Category: Online Audio

Maria Lectrix: Old Crompton’s Secret by Harl Vincent

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Maureen O’Brien, of the prolific Maria Lectrix podcast, has started a new project. She’s going to be recording an entire pulp magazine. She’s already recorded the “Table Of Contents” |MP3| and the first story too! Here’s that tale, From the February 1930 issue of Astounding (then called Astounding Stories of Super-Science) comes…

Astounding Stories Of Super-Science February 1930Old Crompton’s Secret
By Harl Vincent; Read by Maureen O’Brien
1 |MP3| – Approx. 1 Hour [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Maria Lectrix
Podcast: May 2009
Provider: Archive.org
“a little story of the dark side of science and men’s dreams.”

Sez Maureen of this reading:

I was a bit intimidated at first, because pre-Campbell Astounding gets dismissive remarks from many historians of sf. But these stories are solid pulp tales by solid pulp writers. Don’t expect them to be more than they are, and you’ll have a great time.

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Audible.com: FREE Fairy Tales + FREE Poe + MORE FREE

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

There are a couple of “Audible Fairy Tales” titles for kids available for FREE from Audible.com. You will need to have an Audible.com account already but if you do you’re golden with these…

Audible Fairy Tales - The True History Of Little Golden HoodThe True History Of Little Golden-Hood
By Andrew Lang; Read by Leo Laporte
Audible Download – 9 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible.com / Audible Fairy Tales
Published: 2008
You know the tale of poor Little Red Riding-hood, that the Wolf deceived and devoured, with her cake, her little butter can, and her grandmother? Well, the true story happened quite differently, as we now know. First of all, the little girl was called and is still called Little Golden-hood; secondly, it was not she, nor the good grand-dame, but the wicked Wolf who was, in the end, caught and devoured.

Audible Fairy Tales - Beauty And The BeastBeauty And The Beast
By Andrew Lang; Read by Roscoe Orman
Audible Download – 51 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible.com / Audible Fairy Tales
Published: 2008
Once upon a time in a very far-off country, there lived a merchant who had been so fortunate in all his undertakings that he was enormously rich. As he had, however, six sons and six daughters, he found that his money was not too much to let them all have everything they fancied, as they were accustomed to do.

But that isn’t all! An Audible Kids account (which you can get FREE if you already have a regular Audible.com account) will get you even more gems…

Audible / Reading Is Fundamental

I’m listening to the E.A. Poe tale in there now. It’ll freak your kids out right and proper!

[via the Teaching Learners With Multiple Needs blog]

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CBC Radio One: Writers & Company an interview with and short story by J.G. Ballard

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

CBC Radio One - Writers And CompanyCBC Radio One’s Writers & Company podcast has an interview with and a short story by J.G Ballard. In the terrific interview, by Eleanor Wachtel, we learn much of Ballard’s history, including how he found Science Fiction (it was at RCAF Station Moose Jaw)! After the interview is a complete SF short story read by Ballard himself.

“The story,” says James Warner “can be read as a metaphorical account of Ballard’s entire writing career.”

Interzone #30 July/August 1989The Enormous Space
By J.G. Ballard; Read by J.G. Ballard
1 |MP3| – Approx. 53 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: CBC Radio One / Writers & Company
Podcast: May 16th, 2009
A middle class man who chooses to abandon the outside world and restrict himself to his house, becoming a hermit. First published in Interzone #30 (the July/August 1989 issue).

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P.S. Hey CBC! We still want that J. Michael Straczynski radio drama series you’re sitting on.

Maria Lectix: The Ultimate Weapon by John W. Campbell Jr.

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

John W. Campbell, Jr. was a moderately successful writer with a science background. He found his true calling as editor of the magazine Astounding Stories, in which capacity he reshaped science fiction forever. Here is one of his lesser known novels. From the pages of Amazing Stories in 1936, this novel ran as a serial called “Uncertainty”. But Ace Books called it The Ultimate Weapon!

The Ultimate Weapon by John W. Campbell Jr.The Ultimate Weapon
By John W. Campbell; Read by Maureen O’Brien
12 MP3 Files or Podcast – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Maria Lectrix
Podcast: November 30, 2008 – May 11, 2009
Aliens have just been discovered! Only trouble is, the Solar System has just been discovered by those same aliens — and they want it all for themselves. The result is a war and a desperate arms race between alien technology and human ingenuity. Who will win? What is the ultimate weapon?

John W. Campbell, Jr. was a moderately successful writer with a science background. He found his true calling as editor of the magazine Astounding Stories, in which capacity he reshaped science fiction forever.

Chapter 1 |MP3| Chapter 2 |MP3| Chapter 3 |MP3| Chapter 4 |MP3|
Chapter 5 |MP3| Chapter 6 |MP3| Chapter 7 |MP3| Chapter 8 |MP3|
Chapter 9 |MP3| Chapter 10 |MP3| Chapter 11 |MP3| Chapter 12 and Epilogue |MP3|

Podcast feed:
http://huffduffer.com/jessewillis/tags/the_ultimate_weapon/rss

iTunes 1-Click |SUBSCRIBE|

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ADDED: an AUTHOR PAGE for DAVID D. LEVINE

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

David D. LevineJust added to our AUTHOR PAGES is an all new section on DAVID D. LEVINE. Levine is an up and coming SF and Fantasy author who I highly recommend you check out. To make that easier I’ve added a HuffDuffer feed for his writings (there’s also a 2007 podcast interview with him in there too).

|AUTHOR’S WEBSITE| – |AUTHOR’S BLOG|

Podcast Feed:
http://huffduffer.com/jessewillis/tags/david_d._levine/rss

iTunes 1-Click |SUBSCRIBE|

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BBC Radio 2: Jonathan Ross talks to Neil Gaiman

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

BBC Radio 2: Jonathan RossJonathan Ross, of BBC Radio 2, gets to “chat about one of his favourite subjects with comic book writer Neil Gaiman.” Have a listen |MP3|. Broadcast May 9th, 2009.

Podcast feed:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio2/ross/rss.xml

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