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.
As a part of this “June Is Audiobook Month” project (in which SFFaudio is participating) check out today’s FREE audiobook over at the Literate Housewife blog, its a short story, Days Gone By by Eric Jerome Dickey (with terrific narration by Dion Graham).
The entire schedule of free audiobooks is HERE, and the complete audiobook of the entire project is available through Tantor Media for just $9.99, HERE – all proceeds benefit ProLiteracy.
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Professor Eric S. Rabkin talking about Mars.
Saturday Morning Physics – March 25, 2006.
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“Modern television is going to respond to the needs of the audience.”
Eric S. Rabkin was a guest on this 1989 TV special about the Beauty And The Beast TV show. The two Eric segments begin at 9 minutes and 26 minutes respectively.
WARNING, watching this program may freak you out. The 1980s were very weird.
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Set in a post-paperbook future in which children attend school in their own homes, The Fun They Had is a wonderful short story by Isaac Asimov. First published in December 1951, in a newspaper, here’s a |PDF| made from the subsequent publication in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1954.
And here’s Caden Vaughn Clegg’s audiobook of it:
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Listen to Mr Jim Moon‘s epic narration of the science book Dinosaurs by Colin Douglas (the illustrations are by B.H. Robinson).
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This collection of “excerpts” from Childhood’s End (TC164) was published on LP in 1979. It was recorded in Sri Lanka by Arthur C. Clarke himself.
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