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The Sci Phi Show interviews Paul Levinson

The Sci Phi Show podcast, the show that investigates the connections between Science Fiction and Philosophy, will be posting a cool interview with Science Fiction author, university professor and philosophy enthusiast Paul Levinson. Sci Phi Show host Jason Rennie talks to Levinson about his latest novel The Plot To Save Socrates [which SFFaudio recently reviewed]. They also talk about the intersection between the media and Philosophy – apt this, because Levinson is a professor of Media studies at Fordham University. Also cool, Levinson tells of the inspiration for his acclaimed novelette The Chronology Protection Case, which itself has been dramatized for audio.

You can subscribe to the podcast feed via this link:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSciPhiShow

Look for it in your podcatcher Friday or Saturday!

posted by Jesse Willis

FREE MP3 audiobook of Neuromancer by William Gibson

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Here is another must listen from the Greylodge Podcasting Company archives!

Now it isn’t too often that we recommend an abridged audiobook, but this one is a can’t miss – you’ll really dig it. With original music by U2 and a reading by the author himself, Neuromancer is the unstoppably compelling novel that spawned a whole sub-genre of Science Fiction.

[Read the SFFaudio Review]

Science Fiction Audiobook - Neuromancer by William Gibson Neuromancer
By William Gibson; Read by William Gibson
8 MP3s – Approx. 6 Hours [ABRIDGED]
Publisher: Time Warner AudioBooks
Published: 1994
ISBN: 1570420599
Case was the sharpest data thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance heist. To do the job Case is teamed with a street samurai razor-girl, an illusionist and a reconstructed Green Beret. Their mission, break into the mansion of a high orbiting space habitation and find the key that will release… something.

posted by Jesse Willis

FREE MP3 audiobook of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu

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Greylodge Podcasting Company, has some very cool audiobooks up on their site for direct download and torrent. Among them is this classic from H.P. Lovecraft!

Grab both MP3s below for what appears to be a complete and unabridged reading of what some consider Lovecraft’s greatest tale. A story that fantasy giant Robert E. Howard described as:

“A masterpiece, which I am sure will live as one of the highest achievements of literature. Mr. Lovecraft holds a unique position in the literary world; he has grasped, to all intents, the worlds outside our paltry ken. His scope is unlimited, and his range is cosmic.”

Tales of Fear and the Unknown: The Call of Cthulhu
By H.P. Lovecraft, Read by Garrick Hagon
2 MP3 Files Part 1 Part 2– 94 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Landfall Productions
Published: 1989
ISBN: 1873768060
Presented as a manuscript “found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston”. The docments in turn recount Thurston’s discovery of yet more notes, papers left behind by his grand-uncle, a prominent professor of Semitic languages at Brown University. It seems the grand-uncle died suddenly in after being “jostled by a nautical-looking negro.” Strange statuettes and dangerous ocean voyages result.

posted by Jesse Willis

Lovecraft related podcast: The Dream Cycle of Salem, Mass

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The Dream Cycle of Salem, Mass is a podcast pilot associated with LostCarcosa.net (a cool blog that takes its name from the fictional city created by Ambrose Bierce). The Dream Cycle of Salem, Mass intends to focusing on “The writings of Howard Phillip Lovecraft and its effects, relations, and relevancies in the New England area, with particular focus on Salem, MA.” Host Joseph Remy, a Lovecraft scholar and cartoonist, plans on doing some video podcasts – and even though his first podcast outing is little rough I think we should encourage him to stick with audio – that way we can talk about it here on SFFaudio!

Only one episode has been released so far. It is called “TDCOSM #0″: Pickman’s Model” |MP3| and it actually came out way back in September. In it Remy reads segments from the H.P. Lovecraft story Pickman’s Model and talks about the actual places named in the tale.

Subscribe to the podcast feed via this link:

http://www.lostcarcosa.net/podcast/feed/

posted by Jesse Willis

BBC Radio 7 re-broadcasts H.P. Lovecraft’s The Tomb

BBC7’s The Seventh Dimension is rebroadcasting their unabridged reading of an H.P. Lovecraft story that first aired on November 26th 2005.

The Tomb
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Ryan McCluskey
STREAMING AUDIO – Approx. 30 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Broadcaster: BBC7
Broadcast: Sunday December 10th at 6.30pm and 12.30am UK TIME [available via the Listen Again service for 6 days following]
Jervas Dudley inmate of an insane asylum describes the sinister events leading up to his incarceration. He tells of how he became obsessed with the tomb of a long-dead family of aristocrats and how his obsession tipped him over into madness when he entered their tomb and spent a night lying in an empty coffin.

posted by Jesse Willis

John Shirley interviewed on the RU Sirius podcast

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The RU Sirius Show (#82) has an interview with Science Fiction and Horror author John Shirley about his new book The Other End, which is his response to the Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins Left Behind series.

Download an |MP3| of the show directly and skip ahead to the 17 minute mark to hear the interview (that first part of the show is a non-SF related discussion of modern fascism).

posted by Jesse Willis