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.
“In The Dead Valley the eminent architect and mediævalist Ralph Adams Cram achieves a memorably potent degree of vague regional horror through subtleties of atmosphere and description.” -H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror In Literature The story is chilling, and as performed… Read moreThe Dead Valley by Ralph Adams Cram
The Highway To Mars podcast recently featured Mr Jim Moon, Odile Thomas, and Stefan Sawynok talking about Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (and the 1997 movie adaptation). |MP3| 1 Hour 48 Minutes Posted by Jesse Willis
Here’s a portion of the Wikipedia entry for The Star: “[The Star] can be credited with having created a Science Fiction sub-genre depicting a planet or star colliding, or near-colliding with Earth – such as the 1933 novel When Worlds… Read moreThe Star by H.G. Wells
Prominent Author is a great example on the joke theory of short stories. Look to the meaning of character names, listen for the clever turns of phrase (‘he wasn’t just a cog in the machine anymore’) then add in the… Read moreProtecting Project Pulp: Prominent Author by Philip K. Dick
A six part radio dramatization of The Dispossessed was broadcast on CBC Radio in weekly 1/2 hour installments from June 12 to July 17, 1987 for The Vanishing Point (a long running SF radio drama series). Airing at 7:30pm on… Read moreCBC: The Vanishing Point: The Dispossessed (adapted from the novel by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Mack Reynolds is an SF author who needs more attention. Unfortunately his non-public domain works, the majority of his work, are languishing, orphaned. Escape Pod has paired this less than stellar novelette with an excellent narrator, Corson Bremer, but even… Read moreExpediter by Mack Reynolds