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.
Earlier this year BBC Radio 4 began a season they called “The Real George Orwell” – here’s the official description: A Radio 4 journey through the labyrinth that is the life and work of George Orwell. Of course there is… Read moreBBCR4 + RA.cc: Nineteen Eighty-Four
An upcoming podcast discussion will be The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Luckily our good friend David Stifel has recorded it for everybody! But since the ten-part podcast serialization of the audiobook has just wrapped-up today you’d… Read moreThe Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs (as read by David Stifel)
Spoken Freely: Going Public In Shorts. Today’s Going Public … In Shorts is The Prophet’s Paradise by Robert W. Chambers – as read by the wondrous Stefan Rudnicki – there is no download available, unless you buy it via Downpour.com…. Read moreGoing Public … In Shorts: The Prophet’s Paradise by Robert W. Chambers (as read by Stefan Rudnicki)
Sam Gafford, who runs the ever useful William Hope Hodgson blog, names The Voice In The Night as his top choice among all of Hodgson’s writings. Sez Sam: The Voice in the Night – No matter how many times I… Read moreThe Voice In The Night by William Hope Hodgson (read by Mike Vendetti)
Here is Donald A. Wollheim’s introductions to A Witch Shall Be Born, as published in Avon Fantasy Reader, #10: Robert E. Howard’s stories of the wanderings of Conan the Cimmerian through the realms of the pre-Glacial era were based upon… Read moreLibriVox: A Witch Shall Be Born by Robert E. Howard
Rescue Party, seems to have fans, though to my ears it seems rather like Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s worst story. Clarke is at his most unpolished in this novelette, his first sold story. It has, of course, good ideas, as… Read moreEscape Pod: Rescue Party by Arthur C. Clarke