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.
Doc from the Heroes of Science Fiction and Fantasy podcast sez he’ll be at Wondercon (Feb 22nd-24th 2008) in San Francisco at “small press table #39.”
Heroes of Science Fiction and Fantasy covers “science fiction and fantasy heroes of movies, television, novels, and comics.” This is an iTunes only podcast. Doc’s show is an ecclectic mix of books, movies and TV SFF.
Posted by Jesse Willis
ClonePod is a new short fiction podcast that has modeled itself on Escape Pod. The major difference, ClonePod is run by middle schoolers!
Check it out via their podcast feed:
http://www.clonepod.org/feed/
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Maureen O’Brien, of the Maria Lectrix podcast, may be the hardest working narrator in podcasting, she has started recording yet another novel, The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt. Maureen sez of it:
“Fantasy and horror in the South Seas! This 1919 classic influenced many writers and filmmakers, including the creators of the TV show Lost and the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. Abraham Merritt was a journalist, editor, and pulp writer. He died in 1943. His novels Burn, Witch, Burn! and Seven Footprints to Satan have been adapted into movies.”
This was A. Merritt’s first novel and it was written in two parts. The first was called “The Moon Pool” it appeared June 22, 1919 in the early pulp called All-Story Weekly. Merritt followed up the successful tale with a longer sequel, “The Conquest of the Moon Pool,” which appeared in six installments starting February 15, 1919. Later they were combined to form the novel below…
The Moon Pool
By A. Merritt; Read by Maureen O’Brien
35 MP3 Files – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Maria Lectrix
Podcast: January 2008 –
Dr. Walter T. Goodwin is sailing on the Southern Queen back to New York, after a botanical expedition to the d’Entrecasteaux Islands when he meets his old friend, Dr. David Throckmartin. Throckmartin looking haunted, relates a tale of disaster and death during an expedition on the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. On the island of Ponape they found a strange stone door which…
You can download the MP3 files directly from the Internet Archive page for it or subscribe to the fantasy podcast feed:
http://marialectrix.wordpress.com/category/fiction/fantasy/feed/
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The Orbit Books blog has announced that iTunes UK is offering a “Pre-Release Audiobook” of Matter by Iain M. Banks. This is the complete, unabridged version. Its priced at £21.95. The abridged hardcopy CD version streets February 7th 2008. No word on a North American release for the unabridged version yet.
[via SFSignal.com]
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Audiofile magazine’s February/March 2008 issue has designated an “earphones award” for an audiobook reviewed by SFFaudio’s own cool guy Scott Danielson.
Scott wrote, among other things, of Variable Star (by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson)…
“The novel is full of philosophical insight, exploding things, and space travel.”
Cool!
Also reviewed in this issue are…
Dune Messiah – The Dune Chronicles, Book Two
By Frank Herbert; Read by Scott Brick, Katherine Kellgren, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, et al.
Slan
By A.E. Van Vogt; Read by Oliver Wyman
A Civil Campaign
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Grover Gardner
Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
By Philip K. Dick; Read by Scott Brick
His Majesty’s Dragon – Temeraire, Book 1
By Naomi Novik; Read by Simon Vance
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Ravens Of Avalon
By Diana L. Paxson; Read by Lorna Raver
Empire
By Orson Scott Card; Read by Stefan Rudnicki, Orson Scott Card
As She Climbed Across The Table
By Jonathan Lethem; Read by David Aaron Baker
Girl In Landscape
By Jonathan Lethem; Read by David Aaron Baker
And over in the Mystery/Suspense section you’ll find a review of…
The Wheel of Darkness
By Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child; Read by Rene Auberjonois
In the audio theatre section…
Infinite Crisis: Part 2 (Superman, Batman, Wonderwoman)
By Greg Cox (and DC Comics); Performed by a Full Cast
There are a few other SFFaudio related reviews in their too! Audiofile magazine isn’t available on any newstand or specialty bookstore that I’ve seen here in Canada, but it is available by subscription, and may be available on some newstands in the USA. Check out their website HERE for how to get a copy.
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Jerry Stearns, who hosts Sound Affects: A Radio Playground, writes in to remind us all that the Mark Time Awards submission deadline is fast approaching.
“The deadline for entry in the annual Mark Time Awards / Ogle Awards for science fiction and fantasy audio theater is coming up on March 1, 2008. The Mark Time/Ogle Awards are the only awards given solely for audio theater. This is their 12th year, and the entries are getting better every year. So, if you’ve produced science fiction or fantasy audio theater that you’re proud of in 2007, make it a point to enter. You will find an entry form at:
http://www.greatnorthernaudio.com/MarkTime/MT_Form.html
Just fill it out, add a $25 entry fee, and send it in with 5 copies of your entry. You can find out more at http://www.greatnorthernaudio.com/MarkTime/MarkTime.html, including past winners, the Mark Time SF Audio Hall of Fame, and
judging criteria.The postmark deadline is March 1. The judges will notify winners by Mid-May. The awards will be presented at CONvergence, July 3, 2008. Winners will be given registration to the convention, a plaque and a t-shirt. It’s a real treat to meet with other producers and spend a weekend talking shop, in the company of others who love science fiction. We will perform a new original radio show at the beginning of the convention. And during the long weekend there will be time for an audio panel, and an autographing party, so bring your products with you.”
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