Ben Aaronovitch, guest from The SFFaudio Podcast #086 , has been getting plenty of positive reviews for his new novel Midnight Riot (aka Rivers Of London). Here’s the trailer:
Sadly, there’s still no audiobook edition in sight.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Jerry Stearns writes in to remind us that the Mark Time Awards submission deadline is fast approaching.
I ask that you post that the deadline for the Mark Time Awards for Science Fiction Audio and the Ogle Awards for Fantasy/Horror Audio is coming up fast. March 1 is the postmark deadline for entry into the 14th Annual Mark Time Awards competition.
Awards are judged on the script (good dialogue and good science fiction), the performances of the actors, and the production quality. The judges have decades of experience behind them in all these areas, and know a good thing when they hear it.
There are other awards that have an audio theater category, but the Mark Times are the only awards given exclusively for Audio Theater. We are looking for full cast scripts and performances, not a single or multiple voice reading of prose. We are especially looking at originality in the story and the production. Recreations of Old Time Radio are accepted, but remember that we will have heard the previous productions of that script.
Announcement of the Awards will occur in mid-June, 2011, and presentations are at Convergence, the science fiction convention in Bloomington, MN on June 30, 2011. Winners are invited to attend, and we will make every effort to get free registrations for the convention and a hotel reservation (in a hotel that is already fully booked).
See the website for further information, past winners, and the Entry Form. (http://www.greatnorthernaudio.com/MarkTime/MarkTime.html)
Posted by Jesse Willis
Wow! In this vid, sure to ruffle a few feathers, Neil Gaiman lays out the argument for piracy, explaining that piracy is free advertising.
[via the inimitable Cynical-C]
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Hey, as a personal favour to me (and my mom) I encourage you to check out my mom’s eBay listings for some old school out of print audiobooks from back in the day!
You’ll find some rare Tolkien stories, some Lawrence Block audiobooks and lots more goodness. But, be sure to note all audiobooks there are in the old school cassette format.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Here’s a Blake’s 7 video that I was surprised to learn I’d never previously posted!
Posted by Jesse Willis
In SFFaudio Podcast #051 we talked to Professor Eric S. Rabkin. In that show he mentioned a novel which will be the subject of an upcoming SFFaudio Podcast readalong (scheduled to be recorded in mid-February). That 1978 novel is this book:
SS-GB depicts a Britian under Nazi occupation. It sounds rather similar to two other novels, Robert Harris’ Fatherland and Philip K. Dick’s The Man In The High Castle. More specifically, it is set in alternate history world in which Unternehmen Seelöwe (Operation Sea Lion) was a complete success. The novel begins in November 1941, nine months after a German invasion led to the British surrender. Detective Superintendent Douglas Archer, a British homicide detective assigned to Scotland Yard, is called in to investigate a murder.
Cool huh? I’m afraid that the audiobook is currently out of print – bringing it new attention may rectify that – but, the paperbook is readily available at paperbook stores.
Here is the printed matter preceding Chapter 1 of SS-GB:
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