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.
Planet B
“Opening episode of Radio 7’s new major science fiction series, set in a virtual universe of infinite possibility.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hxnfg
Rendezvous With Rama
Part 1 of 2
By Arthur C Clarke
Dramatised by Mike Walker
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/classic_serial.shtml
[Thanks Rich!]
Posted by Jesse Willis
I just noticed that Conlan Press has unabridged audio written and read by Peter S. Beagle:
A Fine and Private Place
By Peter S. Beagle, Read by Peter S. Beagle
MP3 Download – 8 hours 40 minutes – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Conlan Press
Published: ?
The Last Unicorn
By Peter S. Beagle, Read by Peter S. Beagle
MP3 Download – 7 hours 20 minutes – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Conlan Press
Published: ?
I couldn’t find a description of either book on the site. It looks like the MP3 download versions are available, but hardcopy MP3-CD and Audio CD version are not available, but will be in the future. Click through the covers of the books – Conlan Press lets you test drive the audiobooks! Download the first two chapters of each novel for free.
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
The SFFaudio Podcast #027 – Jesse and Scott are joined by Rick Jackson (The Time Traveler). Today we talk about new audiobooks, the ongoing CONAN situation, and libraries. Should libraries be renting Zunes to patrons?
Talked about on today’s show:
Ted Chiang, Eclipse 2, Blackstone Audio, The Green Hills Of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein, Apollo 8, Brotherhood Of The Wolf by David Farland, Bellewether by Connie Willis, Corsair by Clive Cussler, James Bond is fantasy?, Quantum Of Solace, Sahara, coming from Wonder Audio… The Fabulous Clipjoint by Frederic Brown, Tantor Media doing Robert E. Howard audiobooks, Conan Properties International versus Broken Sea Audio, New Zealand’s new copyright legislation, reductio ad absurdum, copyrights and trademarks, Clark Ashton Smith, downloading audiobooks through libraries, WMA format, Overdrive vs. NetLibrary, PC Gamer Podcast – ‘X-Box 360, Wii and Playstation 3 are giant DRM keys’, libraries rent DVDs?, ‘government shouldn’t be doing what business can do’.
Posted by Jesse Willis
The Adventures of Indiana Jim has a couple of author interviews:
Joshua Palmatier |MP3|
Scott Sigler |Part 1| |Part 2|
You can subscribe to the feed at http://feeds2.feedburner.com/aij
Posted by Charles Tan
The Agony Column covers the recent SF in SF:
Michael Boatman reading |MP3|
Deborah Gradien reading |MP3|
Terry Bisson, Deborah Gradien, and Michael Boatman panel discussion |MP3|
You can subscribe to the feed at this URL:
http://bookotron.com/agony/indexes/tac_podcast.xml
Posted by Charles Tan
Jesse has been busy with his Conan ranting, so he asked me to pass this along to folks directly.
Two original SFFaudio Challenge titles, The Black Star Passes and Star Surgeon, are now available on a single mp3 data disc. Both audiobooks are slightly remastered versions of the audio files which are still available for free download at Podiobooks.com and LibriVox. So this data disc version is for folks that want to save some download time. It does come in DVD style packaging and also includes a little 8 page booklet with information about both books, biographies of the authors, and a chapter/filename index. Asking price is $10 (U.S.), and it’s going to a good cause…. Um…. Yeah… That would be me…
Thanks, and happy listening!
Posted by composerscott