Day: January 22, 2009

Don’t Stop by James Patrick Kelly

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Hey! Here’s a new FREE READS reading from James Patrick Kelly (a terrific SF author and a pioneer in MP3ing his fiction)…

Asimov’s Science Fiction June 2007Don’t Stop
By James Patrick Kelly; Read by James Patrick Kelly
1 |MP3| – Approx. 41 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Free Reads
Podcast: January 21 2009
A woman runs with ghosts, both figurative and literal.
First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine in June of 2007. It is currently on the Preliminary Ballot for the Nebula Award, given each year by the Science Fiction Writers of America. A woman runs with ghosts, both figurative and literal.

Podcast feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/freereads/

Posted by Jesse Willis

Dick Dynamo – Episode 6 (and more)

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Dick DynamoIf only every email I got resembled this one…

Greetings Jesse and Scott.

This is jon baker form the dick dynamo podcast. I humbly kneel down before you and raise my dirty peasant hands. I beg of the might SFFaudio gods this one request. Could you please mention, talk about or promote Dick Dynamo on an upcoming SFFaudio Podcast. Or if you would rather please publicly scoff at our audio drama attempts. I’m sending you the live action PDF for the Dick Dynamo inspired music album, along w/ the Dick Dynamo comic book cover. All can be downloaded for free from DickDynamo.com. Also we plan on releasing episode 7 any day now. I just need to make some time to add in the last zombie groans.

Thanks for you time, and please don’t strike me down,

Jon Baker

Well, let’s see Jon. Your grubby peasant hands are pretty disgusting (covered in deep foley scars and podcast tweaking callouses as they are) but – on the other hand you do beg a good game…

Folks who don’t mind their audio tainted by such unsightly mitts can snag the full-length FREE music album from the Dick Dynamo “Goodies” page! Also available there is the Dick Dynamo comic book (the “origin” story).

Those are all well and good, but let me tell you all aboot my main interest in the DD site. It isn’t their goodies page, its their stream of unconsciousness sub-egoed story put out in the podcast. Dick Dynamo is the boiled down essence of American pop culture, the inverse coded messages of Hollywood amorality. Why not have a listen? I know that I do, in between committing moose homicides and maple syrup drownings. The latest one to catch my ear was Episode 6 |MP3|.

Podcast feed:

http://dickdynamo.libsyn.com/rss

Posted by Jesse Willis

BSAP: The Prisoner

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Broken Sea Audio Productions - The PrisonerAdapted from the DC comic book by Dean Motter and Mark Askwith (co-creator of Prisoners Of Gravity)…

Based on the famous British TV series starring Patrick McGoohan.

Once upon a time there was a land called The Sixties, where brave men and
women fought a new kind of campaign, a secret war of deception, diplomacy and sometimes murder. But many learned that in this conflict it was hard to tell who were the real enemy. That they did not even know how many factions were involved in the war.

Then there was The Village. A sinister Shangri-La for people too dangerous to be allowed freedom. A place without names. The heart of an authority that used ruthless mental conditioning and torture to rule with absolute control.

One man was brought to the island who refused to submit. His battle was long and hard, but eventually he escaped and The Village was destroyed. That’s a version of the story. One for comforting children. Here’s another…

The Prisoner Episode 1 |MP3|

Posted by Jesse Willis

New Releases – Wonder Audio, Leiber and Weinbaum

Time Traveler

SFFaudio Recent Arrivals

Did you know you can get either of these titles, as well as any other Wonder Audio title for free?  Just sign up at Audible.com/WonderAudio

The Night of the Long KnivesThe Night of the Long Knives
By Fritz Leiber; Read by Mark Douglas Nelson
3hr,  37 min.- [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Wonder Audio
Published: 2009

Available at Audible & iTunes

A Deathlander’s life is a rough one. Atomic radiation, murder and sex preoccupies the sparse inhabitants of what used to be a great portion of America’s West. Kill or be killed is the law of this sickened land. Multicolored radioactive dusts floats in the atmosphere of this nuclear desert.

When Ray Baker meets a woman on his sojourn, he doesn’t know if he wants to kill her or sleep with her. Ray doesn’t understand his urge to murder. But he feels it like all the other Deathlanders. Just as he knows the girl feels it. Laying down their arsenal of weapons will leave them both vulnerable. The cost of a moment of intimacy may lead to the last moments of their lives. And what to do when the act is over, and both their minds turn back to murder.

Parasite Planet: The Ham & Pat StoriesParasite Planet: The Ham & Pat Stories
By Stanley G. Weinbaum; Read by Mark Douglas Nelson
3hr, 47 min.- [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Wonder Audio
Published: 2009

Available at Audible & iTunes

The short and meteoric career of Stanley G. Weinbaum produced many instantly hailed classics. None had the breadth of wonder, and adventure with philosophic insight as the trilogy of stories that feature Ham Hammond and Patricia Burlingame.

Parasite Planet begins with Ham Hammond trekking across the surface of Venus. The environment is parasitic, filled with bizarre alien life forms like the lasso throwing Jack Ketch Trees and the doughpots, a mindless omnivorous ball of animate cells that devour all living things in their path. When Ham meets the contentious Patricia Burlingame, they have to march across Venus to safety. It’s not clear what is going to kill them first, Venus’s hostile environment or each other.

In The Lotus Eaters, Ham and Pat are on a special scientific expedition to the dark-side of Venus. They discover a strange warm-blooded plant. The most disconcerting thing about the plant is when it begins speaking English and waxing philosophically.

The Planet of Doubt brings the duo to Uranus on another special scientific expedition. The cloudy shrouded terrain strikes terror into the heart of Ham as tries to find the lost Pat who he hopes is still be alive!

Posted by The Time Traveler of the Time Traveler Show