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Hunter Goatley has posted up an excellent convention recording. F. Paul Wilson was the Guest of Honor at the 1990 World Fantasy Convention in Chicago. His featured presentation was an hour-long interview session, which was hosted by Joe Lansdale. Here is that |MP3| appropriately titled: An Hour with F. Paul Wilson Pictured above Lansdale (left) and Wilson (right). If you are a fan of either Joe Lansdale or F. Paul Wilson, it is well worth a listen.
Posted by Jesse Willis
The Sofanauts just released their first episode and features guests Matthew Sanborn Smith (Fiction Crawler), Jeremy Tolbert (Escape Pod, @Future!), and Damien G. Walter (Guardian Unlimited Blog, 2008 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy graduate). |MP3|
You can subscribe to the feed at http://sofanauts.com/category/podcast/feed
Posted by Charles Tan
“Lords of Lite-brite! How can this be?”
-Gonad: The Barbarian
It looks as though the Zombie Astronaut has had his own bizzare and wonderful reaction to the CONAN ATTACKS FANS story we ran a while back. His latest episode of The Frequency Of Fear features an all barbarian cast – including that of BSAP’s Conan himself (Stevie Farnaby). But, no doubt due to legal threats by CONAN PROPERTIES INTERNATIONAL, the Conan cameo has had his name changed… Robert E. Howard’s CONAN shall now be known as GONAD: THE BARBARIAN (at least for the purposes of this parody).
The Zombie Astonaut’s Frequency Of Fear: #53 – Adolph The Barbarian
1 |MP3| – 1 Hour 40 Minutes [AUDIO DRAMA]
Podcaster: The Zombie Astronaut’s Frequency Of Fear
Podcast: April 12th 2009
There are plenty of other familiar voices in the show including those of: Jack Ward (from Sonic Society and Sonic Gold), Paul Mannering (of Broken Sea Audio Productions) and even the banshee-like David Lee Roth (as himself)! In between the original material is a bunch of barbaric audio oddities including…
From the Power Records album… Conan: Shadow Of The Stolen City … Conan: The Crawler In The Mists … Conan: The Thunder Dust and more. But beware of the horrifically awful storybook audio drama: HE-MAN: The Power Of The Evil Horde its moral core is so hideously repugnant it will both rot your teeth and quease your inner ear simultaneously.
Posted by Jesse Willis
The Agony Column interviews Lou Anders (Pyr Books) |MP3|
You can subscribe to the feed at this URL:
http://bookotron.com/agony/indexes/tac_podcast.xml
Posted by Charles Tan
A BoingBoing post that links to a podcast lecture nicely explains why caring about intellectual property is so important…
The Public Domain: Enclosing The Commons Of The Mind
1 |MP3| – Approx. 69 Minutes [LECTURE]
Podcaster: The Royal Society Podcast
Podcast: March 11th 2009
Is the public domain as vital to knowledge, innovation and culture as the realm of material protected by intellectual property rights? James Boyle thinks so and visits the RSA to call for a new movement to preserve it. If we continue to enclose the “commons of the mind”, Boyle argues, we will all be the poorer.
A paperbook, The Picture Gallery Of Canadian History Volume 1 (copyright 1942), that I picked up just today, is a great example of what Boyle talks about. While I listened to Boyle speak I was flipping through the book and imagining all the uses I could put it to. Today I’ve only used them to illustrate this post but when it’s public domain, you can do ANYTHING you want. What would you do with these pictures?
Vikings in Ontario. Cool huh? Incidentally, there are plenty of images from The Picture Gallery Of Canadian History Volume 1 on the web already but no-one has done a complete scan of it yet. It is clearly in the public domain in Canada (has been since 2001). Incidentally it won’t be PD in the USA until 2021. I found that fascinating, and utterly retarded. Here’s a 1938 Time magazine article that relates the story that goes with the scans above. If you liked these pics please have a listen to the lecture.
Posted by Jesse Willis
From LibriVox and the reader of This Crowded Earth (Robert Bloch) and the Deathworld (Harry Harrison) comes…
Victory
By Lester del Rey; Read by Gregg Margarite
2 MP3 Files – Approx. 1 Hour 38 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: March 30, 2009
“It seemed Earth was a rich, and undefended planet in a warring, hating galaxy. Things can be deceptive though; children playing can be quite rough—but that ain’t war, friend!” – Victory is the story of an undefended Earth in a warring galaxy. First published in Astounding Science Fiction, August, 1955.
Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3|
Podcast feed:
http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/victory-by-lester-del-rey.xml
Posted by Jesse Willis