Category: Online Audio

Reading And Writing Podcast: Interview with Taylor Anderson

Jesse Willis

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Reading And Writing PodcastJeff Rutherford, of the Reading And Writing Podcast, writes in to say:

I thought you’d be interested in this podcast interview I just posted with Taylor Anderson, author of the Destroyermen series from Roc.

Yeah, I am interested. I spotted Anderson’s unique series recently over on Tantor Media‘s website. The series is about a U.S. Navy warship that, like the terrific movie The Final Countdown (1980), travels through an otherworldly storm. But instead of a journey in time (as in The Final Countdown) the Destroyermen has the U.S.S. Walker traveling to an alternate Earth where a fierce war between Lemurians and Grik (sentient but non-human mammals and reptiles) is raging. After hearing the interview I think we should get a copy of the first novel in for review.

Have a listen |MP3|

Subscribe to the podcast:

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ReadingAndWritingPodcast

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Audible.com: FREE Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

For those with Audible.com accounts there’s a classic Rudyard Kipling tale available. Sez audible:

“For anyone with kids, nieces or nephews, download this classic free”

That “FREE” is likely for a very limited time.

Audible - Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard KiplingRikki-Tikki-Tavi
By Rudyard Kipling; Read by Sumeet Bharati
Audible Download – Approx. 40 [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible Kids
Published: 2008
“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”, a short story from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, is about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose.

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Forgotten Classics: Dark Posessions by James Powell

Jesse Willis

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Forgotten ClassicsJulie Davis, of the Forgotten Classics podcast, did me a personal favour by recording one of James Powell’s stories for me. The tale, Dark Possessions, was first published in the February 1992 issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.

I dig this tale because it showcases just how creative James Powell’s writing is. He manages to surprise the reader, yet he does so within the very rigid traditions of the mystery genre. Let me explain. Dark Possessions is a murder mystery. A locked room murder mystery. A locked room murder mystery years set after the event. A locked room murder mystery set years after the event and solved by furniture.

FURNITURE!

Oh and it’s a ghost story too!

And, last but not least, Julie does an amazing job bringing it to life! Have a listen…

Forgotten Classics - Dark Possessions by James PowellDark Possessions
By James Powell; Read by Julie Davis
1 |MP3| File – Approx. 20 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Forgotten Classics
Podcast: April 26th 2009
A little something extra from the mind of James Powell, in which we have a deep experience of mystery and furniture.

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LibriVox: The Stars, My Brothers by Edmund Hamilton

Jesse Willis

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LibriVoxMy favourite new LibriVox up-and-comer is Gregg Margarite. I’m totally loving his reading of Harry Harrison’s Deathworld. After I finish that I’ll be turning my attention to this…

Edmond Hamilton (1904 – 1977) had a career that began as a regular and frequent contributor to Weird Tales magazine. The first hardcover publication of Science Fiction stories was a Hamilton compilation, and he and E.E. “Doc” Smith are credited with the creation of the Space Opera type of story. He worked for DC Comics authoring many stories for their Superman and Batman characters. Hamilton was also married to fellow author Leigh Brackett.

Published in the May, 1962 issue of Amazing Stories The Stars, My Brothers gives us a re-animated astronaut plucked from a century in the past and presented with an alien world where the line between humans and animals is blurred.

LibriVox Science Fiction - The Stars, My Brothers by Edmund HamiltonThe Stars, My Brothers
By Edmond Hamilton; Read by Gregg Margarite
2 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 83 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: April 26, 2009
“He was afraid—not of the present or the future, but of the past. He was afraid of the thing tagged Reed Kieran, that stiff blind voiceless thing wheeling its slow orbit around the Moon, companion to dead worlds and silent space.”

Podcast feed:
http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/the-stars-my-brothers-by-edmond-hamilton.xml

iTunes 1-Click |SUBSCRIBE|

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BBC Radio 4: Ursula K. Le Guin biographical documentary NOW an MP3

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

BBC Radio 4The now 80 year old Ursula K. Le Guin looks back on her life and career and the Ursula K. Le Guin’s website is hosting the MP3 file made from the March 17th 2009 BBC broadcast interview. Have a listen |MP3|.

Writer China Mieville talks to American science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin.

Le Guin was a trailblazer – writing in the 1960s, her series of books about the adventures of a boy wizard, Ged, included characters of every race and colour. Her fiction has been acutely concerned with politics, portraying worlds destroyed by environmental catastrophe that prefigured modern concerns about global warming, and societies without gender just as modern-day feminism began to take off.

Featuring contributions and tributes from Iain M. Banks and Margaret Atwood.

This documentary aired Tuesday March 17th 2009 @ 11:30-12:00 BBC R4: Ursula Le Guin At 80

[via SFsignal.com and our ORIGINAL POST]

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LibriVox: Rebels Of The Red Planet by Charles L. Fontenay

Jesse Willis

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LibriVoxPaul Campbell writes in to say:

Last year I read Rebels of the Red Planet for the Second Audiobook Challenge. Now Mark Douglas Nelson has just released his own recording of the same title through LibriVox.

Cool! I’m a big fan of Mark Douglas Nelson’s narration.

Check it out folks…

LibriVox Science Fiction - Rebels Of The Red Planet by Charles L. FontenayRebels Of The Red Planet
By Charles L. Fontenay; Read by Mark Douglas Nelson
9 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 5 Hours 9 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: April 24, 2009
Dark Kensington had been dead for twenty-five years. It was a fact; everyone knew it. Then suddenly he reappeared, youthful, brilliant, ready to take over the Phoenix, the rebel group that worked to overthrow the tyranny that gripped the settlers on Mars. The Phoenix had been destroyed not once, not twice, but three times! But this time the resurrected Dark had new plans, plans which involved dangerous experiments in mutation and psionics. And now the rebels realized they were in double jeopardy. Not only from the government’s desperate hatred of their movement, but also from the growing possibility that the new breed of mutated monsters would get out of hand and bring terrors never before known to man.

Podcast feed:

http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/rebels-of-the-red-planet-by-charles-l-fontenay.xml

iTunes 1-Click |SUBSCRIBE|

And check out Paul’s original recording too… it’s HERE and over on Podiobooks.com.

[Thanks Paul!]

Posted by Jesse Willis