The SFFaudio Podcast #001 – NEW RELEASES / RECENT ARRIVALS

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The SFFaudio PodcastHey look! We’ve got our own podcast. This is the very first one, which includes SFFaudio founders Scott D. Danielson and Jesse Willis talking about audiobooks, audio drama, and cease and desist orders. We won’t desist podcasting if you won’t cease downloading them – whatever that means.

This week we talked about the most recent of Recent Arrivals, the newest of the New Releases, and the breaking news about the attempt to break Broken Sea Audio Productions‘ productions.

Topics under discussion include:

Ubik, Philip K. Dick, Joss Whedon, Dollhouse, Babylon Babies, Audible.com, audio drama, The Grist Mill, F. Paul Wilson, Charles de Lint, Robert A. Heinlein, Starman Jones, Mort Castle, Dr. Bloodmoney, Frederik Pohl, Lester del Rey, Arthur C. Clarke, 2000x, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Star Trek, Audible Frontiers, Wonder Audio, The Last Theorem, Preferred Risk, Alfred Bester, Fondly Fahrenheit, The Stars My Destination, Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, Audio Realms, Conan and Mickey Mouse.

Subscribe to the feed:

http://www.sffaudio.com/?feed=podcast

Posted by Jesse Willis

CBC Radio One’s Words At Large talks to Michael Chabon

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CBC Radio Podcast - Words At LargeThe Words At Large podcast has an interview with Michael Chabon that aired last year on CBC Radio One’s Writers & Company. The interviewer, Eleanor Wachtel, talks to Chabon about his latest novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. Here’s the description:

Part science fiction, part hardboiled whodunit, the novel takes place a world where Israel doesn’t exist. Instead, Europe’s Jewish refugees who fled the Holocaust ended up in the “temporary” safe haven of the Federal District of Sitka, in Alaska. Now, six decades later, the district is slated to return to Alaskan control, and the vibrant Yiddish community is threatened. But homicide detective Meyer Landsman’s most immediate concern is figuring out who murdered a former chess prodigy virtually right under his nose.

Chabon is the acclaimed author of seven novels, including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the Pulitzer Prize, as well as two books of short fiction and a collection of essays. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union garnered a fistful of prizes, including the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. A film adaptation of the book, to be written and directed by the Oscar-winning Coen Brothers, is currently in pre-production and is scheduled for release in 2010.

Michael Chabon spoke to Eleanor Wachtel from a studio in Oakland, California. They discuss where his love of the fantastic comes from and why he takes such pleasure in mixing up literary genres.

Have a listen |MP3| direct, or subscribe to the Writers & Company podcast feed:

http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/writersandco.xml

Posted by Jesse Willis

P.S. CBC Radio One still has Apocalypse Al under lock and key. For shame!

Red Panda novel audiobook preview

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Tales Of The Red Panda

Gregg Taylor of Decoder Ring Theater has recorded the first three chapters of his first Red Panda novel Tales of The Red Panda: The Crime Cabal! This isn’t audio drama, this is AUDIOBOOK! The print release is already available for pre-order, but I’m going to be lobbying hard for a full unabridged release. If that whole acting gig on RP doesn’t work out Taylor can begin an audiobook narrating career based on this sample alone. Check out the three chapter sneak peak audio version |MP3|.

Posted by Jesse Willis

LibriVox: The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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LibriVoxReleased just yesterday, there’s a brand new audiobook in the ever expanding LibriVox catalogue that should draw many a happy ear. Edgar Rice Burrough’s The Land That Time Forgot follows in the long tradition of literature about myserious/lost/previously unknown areas of the Earth visited by regular folks who then write about it, put it in a bottle and then cast it into the sea. In reading The Land That Time Forgot you’ll feel its roots in Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, Poe’s The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym and De Mille’s A Strange Manuscript Found In A Copper Cylinder.

LibriVox Science Fiction Audiobook - The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Land That Time Forgot
By Edgar Rice Burroughs; Read by Ralph Snelson
10 Zipped MP3s or Podcast -3 Hours 50 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: August 2008
The Land That Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Caspak” trilogy. His working title for the story was “The Lost U-Boat.” Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, the story ultimately develops into that of a fantastical lost world.

Podcast feed:

http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/the-land-that-time-forgot-by-edgar-rice-burroughs.xml

And, be sure to check out ore new EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS author page, which details as many Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobooks, audio dramas and podcasts as we could find.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Broken Sea: The Queen Of The Black Coast episode 3

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By Ishtar’s eyes! It’s the third episode of The Queen Of The Black Coast audio drama! And in this one we finally meet Belit!

Queen Of The Black Coast by Robert E. Howard AUDIO DRAMAQueen Of The Black Coast
Adapted from the story by Robert E. Howard
Performed by a full cast
Podcast – [AUDIO DRAMA]
Podcaster: Broken Sea Audio Productions
Podcast: June 2008 – ????

Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3| Part 3 |MP3|

Having survived the Sirens of Set in the dark waters of Stygia, CONAN, TITO and the crew of the ARGUS head still farther south into the waters of KUSH… And finally come into bloody conflict with the Queen of the Black Coast and her savage crew of corsairs.

Subscribe to the feed you dogs!

http://brokensea.com/conan/?feed=podcast

And, be sure to listen to the end, there’s a little preview of an upcoming BSAP audio drama based on the Mad Max and The Road Warrior series!

Posted by Jesse Willis

PodCastle – Hallah Iron-Thighs And The Change Of Life by K. D. Wentworth

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Podcastle PodCastle, the fantasy fiction podcast, has a new old/story out that has drawn my eyes, and ears… it’s a story first published in the highly arousing popularChicks N Chainmail” anthology series.

I have to disagree with Podcastle editor Rachel Swirsky though. I still think chain-mail bikinis offer more protection than she suggests. My theory is that they offer support in the places where both gravity and barbarians often attack first. Making them a kind of ‘law of diminishing returns’ kind of armour. On the other hand, I hear that the chainmail can be a bit abrasive, which clearly makes them unrealistic (and hence a perfect fit for Fantasy). Bikinis in Science Fiction though, tend to be more along the lines of the moulded and polished metal alloy type, rather than of the linked chain variety. Thus the SF bikini offers solid protection from both gropey aliens and laser beams – while still adhering to the ‘diminishing returns’ idea. So all in all, I’m for armoured bikinis in both genres.

Hallah Iron-Thighs and the Change of Life by K. D. WentworthHallah Iron-Thighs And The Change Of Life
By K.D. Wentworth; Read by M.K. Hobson
1 |MP3| – Approx. 34 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Hallah and Gerta are guarding a hymnal-seller. But why is Hallah’s armour getting so tight?

You can subscribe to the feed at:

http://feeds.escapeartists.net/PodCastle_Main

Posted by Jesse Willis