Today, Steampod released its first ever Christmas story, Cold Duty. It happens to also be, Dan Sawyer’s first fiction sell. The story mixes Cryogenic freezers and a Steampunk England!
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Posted by Chris Moody
On December 20th, Steampod is happy to release its first X-mas story. This will be the first fiction sell of J. Dan Sawyer of Literary Abominations. Please check out Cold Duty, available on December 20, 2008. Find it at Steampod.org.
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Posted by Chris Moody
Tor.com has a lot of downloadable short stories on audio. The latest to catch my eye is an SF novelette written (and read?) by Brandon Sanderson!
This was Sanderson’s first published work. The Tor.com email newsletter describes it as…
“out-and-out science fiction… SF like it used to be.”
Firstborn
By Brandon Sanderson; Read by Brandon Sanderson (?)
1 |MP3| – Approx. 74 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Tor.com
Published: December 2008
“…a tale of war and sibling rivalry…”
Posted by Jesse Willis
Selected Radiophonic Works
BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Saturday, Dec. 20
8pm & 3am GMT
A selection of programmes showcasing the work of the Radiophonic Workshop, which provided music and sound for many BBC (radio & TV) programmes. Includes The Dreams, The Goons and Bath Time.
Most will be familiar with the Radiophonic Workshop’s Doctor Who theme, as well as sfx work for Doctor Who and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio and television series.
Note: Selected Radiophonic Works will be available online for six days, through Dec. 26.
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BBC7 Describes their end of the year offering as: “William Gibson’s cult sci-fi thriller of a woman employed by multi-national companies to test new brands.” Unfortunately their reading of Pattern Recognition is abridged, and not “sci-fi” (or even Science Fiction really – |READ OUR REVIEW| of the unabridged version). Still, Gibson is a great stylist with some amazing ideas. This recording was previously broadcast in October of 2007.
A better year end gift for British subjects (and Earthlings in general) would be for the BBC to change its letters in 2009 to BPC (the British Podcasting Corporation). Come to think of it, a CPC (Canadian Podcasting Corporation) would be a great idea too.
Pattern Recognition
By William Gibson; Read by Lorelei King
5 Parts – Approx. 150 Minutes [ABRIDGED]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 7
Broadcast: Monday 29th December 2008 – Friday 2nd January 2009
“William Gibson’s cult sci-fi thriller of a woman employed by multi-national companies to test new brands.”
Posted by Jesse Willis
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