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Voices: New Media Fiction is the first podiobook…

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Voices: New Media Fiction is the first podiobook anthology, the brainchild of podcast legend Mur Lafferty. Chock full of spec-fic goodness this is a new collection of previously podcast fiction. When completed there will be stories from Jared Axelrod of The Voice Of Free Planet X, Patrick McLean of The Seanachai, Paul S. Jenkins of The Rev-Up Review, James Patrick Kelly of Free Reads, Jason Erik Lundberg of Lies and Little Deaths and J.R. Blackwell of 365 Tommorows, as well as the ubiquitous Cory Doctorow, and another 10 more!

The official Podiobooks.com announcement reads as follows:

“Milestone! We’re very happy to announce the release of Voices: New Media Fiction. Voices is edited by Mur Lafferty, and is only available from Podiobooks.com. It is also our 30th book

Voices: New Media Fiction brings together the pioneer short fiction podcasters. Experimenting from putting short-short fiction to novellas over their podcasts, these writers were the first to test the new medium for storytelling. Some wrote specifically for podcasts, some read previously published fiction, and some read entirely new stories. Some listeners asked if they could get just the stories in audio form, and that request brought about this podiobook. Cory Doctorow tells us a story about a post-apocalyptic government run by sysadmins and James Patrick Kelly narrates a story of a strange reconciliation. We’ve collected 18 stories for you, the first short fiction to go out over podcast, and look forward to bringing you more.”

Stories already available from the collection include:

Wolf in the Park
By Patrick McLean
A man is hunted – or is it haunted – by a monstrous wolf.

Barry Koleman, Hero
By Mur Lafferty
Barry grows up a bitter man, denied the superpowers that are his birthright.

The Journey of Jonathan Cave
By Paul S. Jenkins
Jonathan awakens from stasis to discover he’s on the last journey of his life.

Pandas Just Want to be Dogs
By Jared Axlerod
A man discusses desires and extinction with a panda.

Anda’s Game
By Cory Doctorow
A young girl realizes there’s more to her online gameplaying than just looting and leveling.

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A few readers have emailed asking where I got th…

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A few readers have emailed asking where I got the cool 2-CD set of John Boonstra interviewing Philip K. Dick. You know the one I reviewed last fall? I got it from Zack Wood, proprietor of ThePhilDickian.com who also has a few other rare PKD gems for sale on audio as well. Wood actually sells 3 different audio interviews with Philip K. Dick and 2 other related audio Dickiana products:

1. The one I reviewed last fall is called Philip K. Dick Telephone Interviews and was conducted by John Bonnstra. This one was thrilling, like you’d tapped into a conversation between PKD and a big fan. The closest thing to being in the room with the man himself. Definitely a must listen for any fan.

2. Another is entitled Piper In The Woods (taking its name from a PKD story) which was conducted by Gregg Rickman. I haven’t heard this one myself but am hoping, maybe someday. Hint hint.

3. The one by Paul Williams of Rolling Stone magazine. This one was used by Williams to do the amazing Rolling Stone article on PKD back in the 1970s. That article was probably the biggest boost to Dick’s forunes after his Hugo win for The Man In The High Castle up to that point. This cassette was actually an issue of the Philip K. Dick society fanzine back in the 1980s. Cool huh?

4.Wood also sells the two X-Minus One 1950s radio dramas based on PKD short stories (both of which are now in the public domain) one’s called Colony and the other is The Defenders. I beleive the Spaceship Radio podcast has released one of these, and the Sci-Fi Friday podcast has released them both. Definitely worth a listen, nicely adapted though as usual the stories themselves work even better. Neither is available on audio in any other form at this time though.

5. And lastly he’s got VALIS: The Opera a 2 CD set created by Tod Machover. This is music inspired by Dick’s V.ast A.lien L.iving I.ntelligence S.ystem and the novel of the same name (VALIS). I haven’t heard it but somebody out there seems to like it. Anybody heard it?

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Hey kids, Dragon Page Cover To Cover, the weekly…

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Hey kids, Dragon Page Cover To Cover, the weekly podcast that talks to Science Fiction and Fantasy authors has an AWESOME guest this week! Hosts Michael and Evo are talking with Grandmaster of Science Fiction Larry Niven who’s got a new book out, The Draco Tavern, also up for discussion are Lucifer’s Hammer, the Ringworld series and plenty more! Click HERE to download Show #207 directly. Or subscribe to the show’s XML feed:

http://www.dragonpage.com/podcastC2C.xml

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Hey cool! Yog Radio has posted a 7 Minute bloope…

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Hey cool! Yog Radio has posted a 7 Minute blooper reel for the upcoming podcast recording of the H.P. Lovecraft short story The Music Of Erich Zann you can dowload it directly HERE.

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Our friends at AssistiveMedia.org have been offe…

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Our friends at AssistiveMedia.org have been offering online audio to persons with disabilities since 1998, unfortunately the website doesn’t currently offer easy access to their terrific resources (regrettably the promised podcast feed dedicated to Science Fiction hasn’t materialized yet either). In an effort to make the unnavigable navigable we are compiling a collection of the best SF&F related links for you to enjoy:

Science:
The Quantum Physics Of Time Travel
By David Deutsch and Michael Lockwood; Read by Chris Purchis
38 Minutes | RealAudio |
Copyright © Scientific American 1994
“Common sense may rule out such excursions–but the laws of physics do not.”

Artificial Intelligence And Human Nature
By Charles T. Rubin; Read by Vi Benner
40 minutes | MP3 | RealAudio | [UNABRIDGED]
Copyright © 2003, The New Atlantis

Science Fiction:
Nemesis
By Arthur C. Clarke; Read by Ken Phifer
37 Minutes | MP3 | RealAudio | [UNABRIDGED]

Technical Error
By Arthur C. Clarke; Read by David Zinn
37 Minutes | RealAudio | [UNABRIDGED]

Travel By Wire
By Arthur C. Clarke; Read by David Zinn
11 minutes | RealAudio | [UNABRIDGED]

Enjoy!

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SFFaudio’s got another big scoop for you. There’…

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SFFaudio’s got another big scoop for you. There’s a new podcast novel that’s just launched and it taps into a multiplicity of great SF ideas – politics, technology, bio-ethics, cloning and memory replication. Intrigued? Check it out…

7th Son, Book One: Descent
By J.C. Hutchins; Read by J. C. Hutchins
24 MP3 Files – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Podiobooks.com / JCHutchins.net
Published: Commenced February 2006

7th Son, Book One: Descent is the story of seven men, all strangers, who’ve been gathered together following the assassination of the president of the United States. Though they’ve never met before they seem to have something very important in common, namely identical childhood memories! It seems they were the progeny of a covert human cloning experiment – now, brought together for the first time since their creation, all seven of these “John Michael Smiths” are tasked with tracking down the assassin who murdered the president. Something they are uniquely equiped to do because their target is the man they were cloned from; the original John Michael Smith, code-named John Alpha.

I got a sneak pre-hear of the first five chapters and I can attest this is no pale replication of any SF thriler you’ve heard before. Hutchins’ prose is lucent, his ideas original 7th Son, Book One: Descent blends the verve of Philip K. Dick with the slick modern storytelling techniques of Lincoln Child.

You can subscirbe to the podcast directly using this XML feed:

http://www.jchutchins.net/7thSonPodcast.xml

Or you can subscribe through the terrific Podiobooks.com service for a more customizable delivery schedule.

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