News, Reviews, and Commentary on all forms of science fiction, fantasy, and horror audio. Audiobooks, audio drama, podcasts; we discuss all of it here. Mystery, crime, and noir audio are also fair game.
Barnes & Noble aint slouching when it comes to original interviews. They’ve a good podcast available that features several Speculative Fiction authors…
Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, Jonathan Lethem, R.A. Salvatore, Terry Pratchett, Laurell K. Hamilton and Anne Rice (who explains why she’ll never write about vampires again).
No direct links are in evidence but you can subscribe to the podcast feed and listen that way:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/rss/mtw.xml
Posted by Jesse Willis
Broken Sea Audio Productions is known for its full-cast, sound effect and music laden audio dramas – but as we’ve seen with the Robert E. Howard storie they’ve completed and have in production, they aren’t the only forms of audio entertainment they are capable of. Today there are two kinds of tales beginning, but both should be familar to fans of the video SF:
Today marks the launch of the thirds season of a fan made Doctor Who (the first two were released through Darker Projects). The third season of this Doctor Who audio drama series will run as a 13 part series starring Mark Kalita as The Doctor. A new episode will be released monthly. Paul Mannering sez of it:
“Featuring original music by Stevie. K. Farnaby and written by Steven Jay Cohen this series is going to change the way people think about Dr Who fan-audio works.”
In Episode 1 “Unleashed” |MP3| The Doctor and his psycho-morph companion George are en-route to a party when they encounter some very old enemies…
Meanwhile, Hooligan Audio Books, the audiobook branch of Broken Sea has something for us too! They’ve been hard at work on two Robert E. Howard stories, but they’re branching out! Starting today you’ll start seeing a famous novel that was novelized by the author of the movie script back in the early 20th century. This novel version was released in 1926, two years after the silent movie. Now, 82 years later the unabridged audiobook! Have a listen today to chapter one of…
Metropolis
By Thea von Harbou; Read by Damaris Mannering
? MP3 Files – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Hooligan Audio Books
Published: January 2008 – ???
set in the year 2026, in the extraordinary Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the Metropolis of the title. Society has been divided into two rigid groups: one of planners or thinkers, who live high above the earth in luxury, and another of workers who live underground toiling to sustain the lives of the privileged.
Chapter 1a |MP3|
Chapter 1b |MP3|
Posted by Jesse Willis
Evo Terra of Podiobooks.com has just posted an very impressive story to the podiobooker blog. Read on…
“Jon Armstrong just emailed me with some FANTASTIC news that is so hot, even the official PKD Award site hasn’t updated their site with the info yet:
For Immediate Release
2007 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced
The judges of the 2007 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia SF Society are pleased to announce seven nominated works that comprise the final ballot for the award:
GREY by Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books)
UNDERTOW by Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF DR. BRAIN by Minister Faust (Del Rey)
NOVA SWING by M. John Harrison (Bantam Spectra)
GRADISIL by Adam Roberts (Pyr)
ALLY by Karen Traviss (Eos)
SATURN RETURNS by Sean Williams (Ace Books)Jon made a podiobook version of Grey and it’s been getting great feedback from the listeners — including me! Strange, edgy, and about as far our as you can get. Definitely not your standard SF fare!”
Go listen to the FREE podiobook HERE!
Posted by Jesse Willis
In preparation for The Sarah Chronicles TV series, Sci-Fi Talk looks back on Terminator 3 and features interviews with the cast.
Get the |MP3|
URL: http://podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=1661
Posted by Charles Tan
BrokenSea Productions Presents: Escape From New York – CASTING CALL
Have you got the voice chops to do an impression of Kurt Russel’s impression of Clint Eastwood?
I wonder who they’ll get to play Ernest Borgnine’s “cabbie” role. Maybe Earnest Borgnine is available?
This is going to be a 5-part audio adaptation of the movie with a possible series of ORIGINAL adventures to follow sometime after that.
The DEADLINE for AUDITIONS is: January 25, 2008 4pm central standard time.
The United States is in the midst of fighting World War III with no end in sight to the globe spanning conflict. ALL sides have used Nuclear Weapons and the world at large has been rocked by the might of these instruments of HOLOCAUST…
While the war rages, the homeland of the United States has another PROBLEM. America has been ravaged by an ever growing and previously unimaginable crime-rate. To combat this upsurge the entire island of Manhattan has been converted, by Presidential order, into a walled PRISON…
There are no guards inside the prison: Only prisoners and the worlds they have made….
The rules are simple. Once you go in, you don’t come out….
Visit BrokenSea.com for the official announcement soon.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Ever wonder where good SF writers get their ideas? In many cases they just steal them from the history books. For instance, it seems pretty clear to me that either Leigh Brackett or Lawrence Kasdan or George Lucas, plotted the action sequence that begins The Empire Strikes Back after sitting down to read a little Roman history – what’s the connection? Check it out – about 9 minutes into episode 17 of The History Of Rome podcast |MP3| you’ll hear historian and podcaster Mike Duncan explain it.
This is a terrific podcast that I’ve been listening to for a long time, it has about 0.02% SF content, but subscribe anyway:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHistoryOfRome
Posted by Jesse Willis