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.
ABC Radio National, Australia’s public radio broadcaster, is airing a reading of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. All 15 parts are going to be available via online audio, but no podcast is available. Start HERE. The reader is William Zappa.
Posted by Jesse Willis
StarShipSofa and the BSFA are back for Day Three. Today it is UK SF writer Ian Whates with his story The Gift Of Joy. Two more stories to go this week then you have all five that are up for the BSFA Best Short Story 2007.
Conrad sauntered into Lacey’s bar and took his accustomed place on one of the high stools, which settled with a disconcerting lurch. He wriggled in an effort to find a more stable base, causing the stool’s feet to scrape against the mock-wood beneath with teeth-jarring effect. Roach glanced up to favour him with a sour look that bisected a smile and a grimace – his customary form of greeting.
So, join the StarShipSofa today and subscribe free via iTunes or direct from the StarShipSofa website and collect all five short stories that are up for the award.
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Posted by Tony C. Smith
Today at 7:30 pm, a 30th anniversary live performance of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will be performed by the surviving members of the original cast. The original program first aired on BBC Radio 4 on March 8th 1978. The new performance takes place at the Royal Geographical Society, South Kensington, London. The performance will follow the “Sixth Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture” which is being given by Steven Pinker. His lecture is titled “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature”.
Those in the audience for a new edition to the cast, Roger Gregg, from Crazy Dog Audio Theatre!
Royal Geographical Society
South Kensington, London.
Wednesday 12 March 2008
7:30 pm
[via Lit Between The Ears]
Posted by Jesse Willis
The latest Dragon Page Cover To Cover podcast features an interview with editor John Joseph Adams on the anthology Wastelands.
You can download the |MP3| directly or subscribe to the show’s XML feed:
http://www.dragonpage.com/podcastC2C.xml
Posted by Charles Tan
StarShipSofa and the BSFA are back for Day Two in their week long run of releasing narrated versions of the Best Short Story Nominees for 2007.
Today is the turn of Ken MacLeod with his story Lighting Out. This story first appeared in the anthology disLocations.
Mother had got into the walls again. Constance Mukgatle kept an eye on her while scrabbling at the back of her desk drawer for the Norton. Her fingers closed around the grip and the trigger. She withdrew the piece slowly, nudging the drawer farther open with the heel of her hand. Then she whipped out the bell-muzzled device and levelled it at the face that had sketched itself in ripples in the paint of her study.
Narrated by Diane Severson Mori
So, join the StarShipSofa today and subscribe free via iTunes or direct from the StarShipSofa website and collect all five short stories that are up for the award.
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Posted by Tony C. Smith
Hey! Check out the newly revised Author Pages – there you’ll find links to hours and hours of FREE LISTENING.
For the H.P. LOVECRAFT page we’ve added the links to more than THIRTY online audiobooks, novellas, short stories and articles in the MP3 format.
ANDRE NORTON’s page includes several full length novels and a few short stories.
ALAN E. NOURSE’s page has one novel, three short stories, and two radio dramas.
Posted by Jesse Willis