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.
Henry Slesar was one of the most prolific scripters for the late-1970s early-1980s CBS Radio Mystery Theater. But before his career in radio drama Slesar was an author of Science Fiction. Like Alfred Bester, who also wrote for CBSRMT, Slesar… Read moreCBSRMT: A God Named Smith by Henry Slesar [RADIO DRAMA]
Last night I discovered that Someday, a wonderful short story by Isaac Asimov, is PUBLIC DOMAIN. I’ve posted the |PDF| from the original mag to our PDF PAGE (there’re hundreds more there by the way). Someday set in a future… Read moreSomeday by Isaac Asimov
The Little Black Bag is a highly regarded C.M. Kornbluth novelette. It was undeniably influential and popular. It won the 2001 Retro-Hugo Award for “Best Novelette” (of 1951), was voted the 13th best all-time short science fiction story (in a… Read moreThe Little Black Bag by C.M. Kornbluth
First published in Harper’s Weekly November 10, 1894 this novella combines the two poles of Doyle’s personality – the skeptic and the dupe. Playing out like a combination of Guy de Maupassant’s The Horla and The Manchurian Candidate. The protagonist,… Read moreThe Parasite by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Anthony Hope’s 1894 novel, The Prisoner Of Zenda, gave rise to a craze for a new sub-genre of romance novels – the “Ruritanian romance” – so called after the fictional European country in which the titular “prisoner” is found. The… Read moreCBSRMT: The Prisoner Of Zenda
Nearly 10 years I began reporting that J. Michael Straczynski had been asked to write a radio drama for CBC Radio One. Later, we learned that Cynthia Dale had been cast in the title role. And still later that the… Read moreThe Adventures Of Apocalypse Al (comic + audio drama #1)