Mary Robinette Kowal is running for SFWA Secretary!

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Commentary

Mary Robinette Kowal for SFWA SecretaryMary Robinette Kowal is running for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Secretary!

Personally I don’t really care about the internal politics of the SFWA, and that’s why I support Mary. I’m a reader of SFF, not a writer of it. I just want my SFF, and I want it in my hands (and ears) with the authors of it compensated for their work. I don’t want bogus takedown notices, I don’t want committee members spreading false information. Mary is smart, tapped into the new technologies, she knows about audio rights and podcasts, and she has plans to reform the derailed SFWA committees. Mary’s is a voice found all over the net (including SFFaudio). She’s been getting Science Fiction into the ears of the consumers of it for at least a few years now, and she has related experience too. Check out her policies and plans on her blog post HERE. And if you’re a SFWA member seriously consider VOTING FOR MARY!

Posted by Jesse Willis

StarShipSofa and the BSFA

Tony

SFFaudio Online Audio

Star Ship SofaStarShipSofa 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

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams – Live! TODAY!

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GalaxyToday 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 Dragon Page Interviews John Joseph Adams

Charles

SFFaudio Online Audio

Dragon Page Cover To Cover LogoThe 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

Tony

SFFaudio Online Audio

Star Ship SofaStarShipSofa 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.

Subscribe to the podcast via this feed:www.starshipsofa.com/rss

Posted by Tony C. Smith