Tag: science fiction

Space Casey – Q&A podcast & the Audio Drama goes Radio Drama!

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Space Casey audio dramaI missed it! I missed my chance to throw a few questions at Christiana Ellis during her Q&A session for Space Casey. [sigh] The good news, the whole event was recorded and you can still listen to it |MP3|. OR get it through the podcast feed:

http://www.spacecasey.com/?feed=podcast




Online Audio - Radio Show - Sound Affects A Radio PlaygroundMore Casey news! Sound Affects: A Radio Playground will be airing ON THE RADIO beginning March 16th 2008. The host, Jerry Stearns sez, “We have new high quality versions for the air. One a week through April and May.” Is this the first podcast audio drama to be broadcast on radio? I think it could be! Sound Affects can be heard via live streaming on Sundays and is also broadcast on the radio in the Minneapolis/St. Paul. region – 90.3 FM Minneapolis, 106.7 FM St. Paul. Not in the Twin Cities region? Check out the show via the archives on the KFAI website for two weeks after each broadcast.

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BBC7 airs: The Cool Green Hills Of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

BBC Radio 7 - BBC7Following up from last Sunday’s Ordeal In Space, BBC Radio 7 and The 7th Dimension are airing their recording of The Green Hills Of Earth. This is another of BBC7’s The Seventh Dimension‘s specially commisioned tales made to celebrate the centenary of Heinlein’s birth. It originally aired last March.

A couple bits of trivia about The Green Hills Of Earth:

-Robert Heinlein credits the title to a line from C. L. Moore‘s influential short story Shambleau.

-A line from The Green Hills Of Earth was heard on another heavenly body. The Lunar Excursion Module crew of Apollo 15 – who went on to name a crater after the main character – heard Joseph P. Allen (one of the mission scientists in Houston) quote from the story. Have a listen |MOV|. Transcript:

Allen: “As the space poet Rhysling would say, we’re ready for you to ‘come back again to the homes of men on the cool green hills of Earth.'”

You’ll be able to hear the BBC version of The Green Hills Of Earth on Sunday during the broadcast, and for the following 6 days, via the Listen Again service.

The Cool Green Hills Of Earth by Robert A. HeinleinThe Green Hills Of Earth
By Robert A. Heinlein; Read by Adam Sims
1 Broadcast – Approx. 30 Minutes [ABRIDGED]
BROADCASTER: BBC7’s The 7th Dimension
BROADCAST: Sunday March 9th 2008 @ 6.30pm & 12.30am (UK TIME)
This is the poignant story of Rhysling, the blind space-going songwriter whose poetic skills rival Rudyard Kipling’s. This yarn is about a radiation-blinded spaceship engineer crisscrossing the solar system writing and singing some of the best lyrics in science fiction. In a fine display of writing skill, the spaceship and crew feel as real to the reader as a contemporary tramp steamer.

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Two short stories by Spider Robinson in his latest podcast

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Spider On The Web PodcastThe Spider On The Web podcast (which is SF author Spider Robinson’s podcast) features two of his short stories that were collected in his short story collection User Friendly. The tales are…
Not Fade Away, which was first published in the August 1982 issue of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine. And Orphans of Eden, which was first published in the August 1996 issue of Analog. Have a listen |MP3| directly, or get it via a subscription to the podcast feed:

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/iTunes_feed.xml

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Robert A. Heinlein’s Ordeal In Space on BBC Radio 7

Jesse Willis

Online Audio

BBC Radio 7 - BBC7Lucky you! BBC 7 has chosen Sunday, March 2nd 2008 to re-broadcast their specially commissioned Robert A. Heinlein reading of Ordeal In Space. The original transmission, last July, was part of a series celebrating the Heinlein Centenary. U.K. and non-UK residents can listen to the live stream or, the day after it airs, use the Listen Again service for 6 days following. Tune in for some vintage SF!

Ordeal In Space by Robert A. HeinleinOrdeal In Space
By Robert A. Heinlein; Read by Adam Sims
1 Broadcast – Approx. 30 Minutes [UNABRIDGED?]
BROADCASTER: BBC7’s The 7th Dimension
BROADCAST: Sunday, March 2nd 2008 @ 6.30pm and 12.30am (UK time)
To mark the centenary of Robert A. Heinlein’s birth, a thrilling tale that delves into the psyche of a traumatized spaceman. Astronaut, William Cole is back on earth recuperating from a terrible accident. He was rescued in the nick of time from being jettisoned into outer-space. It has left him with a debilitating fear of falling. Facing the prospect of never returning to a job he loves, he tries to adapt to life as a civilian. His struggle to overcome paralyzing fear is captured in exquisite detail.

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Ulysses Galactic Guides and Bounties Inc. a podcast audio drama

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Broken Sea Audio Production’s Ulysses Galactic Guides and Bounties Inc.Created as a spinoff from Broken Sea Audio Productions’ GUSU series – Ulysses Galactic Guides and Bounties Inc. follows the adventures of Ulysses and crew. The characters are made up of a New Zealander, a Middle Eastern head in a cybernetic fish-bowl, a nymphomaniac alien babe, and an ancient Chinese mystic. “They don’t go looking for trouble, it finds them.” The latest story arc (the three part “Return of The Red Eye”) has been purely comedic. Future stories will involving free-range freak farming (for the circus side show market), zombies and sex toys.

Subscribe to the podcast feed:

http://brokensea.com/ulysses/feed/

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Dream Realm Enterprises – The Realm Weaver – “Avatar”

Jesse Willis

SFFaudio Online Audio

Dream Realm Enterprises - AvatarDream Realm Enterprises is best know to SFFaudio readers as the proprietors of their popular Robotz of the Company (now in its fourth season). But, they’ve got other shows too including their own version of Doctor Who and a “Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes” series. Their anthology series The Realm Weaver is DRE’s “exciting sci-fi/fantasy/horror/suspense anthology series! Beyond our concept of reality lie things we cannot comprehend. Sometimes they flit across our plane and we notice them in the corner of our eye, or creeping up behind us while we’re alone. They weave back and forth between our realm and theirs, daring us to see…”

The latest installment of The Realm Weaver is entitled Avatar. Here’s the description…

“A story about a boy, a virtual blonde, and how artificial intelligence changes them both. A 21st century “Pygmalion”, with a little “Lysistrata” thrown in.”

Listen to the trailer |MP3| and then Part 1 |MP3| and Part 2 |MP3|.

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