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.
The latest Dragon Page With Class podcast features an interview with the über-cool Matthew Wayne Selznick, author and narrator of the Brave Men Run podiobook and the upcopming Light Of The Outsider podcast novel. Click HERE to download Show #014 directly. Or subscribe to the show’s XML feed by pluggin this into your podcatcher software:
http://www.dragonpage.com/podcastWC.xml
This past weekend was DragonCon. From what I have heard, everyone had a bitchin’ time. Here are the winners of the first ever Parsec Awards, which you can even listen to in it’s entirety if you so choose!
Listen to the 2006 Awards here!
The Winners and Nominees of the 2006 Parsec Awards are:
Best Fiction (Short)
Winner
Absolution Insured
Variant Frequencies, Matt Wallace
Nominees
“Hero“, Escape Pod, Scott Sigler
“Legacies“, Brief Glimpses of Somewhere Else, Daniel Emery
“The Trouble with Death Traps“, Escape Pod, Daisy James
“Truth Is“, The Seanachai, Patrick McLean
Best Fiction (Long)
Winner
How to Succeed in Evil
The Seanachai, Patrick McLean
Nominees
7th Son: Descent, J.C. Hutchins
Brave Men Run, Matthew Wayne Selznick
Infection, Scott Sigler
Morevi: Chronicles of Rafe and Askana, Tee Morris and Lisa Lee
Nina Kimberly the Merciless, Christiana Ellis
Best Audio Production
Winner
Virgin Falls
Jeff Folchinsky
Nominees
The Falcon Banner, Chris Snyder
The Future And You, Stephen Euin Cobb
The Seanachai, Patrick McLean
The Signal, Jill Arroway
Best Writing Podcast
Winner
The Secrets
Michael A. Stackpole
Nominees
Holly Lisle On Writing, Holly Lisle
The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy, Tee Morris
Best Audio Drama (Long)
Winner
The Stargate Café
Planet Retcon
Nominees
Children of the Gods, Cmack
Dismay, Sean McMinn
The Falcon Banner, Chris Snyder
Mister Adventure, Rich Sigfrit
Best Audio Drama (Short)
Winner
The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd
Grant Baciocco, Doug Price
Nominees
“Decoder Ring Theatre“, Stephanie Bickford, Andrea Lyons and Gregg Taylor
“Family Radio“, Sound Stages
“The Hoff“, Planet Retcon
Best Fiction (Non-sepeculative)
Winner
Death of A Dish Washer
The Seanachai, Patrick McLean
Nominees
“Candy“, The Seanachai, Patrick McLean
“The Great Puzzle“, Brief Glimpses of Somewhere Else, Daniel Emery
“Outsourcing a Chicken“, The Seanachai, Patrick McLean
Port City P.D., Charles Stewart, Jr.
Best Fan Podcast
Winner
The Scapecast
Kevin Bachelder, Lindy Rae and crew
Nominees
Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas, Summer Brooks, Joe Murphy, David Moldawer
PotterCast, John Noe and crew
Requiem of the Outcast, Rich Sigfrit and Earl Newton
The Signal, Jill Arroway, Les Howard and Kari Haley and crew
Best News Podcast
Winner
The Future And You
Stephen Euin Cobb
Nominees
Geek4x4, John M. Campbell
Requiem of the Outcast, Rich Sigfrit, Earl Newton
Sci Fi News, Lynne Gryphon
The Warp Zone, Patrick Murphy & Chris Murphy with “Gaming Guru” Rusty
Congratulations to this year’s Winners & Nominees!
The Time Traveler Show podcast #6 is available for download now. The featured tale is another Philip K. Dick short story that has never before been adapted for audio. It’s called The Gun and is read by Michael Bekemeyer. It is a very early PKD short story, his second, and it is a parable for its age, 1952. The guest on the show is J.C. Hutchins, host of the Podiobooker podcast as well as the author of our recently reviewed 7th Son: Descent.
The Gun
By Philip K. Dick; Read by Michael Bekemeyer
1 Mp3 File – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcast: September 2006
Podcaster: TheTimeTravelerShow.com
A human spaceship encounters a strange planet that is giving off intense nuclear radiation. As the ship draws closer to the planet, the crew sees what appears to be a destroyed city and are shot at and forced to land. They find a strangely familiar tableau on the planet below.
To read the complete show notes for podcast #6 click HERE or download the show MP3 directly by clicking HERE.
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http://www.timetravelershow.com/shows/feed.xml
A Different Point Of View
By TD-0013; Read by TD-0013
Podcast Book – Approx. 60 minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Podiobooks.com
Published: August 2006
Themes: / Science Fiction / Comedy / Star Wars / Jedi’s / Sand People / Sand troopers / Thugs / Clones / Rebel Scum /
“The Rebel Alliance is a terrorist organization, plain and simple.”
For fans of the Star Wars saga, you’re going to enjoy this podiobook. ADPOV began as a segment on ”Michael and Evo’s Wingin’ It” podcast. It received such a great response, the segments were put into a podiobook format for all to enjoy. TD-0013, an Imperial Sand Trooper, brings you a set of 15 essays, all of which dispel myths and accusations you have come to know as fact from the Star Wars movies. From how Skywalker and Solo were allowed to escape with Leia from the Death Star (and most likely even assisted), to how there is no way the Emperor has been oppressing the galaxy, TD will have you believing the Rebels are indeed manipulative and evil. He has the facts to back it up, too.
In the eighth report, “I Am Not A Clone”, TD very matter-of-factly explains if he were indeed a clone, there is no way he would be as high-strung or outspoken as he is. He joined the Empire for one reason only- to restore order to the Universe! One of my favorites however is the third report, “Rebel Terrorists”. Being of the political mindset that I am, the way he made the Alliance out to be bloodthirsty, “shoot first and ask questions later” anarchists just had me in stitches. I mean, it makes complete sense how they deceived those poor, peaceful, cute-as-a-button Ewoks and used them to fight their battle on Endor!
It’s a quick listen, well-written, and just plain fun. We also get these reports from ‘in the field’, so we hear TD speaking through his helmet. A trooper’s work is never done.
You do need to know the Star Wars saga if you want to completely understand TD’s perspective. There are also several others in which you only need to know basic background. TD-0013 also maintains his own webpage, so I certainly hope he will continue to bring truth to the Star Wars universe. Who knows, he might even convince this Rebel sympathizer to change which side of the Force she is on.
The Plot to Save Socrates
By Paul Levinson; Read by Mark Shanahan
7 CD’s – 10 Hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Listen and Live Audio
Published: 2006
ISBN: 1593160747 or 9781593160746
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
SFFaudio wishes to send a big thank you to the hosts and attendees of the Podcasting Suite at WorldCon 2006 Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights in the Hilton’s Suite 240 in Anaheim, California. These three nights were giant blast of goodness for us. Here’s a rundown of the folks who made it all possible:
Sponsoring the event was Podcast Ready, a cool company which provides software that will turn any internet connection into a podcast update source. Their software resides on your MP3 player and will search out all your latest subscirptions whenever it is plugged into any USB port (whether it is your personal computer or not).
Providing music was DJ Steveboy from the premier podcast providing workout tunes for your weekly workouts.
Thursday Night:
Hosted in part by Bluejack from The Internet Review Of Science Ficiton (and the podcast :: overclocked ::)
And by Marti McKenna from Aeon Speculative Fiction.
And by Evo Terra of Podiobooks.com
Friday Night:
Friday it was Escape Pod’s turn. The hosts were Stephen Eley, his wife and fellow narrator Anna Eley, as well as E-Pod slush pile reader Scott Janssens.
Saturday Night:
Evo once again hosted a night of debauched poetry slamming. A wonderful time was had by all.
Some of the podcasting attendees at the three nights were:
Jack Mangan of Jack Mangan’s Deadpan Podcast and the podiobook Spherical Tomi.
Nora Fleischer of the podiobook Discovered Country; Or The Adventures Of Rosemary The Librarian.
Matthew Wayne Selznick of the Brave Men Run podiobook.
Christiana Ellis of the podiobook Nina Kimberly The Merciless
Cory Doctorow from the fiction podcast “Craphound: The Literary Works of Cory Doctorow” podcast and BoingBoing.net.
Mark Jeffrey of The Pocket And The Pendant podcast novel.
Paul Fischer from the Balticon Podcast
Bill DeSmett of Singularity podiobook.
James Patrick Kelly from The Free Reads Podcast (which released JPK’s hugo nominated novella, Burn as well as Men Are Trouble and numerous short stories).
I took a camera to Worldcon and have posted a number of the pics from the podcasting suite’s three parties into my Flickr account. I also made a general Worldcon set, click on through to see them both.