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Beam Me Up reads more Nebula nominees: Elizabeth Hand’s Echo

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Paul Cole has a 22 minute reading of Elizabeth Hand’s Nebula nominated short story “Echo” on the latest Beam Me Up podcast. This story first appeared in the pages of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (the Oct/Nov 2005 issue).

“This is not the first time this has happened. There is an endless history of forgotten empires, men gifted by a goddess who bears arrows, things in flight that fall in flames.”

Download the show direct |MP3| or subscribe to the podcast via this feed:

http://beameup.podomatic.com/rss2.xml

posted by Jesse Willis

Preview of a new ROBERT E. HOWARD audiobook

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The creator of Conan, Robert E. Howard, has been long neglected in audio. But no longer!

Audio Realms, an SFFaudio Essential producing publisher, is collaborating with Wildside Press to bring us “The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard.” This is a 10-volume series of Howard’s classic Fantasy, Horror, and poetry from Weird Tales magazine. These stories are going to be in Audio Realms’ “AudioBooksPlus” format. Each volume features cover art by Stephen Fabian, plus new introductions by a leading REH scholar or fantasist such as Joe R. Lansdale. In addition to these volumes, AudioRealms will be producing 4 volumes dedicated exclusively to Conan. The first three will be multiple story collections and the 4th will feature REH’s masterpiece The Hour Of The Dragon.

There is now a sound sample available for one of the short stories….this brief clip comes from Howard’s short story The Gods Of The North |MP3|.

posted by Jesse Willis

Space The Imagination Station interviews Gregg Taylor

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Space: The Imagination Station which is Canada’s equivalent of the Sci-Fi Channel. Their podcast is called Hypaspace and it has an interview with Decoder Ring Theatre‘s Gregg Taylor! Hypaspace talked to Gregg about both The Red Panda Adventures and his other awesome (though not Spec-Fi) show Black Jack Justice. You can download that |MP3| here, or subscribe to the Hypaspace podcast via THIS xml feed.

Also, as a service to those not already in the know are excited about The Red Panda Adventures returning to Decoder Ring’s podcast on Saturday March 24th 2007 with the remaining six thrilling adventures of its second season. I’m looking forward to a Podiobooks release soon after…. hint hint.

posted by Jesse Willis

The Sci Phi Show revists The 7th Son universe with J.C. Hutchins

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The Sci Phi Show podcast is doing a show on 7th Son and the philosophy of mind. The host, Jason Rennie, talks about the two completed 7th Son novels in the context of personal identity, immortality and the nature of consciousness. You can hear Jason’s thoughts on the subject as wells as a brand new interview with J.C Hutchins, author of the podcast novels |MP3|.

Also, two previous Sci Phi Shows that interview Hutchins are also available (Outcast #1 |MP3|) and (Outcast #7 |MP3|).

Subscribe to the podcast via the feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSciPhiShow

posted by Jesse Willis

StarShipSofa on Clark Ashton Smith

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StarShipSofa, emboldened with their brand new logo (done by the same talented artist who did both our own SFFaudio and Escape Pod’s logo) has turned its friendly attention towards Clark Ashton Smith, one of the early stars of Speculative Fiction. Download the |MP3| or subscribe to the podcast with this feed:

http://starshipsofa.libsyn.com/rss

posted by Jesse Willis

More Damn Dirty Apes! Planet Of The Apes audiobook

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Hunter Goatley‘s site also has an abridged reading of the original novel of Planet Of The Apes by Pierre Boulle. It was originally published in 1963 in French as La Planète Des Singes. “Singe” translates to both “ape” and “monkey.” Translator Xan Fielding called it Monkey Planet. In the English-language POTA films, the apes are insulted when called “monkeys,” but in this reading no distinction is made, the term “singes” is used interchangeably with both “apes” and “monkeys.” This abridged reading regrettably dispenses with the framing story, which offers one of the twists that people who’ve only seen the films could still have enjoyed. Despite this, the audiobook is worth hearing, it falls into the tradition of A Strange Manuscript Found In A Copper Cylinder, in which dystopian society acts as social commentary.

posted by Jesse Willis