James Patrick Kelly was interviewed about his new podcast novel Burn. The interview is available from New Hampshire Public Radio‘s website as a .WAX or an .M3U. Its a terrific interview that gives deep insight into the story and Kelly’s reasons for doing it.
The host of the Spaceship Radio podcast, Andy Doan, has just been interviewed by Podcast 411 host Rob Walsch. For those who haven’t been paying attention, Spaceship Radio is the podcast specializing in bringing public domain radio dramas of Science Fiction to your iPod. Click HERE to listen to the interview. And check out my picks for the best of the Spaceship Radio podcasts done so far…
SSREP25 First Contact – Based on the story by Murray Leinster. Done a little different than the short story but well done.
SSREP17 Simon Jones – A cool interview with Simon Jones, AKA Arthur Dent of the BBC’s Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, and an exclusive to Spaceship Radio as far as I can tell.
SSREP14 The Cold Equation (SIC) – Based on the story “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin. This is the Science Fiction story like no other, it cleaves its readers into one camp or another. Essential listening.
SSREP09 The Green Hills of Earth – Based on the story by Robert A. Heinlein. It is elegiac Heinlein at his very best and a well done adaptation to boot.
Good news and bad news for fans of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror audio dramatizations today. First the bad news…
Zombie Astronaut, one of our favorite mp3 webzines, has sadly shuffled off it’s undead coil. The aural delights have ceased due to ZA’s overwhelming popularity. It seems that the bandwidth traffic made for a giant expense in the anonymous host’s pocketbook. It is a bitter shame that mere $$ have downed this floating corpse when even death itself didn’t stop it. Alas.
The good news:
An interesting podcast in a similarly horrifc vein is available, it’ll help relieve some of the loss of ZA’s passing….
Tales Of Horror is an excellent source for genre Radio Drama, unfortunately its episodes are being removed at a fairly fast clip, no doubt due to some bristly copyright issues. Cool episodes still available include:
Tales Of Horror Episode 11 – From the BBC Radio series Chillers an AWESOME adaptation of John W. Campbell‘s classic “Who Goes There?” If you download no other, download this one!
Tales of Horror Episode 4 – From the CBC Radio series Nightfall “The Club of Dead Men” A Canadian student at Cambridge, spends the night in a room once used for meetings by members of the Everlasting Club. Spooky.
Tales of Horror Episode 2 – From the CBC Radio series Nightfall “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs an accursed curio from India destroys lives with its promises of three wishes. Much adapted, but likely never better that this.
We here at SFFaudio want to take the opportunity this holiday season to thank everyone for visiting our site. We appreciate the authors, the audiobook publishers, the talent (both tech and performing), and the now the podcasters too for giving us so much wonderful material to tell everyone about. We also appreciate all the readers of SFFaudio, who share so much in common with us – meeting and talking to so many of you through e-mail and in person is the finest part of it all. We are taking a short holiday break and hope you have a great one too!
All our very best to you and yours – Happy Holidays!
The CBC Radio One Christmas Day and Boxing Day special I’d mentioned earlier this week is now going to be released on CD! It is already up as a preorder on the CBC Audio website.
The Secret World Of Og
By Pierre Berton; Adapted by Beverley Cooper
1 CD – Approx. 60 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
Publisher: CBC Audio
Published: January 19th 2006
Product ID: ERART00165
Podiobooks.com, though still in BETA, is growing like a baby hippo on steroids! More than a dozen podcast novels are currently available and more are on the way. Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror titles still predominate, but a few non-fiction and other genre titles are creeping in, including the delightful geek essays of Mur Lafferty. Here’s a snapshot of the current titles that are official Podiobooks:
Aliens and Satanic Creatures Wanted: Humans Need Not Apply by Tony Ruggiero
AmerIndian 2192 by J. Scott Garibay
Brave Men Run by Matthew Wayne Selznick
Come, Let Me Whisper by Russell L. Burt
Lessons From A Geek-Fu Master by Mur Lafferty
Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana by Tee Morris and Lisa Lee
Noggle Stones by Wil Radcliffe
Spherical Tomi: A Novel of Despair by Jack Mangan
The Pocket and the Pendant by Mark Jeffrey
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum