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.
Colin‘s reading of The Nine Billion Names Of God by Arthur C. Clarke is not nearly popular enough. As of this post it’s only received a mere 17 viewings (or hearings). Posted by Jesse Willis
This recording of Arthur C. Clarke’s The Nine Billion Names Of God was produced by Dercum Audio – it’s that signature opening, that terrific, haunting music that begins at the ten second mark – that’s the giveaway. Produced in 1991,… Read moreThe Nine Billion Names Of God by Arthur C. Clarke (from Dercum Audio, 1991)
Barton’s younger selves lived on, tormenting him for his living proof that their hopes were dead! First published in Super Science Stories, April 1949, here’s Jim Moon’s 26 minute unabridged reading of I, Mars by Ray Bradbury. I first encountered… Read moreI, Mars by Ray Bradbury
One of the very few legitimately Science Fiction stories in the CBC Nightfall series was this one, Assassin Game by John G. Fisher. It’s set in a then future in which all university students, in the top fifth percentile, are… Read moreCBC: Nightfall: Assassin Game by John G. Fisher
Among the many books in my maternal grandmother’s collection was Bill Moyers – A World Of Ideas which is subtitled “Conversations With Thoughtful Men And Women About American Life Today And The Ideas Shaping Our Future.” I’d read out of… Read moreBill Moyers: A World Of Ideas – A conversation between Bill Moyers and Isaac Asimov
There’s a new FREE audiobook version of Philip K. Dick’s 1953 novella The Variable Man available from LibriVox and superstar narrator Gregg Margarite! Here’s the teaser: “He fixed things—clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies. But he had no business in the… Read moreLibriVox: The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick