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.
If you watched Serenity and are wanting to talk about it with folks who have seen it, then check out SciFiDig’s latest podcast. It is full of spoilers, so don’t listen unless you have seen the movie (the host gives you plenty of warning himself before talking about it).
I’ve seen the movie, and thought it was brilliant. Go see it!
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
A little more from Neil Gaiman – on his website he’s got a page of audio, which includes some audiobook samples and some streaming stuff from some of his appearances. Click here to see the page.
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Things just keep getting better in podcasting – check out Holtzbrinck Podcasts, who are now podcasting excerpts from their audiobook releases. Both Tor and Audio Renaissance are subsidiaries of Holtzbrinck Publishers. This week, they have excerpts from Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card and The Precipice by Ben Bova. Good stuff, and free.
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Hey, it looks like Books on Tape is selling off some of their cassette stock – Click here for the science fiction and fantasy titles. Included on the list are Elizabeth Moon’s Nebula-winning The Speed of Dark, William Gibson’s Neuromancer, George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones, and Robert Jordan’s Eye of the World.
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Our very own reviewer Mary Robinette Kowal (a name I’m convinced you’ll be seeing often attached to published fiction) has an audio story available on a website called The First Line. The story is called “Rampion” and it can be downloaded here. The story will leave you wanting more! And The First Line? An excellent concept. Check it out!
Crazy Dog Audio Theatre’s series THE LAST HARBINGER will be featured this Friday the 16th on BBC Radio 4’s A World In Your Ear programme just after the main lunchtime news.
Each week the BBC producers and team of researchers of A World In Your Ear select and present samples of what they describe as the ‘world’s best radio’.
In a special space- themed programme, A World In Your Ear hails Crazy Dog Audio Theatre’s THE LAST HARBINGER as; ‘a combination of dark comedy, social critique and riveting radio’, singling out this series as a ‘political satire for our times’.
On-line listeners can hear the programme at their convenience any time next week at the BBC A World In Your Ear page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/aworldinyourear.shtml
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