This week in the SuperHuman Times, romance novelist Renata Mason, once known as the illusion-casting Projectrix,  is confronted by a very real spectre from her past.

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Steve reads "The Black Cat," a classic tale of murder and the macabre by Edgar Allan Poe. A convicted murderer describes his descent into addiction and madness, and how an ominous black cat twice served as his harbinger of doom.

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Steve reads "A Ghost Story," a selection from Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain, and "A Cold Greeting," from Present at a Hanging & Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce. In the first, the author is plagued by a host of demons and by the ghost of a figment. In the other, a supernatural pact results in an extreme breech of etiquette.

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Steve reads "Glamis Castle," a selection from Scottish Ghost Stories by Elliott O'Donnell.  These four accounts from the turn of the 19th Century to the 20th chronicle a dreadful apparition, the ghostly replay of a murder, a thing that goes bump in the night, and a skeletal hand bent on vengeance. 

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We'd hoped to end our hiatus this week, at exactly the two-month mark, but, well, y'know... life gets in the way.  But stay tuned! Prometheus will be back next Friday with some seasonal Hallowe'en offerings, as well as the skinny on upcoming episodes of The Arbiter Chronicles and SuperHuman Times. 

The Parsec Awards, co-sponsored by Dragon*Con and Farpoint Media (no relation to Farpoint Convention) celebrate speculative fiction podcasting.  Prometheus Radio Theatre has been selected as a finalist in the category of Best Audio Drama (Long Form) for 2007.

We're up against some very distinguished competition.  It's a signal honor just to be among them! Quite a number of our colleagues from Podiobooks.com have been selected as well.  Check out the full list here. 

In Act Three of "Best Laid Plans," the Metcalfe makes his re-assignment recommendations to Atal, while Kaya, Faulkner and Aer'La make decisions of their own. This episode brings Series One of the Arbiter Chronicles to a close, and sets up the events chronicled in Taken Liberty.

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Sorry to be a day late on this one!

In Act Two of "Best Laid Plans," Metcalfe leads a covert boarding party to Ginsberg Light to try and seize control of the L-Node, while Kaya wrestles with her discomfort over their intensifying relationship.

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In Act One of "Best Laid Plans," Atal receives orders to leave the Arbiter and take command of the Titan. He tasks Metcalfe with making recommendation to re-assign his shipmates, with the stipulation that he send them all to different posts.

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Metcalfe and Aer'La return to the Arbiter, but all is not well. Meanwhile, the creature Patsy is building up power to anchor itself in L-Space, which would destroy the Arbiter. Cernaq and Kaelin must work together to calm the creature, if they can just stop fighting.

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Aer'La and Metcalfe discover that getting out of Roloff's clutches isn't as easy as getting into them was. Cernaq discovers some disturbing properties of Kaelin's alien "pet," Patsy.

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Act One of "Polarity," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson.  Aer'La and Metcalfe go undercover to expose an admiral's involvement in the slave trade while Arbiter rescues a stranded spaceman - Doc Faulkner's husband. 

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Act Three of "Divergence," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson and edited by Cindy Woods. In this episode, the search is on for Tracy's Kevin Carson.  On Arbiter, the crew has come up with a plan to get Tracy and Carson home... with only a finite amount of time to get them through.  Can they find Tracy's Carson and get to the conjugate before it closes and they're stranded?

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Note:  If this installment sounds like crap, don't blame Steve!  -- Cindy

As promised on today's 'cast, here are the links for some stuff we're up to outside Prometheus: 

Scott Farquhar has recorded Alan Nourse's Star Surgeon for Librivox. 

June Swords is co-directing War and Fleas for Fluid Movement, also featuring the lovely and talented Renfield. 

Steve Wilson is appearing in Volpone with the Out of the Blackbox Theatre Company. 

Act Two of "Divergence," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson and edited by Cindy Woods. In this episode, Metcalfe brings Tracy back to Arbiter, where the crew make plans to return her home, with Mors's help. There's one little problem with Mors, however...

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Act One of "Divergence," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson and edited by Cindy Woods. In this episode, Metcalfe is shipped off for some much-needed leave to a resort spot on Rigel V. While there, he meets a girl who's perfect for him -- or maybe a little too perfect.

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No dramatic offering this week, so hopefully you aren't offended by hearing Steve and Ethan review their cons and travels.  Topics include:

- Neil Armstrong at the Intergraph Conference in Nashville
- Comic stores of the Shenandoah and Tennessee
- Balticon Review
- MegoMeet in Wheeling, WV
- The Boogie Knights 25th Anniversary
- Listener Comments


We lost Ethan's mic for about seven minutes and didn't realize it, so a few of his comments are a little quiet. 

In the latest SuperHuman Times, we catch up with Nigel Cabot, former man Friday to SuperVillain Charles "Knuckles" MacNee. It ain't easy being an unflappable domestic, but Cabot maintains despite the madness around him.

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Prometheus lost a dear friend this week, with the unexpected death of Jim Childs.  Jim was a comics fan, a great friend, and a devoted husband to his wife, Betsy.  Jim appeared with Prometheus under their Usual Suspects guise in many stage productions.  He will be sorely missed. 

But an episode just ain't happenin' this week.  Ethan and I drove to Nashville Saturday and back yesterday, and Balticon begins today.  Here's the schedule for Steve and Prometheus:

Saturday - 12:30 - Da X Code (Play - The Usual Suspects)
Saturday - 4:00 - "From Page to Podcast" (Panel - Steve)
Saturday - 5:00 - "Podiobooks 102" (Panel - Steve)

Sunday - 6:30 - Night Train Through Maco (Radio Play - Prometheus Radio Theatre)

Monday - 11:00 - "Voice Acting and Public Speaking" (Panel - Steve, Renfield, Cindy Shockey) 

And next week, I'll tell you all about our Comic Store tour of Virginia and Tennessee.  But here's some links (Some are just directory entries, as they don't have their own sites, or I can't find them.):

Four Color Fantasies (Winchester, VA)
Rick's Comic City (Nashville, TN)
The Great Escape (Nashville, TN)
Mountain Empire Comics (Bristol, TN)
Vintage Comics and Collectibles (Bristol, VA)

Back next week!
-- Steve

The second half of a story from ERB's collection Jungle Tales of Tarzan. The text of this book is in the public domain, and is available at Project Gutenberg.

For more information about Edgar Rice Burroughs and his works, visit The ERBzine and Dateline: Jasoom.

Thanks to Jesse Willis of SFFAudio for the Tarzan image.

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The first half of a story from ERB's collection Jungle Tales of Tarzan. The text of this book is in the public domain, and is available at Project Gutenberg.

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Act Three of the Arbiter Chronicles episode "Playing Politics," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson. Captain Atal and Doctor Pallas escape Vireq's jail cell. Metcalfe faces off against rebellious colonists while Faulkner threatens to relieve him of command.

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Act Two of the Arbiter Chronicles episode "Playing Politics," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson. Captain Atal and Doctor Pallas awaken in a Qraitian holding cell. Metcalfe's assignment becomes complicated as the colonists begin delivering ultimatums.

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Act One of the Arbiter Chronicles episode "Playing Politics," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson. Metcalfe and the Arbiters are assigned to govern a colony world being ceded back to the Confederacy by the Qraitians. Meanwhile, Captain Atal and Doctor Pallas confront a rogue Qraitian General in space.

Featured site this week, Studio Antithesis, featuring online and small press comics.

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In Act Three of the new SuperHuman Times show "Risk Management," MacKenzie attempts to blackmail the Tzone family into working for him, then Nix and Vi reveal their clever plan.

 

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In Act Two of the new SuperHuman Times show "Risk Management," a magical spell book, apparently stolen from a museum guarded by the Tzone family of sorceresses, is found... and lost again.

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In Act One of the new SuperHuman Times show "Risk Management," a mother-daughter team of sorceresses are hired to guard an exhibit of magical artifacts at a museum.

Also, Steve Wilson talks to Ron Glass about voice acting, SF fandom and Serenity.

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Recorded at Farpoint, 2007, Steve Wilson and Scott Farquhar chat with the producer of the Star Trek films and the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman.

This show includes some brief clips from Harve's 1946 appearance on the Jack Benny Show. To hear that full episode of the classic series, and to learn more about Harve's career as one of the Quiz Kids, check out this link.

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Part Three of "Living in the Shadows," live from Farpoint 2007, guest-starring Richard Hatch.

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Part Two of "Living in the Shadows," live from Farpoint 2007, guest-starring Richard Hatch.

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Part one of "Living in the Shadows," live from Farpoint 2007.

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Steve Wilson interviews Richard Hatch - star of the original Battlestar Galacticaand recurring guest on the remake. Richard discusses his conversion to a new Galactica fan, his role as Tom Zarek, and his feelings about Science Fiction and Science Fiction writing.

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The bad news is that the Friday 'cast didn't make it up over the weekend. I WAY overextended myself at Farpoint with two shows, running the podcasting track, and helping out at the Art Show. Never went to bed before 0400, and was sad to miss J.R. Blackwell and Jared Axelrod, who had to go home sick.

The good news is we had a BLAST hanging with Jack Mangan, Tee Morris, The Command Line, Martha Holloway and Paul Fischer, Marc Bailey and Heather Welliver.

The best news of all is that I got interviews with Richard Hatch, Harve Bennett, Suzie Plakson and Ron Glass, which will be airing in the coming weeks. We'll start with Richard's, just as soon as I can put it together. Hopefully tomorrow. Thanks for hanging in there!

--Steve

Prometheus is at Farpoint this weekend, and we're hoping to bring you a couple of words with some special guests later today, depending on schedules. The show may have to wait until the wee hours on Saturday. We'll keep you posted!

The final act of the Arbiter Chronicles episode "The White Lady," written by Steven H. Wilson and directed by Scott D. Farquhar. Your host this week is Scott Farquhar. This show includes a special sneak peak at our exclusive blooper CD, available only in the Series One boxed set.

 

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Act 2 of the Arbiter Chronicles episode "The White Lady," written by Steven H. Wilson and directed by Scott D. Farquhar. Your host this week is Scott Farquhar.

 

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Act 1 of the Arbiter Chronicles episode "The White Lady," written by Steven H. Wilson and directed by Scott D. Farquhar. Your host this week is Scott Farquhar.

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Act 3 of the Arbiter Chronicles episode "Man of Letters," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson.

Apologies on this one not uploading Friday as scheduled. Two meetings and packing up a 14-year-old for a weekend away just kinda ate all the available time.

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Act 2 of the Arbiter Chronicles episode "Man of Letters," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson.

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Act 1 of the Arbiter Chronicles episode "Man of Letters," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson.

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Act 3 of the Mark Time Silver Award-winning Arbiter Chronicles episode "A Man Walks Into a Bar," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson and edited by Scott D. Farquhar. The Arbiter Chronicles is a Trademark of Steven H. Wilson

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Just in time for Christmas Eve, Podiobooks.com launches Lester Del Rey's Badge of Infamy, read by Steven H. Wilson. Our tale of a disgraced physician and his battle to save humanity from a Martian plague begins, by the way, on Christmas Eve, in the year 2100... Click Here to listen or subscribe.

Great news from the Podiobooker Blog!

Reader�s Digest identified Podiobooks.com as Best of the Web.

Special thanks to fellow winner Librivox for posting something about it and making me aware.

Act 2 of the Mark Time Silver Award-winning Arbiter Chronicles episode "A Man Walks Into a Bar," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson and edited by Scott D. Farquhar.

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Act 1 of the Mark Time Silver Award-winning Arbiter Chronicles episode "A Man Walks Into a Bar," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson and edited by Scott D. Farquhar.

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Act 3 (the final act) of the very first Arbiter Chronicles episode "Mutiny Springs Eternal," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson.

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Act 2 of the very first Arbiter Chronicles episode "Mutiny Springs Eternal," written and directed by Steven H. Wilson.

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