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.
The SFFaudio Podcast #231 – Jesse and Luke Burrage (from the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast) talk to audiobook narrator Simon Vance. Talked about on today’s show: Jonathan Davis, Pat Fraley, Scott Brick is the Brad Pitt of audiobooks and… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #231 – TALK TO: Simon Vance
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
I must have had this as a kid, it is super-familiar. There’s a Wikipedia entry for it HERE. Each character in the story has a particular instrument and a musical theme: Bird: flute Duck: oboe Cat: clarinet Grandfather: bassoon Wolf:… Read moreDavid Bowie Narrates Prokofiev’s Peter And The Wolf
Having sampled a fair amount of steampunk fiction I’d pretty much concluded it was a genre best relegated to photography or film, not text. But there may be another place steampunkery may be successful – computer games. The BioShock series… Read moreDishonored: The Drunken Whaler
My friend Julie Hoverson described this story as “Runyonesque” (I had to look it up). Having now heard it I can see why she read it. Julie is an absolute ham for certain quirky American accents and she nails this… Read moreThe Flying Cuspidors by V.R. Francis
We talk so much about spoken-word audio at SFF Audio that I thought I’d take a second to feature a musical work inspired by two works of fiction, one literary and one zombie. From the composer’s post: Two summers ago,… Read moreR(oom) by Holt McCarley