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.
Derived from an incident in which he and a friend were dangerously tailgated by a large truck on the same day as the Kennedy assassination, Duel is emblematic of Richard Matheson’s queer existential fiction. It was first published in the… Read moreDuel by Richard Matheson
Julian May’s first published story, Dune Roller, became something of a popular tale – at least with editor Robert Silverberg who had it in two of his anthologies one which collected “masterpieces” and the other which collected “great” tales. Indeed,… Read moreDune Roller by Julian May
I wrote about it airing six year ago, but I’ve just now heard it. Metropolis, an astoundingly great radio dramatization of a famous novel that was turned into a famous movie, is nuanced, deep, surprising, and totally, idea based. I’m… Read moreBBCR4+RA.cc: Metropolis (2006) RADIO DRAMA
Back in 2003 BBC Radio 4 produced a five part series of fantastic tales called, simply, Five Fantastic Tales. Among them was a vignette, a horror tale, The Cookie Lady by Philip K. Dick. It’s the only audio production of… Read moreBBCR4 + RA.cc: The Cookie Lady by Philip K. Dick
There’s a one hour BBC World Service radio drama adaptation of John Christopher’s The Death Of Grass available as a torrent over on RadioArchive.cc. Broadcast on March 15, 1986 the programme is a highly compressed adaptation. But, it keeps a… Read moreBBCWS+RA.cc: John Christopher’s The Death Of Grass RADIO DRAMA (1986)
“the curse of want gives way to the curse of plenty”-Frederik Pohl, in the anthology Nightmare Age Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, as a part of “The Shape of Things to Come” season in 1991 (a series of plays looking… Read moreThe Midas Plague by Frederik Pohl