Dragon Page: Cover To Cover has a new interview with T.A. Pratt (Dead Reign).
Have a listen direct |MP3| or subscribe to their podcast:
http://www.dragonpage.com/podcastC2C.xml
Posted by Charles Tan
George R. R. Martin, Lovecraft, and Ursula K. le Guin
Wisconsin Public Radio has an interview with George R. R. Martin, Ursula K. le Guin, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., and an excerpt from “The Call of Cthulhu”. The caveat of course is that you’ll need Realplayer to listen to the recording. |link|
Posted by Charles Tan
Recent Arrivals from Penguin Audio
Who knew Jim Butcher wrote epic fantasy, too? Narrated by Kate Reading.
For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies – elementals of earth, air, fire, water, and metal. But now, Gaius Sextus, First Lord of Alera, grows old and lacks an heir. Ambitious High Lords plot and maneuver to place their Houses in positions of power, and a war of succession looms on the horizon.” “Far from city politics in the Calderon Valley, the boy Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. At fifteen, he has no wind fury to help him fly, no fire fury to light his lamps. Yet as the Alerans’ most savage enemy – the Marat – return to the Valley, he will discover that his destiny is much greater than he could ever imagine.” Caught in a storm of deadly wind furies, Tavi saves the life of a runaway slave named Amara. But she is actually a spy for Gaius Sextus, sent to the Valley to gather intelligence on traitors to the Crown, who may be in league with the barbaric Marat horde. And when the Valley erupts in chaos – when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies – Amara will find Tavi’s courage and resourcefulness to be a power greater than any fury – one that could turn the tides of war.
Furies of Calderon: Book 1 of Codex Alera
By Jim Butcher; Read by Kate Reading
16 CDs – 20 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Published: 2008
ISBN: 9780143143765
Academ’s Fury: Book 2 of Codex Alera
By Jim Butcher; Read by Kate Reading
17 CDs – 21 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Published: 2008
ISBN: 9780143143772
Cursor’s Fury: Book 3 of Codex Alera
By Jim Butcher; Read by Kate Reading
16 CDs – 21 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Published: 2008
ISBN: 9780143143789
Princep’s Fury: Book 5 of Codex Alera
By Jim Butcher; Read by Kate Reading
14 CDs – 18 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Published: 2008
ISBN: 9780143143758
I’m aware that Book 4 is missing off this list – it’s called Captain’s Fury, and it wasn’t sent so I don’t have a nice cover scan. Beautiful covers, eh? Like always, click on the covers for a closer look.
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
The SFFaudio Podcast #014
The SFFaudio Podcast #014 – Plenty of exciting jibber jabber for you today. It’s a good show, as long as you define good very narrowly.
Talked about on today’s show:
Wall-E, our infamous Wall-E is a criminal post, Bolt, Bill C-61, Brian Murphy‘s review of The Halloween Tree, Poe’s Children, StarShipSofa’s Richard K. Morgan interview, Hour 25, converting m3u into MP3, Coeur de Lion‘s podcast, the difference between “mainstream fiction”, “literary fiction” and “slipstream fiction”, Peter Straub, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Michael Crichton, James Wallace Harris’ post about Science Fiction as a religion, A Man In Full, Tom Wolfe, Mike Resnick’s Starship series, space opera, David Brin, Startide Rising, the impenetrable Kelly Link, evolution in art, William Gibson‘s literary journey, Charles Stross is for connoisseurs of SF, modern painting’s inaccessibility: Voice of Fire, on an child’s SF education: give them Heinlein, Bradbury and Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, The Call Of The Wild, Goosebumps, Gaiman’s signed poster deal, converting children to my religion: treating books with reverence, audio drama: Johnny Chase: Agent Of Space, review of Queen Of The Black Coast, amateur and professional audio drama, Colonial Radio Theatre vs. Broken Sea Audio Productions.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Hour Of The Dragon by Robert E. Howard
From the generous efforts of Morgan Saletta and his pick from the 2nd Annual SFFaudio Challenge here is Chapter 1 |MP3| of the only Conan novel written by Robert E. Howard himself! To listen in as the rest of the short novel gets recorded check out the blog/podcast for it HERE.
Hour Of The Dragon
By Robert E. Howard; Read by Morgan Saletta
Podcast – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcast: Dragon Hour / The Hour of the Dragon
Podcaster: November 2008 – ????
Follow Conan and his struggle to overcome the dark necromancy that has cast him from the throne he won! Quake at the dark and evil arts wielded against him in this chapter by chapter audiobook production of Robert E. Howard’s The Hour of the Dragon. The original work was published in four parts in Wierd Tales from December 1935 to April 1936, and later appeared as Conan the Conqueror (1950).
Podcast feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHourOfTheDragon
Posted by Jesse Willis
New Release – Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick, read by Rudnicki
Mr. Spaceship
By Philip K. Dick; Read by Stefan Rudnicki
72 min.- [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Wonder Audio
Published: 2008
The war continues as a stalemate. The Yucconae, an alien race, are living organisms that can traverse outer space. The Earth’s drone rockets do not have a chance against the flexibility of a living organisms.
Working in a military research facility, Kramer comes up with a system of installing a man’s brain as the central processor of a rocket. Since a pilot could not withstand the pressures of deep space flight, a willing sacrifice will need to be made. Kramer’s ex-wife, Dolores, remembers an old professor, Professor Thomas, that she and Kramer had attended in college. Professor Thomas is near the end of his lifespan. His mind is still agile, and it is agreed that it is his mind that will go into the rocket. The plan is for the brain to be alive but not conscious inside the rocket.
But things don’t go as they should as some last minute modification allows Professor Thomas to return to consciousness and fully control the ship. And it’s not in the Professor’s plans to be a pawn to the Earth’s military.
Available at Audible and iTunes.
Posted by The Time Traveler of the Time Traveler Show