Solar Flare: The Science Fiction and Fantasy News website has posted a review of the now completed podcast novel EarthCore by Scott Sigler. You can read the review HERE.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Month: November 2005
Adam Rakunas of the blog Giro.org is podcasting …
Adam Rakunas of the blog Giro.org is podcasting his Science Fiction novellete entitled Making Numbers.
Adam describes Making Numbers thusly:
“It’s the story of Maggie Tsu-Chen, a burnt out career counselor for uploads (she’s one, herself). She’s one client away from making her Number, thereby meeting her obligation to the System. Take a step Inside, and find out why uploading may not be all that and a bag of chips.”
Making Numbers is broken up into 11 parts, Adam’s about half way through posting all the parts – his reading is good but he’s in desperate need of a pop-filter:
You can subscribe to the feed by plugging this into iTunes:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/adam_rakunas
Posted by Jesse Willis
Dragon Page Cover To Cover staffers Joe Murphy and…
Dragon Page Cover To Cover staffers Joe Murphy and Summer Brooks have spun off their own podcast! The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas Podcast specializes in discussions of classic science fiction novels. Two full shows have been released so far:
1. Hyperion by Dan Simmons – DIRECT DOWNLOAD MP3
2. Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein – DIRECT DOWNLOAD MP3
To subscribe, plug this into iTunes:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/kickassmysticninjas/
Posted by Jesse Willis
Review of Knife of Dreams: The Wheel of Time, Book 11 by Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams: Book Eleven of The Wheel of Time
By Robert Jordan; Narrated by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer
26 CD’s – 32 hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audio Renaissance
Published: 2005
ISBN: 1593977654
Themes: / Fantasy / Epic Fantasy / Magic / Good and Evil / Demons / Dragons /
The eleventh installment in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, Knife of Dreams proves to be a fast paced and entertaining listen. This audiobook came as a welcome surprise after the last several novels in this series that tended to feel as though they were bogged down with a lot of useless detail and little action. There may be a movement forming of people supporting the cutting off of Nynaeve’s braid. Although, to be fair, she is now overly prone to “almost” yanking her plaited tresses instead of actually doing it. Other behaviors the movement may be interested in deleting from the text are the smoothing and/or arranging of skirts and shawls, sniffing, and Elaine’s new preoccupation with cursing Rand Al’Thor for her discomforts with pregnancy (after all, it takes two, right?). If these things were taken out of the text the world might be left with Wheel of Time pamphlet instead of the series.
Monotonous behaviors aside, Knife of Dreams came through in delivering resolutions to some of the subplots that have been hanging over the course of several novels. Jordan has breathed life back into his series with this book and regained the vitality of the earlier writing.
Kate Reading and Michael Kramer once again deliver fine performances reading the female and male characters respectively. This duo has narrated each book in the Wheel of Time series. The consistency in their character voices, intonations, and personality style demonstrate how well Reading and Kramer understand their characters and how familiar they are with the direction and emotional climate of the story. If you have been disillusioned with past installments of the series, give it another chance, this book is worth the time.
There’s an old fashioned radio show that may dra…
There’s an old fashioned radio show that may draw your interest. It currently airs on Wednesdays between 3:00pm and 5:00pm – the Philip K. Dick Show airs on KUCI 88.9FM which is the University Of California Irvine’s radio station. Host “djzj” plays music and reads from Philip K. Dick’s work. The show is available only in the streaming audio format for folks who live outside of the UC Irvine area.
“djzj” says this about the show:
“i’m a big fan of pkd and tend to string out a kind of dickian world on the show…i like to think of myself along the lines of the dj in dr. bloodmoney, a pkd book about a post apocalyptic world… i have a co-host ‘baby dragon’ who reads select passages from the pkd opus. i start and end the show with vangelis ‘blade runner’ soundtrack. one of the main things about the show is to promote local bands, socal and so-on. i also talk about things like…was jesus an android? we live in a horror movie…alien rabbits,and anything that randfomaly pops into our heads, i sometimes will air excerpts of pkd himself talking, gleaned from the pkd website…”
Sounds cool!
James Patrick Kelly, Hugo Award Winning Science …
James Patrick Kelly, Hugo Award Winning Science Fiction author and Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine columnist, has started to podcast his new novel entiled Burn!
“On a distant planet in the far future, the last remaining true humans have come together to form a Utopia based on the principles of Walden. The post-human population resists human encroachment by setting fire to their terraformed forests.”
You can download directly from the Free Reads Podcast page or subscribe FOR FREE by plugging this into iTunes:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/freereads
Way to go Jim!
Posted by Jesse Willis