The Menace From Earth
Mark Time Awards
(The following is a press release from Jerry Stearns of Great Northen Audio.)
MARK TIME AND OGLE AWARDS
FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION AUDIO
Awards presented at Convergence, Friday, July 1, 2005.
Sheraton South Hotel, Bloomington, MN.
The Ninth Annual Mark Time Awards for the Best
Audio Science Fiction of the Year were presented
at the CONvergence Science Fiction Convention at
the Sheraton Hotel South in Bloomington, MN on
July 1st, 2005.
The Mark Time Award is named after the character
created by the Firesign Theatre in the 1970s.
The Ogle Award is named for Charles Ogle, who
played the Frankenstein monster in Thomas
Editon's 1910 film of the Mary Shelly novel. The
Mark Time/Ogle Awards are the only awards given
in this country that are solely for audio
theater.
The winners of the Mark Time Science Fiction
Audio and Ogle Fantasy Audio Awards for the
production year 2004.
* GOLD MARK TIME AWARD:
_ No Award given
* SILVER MARK TIME AWARD: Tie
_ "Paradox"
Strange Interludes, Fort Worth, TX.
Stephen Couch , writer/producer.
www.strangeinterludes.com
_ "Snowbank"
Icebox Radio Theater, International Falls, MN.
Jeffrey Adams, writer/producer.
www.icebox.storiesonmp3.com
* HONORABLE MENTION:
_ "Rod Renegade: Chaos for Hire"
Texas Radio Theatre, Arlington, TX.
Shannan and Rich Frohlich, producers
www.texasradiotheatre.com
* SPECIAL AWARD - BEST ADAPTATION:
_ "The Menace From Earth"
Atlanta Radio Theater Company, Atlanta, GA.
William Alan Ritch, producer. Story by Robert Heinlein.
www.artc.org
* GOLD OGLE AWARD:
_ "Next Years Girl"
Willamette Radio Workshop, Portland, OR.
Sam A. Mowry and Cynthia McGean, producers.
www.radiowork.com
* SILVER OGLE AWARD:
_ No Award given
* HONORABLE MENTION:
_ "Three Skeleton Key"
One Act Players, San Mateo, CA.
Glenn Carlson, producer.
www.oneact.org
* SPECIAL AWARD - BEST ADAPTATION
_ Mary Shelly's Frankenstein
Willamette Radio Workshop, Portland, OR.
Sam A. Mowry and Cynthia McGean, producers.
www.radiowork.com
David Ossman described the genre at the first
Mark Time Awards ceremony this way: "The best
special effects are the ones inside your head.
The best aliens are the ones that only you can
see, and you only see them in your own mind. [Science fiction is] one of the largest genres
in the whole world of audio publishing anyway,
mostly because people love to listen to it. It's
movies in your mind."
See the Mark Time Website at http://www.greatnorthernaudio.com/MarkTime/MarkTime.html for more.
You can find more information about the
CONvergence convention on-line at http://www.convergence-con.org/.
CONvergence is a project of MISFITS, the
Minnesota Society For Interest in Science
Fiction and Fantasy.
Judges for the 2004 Mark Time and Ogle Awards were:
* Simon Jones - "Arthur Dent" in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
* Kris Markman - National Audio Theatre Festivals
* Brian Price - Great Northern Audio Theatre
* Philip Proctor - The Firesign Theatre
* Jerry Stearns - Great Northern Audio Theatre