The Agony Column has two interesting recordings:
Mark J. Ferrari reads the first portion of his upcoming novel, The Book of Joby. |MP3|
Peter S. Beagle reads aloud an essay on Robert Nathan. |MP3|
Posted by Charles Tan
StarShipSofa has a Hugo Award story
Holy Hell… the StarShipSofa has done it again… God, this is SF podcasting at it’s very best! Well, I would say that – it’s me – Tony C. Smith!
This week StarShipSofa has delivered up a right treat for all SF junkies out there.
Audio fiction comes in the form of the winner of the 1985 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, The Crystal Spheres by David Brin and if that wasn’t enough… there is a special show on the late great L. Sprague de Camp. Find out all about this great and varied writer and… gosh… more… wow. Attached to the back of the De Camp show there’s a story by De Camp called Gun For Dinosaur from X Minus One.
There… Hopefully that will keep you all at bay with your fix of SF until next week.
Get ready… Blast Off!
Subscribe to the podcast via this feed:
http://www.starshipsofa.com/rss
Posted by Tony C. Smith
Jim C. Hines at The Time Traveler Show
The Time Traveler Show has an interview Jim C. Hines on his latest novel, Goblin War. Here is the |MP3|.
The Time Traveler Podcast feed is here:
http://www.timetravelershow.com/shows/feed.xml
Posted by Charles Tan
Tim Pratt’s Artifice and Intelligence at Escape Pod
Stephen Eley reads Artifice and Intelligence by Tim Pratt over at Escape Pod. The story first appeared in Strange Horizons August 2007. Here is the |MP3|.
Subscribe to the podcast via this feed:
http://escapepod.org/podcast.xml
Posted by Charles Tan
BBC7: The Last Days Of Shandakor by Leigh Brackett
BBC7’s the 7th Dimension is re-broadcasting their action-packed reading of a novelette by Leigh Brackett. The Last Days of Shandakor was originally published in April 1952 issue of Startling Stories magazine and was first broadcast on BBC7 back in March 2007.
NOTE: This is being broadcast in 2 parts on successive Sunday evenings with repeat broadcasts at 12:30am (Monday).
The Last Days Of Shandakor
By Leigh Brackett; Read by Nathan Osgood
Broadcast in 2 parts – Approx. 50 minutes [UNABRIDGED?]
Broadcaster: BBC 7 / 7th Dimension
Broadcast: Sunday January 28th and Sunday February 3rd 2008
This is another new commission for the 7th Dimension.
An epic space adventure written in which Mars is portrayed as a dying planet where desperate Earthmen compete with the last Martians and other alien races for lost knowledge and hidden power.
And remember BBC7 provides the Listen Again service to catch it for 6 days following the broadcast!
NRO Between The Covers: The History of The Hobbit interview
The National Review Online‘s Between The Covers program has a fascinating interview with John D. Rateliff who has authored The History of the Hobbit…
“the first time that Tolkien had written a whole book-length work of fiction; his earlier pieces were much shorter than The Hobbit. So it was a sort of ambitious undertaking for him. He got ideas, and then as the story went along, he would reject them. Originally, Bilbo would kill the dragon. . . . ”
Have a listen online, the file is in the Flash audio format (SWF) |LISTEN|.
[via The Cimmerian]
Posted by Jesse Willis