
The NPR interview program Fresh Air, hosted by Terry Gross, has made the Dec. 14, 1993 interview with Octavia Butler available for online streaming. You can get it HERE in the RealAudio format.
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The NPR interview program Fresh Air, hosted by Terry Gross, has made the Dec. 14, 1993 interview with Octavia Butler available for online streaming. You can get it HERE in the RealAudio format.

The two latest two commissions for BBC7’s The 7th Dimension start airing this weekend. They are:
Ralph
By Martin Jameson – [RADIO DRAMA]
AIRS: Saturday 6pm and 12midnight (UK TIME).
“A ghostly tale of an old lady and two children who become involved with terrifying occurrences from the past.”
Voices From The Grave
By Lynn Ferguson, David Varela, Dylan Ritson and Lucy Catherine – [RADIO DRAMA]
AIRS: Tuesday to Thursday 12.30 am (UK TIME).
“Four ALL NEW chilling dramas inspired by existing ghost stories from around Britain.”

Hey look! BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new 4 part dramatisation of Terry Pratchett‘s Discworld novel Small Gods – it started Feb 28th.
“There are gods everywhere on the Discworld but only a few people can see them. On the Discworld, gods need people more than people need gods.”

Matthew Wayne Zelznick, the hottest new voice in long form podcast fiction, has polished off his first project, his novel Brave Men Run – A Novel Of The Soverign Era. In what is becoming a new tradition for podcast novels Matt promises to do a Q&A podcast. He’s also promised a short story that tells part of the Brave Men Run story from another character’s point of view in an upcoming podcast. Cool!
These are the kinds of bonus features that make the podiobooks format better than most audiobooks. You can text your questions or MP3 your questions to Matt at his email address: [email protected]. Matt says he will answer every question recieved between now and March 11th 2006.

James Patrick Kelly has just completed podcasting all 16 chapters his new novel Burn. Apparently the publisher of the dead-tree version, Tachyon Publications, has informed him that about 2/3 of the first printing have already sold. So that means you can still head on over THERE and buy a hardcopy if you hurry. Also, Jim will be accepting questions via email about Burn, for an upcoming special podcast Q&A, try to get the questions in over the next week or so. You can email him at [email protected] and he’s said questions in MP3 format are cool too.
So what’s next? Good news, starting soon, Jim will be releasing his recently Nebula nominated novellette, Men Are Trouble (which first appeared in Asimov’s (Jun04). Keen!

Hey if you haven’t already subscribed today is the day to do it, you absolutely have to, because Steve Eley‘s awesome ESCAPE POD: The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine today features a Paul Di Filippo short story called Little Worker read by fellow SF author Jonathon (Sullydog) Sullivan. Its a “ribofunk” story, that’s a cross between Cyberpunk and Biotech, and it is more proof that the future’s so bright you’ve gotta grow nictating membranes!
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