Volunteers outside the USA: Fletcher Pratt died in 1956. This person's work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date. In Europe this is 70 years; in Canada it is 70 years for authors who died after 1971; and in Australia it is 70 years for authors who died after 1955.
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69042Tolstoia, a colony on Venus, is populated by followers of the 19th century Russian novelist, Count Leo Tolstoi. They have developed their own curious political system that deems itself a pacifist Utopia. Curiously, however, any inhabitants who try to leave end up committing suicide.
Our small band of heros and heroines have been despatched to Tolstoia to determine whether it should be given the permission of the Intercolonial Office to colonize a nearby group of uninhabited islands. Their mission is to determine whether Tolstoia really is Utopia or merely a Potemkin Village, created to fool the rest of mankind. (Summary by Winnifred Assmann)
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- Project Code: rgZnwH7V
- Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Pratt (Fletcher Pratt)
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- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 7
- Does the project have an introduction or preface: No
- Original publication date (if known): 1953
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Genres for the project: Fantastic Fiction/Science Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: Venus, Utopia, Count Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoism, Potemkin Village, interplanetary colonization
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
End of recording:"Chapter # of Potemkin Village. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Potemkin Village, by Fletcher Pratt. Chapter #."
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If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of Chapter) #." [Optional, and only if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of Potemkin Village, by Fletcher Pratt."
Filename: potemkinvillage_##_pratt_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. potemkinvillage_01_pratt_128kb.mp3)
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