If You’re Just Joining Us interviews James Enge |MP3|
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The Chronic Rift Interviews Ellen Datlow
The Chronic Rift interviews editor Ellen Datlow (Poe). |MP3|
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Sci Fi Dimensions: Interview with Richard K. Morgan
There is an excellent interview with Richard K. Morgan over on the Sci-Fi Dimensions podcast. Morgan and his new novel The Steel Remains are rubbing a lot of people the wrong way. His provocative essay on Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings drew charges of rabble-rousing and worse. As a shit-disturber myself I thought it was very cool, and though I could definitely see why the rabble might be roused. Morgan is calling things as he sees them – his vision has a dark tinge (but only in comparison to the vision of most) – he definitely sees our world with a jaded eye. His fictional worlds too are full of fallible humans. Everything he’s written seems happily noir. I really dig his ideas, and am very much enjoying the audiobook of The Steel Remains . If you’re not sure if you will enjoy it, have a listen to this interview, it will help you decide.
Interview with Richard K. Morgan
Interviewed by John C. Snider
1 |MP3| – Approx. 80 Minutes [INTERVIEW]
Podcaster: Sci-Fi Dimensions Podcast
Podcast: August 2008
Posted by Jesse Willis
Maria Lectrix: The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison
Scott A. Cupp called The Worm Ouroboros “a fantasy that is as fascinating as Tolkien and much more brilliant.” Tolkien himself had read The Worm Ouroboros before writing The Lord Of The Rings. Tolkien’s Middle Earth books use a more grounded prose style than Eddison. Bear in mind that Eddison’s archaic language makes his High Fantasy far less accessible than Tolkien. Maureen Obrien has released her reading of it under a Creative Commons license.
The Worm Ouroboros
By E.R. Eddison; Read by Maureen O’Brien
56 MP3 Files – Approx. 22 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Maria Lectrix
Podcast: May 2007 – May 2008
Provider: Internet Archive
This classic 1922 fantasy novel brings you to a strange and lovely world where a young lord wrestles King Gorice for his land’s freedom, where unscalable mountains can only be conquered by stubbornness and hippogriffs, where the great explorer Lord Gro finds himself continually driven to betrayal, where sweet young women occasionally fall for evil wizards, and where the heroes actually win their hearts’ desire.
Posted by Jesse Willis
LibriVox: The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Here’s another Edgar Rice Burroughs novel that I hadn’t heard of prior to its release on LibriVox. For fans like me who are daunted by the prospect of trundling through one of the many series books by Burroughs this is a good place to start as this is a standalone novel. First published in the February 1916 issue of “All Around Magazine.”
The Lost Continent
By Edgar Rice Burroughs; Read by Lucy Lo Faro
9 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 4.5 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: April 2009
Originally published under the title Beyond Thirty. The novel, set in the year 2137, was heavily influenced by the events of World War I. In the future world depicted in the novel, Europe has descended into barbarism while an isolationist Western Hemisphere remains sheltered from the destruction. The title Beyond Thirty refers to the degree of longitude that inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere are forbidden to pass.
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LibriVox: Deathworld by Harry Harrison
Gregg Margarite is an up and coming narrator over on LibriVox.org. He recorded stories for five of the LibriVox “Short Science Fiction” collections as well as soloing on the Collected Public Domain Works Of Stanley G. Weinbaum! But it is his latest project that I suspect will be his most popular narration. Here’s how he describes it:
“Deathworld is the first in a series of novels begun in 1960 and originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine. It’s the story of Jason dinAlt a professional gambler with psionic skills who finds himself on Pyrrus the deadliest planet to be colonized by humanity. Violent weather, active tectonics, heavy gravity, abundant predators, and a hostile splinter group of colonists is only the beginning of Jason’s quest to learn the truth about Pyrrus.”
Deathworld
By Harry Harrison; Read by Gregg Margarite
28 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 5 Hours 23 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: April 2009
Some planet in the galaxy must—by definition—be the toughest, meanest, nastiest of all. If Pyrrus wasn’t it … it was an awfully good approximation! First published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine’s January, February and March 1960 issues.
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