{"id":470,"date":"2018-05-13T10:21:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T15:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2019-08-25T11:19:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T16:19:13","slug":"radio-drama-production-of-lone-star-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/radio-drama-production-of-lone-star-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio drama production of &#8216;Lone Star Planet&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/30724273_10155585637687725_5118254647663919104_o.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"471\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/radio-drama-production-of-lone-star-planet\/30724273_10155585637687725_5118254647663919104_o\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/30724273_10155585637687725_5118254647663919104_o.jpg?fit=1600%2C1066&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1066\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"30724273_10155585637687725_5118254647663919104_o\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/30724273_10155585637687725_5118254647663919104_o.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/30724273_10155585637687725_5118254647663919104_o.jpg?fit=660%2C440&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-471\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/30724273_10155585637687725_5118254647663919104_o-1024x682.jpg?resize=660%2C440&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/30724273_10155585637687725_5118254647663919104_o.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/30724273_10155585637687725_5118254647663919104_o.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/30724273_10155585637687725_5118254647663919104_o.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/30724273_10155585637687725_5118254647663919104_o.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/30724273_10155585637687725_5118254647663919104_o.jpg?w=1320&amp;ssl=1 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company in performance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/artc.org\/\">Atlanta Radio Theatre Company<\/a> has done a great many audio dramas, including plenty of science fiction. And now the company has announced it plans a series of dramatizations of libertarian science fiction classics &#8212; beginning with <em>Lone Star Planet<\/em> by H. Beam Piper, which was recently released and <a href=\"https:\/\/artc.org\/product\/lone-star-planet\/\">is available now for purchase and downloading.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an adaptation of a work that<a href=\"https:\/\/lfs.org\/awards.shtml\"> won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 1999.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s more from William Allan Ritch, president of the Atlanta Theatre Company:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Lone Star Planet<\/em> had a soft release (within the local SF conventions) last year. This year we have started podcasting it and making it available for paid downloads.It is a finalist for the Mark Time Awards (episodes #3 and #4 submitted) Mark Time Awards &#8211; as given by the Hear Now Festival (formerly The National Audio Theatre Festival.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other libertarian works that are getting imminent are <em>Moon of Ice<\/em>_by Brad Linaweaver and <em>The Weapon Shops of Isher<\/em>\u00a0by A. E. van Vogt. We are working on more. Some are public domain and some we have purchased the rights from the author.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Lone Star Planet<\/em>\u00a0was adapted first as a 1 hour play, which was a sever condensation of the novel,. It was performed at several SF conventions &#8211; but not offered for sale. It was available for a free podcast &#8211; one of our monthly presentation of recordings of our live show,. The full version is about 3 hours long and divided into 25-30 min episodes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The writer who adapted the book is Ron N. Butler and I am the director. The producer is David Benedict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company in performance. The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company has done a great many audio dramas, including plenty of science fiction. And now the company has announced it plans a series of dramatizations of libertarian science fiction classics &#8212; beginning with Lone Star Planet by H. Beam Piper, which was recently released &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/radio-drama-production-of-lone-star-planet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Radio drama production of &#8216;Lone Star Planet&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8nGl-7A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}