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.

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Posted by Tony C. Smith

UPDATED Author Pages

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Meta SFFaudioHey! 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

StarShipSofa and the BSFA

Tony

SFFaudio Online Audio

Star Ship SofaStarShipSofa and the BSFA have teamed up to bring you the five short stories that are up for Best Short Story 2007. Each day this week StarShipSofa will release one of the short stories. Last one goes up Friday.

These are the stories that have been shortlisted for the 2007 Award:

  • ‘Lighting Out’ – Ken MacLeod (disLocations)
  • ‘Terminal’ – Chaz Brenchley (disLocations)
  • ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate’ – Ted Chiang (F&SF, September)
  • ‘The Gift of Joy’ – Ian Whates (TQR)
  • ‘The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter’ – Alastair Reynolds (Interzone #209)

So, join the StarShipSofa everyday this week, subscribe for free via iTunes or direct from the StarShipSofa website and collect all five short stories that are up for the award. Then… why not join Tony the week after and see if you and he can pick the winner.

 

FIRST off is Chaz Brenchley narrating his own story Terminal
unspeakable journeys, into and out of the light

He stood on the Tower of Souls, and watched her fly.

Say it another way, he stood on the high-stacked bodies of his Upshot kind, but that was nothing: filing. Bureaucracy. Paranoia.

It was the locals, the natives, the dirigibles – she called them dirigistes, but that was ironic – who had built and named this height, who gave a value to these discards. Black discs, each one identical, each one uniquely coded: each one the residue of a human passing through. A carbon footprint, she liked to say.
Blast Off!

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Posted by Tony C. Smith