Escape Pod continues what it started last year – they are offering audio versions of some of this year’s Hugo nominees. Available right now are these nominees for Best Short Story:
Impossible Dreams by Tim Pratt – |MP3|
The House Beyond Your Sky by Benjamin Rosenbaum – |MP3|
Eight Episodes by Robert Reed – |MP3|
Kin by Bruce McAllister – |MP3|
And over on Neil Gaiman’s site, you can get an audio version of the other Short Story nominee, How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman
Hello, all! Scott here.
I’m posting to let all who care know that I am stepping down as co-editor of SFFaudio. I trust that Jesse Willis and crew will keep everyone informed of what’s happening in the world of science fiction and fantasy audio. I wish them the very best – the creation of and writing for SFFaudio has been wonderful. Thanks to everyone who makes the audio, from the publishers to the narrators to the podcasters. I have met an unbelievable number of excellent folks here.
For me, it’s time to move on. I’ve been covering the science fiction and fantasy audio industry for 5 years now – 4 years here at SFFaudio, and another year before that at SFSite. It’s time to see what’s next for me. Hopefully, “what’s next” includes building on my first story sale, and the expansion of Deuce Audio.
I’d like to thank all the reviewers and everyone else who has helped in any way to make SFFaudio such a success. I’d like to publicly thank Jesse Willis – a better partner and friend could never be found.
I leave at a very interesting time for the audio industry. A tidal wave of podcasts has dominated the audio landscape for anyone who is online. That podcasts are changing the industry is certain – what form things will take in the end remains unknown. Audible and iTunes continue to be pretty much the only real option out there for downloadable commercial audiobooks – surely that will change soon. Hardcopy audio publishers chug right along, some of them providing MP3-CDs at your local bookstore. To think – when I started doing this, only 5 years ago, finding an audiobook on CD was rare.
If only I could have convinced audio publishers to produce more Hard SF! :) The fight continues…
All my very best, and thanks for reading SFFaudio! The future never sounded so good, and SFFaudio has become and will remain THE place on the internet to find out about it.
Stephen King has a column over at EW.com where he talks audiobooks. He offers his top ten list, which includes a couple of items in the science fiction and fantasy genre – at #3 are the Jim Dale narrated Harry Potter novels, and at #10 is American Gods by Neil Gaiman, read by George Guidall, which was recently enshrined as our latest SFFaudio Essential.
Airborn
By Kenneth Oppel; Read by a Full Cast
10 CDs – 10.5 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Full Cast Audio
Published: 2006
ISBN: 1933322543
Here’s the latest arrival from Full Cast Audio, the premier producer of family-friendly audiobooks:
An incredible swashbuckling adventure, set in a world where great airships ply the skies and there are unknown lands and strange creatures still to be discovered. You’ll love the characters, and the story has the drive and verve of a Saturday morning serial.
Reminiscent of Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs—with a touch of Robert Louis Stevenson—this is adventure writing at its finest. And with its cast of larger-than-life characters, it was just made for our full cast treatment.
Cheater
By Orson Scott Card; Read by Orson Scott Card
MP3 File – 33 minutes – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show
Published: 2006
ISBN: None
A new story from the Ender universe, involving Han Tzu. This story is an audio bonus from the current issue of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show.
Also at Audible.com, a great deal on the first twelve volumes of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events! 50% off, to be exact.
Posted by Scott D. Danielson