Podcasting In Plain English [A 3 Minute Video Explanation]
I did one of these in audio form back in the good ‘ol days of Sonic Society, but I have to say this is much, MUCH better! Clear, to the point, and VISUALS!
Posted by Dani Cutler
All future Star Wars audiobooks to be entirely UNABRIDGED
I just got a note from Random House Audio stating:
“All Star Wars titles in the future will be unabridged, thanks to input from our consumers.”
I expect this is going to be one of the final nails in the coffin of abridged audiobooks. Since the inception of SFFaudio we’ve included the “unabridged” or “abridged” notations on all our posts about audiobooks; we hate abridgements. It’d be really something if in a few years we didn’t have to worry about finding ourselves listening to an abridged audiobook accidentally anymore.
Goodbye and good riddance abridged books, you won’t be missed!
Posted by Jesse Willis
The StarShipSofa podcast metamorphs into a Podcast Magazine
The StarShipSofa podcast is metamorphosing into the StarShipSofa – The Audio Science Fiction Magazine, following in the great tradition of magazines like Analog, Asimovs and Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Each week the StarShipSofa will deliver a full package of SF related audio material all free including audio fiction, fact audio essays, flash fiction and poetry, all by leading names in the SF field.
Many many writers have agreed to let StarShipSofa narrate their works including Ben Bova, Joe Haldeman, Alistair Reynolds and M. John Harrison to name a few.
There will be two shows per week, the Wednesday show, also know as “Aural Delights” will contain narrated audio fiction, fact and poetry and the weekend show will be an in depth look into an author’s life and work.
This week saw the first of the metamorphosing with the StarShipSofa’s Aural Delights show. Fiction was provided by Kage Baker’s fantastic story The Likely Lad, there were two poems by Bruce Boston and Laurel Winter, both winners of the Rhysling Award for SF Poetry. Flash fiction came from a very short but very powerful story called Repeating The Past by Peter Watts, author of the SF novel Blindsight.
In the weeks to come Peter Watts will also be delivering a monthly narrated fact article; this part of the show will be called “Reality, Remastered.”
As for the weekend shows, StarShipSofa has her sights upon writers such as John Scalzi, Robert Charles Wilson and Ken Macleod.
It is a great time for SF at the moment and with the many advantages the Internet can bring, StarShipSofa wants to be one of the very first to deliver the full package in audio science fiction.
Subscribe to the podcast via this feed:http://www.starshipsofa.com/rss
Posted by Tony C. Smith
Free Comic Book Day THIS SATURDAY (sadly no audio comics included yet)
It’s pretty rare we’ll talk about anything that isn’t audio related here on SFFaudio, but when I hear the words “FREE” and “COMICS” side by side, I’m pretty much sold on the concept. Ya, so about that…
This Saturday is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!
I’ll be stopping in at my local comic shop (Hourglass Comics, in Port Moody, B.C.) on Saturday, picking up the maximum number of FREE COMICS allowable. If it plays out anything like last few FREE COMIC BOOK DAYs I’ve been to I’ll also be spending a few $$ there on some of those unfree comics too.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Noircon 2008 panel on “Cybernoir”
I’ll make nearly any excuse to talk about Shannon Clute and Richard Edwards’ two podcasts Behind The Black Mask: Mystery Writers Revealed and Out Of The Past: Investigating Film Noir. Today’s excuse comes in the form of a Noircon 2008 podcast which includes a brief mention of Blade Runner. Have a listen…
Podcast Day 3: Cybernoir Panel
Panelists: Shannon Clute, Seth Harwood, and Richard Edwards
1 |M4A| – [CONVENTION PANEL]
Podcaster: Out Of The Past / Behind The Black Mask
Recorded: April 5th, 2008
Recorded as part of the Noircon 2008 Conference in Philadelphia, PA, Clute and Edwards kick things off with a discussion of how noir style and pulp publishing models seem to provide the fundamental structuring logics of emerging digital media—from blogs to podcasts, mashups to video games. Seth Harwood then relates his own experience of podcasting his first novel, JACK WAKES UP—from producing the initial audio, to embracing various new media in order to cultivate an audience and tap their enthusiasm and skills to promote his work. Finally, all three panelists consider how pulp-logic productions in these various media are likely to change the ways books are published and marketed. This special edition podcast includes all Power Point slides from the panel, synchronized with the audio, for your viewing pleasure. Moreover, there are embedded links at the bottom of the images, which allow you to surf related links while listening. The podcast is optimized for iTunes, and will run on any machine that has iTunes installed.
Posted by Jesse Willis
100% FREE STAR WARS MP3 AUDIOBOOK
Random House Audio is promoting their upcoming “Legacy Of The Force” audiobook “Invincible” (due out May 13th) by giving away the first audiobook in the series FREE! STAR WARS – Legacy Of The Force – Betrayal is a zipped folder MP3 AUDIOBOOK! This is only going to be free for a limited time, so start downloading now!
Download the entire audiobook HERE. And we’ve got the details and the cover art below.
Star Wars – Legacy Of The Force – Betrayal
By Aaron Allston; Read by Marc Thompson
85 Zipped MP3 Files – 6 Hours 10 Minutes [ABRIDGED]
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: February 2007
ISBN: 0739356895
“Luke Skywalker, Jedi Master, has unified the Jedi order into a cohesive group of powerful knights. But as the new era begins, honor and duty will collide with friendship and blood ties. The Skywalker and Solo clans find themselves on opposing sides of an explosive conflict, with potentially devastating repercussions for both families, for the Jedi order, and for the entire galaxy. A mission to uncover an illegal missile factory on the planet Adumar ends in a violent ambush from which Jedi Knight Jacen Solo and his protégé and cousin, Ben Skywalker, narrowly escape. It’s the most alarming evidence yet that sparks of political unrest are threatening to ignite a total rebellion.”
This is the first book in the “Legacy Of The Force” series, which is set approximately 40 years after the events of the original 1977 Star Wars movie.
By the way, this audiobook was previously released Audible.com as a promotion for 2007 ComicCon attendees, that version had DRM, this one is naked MP3.
Posted by Jesse Willis