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.
Chilling Tales For Dark Nights is a new podcast, and YouTube channel, offering unabridged terror and horror audio.
Podcast feed: http://www.chillingtalesfordarknights.com/feed/
Their most recent show is one SFFaudio Podcast listeners should be well familiar with:
The New Mother by Lucy Clifford, narrated by Craftlit‘s Heather Ordover!
If you missed it our original podcast discussion, with Heather Ordover, is HERE. There’s also an illustrated |PDF| version.
Posted by Jesse Willis
I discovered Man And The Cosmos by August Derleth, a poem from the cosmicist school of poetry, languishing in the pages of Wonder Stories, April 1935. According to ISFDB it has never been reprinted. When Derleth wrote it he was talking about what he thought would come. Today, at this very moment, people are up there on the International Space Station, living it.
Man and the Cosmos
By August W. DerlethDeath lies athwart the frozen dark
Where never the song of a lark
Has echoed; here breeds the unknown spawn
Of evil, here where there is no dawn.None but man deserts the light
For probing in this endless night;
None but he dares the icy breath
Of the lurking cosmic death.Only a tiny atom of flesh
Webbed in an unanswerable mesh
Of questions and burning doubt,
Wanting to known what Life’s about.
And, the generous Mr. Jim Moon, of the Hypnobobs podcast, has today recorded it for our listening pleasure.
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[Thanks Jim!]
Posted by Jesse Willis
I first heard Robert Reed’s outstanding novelette, Guest Of Honor, as an audiobook in the mid-1990s. It was narrated by Amy Bruce for Infinivox (get that version HERE).
It blew me away.
Guest Of Honor is undeniably GREAT SCIENCE FICTION, the kind of which only seems to show up once or twice a decade. If you haven’t already heard it, prepare yourself for some pure idea fiction.
There’s no official description for this astounding story so here’s mine:
When immortality is on the table accidents are naturally the uppermost fear on your mind. As an immortal you wouldn’t do anything nearly so dangerous as space travel, but all the same as an immortal you’d necessarily crave such new sensations so as to offset the boredom of an infinite future. And that’s where Pico comes in, she’s an adventurer gathering experiences for the immortals who sponsored her back on Earth. Her story, or stories, even if they are only vicarious, will be cherished by the many and she will be the guest of honor when she returns.
Clarkesworld Magazine #79 – Guest Of Honor
By Robert Reed; Read by Kate Baker
1 |MP3| – Approx. 1 Hour 21 Minuites [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Clarkesworld
Podcast: April 22, 2013
First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1993.
Podcast feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/clarkesworldmagazine/podcast
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Posted by Jesse Willis
A 1974 ten minute interview with Terry Carr (of Ace Science Fiction Specials fame) |MP3|
Posted by Jesse Willis
One of my favourite poems, and one of my favourite Edgar Allan Poe poems, Dream-Land, gets an all too brief half-hour discussion (a close reading) by the folks at the Poem Talk podcast (episode #48). When I talk about this poem with my students it usually takes between 45 minutes and an hour.
Podcast December 19, 2011, it was hosted by Al Filreis and featurd John Timpane, Thomas Devaney, and Jerome McGann. The official shownotes are HERE.
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Posted by Jesse Willis
