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.
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.
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
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.
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
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!
Just posted – a new Author Focus page featuring Grandmaster Robert A. Heinlein. Click here to see it!
Posted by Jesse Willis
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
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
Scott Sigler, author of the wildly successful Earthcore– the first podcast novel to get a commercial paperbook sold based on a FREE-GIVEAWAY MP3 viral marketing campaign – has just released the first chapter in his next “podiobook”, entiled Ancestor, it’s another high-tension, high-tech and violent adventure that’s three parts technothriller and one part science fiction, it’s not a sequel to Earthcore, but it sure sounds like it’ll be as popular. You can get all the details at Scott’s page on Ancestor HERE. I’ve subscribed for free through iTunes and you can too, just copy this…
http://feeds.feedburner.com/ancestor
…into the “subscribe to podcast” box, found under “advanced” on the top of the main iTunes interface.
Posted by Jesse Willis