Category: Online Audio

Uvula Audio: Divers Down! Adventure Under Hawaiian Seas by Hal Gordon

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Uvula AudioJames J. Campanella, podcaster, audiobook narrator, science popularizer and lecturer writes in to say:

Uvula Audio is starting a new bookcast this week. It is a science fiction book only in the sense that it has science in it and it is a fictional story, but it is an excellent young adult novel from 1971 which is now rare and long out of print. Starting tomorrow, we will be presenting Divers Down! Adventure Under Hawaiian Seas by Hal Gordon.

This was one of my favorite books in my youth and one of the books that pushed me in the direction of science as a career.

Divers Down! Adventures Under Hawaiian Seas by Hal GordonDivers Down! Adventure Under Hawaiian Seas
By Hal Gordon; Read by James J. Campanella
Podcast – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Uvula Audio Bookcast
Podcast: May 2009 –
The story concerns Kip Morgan, a student from Connecticut with an interest in undersea engineering. He comes to Hawaii to take part in the Makapuu Oceanic Center’s summer program. There he meets a number of other young scientists, including several from Hawaii, and gets involved in raising the “Ilikai,” a large canoe that sank in the 1860s while carrying a huge stone idol, a representation of the Hawaiian god Kane. Along the way, Kip’s friendship with archaeologist Julie turns romantic, he develops a rivalry with another summer student, and he has adventures under the beautiful Pacific.The story is also an excellent introduction to scuba diving and the Hawaiian language.

Here’s the first file |MP3|. Look for more in the feed soon!

Podcast feed:

http://www.uvulaaudio.com/kids/Kids.xml

Posted by Jesse Willis

The Agony Column SF in SF Interviews

Charles

SFFaudio Online Audio

The Agony Column The Agony Column has the following interviews conducted at SF in SF:

Peter Beagle |MP3|

Richard Lupoff  |MP3|

You can subscribe to the feed at this URL:

http://bookotron.com/agony/indexes/tac_podcast.xml

Posted by Charles Tan

I Should Be Writing interviews Scott Sigler

Charles

SFFaudio Online Audio

Mur Lafferty of I Should Be Writing interviews Scott Sigler. |MP3|

You can subscribe to the podcast at this URL:

http://isbw.murlafferty.com/feed/

Posted by Charles Tan

Audio Drama: The Flickerman

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

The FlickermanLance Dann writes in to tell us about his “interactive SF audio drama” called The Flickerman. Says Dann:

It’s an experimental SF piece that [has] received excellent reviews in the UK national press when the first series was broadcast on the radio in London (Resonance 104.4FM). It received a review in the national paper The Guardian that was particularly strong.

There’s a short introductory film HERE along with the first episode. It’s also got a standard podcast feed but you may prefer to listen right off the site – as you’ll need your browser handy for the full experience.

Podcast feed:
http://www.theflickerman.com/?feed=podcast

Posted by Jesse Willis

Archive.org: Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Internet Archive - Open Source AudioI don’t know if there exists a non-fiction book with more downloads than Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig. The Archive.org stats show it having been downloaded more that 13,000 times. That’s impressive. More impressive is how readable it is. The narrators are all amateurs and they occasionally mispronounce a word or stumble over the descriptions of the images and charts in the paperbook. It doesn’t matter though. The content is delivered extremely well – Lessig is an excellent explicator, and the book is highly relevant for anyone who visits this website. Americans in particular will find immense value in this audiobook. I highly, highly recommend it.

Free Culture by Lawrence LessigFree Culture
By Lawrence Lessig; Read by various
18 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 9 Hours 42 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: AKMA / Turnstyle.org
Published: 2004
Provider: Archive.org / Open Source Audio

I got this audiobook through a torrent. You can get it that way too. Unfortunately I don’t know how to link to a torrent so I’ve made a HuffDuffer podcast feed for it…

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

iTunes 1-Click |SUBSCRIBE|

Here’s the entire audiobook for streaming listening too…


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Those still unconvinced should have a look/listen to this April 17, 2009 powerpoint enhanced that Lessig gave at the University of Pennsylvania. It’s entitled The Forbin Problem – its title takes inspiration from the AMAZINGLY AWESOME Science Fiction movie called Collusus The Forbin Project.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Entitled Opinions: Google and the future of the Internet

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Entitled Opinions (about life and literature)Entitled Opinions is a radio program (and podcast) from Stanford university’s radio station KZSU. It’s hosted by Professor Robert Harrison. Harrison teaches in the department of French and Italian – on the show his guests are usually literary or philosophical – but his November 11th 2008 podcast is a bit different being: “A conversation with Vinton Cerf about Google and the future of the Internet.” Cerf is an ex-Stanford prof and one of the co-fathers of the internet. It is a great conversation, with lots of talk about where the internet came from and where it might be going. They also manage to have a knowledgeable conversation about Star Trek (particularly TNG). Neato!

Listen to the show |MP3|

Posted by Jesse Willis