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Robert J. Sawyer @ audible.com

Friday, December 28, 2007 Jesse Willis

SFFaudio News

Seven Robert J. Sawyer novels are going to be released exclusively through audible.com. Sawyer writes:

“I’ve been a very satisfied Audible.com customer since March 2001, and so I’m particularly delighted to report that Audible.com has jut bought audio-book rights to seven of my novels.”

The titles are: Calculating God, Hominids, Humans, Hybrids, Wake, Watch and Wonder. The last three there haven’t been released in print form yet.

No word on when they’ll all be released or who’ll be narrating them yet. The narrator definitely won’t be RJS though.

It’s kind of too bad they didn’t contract for his first novel (and my favorite RJS book) Golden Fleece, it’s a Hard-SF murder mystery set aboard an interstellar ship powered by a Bussard-ramjet.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Podiobooks.com’s TOP 20 for 2007

Friday, December 28, 2007Friday, December 28, 2007 Jesse Willis

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The Podiobooker Blog, the blog for Podiobooks.com, has posted the 20 most popular podiobooks of 2007. They are, in alphabetical order:

7th Son: Book 2 – Deceit J.C. Hutchins	The Arwen Timothy Callahan	Badge Of Infamy Lester Del Rey	Billibub Baddings Tee Morris
Crescent Phil Rossi	Eastern Standard Tribe Cory Doctorow	The Failed Cities Monologues Matt Wallace	Forever Fifteen Kimberly Steele
Full Share Nathan Lowell	Half Share Nathan Lowell	Heaven – Season 2: Hell Mur Lafferty	Heaven – Season 3: Earth Mur Lafferty
How to Disappear Completely Myke Bartlett	The Immortals Tracy Hickman	In The Service of Samurai Gloria Oliver	Jack Wakes Up Seth Harwood
Number One with a Bullet Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff	Quarter Share Nathan Lowell	Shadow Falls: Season One Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff	The Silk Code Paul Levinson

As you can see there’s quite a few podiobooks that still need our attention. Which of these have you enjoyed? Which have you loved? Which have you hated?

Personally, I’ve got my eye on those Nathan Lowell titles.

Posted by Jesse Willis

BBC 7 has Blake’s 7

Thursday, December 27, 2007Wednesday, December 8, 2010 Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Wait! wait! Don’t miss it! BBC7 is broadcasting the Sci-Fi Channel UK’s audio drama series of Blake’s 7! This was the show we told you about back in May, written by Doctor Who writer Ben Aaronovitch this series is morally complex, deeply noir, and sounding slicker than ever in its now feature length format (it previously aired in 5 minute segments). Go right now and get the first part of the first series before its gone from the site, starting with…

Blake's 7 Blake’s 7: Rebel
Episode 1 of 3 – Approx. 1 Hour [AUDIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC7 / The 7th Dimension
Broadcast: December 26th 2007

Get it now, via the “listen again” feature.

Exiled to the notorious prison planet of Cygnus Alpha, the Federation thinks it has seen the last of Roj Blake.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Escape Pod for Xmas: In The Late December by Greg van Eekhout

Thursday, December 27, 2007Sunday, July 5, 2009 Jesse Willis

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Escape Pod has a Nebula award-nominated story about Santa Claus and the end of the universe.

Escape Pod - The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine In The Late December
By Greg van Eekhout; Read by Stephen Eley
1 |MP3| – Approx. 27 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Escape Pod
Podcast: December 25th 2007

They come to a cloud of silver mist, and there Santa finds a little boy made of molten silver with liquid silver eyes and sweeping silver delta wings. His wrists are ringed with missile launchers, and a rounded cone emerges from a cavity in his chest. Once there were many silver boys, fleets of them, protecting the outermost parts of inhabited space against things that came from outside inhabited space. But now, there is only the silver boy.

“You, sir,” the silver boy says, “are a tiresome consciousness cluster. Your binary value system remains as laughable as it is irrelevant. How you manage to remain cohesive is beyond me.”

“My value system is hardly binary,” Santa says. “In between naughty and nice I’ve made room for you: grumpy but fundamentally sound. Do you want a toy or not?”

And be sure to stick around for the closing rendition of Chiron Beta Prime.

Subscribe to the podcast feed via this url:

http://escapepod.org/podcast.xml

Posted by Jesse Willis

CBC Canada Reads and Nalo Hopkinson

Thursday, December 27, 2007Thursday, December 27, 2007 Jesse Willis

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Canada Reads is relatively new tradition in Canada. An annual ‘battle of the books’ competition, it is organized and broadcast by CBC Radio One. During the week of February 25-29, 2008, for the first time, CBC’ll be podcasting the shows and you’ll be able to subscribe here. In the 2008 batch there’s one Science Fiction title. Brown Girl In The Ring by Nalo Hopkinson.