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.
On December 20th, Steampod is happy to release its first X-mas story. This will be the first fiction sell of J. Dan Sawyer of Literary Abominations. Please check out Cold Duty, available on December 20, 2008. Find it at Steampod.org.
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Posted by Chris Moody
Tor.com has a lot of downloadable short stories on audio. The latest to catch my eye is an SF novelette written (and read?) by Brandon Sanderson!
This was Sanderson’s first published work. The Tor.com email newsletter describes it as…
“out-and-out science fiction… SF like it used to be.”
Firstborn
By Brandon Sanderson; Read by Brandon Sanderson (?)
1 |MP3| – Approx. 74 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Tor.com
Published: December 2008
“…a tale of war and sibling rivalry…”
Posted by Jesse Willis
Selected Radiophonic Works
BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Saturday, Dec. 20
8pm & 3am GMT
A selection of programmes showcasing the work of the Radiophonic Workshop, which provided music and sound for many BBC (radio & TV) programmes. Includes The Dreams, The Goons and Bath Time.
Most will be familiar with the Radiophonic Workshop’s Doctor Who theme, as well as sfx work for Doctor Who and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio and television series.
Note: Selected Radiophonic Works will be available online for six days, through Dec. 26.
Posted by RC of Radio Tales of the Strange & Fantastic
BBC7 Describes their end of the year offering as: “William Gibson’s cult sci-fi thriller of a woman employed by multi-national companies to test new brands.” Unfortunately their reading of Pattern Recognition is abridged, and not “sci-fi” (or even Science Fiction really – |READ OUR REVIEW| of the unabridged version). Still, Gibson is a great stylist with some amazing ideas. This recording was previously broadcast in October of 2007.
A better year end gift for British subjects (and Earthlings in general) would be for the BBC to change its letters in 2009 to BPC (the British Podcasting Corporation). Come to think of it, a CPC (Canadian Podcasting Corporation) would be a great idea too.
Pattern Recognition
By William Gibson; Read by Lorelei King
5 Parts – Approx. 150 Minutes [ABRIDGED]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 7
Broadcast: Monday 29th December 2008 – Friday 2nd January 2009
“William Gibson’s cult sci-fi thriller of a woman employed by multi-national companies to test new brands.”
Posted by Jesse Willis
Aural Delights No 55 Ben Bova mp3 Listen here!
Editorial: Tony C Smith 02:33
Poetry: How I will Outwit the Time Thieves by Mike Allen 07:30
Flash Fiction: Magician by Jeff VanderMeer 13:30
The Sofanauts Awards: by Mark Bormann 47:05
Main Fiction: Inspiration by Ben Bova 54:20
Narrators: Chrispy, Mark Nelson, Annette Bowman
The Sofanauts Awards Click Here to Vote!
MAIN FICTION
The Merchant And The Alchemist’s Gate – Ted Chiang)
The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter – Alastair Reynolds
Little Girl Down The Way – Lawrence Santoro
London Bone – Michael Moorcock
Tideline – Elizabeth Bear
FLASH FICTION
In The Olden Days – Spider Robinson
What’s Expected Of Us – Ted Chiang
The Switch – Tony C Smith
Reality 2.0 – Ian Creasey
Godzilla’s 12 Step Program – Joe R Lansdale
BEST POETRY CONTRIBUTOR
Bruce Boston
Laurel Winter
Samantha Henderson
BEST FACT ARTICLE CONTRIBUTOR
Amy H Sturgis
Jim Campanella
Matthew Sanborn Smith
Cory Doctorow
BEST NARRATOR
Amy H Sturgis
Jim Campanella
Lawrence Santoro
Spider Robinson
MCL
VOTE NOW!
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Posted by Tony C. Smith
Sam Mowry from the WILLAMETTE RADIO WORKSHOP is the narrator for the latest audio offering from Subterranean Online magazine. That’s good news to people who know his work, and good news to everyone else too because they get to hear it now if that hadn’t previously. Check this out…
Thousandth Night
By Alastair Reynolds; Read by Sam A. Mowry
16 MP3s – Approx. 2 Hours 54 Minutes ???????? [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Subterranean Online
Published: December 2008
Thousandth Night is a tale, the best in modern space opera. Fans of Alastair Reynolds’ work will notice some strong similarities between it and his most recent novel, House of Suns, which grew out of this novella.
Intro |MP3|
Part 01 |MP3| Part 02 |MP3| Part 03 |MP3| Part 04 |MP3| Part 05 |MP3|
Part 06 |MP3| Part 07 |MP3| Part 08 |MP3| Part 09 |MP3| Part 10 |MP3|
Part 11 |MP3| Part 12 |MP3| Part 13 |MP3| Part 14 |MP3| Part 15 |MP3|
Posted by Jesse Willis