The unabridged Foundation Novels on Tape (Books-on-Tape)

Books on Tape (B-o-T) published two different editions of audiobooks on tape. There is a green or grey boxed library edition, and a collectors edition in white with cover artwork, which was available for purchase. Five of the seven books are in my possession, in variying quality. The readings are unabridged and there is a different narrator for each book, most of them narrated by Larry McKeever.

Some of the books have been re-issued by other narrators, e.g. I have in my collection "Foundation and Empire" in the version narrated by Scott Brick 2002, which replaces the version narrated by Dan Lazar 1979.


No. Title Narrator Year BOT # Length
 1  Prelude to Foundation
 Larry McKeever
 ? 3539  12 x 1.5 hour cassette
 2  Forward the Foundation
 Larry McKeever
1993 3362  12 x 1.5 hour cassette
 3 (a)
 Foundation  Larry McKeever
1983
1816  6 x 1 hour cassette
 3 (b)  Foundation  Scott Brick  2004 (?) ?  4 cassettes (?)
 4 (a)  Foundation and Empire  Dan Lazar 1979 ?  8 x 1 hour cassette
 4 (b)
 Foundation and Empire
 Scott Brick
2002 6084  7 x 1 hour cassette
 5 (a)
 Second Foundation
 Dan Lazar
19xx ?
?
 8 x 1 hour cassette
 5 (b)
 Second Foundation
 Dan Lazar
2002 6085  7 x 1 hour cassette
 5 (c)  Second Foundation  Scott Brick  ?  ?  ?
 6  Foundation's Edge
 Larry McKeever
1994 1817  9 x 1,5 hour cassette
 7  Foundation and Earth
 Larry McKeever
1994 3528  13 x 1,5 hour cassette

 

B-o-T CDs, narrated by Scott Brick (unabridged)

Scott Brick, one of today's finest voice talents, was already the narrator for Foundation and Empire in the 2002 cassette edition for Books on Tape. Only a short time later, B-o-T started publishing CD editions of both "I, Robot" as well as some of the foundation novels. These CDs are unfortunately hard to find now (any hints are welcome) and not in my possession, so my knowledge about them is limited. Again, any help to fill in the gaps here is welcome.

There is an audible version of these books available. However, as a collector, I prefer something haptic such as a CD set over files on my computer, and as a computer scientist I am allergic to any kind of DRM.

Here's a list of the CD editions to the best of my limited knowledge. I suspect that Forward the Foundation as well as Foundation and Earth were never published in that series.

No. Title Narrator Year Length
(0) I, Robot Scott Brick 2004 7 CDs (8 hours 25 minutes)
1 Prelude to Foundation Scott Brick ? 15 hours
2 Forward the Foundation ? ? ?
3 Foundation Scott Brick ? 7 CDs (8 hours 37 minutes)
4 Foundation and Empire Scott Brick 2002 8 CDs (9 hours 33 minutes)
5 Second Foundation Scott Brick ? 8 CDs (9 hours 23 minutes)
6 Foundation's Edge Scott Brick ? 16 hours 19 minutes
7 Foundation and Earth ? ? ?