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Does anyone else remember these? They came out in 1978 originally, but didn't appear in Britain until 1981.
What you got was an audio cassette with a half-hour drama on it (15 mins each side), usually based very loosely on a popular sci-fi novel, with an accompanying illustrated booklet. However, these were a bit different to the other read-along book and tape sets that were around at the time; each page had only one large painting on it, along with a line of dialogue rather than full story text, and a 'computer tone' on the tape signalled when it was time to turn the page. The idea was for you to animate the story in your mind as it unfolded on tape. I loved them, as they certainly fired my eight-year-old imagination.
I think there were only 6 in the series. Me and a couple of my friends collected all of them. The titles were:
The War Of The Worlds
The Time Machine
The Rebels Of Empiria
The Star Prince
Voyage To The Center (sic) Of The Earth
The Lost Ones
They were around for only about six months and then completely disappeared from stores. I remember hoping at the time that they would make more of them. Occasionally the odd one turns up on Amazon or ebay.
What you got was an audio cassette with a half-hour drama on it (15 mins each side), usually based very loosely on a popular sci-fi novel, with an accompanying illustrated booklet. However, these were a bit different to the other read-along book and tape sets that were around at the time; each page had only one large painting on it, along with a line of dialogue rather than full story text, and a 'computer tone' on the tape signalled when it was time to turn the page. The idea was for you to animate the story in your mind as it unfolded on tape. I loved them, as they certainly fired my eight-year-old imagination.
I think there were only 6 in the series. Me and a couple of my friends collected all of them. The titles were:
The War Of The Worlds
The Time Machine
The Rebels Of Empiria
The Star Prince
Voyage To The Center (sic) Of The Earth
The Lost Ones
They were around for only about six months and then completely disappeared from stores. I remember hoping at the time that they would make more of them. Occasionally the odd one turns up on Amazon or ebay.
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