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 #228 – Jesse and Jenny talk about the Last And First Men by Olaf Stapledon. Talked about on today’s show: the near and far future, not a novel, an imagined planetary history, the scope, Penguin Books, philosophy,… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #228 – READALONG: Last And First Men by Olaf Stapledon
The SFFaudio Podcast #195 – Polaris by H.P. Lovecraft, read by Jim Moon. This is a complete and unabridged reading of the short story (11 Minutes) followed by a discussion of it by Jesse, Tamahome, Jim Moon. Talked about on… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #195 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Polaris by H.P. Lovecraft
A recent Highway To Mars podcast features Odile Thomas (of the Sending A Wave podcast) and Mr Jim Moon (of the Hypnobobs podcast) discussing the 1976 TV serial Children Of The Stones. The brief official description asks this question: Is… Read moreHighway To Mars: Odile Thomas and Jim Moon discuss Children Of The Stones
Polaris offers many of the features you’ll find in other H.P. Lovecraft short stories. There’s the repeated language – something that turns up at the beginning of the story will echo at the end, like in The Statement Of Randolph… Read moreLibriVox: Polaris by H.P. Lovecraft
The SFFaudio Podcast #164 – Jesse, Wayne June and Mirko Stauch talk about The House On the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson. Talked about on today’s show: Wayne undersold the novel, it’s shockingly interesting, you can really see the influence… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #164 – READALONG: The House On The Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
Here’s a rather timely re-post, one based on a post prompted back in 2006 by an astronomer at the University of Hawaii. Professor Esther M. Hu, pointed me towards this reading of an Arthur C. Clarke classic, one read by… Read moreThe Transit Of Earth by Arthur C. Clarke