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 #173 – A Thousand Deaths by Jack London, read by Julie Hoverson (of 19 Nocturne Boulevard). This is a complete and unabridged reading of the short story (29 Minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #173 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: A Thousand Deaths by Jack London
One of the earliest detectives in history, or at least the history of literature, is Zadig. Zadig is the main character of Voltaire’s philosophical novel Zadig; Or The Book Of Fate – An Oriental History. I stumbled across it’s existence… Read moreThe Dog And The Horse by Voltaire
Here’s a rather timely re-post, one based on a post prompted back in 2006 by an astronomer at the University of Hawaii. Professor Esther M. Hu, pointed me towards this reading of an Arthur C. Clarke classic, one read by… Read moreThe Transit Of Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, and its author Stephen Greenblatt, are the subject of the latest CBC Ideas podcast. The Swerve is the story of the recovery of a lost epic Roman poem, by Titus Lucretius Carus, titled… Read moreCBC: Ideas: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
A friend of mine has been considering buying The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics And Religion (a new book by Jonathan Haidt). I told him it didn’t appear to exist as an audiobook – at least… Read moreBlogging Heads TV: interview with Jonathan Haidt
Our friend Anne has added a wonderful new post to his Anne Is A Man blog about podcasts. Says Anne: “I used to write that one should always download the In Our Time podcasts and keep for ever. The BBC… Read moreBBC Radio 4: In Our Time – a new podcast for every subject with shows from the past 14 years