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.
Check out this freshly scanned batch of audiobooks from Blackstone Audio, Brilliance Audio, and Macmilian Audio. Personally I’m most excited about the two Dick titles (despite the terrible covers) and The Lost World in part because how great the cover… Read moreRecent Arrivals: Blackstone Audio, Brilliance Audio, Macmilian Audio
Blackstone Audio’s Grover Gardner recently posted an interview with narrator Simon Vance! They talk about how Vance got started in the business, and what effect narrating Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo had upon his career. |MP3| Posted… Read moreBlackstone Audio: Grover Gardner interviews Simon Vance
Episode #151 of The Science Fiction Book Review Podcast is a special episode on Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and similar time travel tales. It is both special and strange. First it’s strange because it’s the… Read moreSFBRP #151: Time Travel Special, part 1 – Mark Twain – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The video below is a quick exploration of the MP3-CD audiobook format. It’s my favourite format for physical audiobooks. The packaging is small, the files are ready to be used, and they are cheaper audiobooks than their regular CD equivalent…. Read moreCommentary: MP3-CD Audiobooks (old and new)
The SFFaudio Podcast #144 – Jesse, Tamahome and Gregg Margarite talk about the audiobook of Robert Sheckley’s 1959 novel Immortality, Inc.. Talked about on today’s show: Time Killer was nominated for a Hugo, the Blackstone Audio audiobook, Sheckley’s family of… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #144 – READALONG: Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley
Craig Black, the founder and CEO of Blackstone audio has today reported, on the Blackstone audio blog, the death of audio dramatist Yuri Rasovsky. Black calls Rasovsky “the greatest audio dramatist of our modern age.” Among American audio dramatists of… Read moreYuri Rasovsky has died