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
Worldcon 2006’s Podcasting Suite
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.
Balticon Podcast’s Exclusive Scoop: From Worldcon, The Hugo Loser’s Party
Paul Fischer from the Balticon Podcast has posted an exclusive podcast recorded at the Hugo Loser’s Party (AKA The Hugo Nominees party) held at LACON IV (Worldcon 2006). Paul talked to some big names, David Brin, Robert Silverberg, Cory Doctorow, James Patrick Kelly, Peter S. Beagle and Ellen Datlow
Download the MP3 HERE or subscribe to the podcast via this feed:
http://www.balticonpodcast.org/bcpc.rss
Blackstone Audiobooks to release Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson
During Worldcon, we met up with our Blackstone Audiobooks Aquisitions Manager Haila Williams in the Hilton’s Starbucks. We chatted about the upcoming Blackstone releases, Science Fiction and Fantasy in general, the Hugo awards, and a whole lot more. It was one of the highlights of the whole Worldcon event for me. One of the questions I put to her was with regard to the upcoming release of the novel Variable Star. This will be a “collaboration” between Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson. She confirmed my hope that Blackstone will be releasing an unabridged version of it and that it will be read by Spider Robinson! This is so cool! I expect this book to make a big splash in mid-September. There’s already a website up for it HERE.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Maine Radio Show plays previously podcast Science Fiction
Paul Cole and Ron Huber host a local radio show on WRFR (93.3 FM) in Rockland, ME called Beam Me Up. On their show they discuss Science and Science Fiction from sources like “movies, audio, radio, books and music.” The show airs on Sundays between 4 & 5pm (EST). There, they interview Science Fiction readers, talk about Science Fiction news and play unabridged fiction from podcast sources like Escape Pod and Craphound (Cory Doctorow’s podcast).
If you aren’t in mid-coast Maine, or even if you are, you can subscribe to the podcast via this feed:
http://beameup.podomatic.com/rss2.xml
Posted by Jesse Willis
BBC Radio 7 has a Daphne Du Maurier novel
BBC7’s the 7th Dimension has just started an unabridged reading of a Daphne Du Maurier novel. Described as “[A] gripping tale of history mixed with horror, and an original approach to time travel. Of all her works it was apparently the author’s favourite.”
The House on the Strand
By Daphne Du Maurier; Read by Julian Wadham
12 half-hour segments – Approx. 6 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
BROADCASTER: BBC Radio 7
AIRING: Monday to Friday at 6.30pm adn 12.30am UK Time
This will be avilable via the Listen Again service shortly after it airs.