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.
Can anyone resist Blackstone Audio’s just announced $5.00 clearance sale? This comes not a month after they announced their $9.99 overstock sale! $5 for an audiobook. That’s the deal of the year people! Admittedly, not all of the available titles… Read moreBlackstone Audio’s $5 audiobook sale – STUNNING DEALS
The Pulp Reader blog is an ongoing experiment in “computer generated audio books.” Sez the webmaster (Shonokin): I read a lot. I also drive a lot, stuck in long commutes every day. There’s a way for a reader and a… Read moreThe Pulp Reader’s project and some audio drama picks
SFFaudio receives FREE audio media in the mail on a regular basis. They generally arrive unsolicited (though sometimes not) and we take it that their arrival equates with a tacit understanding that we’ll either mention the receipt on the website… Read moreBlackstone Audiobooks Overtstock Sale
Naxos Audiobooks, in partnership with AudioFile Magazine, is offering three unabridged Sherlock Holmes short stories FREE for download until December 29th, 2009! The first of these had already been made available, but the other two are definitely new to my… Read moreNaxos Audiobooks: 3 FREE Sherlock Holmes short stories
Jess Nevins, librarian and author of the forthcoming The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes (2010), gave a scholarly lecture on the earliest origins and strange evolution of the superhuman/superhero meme. Starting in the the early 19th century with a perceived need… Read moreChangersurfer Radio: Lecture – Those Who Cannot Remember Doc Savage Are Condemned To Repeat Him by Jess Nevins
No doubt recalling my fondness for August Derleth’s Solar Pons, my friend Julie D. dropped me a line saying: “the Sebastian Thorn stories paint a nice ‘modern’ Holmesian figure.” Who? Thorn? Never heard of the fellow. So, curious, I followed… Read moreSherlock Holmes pastiche: Sebastian Thorne