November 2006 – Page 5

Jim Kelly’s Podcast has transmogrified!

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James Patrick Kelly is back from his summer long vacation. Summer runs until mid-November right? But don’t worry, Jim bears gifts! He’s debuting a new non-fiction (sort of) podcast. First up is an updated reading of Jim’s Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine column On The Net. This one was originally published in June of 2004. The subject? Faster than light travel.

Even more exciting, in his intro to his reborn show Jim promises to begin reading his novel Look Into The Sun in early 2007! Resubscribe today, tune your podcatchers to:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/freereads

Welcome back Jim!

posted by Jesse Willis

KAMN News! Gateway and Far-Seer in the mix

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The Ninjas have landed and they have a plan…

KAMN #23: Gateway by Frederick Pohl
KAMN #25: Far Seer by Robert J. Sawyer

I liked Gateway but isn’t my favorite Pohl novel. Pohl has a history of repeatedly using psychotic breaks as a theme in his novels. This one is probably 1/3 set in a psychiatrist’s office. I’m not sure where that would come from, but I liked his The Voices Voices Of Heaven more, also starring a protagonist with a history of mental illness. Interestlingly, Gateway does happen to be Robert J. Sawyer’s favorite Science Fiction novel. And speaking of Sawyer, his first novel in the Quintaglio ascension series, Far Seer, is up for KAMN review shortly after. That novel is set on a very interesting world that parallels our own in many ways. The “far seer” of the title refers to a telescope and the novel itself parallels the events surrounding Galileo Galilei’s discovery of the moons of Jupiter. If you dig science, science history and dinosaurs, you’ll dig Far Seer.

posted by Jesse Willis

The Planet Retcon Radio podcast

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Planet Retcon Radio, is a “Sci-Fi audio theater podcast” that is wrapping up its first year of production. The second season is already in development! Our very own Audio Addict describes Planet Retcon as “Cheers in space – a comedic Science Fiction series that takes place in a cafe/diner on an alien planet.”

It sounds fun! So come with me I’m heading on over to the place where everyone telepathically knows our names.

Subscribe to the feed:

http://planetretcon.com/podcast/feed.xml

posted by Jesse Willis

Stephen King visits BBC Radio 4 this Sunday

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SFFaudio’s U.K. contributor Roy notes: “Further to the previous mention of Stephen King, I see that he is the guest on Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4 11:15 Sunday 19th November). This 30 min programme is repeated the following Friday at 09:00 ~~but should be available on ‘listen again’ for a week.~~ [sadly it turns our this is one of the few shows not available via the listen again service – ed.] For those unfamiliar with this extremely long running programme, the week’s guest has to choose eight records that they would take with them should they be cast away on a desert island. However it is much more than a music show (the selected records are only ever played in short excerpts) and it should be an interesting conversation about King’s life and works.”

That sounds pretty keen, thanks Roy!

posted by Jesse Willis

Paul Levinson has a Podcast

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Science Fiction author Paul Levinson has a podcast!

Levinson describes Light On Light Through as a “weekly, five-minute-or-so commentary on some technological, media, popular culture, science fiction issue that strikes [his] interest” Topics range from Wikipedia , cellphone technology to television’s “platinum age.”

You can subscribe to his podcast via this feed:

http://lightonlightthrough.com/rss

Paul was kind enough to send me a DRM-free copy of his Chronology Protection Case radio dramatization of his first novelette, the one I mentioned in an October 25th post. It also seems the file is available in a working format from Audible.com, (and also therefore iTunes) where it is offered in the proprietory AAC format.

The Chronology Protection Case
Based on the novellette by Paul Levinson; Performed by Mark Shanahan
1 AAC File – 38 Minutes 37 Seconds [RADIO DRAMA]
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio / Audible.com
Published: 2003

Interestingly the title of this story comes from an idea of Stephen Hawking’s. Hawking conjectured that even though time travel might be possible the universe would not let it happen.

posted by Jesse Willis

Stephen King Interview with Reading from Lisey’s Story

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A Stephen King Special is the currently featured book podcast from The Times Online. The 3-part podcast includes a 30-minute interview with King about his latest book, Lisey’s Story, a 17-minute reading by King from the book, and a 20-minute Q&A session in which King responds to questions submitted by Times readers. The podcasts are also available by subscription through iTunes. Links to excerpts from the first two chapters of Lisey’s Story are given from the Stephen King Special web page. For more about King and Lisey’s Story, see the November 12th Sunday NY Times Book Review where this is the featured book review (free but requires registration).

Posted by Moriond