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 SFFaudio Podcast #250 – Jesse, Tamahome, J.J. Campanella, and Marissa van Uden discuss Scanners Live In Vain by Cordwainer Smith. Talked about on today’s show: Cordwainer Smith’s first story, Fantasy Book, Frederik Pohl, roughness but with power, space is… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #250 – READALONG: Scanners Live In Vain by Cordwainer Smith
Julie Hoverson recently recorded Riya’s Foundling. It’s a little Science Fiction gem from the hands of Algis Budrys and the pages if Science Fiction Stories, #1 (1953). It’s a story about an intelligent cow (actually a cow-like alien being) that… Read moreRiya’s Foundling by Algis Budrys
This well regarded, and much anthologized, Science Fiction short story didn’t seem to have any point to it. I didn’t much like it, not until the very end, when I realized suddenly where it was going to go. It went… Read moreMindwebs: Adam And No Eve by Alfred Bester
Last year somebody* pointed out that a list of “The Top 100 Sci-Fi Books” (as organized by the Sci-Fi Lists website) was almost entirely available in audiobook form! At the time of his or her compiling 95 of the 100… Read moreCommentary: A “Top 100 Sci-Fi Audiobooks” List
There’s a fascinating article by Kurt Kuersteiner HERE titled “OTR: The Evil Influence Behind EC.” In it Kuersteiner maps some of the many stories swiped from radio drama series and turned into EC Comics. It came to me at the… Read moreThe Influence of RADIO DRAMA on comics and vice versa
The SFFaudio Podcast #136 – Jesse, Tamahome, Eric S. Rabkin, and Jenny talk about Neuromancer by William Gibson. Talked about on today’s show: What was really going on in 1984, the introduction to the audiobook, 3 MB of RAM, Commodore… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #136 – READALONG: Neuromancer by William Gibson