Podcasting In Plain English [A 3 Minute Video Explanation]
I did one of these in audio form back in the good ‘ol days of Sonic Society, but I have to say this is much, MUCH better! Clear, to the point, and VISUALS!
Posted by Dani Cutler
Month: May 2008
All future Star Wars audiobooks to be entirely UNABRIDGED
I just got a note from Random House Audio stating:
“All Star Wars titles in the future will be unabridged, thanks to input from our consumers.”
I expect this is going to be one of the final nails in the coffin of abridged audiobooks. Since the inception of SFFaudio we’ve included the “unabridged” or “abridged” notations on all our posts about audiobooks; we hate abridgements. It’d be really something if in a few years we didn’t have to worry about finding ourselves listening to an abridged audiobook accidentally anymore.
Goodbye and good riddance abridged books, you won’t be missed!
Posted by Jesse Willis
The StarShipSofa podcast metamorphs into a Podcast Magazine
The StarShipSofa podcast is metamorphosing into the StarShipSofa – The Audio Science Fiction Magazine, following in the great tradition of magazines like Analog, Asimovs and Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Each week the StarShipSofa will deliver a full package of SF related audio material all free including audio fiction, fact audio essays, flash fiction and poetry, all by leading names in the SF field.
Many many writers have agreed to let StarShipSofa narrate their works including Ben Bova, Joe Haldeman, Alistair Reynolds and M. John Harrison to name a few.
There will be two shows per week, the Wednesday show, also know as “Aural Delights” will contain narrated audio fiction, fact and poetry and the weekend show will be an in depth look into an author’s life and work.
This week saw the first of the metamorphosing with the StarShipSofa’s Aural Delights show. Fiction was provided by Kage Baker’s fantastic story The Likely Lad, there were two poems by Bruce Boston and Laurel Winter, both winners of the Rhysling Award for SF Poetry. Flash fiction came from a very short but very powerful story called Repeating The Past by Peter Watts, author of the SF novel Blindsight.
In the weeks to come Peter Watts will also be delivering a monthly narrated fact article; this part of the show will be called “Reality, Remastered.”
As for the weekend shows, StarShipSofa has her sights upon writers such as John Scalzi, Robert Charles Wilson and Ken Macleod.
It is a great time for SF at the moment and with the many advantages the Internet can bring, StarShipSofa wants to be one of the very first to deliver the full package in audio science fiction.
Subscribe to the podcast via this feed:http://www.starshipsofa.com/rss
Posted by Tony C. Smith