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.
Cory Doctorow is writing columns for Publishers Weekly. In this month’s column Doctorow discusses his love of audiobooks and the difficuties he’s encountered in getting them into his fan’s ears. I’m going to quote several paragraphs of this excellent essay,… Read moreCory Doctorow on audiobooks
This 1976 interview was recorded for HOUR 25, a long running Science Fiction radio show broadcast out of KPFK, a Los Angeles radio station. I couldn’t find an MP3 version online, but someone has done up a multi-segmented youtube version…. Read moreHour 25 interview with Jack Vance (from 1976)
This audiobook is a must listen for pretty much everyone who visits SFFaudio. It’s a fascinating history of the word and concepts of “FREE.” This is a word that affects you every day of your life. It’s a magic word,… Read moreFree @ Audible.com: Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
As we know by now many books, stories, TV episodes, movies, and even the Apollo moon landing footage can just somehow just get lost by the archives department of any major organization. Whether this is from mis-filing, mis-communication, oversight problems,… Read moreBBC has a fan taping policy [tacitly PLEASE DO IT]
As you’re aware I’ve been following the Canadian Copyright Consultations run by Industry Minster Tony Clement and Heritage Minster James Moore. The most recent one, held in Toronto yesterday, was the most vehement of them all. The participants were heavily… Read moreCanadian Copyright Consultations – now with Robert E. Howard’s CONAN
Cory Doctorow is singing the praises of a cool sounding audiobook by Richard Kadrey called Sandman Slim. It’s available now from Brilliance Audio… “I’ve just finished listening to the unabridged, 10-hour audiobook of Sandman Slim, which is available on a… Read moreCory Doctorow’s review of Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey