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.
Harper Audio was founded in 1952 under the name “Caedmon.” Harper Audio still occasionally publishes under its Caedmon label but its real heyday was in the late 1970s. Uniquely, the back of each album featured unique liner notes typically written… Read moreCaedmon
The SFFaudio Podcast #232 – Scott, Jesse, Jenny, and Tamahome talk about The Prestige by Christopher Priest. Talked about on today’s show: Simon Vance, Blackstone Audio, The Prestige (2006), explicit, cursing vs. casting spells, I’m going to trick you, a… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #232 – READALONG: The Prestige by Christopher Priest
The Story Of The Inexperienced Ghost (aka The Inexperienced Ghost) is, on its face, merely a humourous ghost story. But I get the sense that there’s quite a bit of satire going on in it. It may be doing to… Read moreThe Story Of The Inexperienced Ghost by H.G. Wells
The SFFaudio Podcast #230 – The Red Room by H.G. Wells, read by Simon Vance. This is a complete and unabridged reading of the story (24 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Luke… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #230 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Red Room by H.G. Wells
In less than 3,000 words H.G. Wells planted the seed, as it were, for a rare and delicate subspecies of Science Fiction we might call Botanical Horror SF. As Mr. Jim Moon, of the wondrous Hypnobobs podcast, points out in… Read moreHypnobobs: The Flowering Of The Strange Orchid by H.G. Wells
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