Written by Frederik Pohl, in a single evening, in 1966. Here’s an “experimental video” with Frederik Pohl reading his story:
There’s a complete unabridged narration available HERE too.
Posted by Jesse Willis
The Galactic Suburbia podcast vs. The SFSignal Podcast
Galactic Suburbia is a podcast out of Australia that’s hosted by Alisa, Tansy and Alex. They’re three women from Perth, Hobart and Melbourne respectively. Alisa contacted me after hearing my comment, that I’m always looking for new podcasts on SF Signal Podcast Episode 70. She wrote:
I noticed that not very many women podcasts, nor podcasts aimed at or interesting to women, came up in discussion. I thought I might let you know about the Galactic Suburbia Podcast, of which I am a member of the audio team. We are a group of women talking about SF publishing and news, with a feminist lean. I am particularly proud of one of our recent episodes which was a tribute to the late Joanna Russ [episode 36] The Spoilerific Book Club: Joanna Russ
I’m not a fiction writer, don’t have any interest in publishing or the publishing business, but I found some value there. One story in particular in Episode 36, about Samuel R. Delany and his wife Marilyn Hacker (and their pockets) was absolutely masterful. Unlike SFSignal’s podcast, which is short, Galactic Suburbia is a long format discussion podcast, with shows regularly running near the two hour mark.
In their latest show, Episode 38, they talk about SFSignal Mind Meld titled: “What’s The Importance of ‘The Russ Pledge’ For Science Fiction Today?” and Alisa makes the argument that there’s a gender bias at SFSignal. Later, she brings up the specific SFSignal Episode #70, the one I was in, and … well … here’s a clip of both segments (first from SFSignal, then from Galactic Suburbia) back to back |MP3|. Here are the full files for both:
SFSignal #70 |MP3|
Galactic Suburbia #38 |MP3|
Podcast feed:
http://web.me.com/aifinch/TPP/Galactic_Suburbia/rss.xml
iTunes feed:
itpc://web.me.com/aifinch/TPP/Galactic_Suburbia/rss.xml
Episodes not in the feeds are available HERE.
Posted by Jesse Willis
LibriVox: The Point Of Honor by Joseph Conrad
First published in Pall Mall Magazine, along with an H.G. Wells novel and a Jack London short story, The Point Of Honor is a Joseph Conrad novella that had its genesis in the real duels that two French Hussar officers fought in the Napoleonic era. Their names were Dupont and Fournier, which Conrad disguised slightly, changing Dupont into D’Hubert and Fournier into Feraud.
The Point Of Honor (aka The Duel)
By Joseph Conrad; Read by Mark F. Smith
4 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 3 Hours 29 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: May 18, 2008
Two French Hussar officers, D’Hubert and Feraud, quarrel over an initially minor incident that eventually turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. At the beginning, Feraud is the one who jealously guards his honor and repeatedly demands satisfaction anew when a duelling encounter ends inconclusively; he aggressively pursues every opportunity to locate and duel his foe. As the story progresses, D’Hubert also finds himself caught up in the contest, unable to back down or walk away. Pall Mall Magazine’s January, February, March, April and May 1908 issues.
Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3| Part 3 |MP3| Part 4 |MP3|
Podcast feed: http://librivox.org/bookfeeds/the-point-of-honor-by-joseph-conrad.xml
iTunes 1-click |SUBSCRIBE|
Here’s are the William Russell Flint illustrations from the original magazine serialization:
Here’s the trailer for The Duellists (1977) :
[Thanks also to ConradFirst.net and Live At The Heartbreak Lounge]
Posted by Jesse Willis
Stefan Kaminski performs Kong! (in Deutsch)
German audiobook narrator Stefan Kaminski performs a one man audio dramatization of Kong! (adapted from Merion C. Cooper’s King Kong) in this making of video:
For more information on the vibrant German audio industry check out SFFaudio Podcast #021 in which we talk to Carsten Schmitt about audio drama and the German audiobook industry.
[via AudioBookCommunity.com]
Posted by Jesse Willis
SFSignal Podcast (Episode 070): Panel Discussion of Favorite Podcasts
SFSignal Podcast #70 features me and six other folks very quickly discussing Science Fiction (and other) podcasts. Unfortunately I think a lot of the best stuff came after the actual podcast ended. At least that’s the part of the discussion I enjoyed most. As a part of that I also invited Matthew Sanborn Smith to participate in an upcoming new releases and recent arrivals podcast.
In episode 70 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester asks our irregulars: Do you listen to podcasts? Which ones, and do you listen to fiction podcasts?
Have a listen |MP3| or subscribe: http://www.sfsignal.com/podcast.xml
I took notes and think I got most of the podcasts that were mentioned:
Me:
–The Cthulhu podcast
–Lightspeed magazine podcast
–Forgotten Classics
–The Science Fiction Book Review Podcast
–Gweek
–HuffDuffer.com
Fred Kiesche (of the Lensmen’s Children blog):
–Escape Pod
–Beware Of The Hairy Mango
–The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast
–The History Of Rome
–Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
–The Incomparable! podcast
–Geek Life
–Writing Excuses
–Adventures In SciFi Publishing
–The Tolkien Professor
–The D6 Generation
–The Nerdist
–The Command Line
–Living Proof Brewcast
–365 Days Of Astronomy
–Spark
–Quirks And quarks
–The Naked Scientist
Jeff Patterson (of the Gravity Lens blog):
–The Nerdist
-The Doctor Who Cast
–RiffTracks
–Changesurfer Radio
John DeNardo (of SFSignal.com):
–Functional Nerds
–Beware Of The Hairy Mango
–Notes From Coode Street
–StarShip Sofa
–The Skiffy And Fanty Show
Paul Weimer (of Blog, Jvstin Style):
–Russian Rulers Podcast
–Ancient Rome Refocused
–Heatflash
–the Speculate! Podcast
–Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me
–Three Moves Ahead
Matthew Sanborn Smith (of Beware Of The Hairy Mango podcast):
–StarShip Sofa
–The Tobolowsky Files
–Tank Riot
–Around Comics
–RadioLab
–Lightspeed
–The New Yorker Fiction Podcast
–Luke’s Creative Podcast
–Dunesteef
–Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas
–I Should Be Writing
Patrick Hester (of SFSignal.com):
–Seattle Geekly
–Dragon Page
–Adam Carolla
–Slice Of SciFi
–The Babylon Podcast
–The Geekdad
–Mac Tech Break
–Podiobooks.com
Posted by Jesse Willis
The SFFaudio Podcast #119
The SFFaudio Podcast #119 – Scott, Jesse and Tamahome talk to author Paul Malmont about his novel The Astounding, The Amazing, And The Unknown.
Talked about on today’s show:
The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, Jack London In Paradise, Hawaii, The Iron Heel by Jack London, the rise of the oligarchy, The Washington Post review of The Astounding, The Amazing, And The Unknown, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, L. Ron Hubbard, the Philadelphia Experiment, the movie The Philadelphia Experiment, “a psuedo-historical event” vs. “a cultural phenomena”, legend, John W. Campbell, Astounding Science Fiction, Unknown (magazine), Kamikaze pilots vs. the Kamikaze group, L. Sprague de Camp, chemistry, Orange Nehi, the Tunguska event, Nikola Tesla, the Wardenclyffe Tower, historical fiction, meta-science fiction, Walter B. Gibson, Lester Dent, H.P. Lovecraft, the “hero pulps” vs. science fiction pulps, The Shadow, Doc Savage, L. Ron Hubbard as a tragic hero, Dianetics, an atomic age religion, Virginia Heinlein, Janet Asimov, Gertrude Asimov, “The robot felt…”, using social networks to promote a novel, Frank Herbert, Aleutian Islands, the Manhattan Project, Cleve Cartmill and the atomic bomb, The Green Hills Of Earth, Tim Powers, “twenty weird true things”, Murdoch Mysteries, the AC DC wars, remixing modern historical fiction, Iain M. Banks, mash-ups, The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril has zombies, the TVO interview with Walter B. Gibson, magic, In Search Of….
Posted by Jesse Willis