Hey look! BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new 4 part dramatisation of Terry Pratchett‘s Discworld novel Small Gods – it started Feb 28th.
“There are gods everywhere on the Discworld but only a few people can see them. On the Discworld, gods need people more than people need gods.”
Hey if you haven’t already subscribed today is the day to do it, you absolutely have to, because Steve Eley‘s awesome ESCAPE POD: The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine today features a Paul Di Filippo short story called Little Worker read by fellow SF author Jonathon (Sullydog) Sullivan. Its a “ribofunk” story, that’s a cross between Cyberpunk and Biotech, and it is more proof that the future’s so bright you’ve gotta grow nictating membranes!
If you have iTunes you can subscribe directly by CLICKING HERE.
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
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.
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
Essay:
The Fisherwoman’s Daughter
By Ursula K. LeGuin; Read by Melissa Stewart
63 minutes | RealAudio | [UNABRIDGED]
copyright © 1990, The New York Times Book Review
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!
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.