Dragon Page: Cover To Cover has a new interview with Joe Abercrombie (Last Argument of Kings).
Have a listen direct |MP3| or subscribe to their podcast:
http://www.dragonpage.com/podcastC2C.xml
Posted by Charles Tan
The Agony Column Features Kage Baker, Richard Bottoms, Joe R. Lansdale, Rudy Rucker from SF in SF
The Agony Column has a couple of new recordings from the recent SF in SF:
Kage Baker, Terry Bisson, Richard Bottoms, Joe R. Lansdale, and Rudy Rucker panel discussion |MP3|
Richard Bottoms intro |MP3|
Kage Baker reading |MP3|
You can subscribe to the feed at this URL:
http://trashotron.com/agony/indexes/tac_podcast.xml
Posted by Charles Tan
METAtropolis sample
“Cascadiapoplis,” it sounds like some fictional city between Vancouver and Seattle. Which is appropriate given Michael Hogan’s Vancouver accent (Hogan is originally from Ontario, but his accent sounds Vancouver).
|MP3|
In what I think is the first ever pre-order for an audio exclusive title, Audible.com is offering an immediate novella download for those who Pre-order METAtropolis (set to release on October 21st). By pre-ordering you’ll get the opening novella, In the Forests of the Night by Jay Lake, delivered to your Audible Library immediately. Then, on October 21, 2008, they’ll automatically drop the full, nine-hour audiobook (one download with all five exclusive novellas) into your Audible Library.
Posted by Jesse Willis
from ASTOUNDING: A Transmutation Of Muddles by Horace Brown Fyfe
From the pages of Astounding Science Fiction’s September 1960 issue comes a workmanlike SF story from one of the minor pitchers of SF. Horace Brown Fyfe (aka Andrew MacDuff) seems to have gotten just 15 or so his SF tales into Astounding over the years. The narrator, on the other hand, has a prolific website, and has even written and recorded his own tales including one about Alex a ‘half parrot and half penguin’ who travels from Tierra del Fuego to an Antarctic island inhabited by ancient Egyptians who hail him as their god incarnate (which reminds me of an episode of Tales Of The Gold Monkey). Here’s the story, read by Roy Trumbull, that caught my ears…
A Transmutation Of Muddles
By Horace Brown Fyfe; Read by Roy Trumbull
2 MP3s – Approx. 39 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: StorySpieler.com
Published: 2008?
A judge is sent to a distant planet to mediate between a spaceship captain and an insurance adjuster. The natives have seized the captain’s spaceship as a gift from the great god Meeg and are turning it into a temple dedicated to Meeg.
Part 1 |MP3| Part 2 |MP3|
Check out plenty more tales, read by the same dude, over on the StorySpieler website HERE.
Posted by Jesse Willis
SWEET sound version of To Build A Fire by Jack London
LoudLit.org has a sweetly sounding version of Jack London’s classic short story To Build A Fire available for your listening pleasure. I’ve argued this tale is Hard Science Fiction. Even if you don’t agree (you dope), you’ll have to agree that it’s still an awesome story and in the same vein as Tom Godwin’s The Cold Equations. Hard SF set in the Yukon is there anything cooler?
To Build A Fire
By Jack London; Read by Gregg Dugan
1 |MP3| – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LoudLit.org
Published: June 2007
And, after listening check out the terrific commentary for this awesome story over on JackLondons.net.
By the way, in an interesting twist on alternative economic models LoudLit.org appears to use what I’ll call the “happy hostage” model of audiobook production. They record the productions, then release bits of them as the ransom donations come in. Currently ransomed is The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Orthopedic Horseshoes-Virtually a virtual mini-convention
Orthopedic Horseshoes are Herb Kauderer and Alan Katerinsky. It’s a podcast where they talk about things and talk to people, or as they say “A show where cranky old men discourse on American Society and media.” I listened to their last podcast entitled “Putting Lipstick on a Science Fiction Convention” and didn’t find them cranky at all. Here’s what it’s about:
The episode features interviews with Anne Cecil about starting a convention, renowned SF author William Tenn (Philip Klass) about Theodore Sturgeon, and Nebula-winning author Mary Turzillo about her poetry collections Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, and Dragon Soup.
Cohosts Herb & Al try to capture the flavor of a Science Fiction convention by bringing their interviews from Confluence 2008. They also discuss filking, science, socializing, the hospitality suite, “Betelgeuse Bridge,” and NESFA Press.
I can vouch for the total righteousness of William Tenn and for NESFA Press.
Posted by The Time Traveler of the Time Traveler Show