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.
This is the 4th in a series of post examining the LibriVox audiobooks that feature characters found in Alan Moore’s The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Moore suffused his pastiche of superhero superteams by stuffing his original narrative with dozens of… Read moreLibriVox: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
Robyn Lass, the editor of GeekBlips.com asked me to contribute to a “blogger opinion” article, kind of a mind meld like post (of the kind SFSignal.com regularly does). Here’s the question she asked: “If you could have the ability/gadgetry of… Read moreGeekBlips: TV that inspires
Here’s another older LibriVox audiobook featuring a character found in Alan Moore’s League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Wilhelmina “Mina” Harker (née Murray) is lucky enough to survive this novel and then go on to be the core characters around which the… Read moreLibriVox: Dracula by Bram Stoker
This is the first in a series of posts in which I will examine LibriVox’s back catalogue looking for the characters and references that Alan Moore has put into his comic The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. This, the first post,… Read moreLibriVox: King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
First published as Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation, in 1905, this novel is a precursor to, and the likely inspiration for, Edgar Rice Burroughs’s classic A Princess of Mars (1911). Despite my not having heard of it before now the… Read moreLibriVox: Gulliver Of Mars by Edwin L. Arnold
Attentive readers of Alan Moore’s The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen may have noted this panel… …according to Jess Nevins, of The Fourth Rail, it depicts a “giant beetle in [a] vacuum tube.” and asserts that it “is the Beetle, from… Read moreLibriVox: The Beetle by Richard Marsh