoder Story: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-returns-with-the-original-cast/ Episode 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09th4hf Check out who is providing the voice of the Guide Mark II. Thanks for the heads up. I just pre-ordered it on audible.com. They say it will be available April 13th. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Baksteen 84 #3 March 12, 2018 Unless this version is completely different from and incompatible with anything that has gone before it isn't a true HHG. "That formation-stuff in freefall is just fun and games but with an open parachute it's starting to sound like, you know, an extreme sport." ~mom Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bob_Church 7 #4 March 12, 2018 Baksteen Unless this version is completely different from and incompatible with anything that has gone before it isn't a true HHG. It's from the sixth book, written by Colfer. It's not nearly as good as the others but not bad. What worries me is the length. I hate abridgements. I know that as a radio adaptation it's not technically abridged but I don't see how they can do it justice in three or four hours. Not that that stopped me from pre-ordering it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bob_Church 7 #5 April 13, 2018 Mine's downloading now. While I was getting it I noticed a new book "Sherlock Holmes" read by Stephen Fry but it almost sounds like a joke. It's 62 hours and 54 minutes. You can pay eighty two dollars or one credit. I went with the single credit. It's like Robert Klein's "Every Record Ever Recorded" done in the style of those record collection ads that were so thick at the time. "That's right, every sound recording ever created, delivered by dump truck and left in your yard." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bob_Church 7 #6 April 13, 2018 The Sherlock Holmes audiobook is 1.83 gig. Just a hair under 65 hours. This will get me through an entire summer of drives to the airport and back. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bob_Church 7 #7 April 15, 2018 ryoder Story: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-returns-with-the-original-cast/ Episode 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09th4hf Check out who is providing the voice of the Guide Mark II. Have you heard it yet? I'm wondering if that's the voice that he normally used? Before I remembered who it was I got a pang of nostalgia because it's the voice of my Apple][c. I had some voice software for it and that's how it sounded. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #8 April 16, 2018 Bob_Church ***Story: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-returns-with-the-original-cast/ Episode 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09th4hf Check out who is providing the voice of the Guide Mark II. Have you heard it yet? I'm wondering if that's the voice that he normally used? Before I remembered who it was I got a pang of nostalgia because it's the voice of my Apple][c. I had some voice software for it and that's how it sounded. This sounds like he always has: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060hy01 Hawking stuck with the sound produced by his first speech synthesizer made in 1986. It helped cement his place in popular culture. It was used in episodes of “The Simpsons” and “Futurama”, in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, when Hawking appeared as a hologram, and was sampled by Pink Floyd for their track “Keep Talking” on the 1994 “The Division Bell” album. Hawking said on his website that the robotic-sounding voice had been “described variously as Scandinavian, American or Scottish”. “I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it,” he said in 2006. Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/people-hawking-voice/stephen-hawkings-voice-was-his-trademark-idUSL8N1QW6U2 "Keep Talking"(1994): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qsPPIKjYRs"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
