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Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction interviews David Weber

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Fast Forward Contemporary Science Fiction LogoFast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction is our favorite TV show that is also an MP3 podcast! If you haven’t already subscribed to this feisty interview show, you’re missing out. Upcoming interviews will include authors Cory Doctorow, Ken MacLeod, and Charles Stross! But the post on hand today is a WEB EXCLUSIVE, A FF Special interview with David Weber. The interview was taped January 22, 2007, Weber talks with host Tom Schaad about his new novel, Off Armageddon Reef (SFFaudio review forthcoming), which is the first volume in his new SF book series.

Download the interview direct |MP3| or subscribe to the Fast Forward Podcast:

http://fast-forward.tv/blog/?feed=rss2

posted by Jesse Willis

Joe Gold serializing his novel The Lamp Post Motel

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Joe Gold @ World Science Fiction Convention 2006
I met Joe Gold, a San Fransisco based writer, at The World Science Fiction Convention 2006 (last August) – he was in the dealer’s room signing copies of his first novel The Lamp Post Motel. At that time, I talked with Joe about the potential of podcasts and podcast novels, he seemed interested but I had forgotten about the conversation until today. It turns out that the conversation we had has born fruit…

Joe emailed us to say: “I am in the process of recording as a 49-chapter podcast (posted on my site for the book, coincidentally named TheLampPostMotel.com). The Lamp Post Motel suggests that UFOs are actually grad students of the future, doing research here in the past. In this case, they’re from 2000 years from now, looking for a field research site for sexual anthropology.”

And here it is…

Science Fiction audiobook - The Lamp Post Motel by Joe GoldThe Lamp Post Motel
By Joe Gold; Read by Joe Gold
49 MP3 Files – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: TheLampPostMotel.com
Status: IN PROGRESS
Students from the University of the Rings are doing field research in sexual anthropology—at the Lamp Post Motel. Elmo Skinner prefers logical circuits to unpredictable people. He owns the motel and watches his customers on hidden cameras—until the time travelers drop Elmo’s mind into the people he’s watching.

You can listen to the first 9 MP3 files, already recorded by clicking HERE.

posted by Jesse Willis

FREE MP3 NOVELETTE: The Sagan Diairy by John Scalzi

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Blog - John Scalzi's WhateverJohn W. Campbell Award winning author John Scalzi writes:

“I have something special for you today, and something I am extraordinarily proud of. To celebrate the release of [The Sagan Diary] I and Subterranean Press have arranged for a reading of the book — the entire novelette — here on the Whatever. But it’s not me who will be reading the book. The Sagan Diary is meant to be the thoughts of Jane Sagan, as she looks over her life after the events of The Ghost Brigades and prepares for the life which will be detailed in The Last Colony. I wanted voices closer to hers than my own. So I asked some friends if they would speak for Jane Sagan: I asked Elizabeth Bear, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ellen Kushner, Karen Meisner, Cherie Priest and Helen Smith. Happily for me (and for you) they said yes. Each of them recorded a chapter (or more, in the case of Mary Robinette Kowal), and took the words I wrote for Jane and gave them extra dimensions — made more of them than I would be able to make of them myself. If you’ve wondered what Jane Sagan sounds like, she sounds like this. I was delighted to hear her voice coming through these readings, and deeply humbled by the efforts these women provided in letting Jane speak with them and through them. Without prejudicing your own hearing, let me say that I found myself getting emotional listening to these words given voice.”

The novelette in question is set in the same universe as Scalzi’s novels Old Man’s War and The Ghost Brigades…

The Sagan Diary
By John Scalzi; Read by various readers
9 MP3 Files – Approx. 81 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Subterranean Press / Scalzi.com/whatever
Published: February 2007

Download the entire audiobook:
Preface |MP3| Chapter 1 |MP3| Chapter 2 |MP3| Chapter 3 |MP3| Chapter 4 |MP3| Chapter 5 |MP3| Chapter 6 |MP3| Chapter 7 |MP3| Chapter 8 |MP3|

And as a point of interest you can click on over to SFFaudio’s own Mary Robinette Kowal’s blog to read and hear about her reading of The Sagan Diary – in that post Mary shows how just a few stumbling words can make a relatively short audiobook much longer.

posted by Jesse Willis

The Sci-Phi Show on Levinson’s Chronology Protection Case

Episode #31 of The Sci Phi Show |MP3| is on the topic of the “chronology protection conjecture” (an idea that physicist Stephen Hawking used to answer the question of why historic events don’t appear to be flooded with time traveling tourists). More specifically under discussion is the concept as represented in Paul Levinson’s story and radio drama of The Chronology Protection Case. Before you listen to the analysis check out the original tale itself |MP3| which can be found in the same feed. On the topic of the feed, you can subscribe to the podcast via this link:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSciPhiShow

posted by Jesse Willis

Deadpan Podcast has Bill DeSmedt

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Online Audio - Jack Mangan's Deadpan PodcastJack Mangan’s Deadpan podcast is unusually un-comedic this week with a half hour interview with SFFaudio Essential winning author Bill DeSmedt. Jack and Bill talk about Bill’s novel Singularity and the sequel to it that is being written. Download the show direct |MP3| or subscribe, and join the cult that makes you speak in vocal utterances of an unvaried tone via this feed:

http://www.jackmangan.com/podcast.xml

posted by Jesse Willis