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.
Lets assume that each medium offers its own best format. If that’s true, then on TV it is the limited series programme that is the least respected and most underrated. Take The Shadow Line, a BBC 2 television series, created… Read moreHugo Blick’s The Shadow Line
The SFFaudio Podcast #105 – a complete and unabridged reading of The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell. Narrated by William Coon of Eloquent Voice. A tempest tossed hunter crawls ashore on a mysterious island only to find his way… Read moreThe SFFaudio Podcast #105 – AUDIOBOOK: The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan Source: LibriVox (zipped mp3s) Length: 4 hours, 20 minutes Reader: Adrian Praetzellis The book: Before Dan Brown or The Bourne Identity, John Buchan got the ball rolling in the man-on-the-run conspiracy novel sub-genre in 1915. The… Read moreFREE LISTENS REVIEW: The 39 Steps by John Buchan
While I was flipping through one of my grandmother’s old English textbooks (SENSE AND FEELING) I found it contained a short story written by Will F. Jenkins. You may, as I did, instantly recognize it as a pen name of… Read moreForgotten Classics: Night Drive by Murray Leinster
Dimiter By William Peter Blatty; Read by William Peter Blatty 8 Hours – [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Macmillan Audio Published: 2010 Themes: / Thriller / Religion / Christianity / Espionage / In 1973 a nameless prisoner is being tortured in an Albanian… Read moreAural Noir Review of Dimiter by William Peter Blatty
Here’s a batch of new releases! We talked about the first two on the latest SFFaudio Podcast. Of the others that are forthcoming it is the length of Robert B. Parker’s novel Split Images that has me most excited. A… Read moreNew Releases: Jonathan Stroud, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Star Wars, Robert B. Parker, S.J. Parris