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.
Here’s an interesting lecture, by Simon J. James, about H.G. Wells’ The First Men In The Moon recorded August 30, 2013. Note that the audio for the video cuts-out for about 3 minutes starting at the 17 minute mark. Posted… Read moreThe Idea of a Planned World: a lecture on H.G. Wells’ The First Men In The Moon
The Great Courses (formerly called The Teaching Company) has a new catalogue out. It is offering discounts up to 80% (for Canadian customers). I’ve scanned it, here’s the |PDF|, but be sure to have a look at it quickly as… Read moreRecent Arrivals: The Great Courses catalogue expiring February 16, 2012
Norbert Elliot’s World Literature 330 course is designed to offer: “…students an opportunity to enhance their understanding of contemporary global interactions by exploring a diverse array of culturally expressive artifacts–novels, short stories, and poems–groups geographically by region. Course readings represent… Read moreNorbert Elliot’s lecture on Jorge Luis Borges
As promised, I’ve got a complete scan of the latest Teaching Company catalogue – and I did it before the prices expire! Strangely this catalogue comes not from a random discard, but instead from my mom, who had it come… Read moreNew Releases: The Great Courses (The Teaching Company) Summer 2011 Catalogue
Here’s a two hour lecture given by J. Michael Straczynski at MIT back in 2009. Sorry, there’s no audio only edition. MIT Tech TV This year’s Julius Schwartz Lecture speaker was transmedia creator J. Michael Straczynski, who has most recently… Read moreMIT: J. Michael Straczynski: The Julius Schwartz Lecture
Here is David Gill’s fascinating three part lecture on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? as recorded at the 2010 Philip K. Dick Festival in Colorado. I’m afraid there is no HuffDuffing these MP3 files, but they are downloadable. David… Read moreLecture on Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick