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.
I posted about this story, as part of a larger LibriVox collection, back in 2009. Then, I described it thusly: The Coming Of The Ice explains the strange and sad fate of a man who undergoes an operation to make… Read moreThe Coming Of The Ice by G. Peyton Wertenbaker
The SFFaudio Podcast #220 – The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster; read by Elizabeth Klett (for LibriVox). This is a complete and unabridged reading of the story (1 hour 13 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #220 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
Here is Donald A. Wollheim’s introductions to A Witch Shall Be Born, as published in Avon Fantasy Reader, #10: Robert E. Howard’s stories of the wanderings of Conan the Cimmerian through the realms of the pre-Glacial era were based upon… Read moreLibriVox: A Witch Shall Be Born by Robert E. Howard
Sailing Alone Around The World By Joshua Slocum; Read by Alan Chant 1 |M4B|, 22 Zipped MP3 Files, or Podcast – Approx. 7 Hours 52 Minutes [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: LibriVox.org Published: May 9, 2007 |ETEXT| Joshua Slocum was the first man… Read moreReview of Sailing Alone Around The World by Joshua Slocum
Virtually all of Bierce’s tales are tales of horror; and whilst many of them treat only of the physical and psychological horrors within Nature, a substantial proportion admit the malignly supernatural and form a leading element in America’s fund of… Read moreThe Thing At Nolan by Ambrose Bierce
A Martian Odyssey is a classic of alien human interaction. Isaac Asimov said of it and of Weinbaum: “With this single story [A Martian Odyssey], Weinbaum was instantly recognized as the world’s best living science fiction writer, and at once… Read moreA Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum