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.
Robert Sheckley was a joker, a satirist, a poker of fun at all of the silliness in life. But there’s something more going on in this short short story from 1953. Sure there’s the existentialist angle, and of course there’s… Read moreLibriVox: Beside Still Waters by Robert Sheckley
Sci-Fi Radio Theater is “the brain child of international internet man Charles Davis and opera singer Josie Corichi.” Here’s their mission statement: To produce high quality original fiction radio play podcasts that fall within the science fiction, fantasy and horror… Read moreSci-Fi Radio Theater: The Ba Gua Etuis Box (a “sci-fi murder mystery involving robots”)
There’s a fascinating article by Kurt Kuersteiner HERE titled “OTR: The Evil Influence Behind EC.” In it Kuersteiner maps some of the many stories swiped from radio drama series and turned into EC Comics. It came to me at the… Read moreThe Influence of RADIO DRAMA on comics and vice versa
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
The Philosopher’s Arms is a new BBC Radio 4 program that moves the Café Philosophique movement into the English pub. All four episodes have been uploaded to RadioArchive.cc |HERE|! I particularity like episode two in which one gentlemen says “it’s… Read moreBBCR4 + RA.cc: The Philosopher’s Arms
Did you know that Philip K. Dick’s fifth published story, The Defenders, is public domain? It is! Like many of Dick’s tales The Defenders this is a post-atomic war story. The planet’s surface devastated, flushed with radioactivity, and has been… Read moreThe Defenders by Philip K. Dick