March 2007 – Page 4

RevolutionSF Radio

Online Audio

RevolutionSF Radio is the podcasting arm of the Revolution SF site. It offers Science Fiction news, commentary and short stories. The podcast feed looks old, but the content is still good. Very interesting is an excerpt |MP3| from author Mark Finn’s biography of Robert E. Howard, entitled Blood And Thunder. In celebration of the 2006 World Fantasy Conference in Austin, TX and all hooplah surrounding Robert E. Howard, RevolutionSF presented a series of related readings recorded during Austin’s Armadillocon 2006.

“Penny A Word”
By Rick Klaw and Paul O. Miles; Read by Rick Klaw and Paul O. Miles
1 MP3 – [UNABRIDGED]
Originally appeared in the Cross Plains Universe anthology.

“The Bunker Of The Tikriti”
By Chris Nakashima-Brown; Read by Chris Nakashima-Brown
1 MP3 – [UNABRIDGED]

“Primary Pollinator”
By Nicole Kimberling; Read by Nicole Kimberling
1 MP3 – [UNABRIDGED]
There are worse jobs than food service.

“Into the Dark”
By Patrice Sarath; Read by Patrice Sarath
1 MP3 – [UNABRIDGED]
It’s been 11 years. Do you know where your child is? “Into the Dark” was first published in “Realms of Fantasy 2002. Original podcast produced for Space Squid zine. (c) 2002 Patrice Sarath.

Here’s the podcast feed:

http://revolutionsf.libsyn.com/rss

posted by Jesse Willis

Decoder Ring Theatre’s Summer Season

SFFaudio News

Decoder Ring Theatre‘s master of pen and microphone, Gregg Taylor, has let slip a little information about their SUMMER SEASON!

During summer 2007 a new series of shows will be podcast on the Decoder Ring podcast feed. It will be called the “Summer Showcase” and will feature a number of different kinds of shows. One of which we got a sneak preview of on the recent Hypaspace podcast. It’ll be called Deck Gibson Far Reach Commander and it has been written by Matt Wallace (the Parsec award winning author of The Failed City Monologues).

posted by Jesse Willis

Planisphere Productions presents Transit

SFFaudio Online Audio

Planisphere Productions, a new player in audio drama, is trying something very different. They’ve released the first three episodes of Transit, a new Science Fiction series, in the AC3 format. This means that the show is in SURROUND SOUND format. Transit is “a multi-format multimedia-spanning project that consists of a series of Science Fiction themed audio dramas recorded in and optimized for listening to in 5.1 Surround Sound.” The project includes a “wiki”-style website called The Node that features show information as well as side-story content. I had a devil of a time finding an AC3 player but I finally found some freeware called “Media Player Classic version 6.4.9.0” which plays .AC3 files just fine (do a google search).

|Episode 1 AC3| Episode 2 AC3| Episode 3 AC3|

Another problem, this format means you can’t take this show with you in your portable media player. But don’t dismiss Transit as not worth bothering with just yet. In order to interest you they’ve also made the some “webisodes” available in the MP3 format. They’ll give you an idea of the production values, acting and the writing are like. \

|Webisode 1 MP3| Webisode 2 MP3| Webisode 3 MP3|

I’ve listened a few of the shows and webisodes and Transit is sounding pretty damn sweet!

posted by Jesse Willis

Beam Me Up reads more Nebula nominees: Elizabeth Hand’s Echo

Online Audio

Paul Cole has a 22 minute reading of Elizabeth Hand’s Nebula nominated short story “Echo” on the latest Beam Me Up podcast. This story first appeared in the pages of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (the Oct/Nov 2005 issue).

“This is not the first time this has happened. There is an endless history of forgotten empires, men gifted by a goddess who bears arrows, things in flight that fall in flames.”

Download the show direct |MP3| or subscribe to the podcast via this feed:

http://beameup.podomatic.com/rss2.xml

posted by Jesse Willis

Preview of a new ROBERT E. HOWARD audiobook

SFFaudio News

The creator of Conan, Robert E. Howard, has been long neglected in audio. But no longer!

Audio Realms, an SFFaudio Essential producing publisher, is collaborating with Wildside Press to bring us “The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard.” This is a 10-volume series of Howard’s classic Fantasy, Horror, and poetry from Weird Tales magazine. These stories are going to be in Audio Realms’ “AudioBooksPlus” format. Each volume features cover art by Stephen Fabian, plus new introductions by a leading REH scholar or fantasist such as Joe R. Lansdale. In addition to these volumes, AudioRealms will be producing 4 volumes dedicated exclusively to Conan. The first three will be multiple story collections and the 4th will feature REH’s masterpiece The Hour Of The Dragon.

There is now a sound sample available for one of the short stories….this brief clip comes from Howard’s short story The Gods Of The North |MP3|.

posted by Jesse Willis

Space The Imagination Station interviews Gregg Taylor

Online Audio

Space: The Imagination Station which is Canada’s equivalent of the Sci-Fi Channel. Their podcast is called Hypaspace and it has an interview with Decoder Ring Theatre‘s Gregg Taylor! Hypaspace talked to Gregg about both The Red Panda Adventures and his other awesome (though not Spec-Fi) show Black Jack Justice. You can download that |MP3| here, or subscribe to the Hypaspace podcast via THIS xml feed.

Also, as a service to those not already in the know are excited about The Red Panda Adventures returning to Decoder Ring’s podcast on Saturday March 24th 2007 with the remaining six thrilling adventures of its second season. I’m looking forward to a Podiobooks release soon after…. hint hint.

posted by Jesse Willis