Cossmass Infinities On the Air

Scott D.

SFFaudio Online Audio

Cossmass Infinities, a new monthly science fiction and fantasy podcast magazine is now available!

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Fluff and Buttons on the Teddy Bear Range
Written by Matthew Sanborn Smith
Read by Paul W Campbell

Death comes swiftly on the teddy bear range when the night devils’ silhouettes mar the purpling sky. I shiver in the chill nightfall. Muffin turns his back to me, lights a cigarette as if to ward off the darkness.

“Get the little ones inside,” I say. “We’re burning the fires bright tonight.”

At our feet, the wind blew in a piece of red yarn tangled in a few strands of yellow fur. After a quiet couple of weeks the bastards are feeding again.

We’re looking forward to great stuff from this one, which is produced and published by Paul W Cambell at Cossmass Productions.

Cossmass Infinities Podcast Feed: http://cossmass.co.uk/series/infinities/feed

Posted by Scott D. Danielson

Lois McMaster Bujold AUDIOBOOKS

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Lois McMaster BujoldScott and I were thinking about posting about Lois McMaster Bujold on the same day! We had a mental arm wrestle over who should do it – Scott won the fight, but being the generous dude he is he conceded me the privilege of posting it anyway.

So:

Scott wanted to tell you that ALL the Vorkosigan novels are now available from Blackstone Audio. I expect they will also release the three other novellas Bujold has published in the series – I’m also hoping they will add the one Vorkosigan short story to that collection too.

Me, I wanted to tell you about our new LOIS McMASTER BUJOLD sub-page! I made it! I’ve gathered up a listing of every LMcMB audiobook we’ve ever posted about, added a few more we haven’t – added an interview from a podcast and generally made a big list of Lois McMaster Bujold audio. Check it out |HERE|.

Posted by Jesse Willis

AudibleLive Chat with Dean Koontz about Relentless

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Dean Koontz chats with his readers about his new novel Relentless (available through Audible.com and Brilliance Audio) in this AudibleLive chat with Dean Koontz…

After viewing this interview/chat I am reminded about why I don’t like most interviewers. Questions like: “What was your motivation when…” and the old classic “where do your ideas come from?” are almost worthless. The problem is that author’s don’t often seem very insightful into their writing process. Koontz manages his best with these questions, but the answers are most interesting when he is telling you a story about something that happened to him.

[via Audible.com’s Twitter feed]

Posted by Jesse Willis

SFBRP: Six Fantasy novels read in 2009 reviewed

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

The Science Fiction Book Review Podcast In his latest show Luke Burrage, of the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast, is shotgun reviewing the six Fantasy novel he read in 2009. The novels are:

A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Warbreaker and Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan
Shadowmagic by John Lenahan
The Warrior-Prophet by R. Scott Bakker

Have a listen |MP3| or subscribe to the feed:

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

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And, if you haven’t heard it already, be sure to check out Luke’s previous show, which is a very compelling review of Anathem by Neal Stephenson |MP3|!

Posted by Jesse Willis

Clarkesworld: The Things by Peter Watts

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Kate Baker, who does podcasty things for StarShipSofa, is also in charge of Clarkesworld Magazine‘s podcast. She’s all excited about one of the stories in the latest issues. Sez Baker:

So I can’t really contain my excitement on this one. Peter Watts is one of the nicest people I’ve had the pleasure of meeting. I got to briefly chat with him after a reading he did of “The Things” at Worldcon. He had only read part of the fantastic story but it was too late. I was hooked. I wanted more.

As I say in the few minutes before the story gets going on the podcast, you can imagine my utter delight and many squees when Neil [Clarke] told me we were putting up the story for January. What a way to start 2010!

Without sounding like a total fangirl here, this story is awesome on so many levels. With anything in the written or spoken word, your imagination has to do all the work. Once the writer and/or narrator start laying the canvas, it’s ultimately how you arrange the paint in your head. The artists give you the broad strokes. This story is almost an Alfred Hitchcock approach to imagery, by dancing around the grotesque, your mind is left to make up the difference. Wholly more terrifying in parts if you ask me. Words cue mental pictures and depending on your life experiences, there are moments within “The Things” which send shivers up your delicate spine and invite introspection. Peter has the gift of making me question what it really means to be human.

I hope you’ll go read or listen to this month’s Clarkesworld Magazine. You won’t be disappointed. As always — please let comments on both stories and podcasts.

Clarkesworld Magazine #40The Things
By Peter Watts; Read by Kate Baker
1 |MP3| – Approx. 54 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Clarkesworld Magazine (issue #40)
Podcast: January 2010

Podcast feed: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/?feed=podcast

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Posted by Jesse Willis