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CBC Radio One audio dramatist Joe Mahoney sez:
“Canadia will begin airing April 20th.”
Canadia is a Science Fiction/Comedy series taking over the time-slot for the very popular Afghanada (which is another in-house CBC Radio dramatic series – following a fictional squad of Canadian soldiers fighting in Afghanistan). Not many details on Canadia can be found at this time. But well keep you apprised.
After 13 years in business, The Lodestone Catalog is going out of business. Everything in the catalog is now on sale, with big savings on many hard to find audio treasures. Every item in the entire catalog has been reduced! If it is drama for ears that you like you’ll find something to love in the Lodestone Catalog…
Alien Voices, the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company, the BBC, Norman Corwin, Dirk Maggs, Full Cast Audio, Great Northern Audio Theatre, NPR, Star Wars, Seeing Ear Theatre, Neil Gaiman, Crazy Dog, RRCA, Transdimensional Media, The Twilight Zone, Willamette Radio Workshop, Yuri Rasovsky, ZBS and MORE!
Audio Drama is selling cheap!
In today’s New York Times books section you’ll find an article by Andrew Adam Newman that profiles podcast novelists Scott Sigler, J.C. Hutchins and Mark Jeffrey. Newman also talked to Evo Terra of podiobooks.com. You can read the full article HERE. Below is the articles’ accompanying photo of Scott Sigler in his closet – he’s in there to dampen the ambient sound while recording one of his podcast’s chapters.
Image credit: Heidi Schumann for The New York Times
Coming soon? March 2007, maybe? The first episode may be a free download? And a podcast? And you’re thinking of a Logan’s Run show too?
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
eBay seller “jerryweist” has a very impressive auction of vintage Science Fiction vinyl LPs up as a lot. He’s estimated that the collection of seventeen mid-1970s to early-1980s SF records will sell for between $100 and $200, but right now it has only been bid up to $40.09. If you love vintage Science Fiction audio, you should definitely have a peek before the auction ends:
–Heretics Of Dune – Chapters I and II
By Frank Herbert; Read by Frank Herbert
1984 (unopened)–The Truths Of Dune “Fear Is The Mind Killer”
By Frank Herbert; Read by Frank Herbert
1979 (unopened)–Dune: The Banquet Scene
By Frank Herbert; Read by Frank Herbert
1977–Sandworms Of Dune
By Frank Herbert; Read by Frank Herbert
1978–The Battles Of Dune
By Frank Herbert; Read by Frank Herbert
1979–The Dragonriders Of Pern: The White Dragon
By Anne McCaffery
1978 (unopened)–Robert E. Howard
1975–Burgess Meredith Reads Ray Bradbury
–Robert Silverberg Reads To See The Invisible Man and Passengers
1979–The Mayors from Foundation
by ISAAC ASIMOV
1977 (unopened)–Isaac Asimov – Nightfall
1976 (unopened)–Yonder: Seven Tales of the Space Age
By Poul Anderson
1980 (unopened)–Survival Ship and The Shrine Of Temptation
By Judith Merril 1978 (unopened)–Mimsey Were The Borogoves
By Henry Kuttner; Read by William Shatner
1976–Gwilan’s Harp and Intercom
By Ursula K. Le Guin
1977–City
By Clifford D. Simak
1980–Dying Inside
By Robert Silverberg
1979
Check out these scans:
On the main PODCAST page of iTunes you’ll notice that there is a temporarily featured “Sci-Fi Lovers” section. It is a listing of 16 podcasts, with what I think is a pretty nice selection of the top podcast. I’m pleased to see that the bias is definitely towards literary “Sci-Fi” with only 5 shows being television or movie related.
Listed are many SFFaudio Favorites including:
James Patrick Kelly’s FREE READS, Escape Pod, Scott Sigler’s The Rookie, Slice Of Sci-Fi, J.C. Hutchins’ 7th Son – Book One – Descent, The Dragon Page: Cover To Cover, The Babylon Podcast, The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas, a Darker Projects anthology series Dark Matter, The Secret World Chronicle, and StarShipSofa.
Shamefully and notably absent is The Time Traveler Show podcast!