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 latest StarShipSofa podcast, episode #232, features Neil Gaiman‘s 2010 novelette The Truth Is A Cave In The Back Mountains as its “main fiction.” The narrator is Richie Smith and the story begins at about 12 minutes in. |MP3| Podcast… Read moreStarShipSofa: The Truth Is A Cave In The Back Mountains by Neil Gaiman
House Of Secrets, a comic shop in Burbank, California, hosted this live reading of a Criminal short written by Ed Brubaker and drawn by Sean Philips. It’s called 21st Century Noir and delivers on every aspect of that title. Here’s… Read moreCriminal: 21st Century Noir – a dramatic reading at House of Secrets in Burbank, California
BBC Radio 4 Extra (the station formerly known as BBC Radio 7) will be airing the excellent Blake’s 7 series of prequel adventures over four consecutive Saturdays starting on Xmas eve. From the Blake’s 7 blog: The BBC Radio 4… Read moreBBC Radio 4 Extra: Seven Blake’s 7 RADIO DRAMAS to air
Archive.org hosts 78 episodes of Favorite Story, a wonderfully inspired radio program that asked a celebrity to name his or her favourite story. The story was then adapted as a radio drama. Host Ronald Colman often played a character. In… Read moreFavorite Story – Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace RADIO DRAMA
The SFFaudio Podcast #136 – Jesse, Tamahome, Eric S. Rabkin, and Jenny talk about Neuromancer by William Gibson. Talked about on today’s show: What was really going on in 1984, the introduction to the audiobook, 3 MB of RAM, Commodore… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #136 – READALONG: Neuromancer by William Gibson
Sometimes titled “The Diamond Necklace” this story is a 3,000 word short story that is often upheld as a tale at, or very near, the pinnacle of ironic fiction. Guy de Maupassant’s short story La Parure is usually given the… Read moreThe Necklace by Guy de Maupassant