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.
By Crom, Gods Of The North by Robert E. Howard is bein’ read on Podcastle #162. Get a taste of the real thing before the movie this summer. (Have you noticed that the guy who plays Conan in the summer film also played Drogo in A Game of Thrones on HBO?)
Posted by Tamahome
Here is a very interesting, but highly ideological, podcast review of (and apology for) Cyril M. Kornbluth and his 1953 novel The Syndic. It is an interesting listen, but as I mentioned, it is extremely narrowly focused – seemingly like a sermon to the adherents of some sort of religion called “libertarianism.” There is no audiobook available at the moment, but Wonder Publishing has an ebook edition available.
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Incidentally, Groff Conklin‘s March 1954 Galaxy magazine review of the novel describes The Syndic as “remarkable both for its inconclusiveness and for its surprisingly philosophical depth.”
Posted by Jesse Willis
The 194th StarShipSofa contains Eric James Stone’s Nebula Award winning (and Hugo nominated) novelette “That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made”. Great story, well worth a listen!
You can find another of his great stories at Escape Pod: EP277: Rejiggering the Thingamajig by Eric James Stone
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
Simon Pegg is the latest guest on the Geekscape podcast (#215). Pegg talks about his memoir Nerd Do Well as well as Green Lantern, Star Trek, Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Paul, Super 8, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Star Trek 2, The World’s End, Community and Spaced.
|MP3| (video available too |M4V|)
Podcast feed: http://pod.geekscape.tv/Geekscape-Audio.xml
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Posted by Jesse Willis
My friend Luke Burrage (best known from the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast) is one of the most creative people I know. Which is why I was so disappointed when I heard what he’d titled his new podcast about creativity.
He called it, get this, Luke’s Creative Podcast.
I think he could have vastly improved upon the title by, at least, adding in some irony. He could have called it Luke’s Creatively Titled Podcast!
Worse, Luke has described Luke’s Creative Podcast as “Discussions about making cool stuff and doing cool things.” I teach my students that they should avoid the use of the words “stuff” and “things” in their writing as they are such non-specific and unevocative words. But I suppose an exception can for be made here, for Luke. If you’re as universally creative as Luke (he’s a juggler, author, photographer, musician, podcaster, YouTuber and probably a half dozen more things), those two words “things” and “stuff” are the only words that could cover all the cool stuff he’d like to talk about.
The show’s format is also, I think, stolen at least a bit from SFFaudio’s own. Luke doesn’t “interview” his guests he has discussions. And I think that was the right choice too.
But seriously, I’ve been listening to Luke’s Creative Podcast and have decided that the latest show was the perfect one to mention here. See, in show #6 Luke talks to another of my super-creative friends, Gregg Margarite. Gregg is the LibriVox.org and iambik audio narrator who is an occasional guest on SFFaudio Podcast readalongs. Sez luke:
Gregg Margarite is creative in many different fields, and so am I. We didn’t get into the specifics of any creative field, but had a great discussion about being someone trying to make their way in a world that likes to put people in boxes.
The podcast episode, |MP3|, is accompanied over on Luke’s site with some SFFaudio Podcast style shownotes. Luke has creatively stolen that style from us. It looks, and reads, great!
Podcast feed:
http://www.lukeburrage.com/creative/feed/podcast
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Posted by Jesse Willis
Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir produced this terrifically funny audiobook for Audible.com. It is FREE to account holders!
Go The Fuck To Sleep
By Adam Mansbach; Read by Samuel L. Jackson
Audible Download – Approx. 6 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Audible.com
Published: June 13, 2011
Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get his child to sleep. Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach’s profane, affectionate, and radically honest verses perfectly capture the familiar – and unspoken – tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, he opens up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations and laugh at their absurdity. Beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny, Go the F**k to Sleep is a book for parents new, old, and expectant. Due to its explicit language, you probably should not play it for your children. Go the F**k to Sleep is available free for a limited time. Feel free to share the link to this page with tired parents and other people who could use a good swear and a laugh.
[via The Guilded Earlobe]
Posted by Jesse Willis