New AUTHOR PAGES for your edification and enjoyment.
LEIGH BRACKETT (by request), FREDERIC BROWN (because of a recent Beam Me Up podcast), JAMES PATRICK KELLY (because the old one went AWOL), MACK REYNOLDS (because StarShipSofa’s Aural Delights podcast a short story). Who would you like to see added to our AUTHOR PAGES?
Posted by Jesse Willis
The SFFaudio Podcast #006 is here. Six is the loneliest number (after 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) dontchanknow. In this our 6th, and sixth loneliest, show we’re asking lonely questions like: ‘If you had to choose a universe without either Ray Bradbury or Neil Gaiman, which would you pick?’ And ‘Which is the worst audiobook recording ever made?’ Pod-in to find out the answers to these and many more exciting questions that nobody asked us.
Topics discussed include:
StarShipSofa’s Aural Delights, Paul Campbell, Michael Marshall Smith, The Seventeenth Kind, Estalvin’s Legacy, Rebels Of The Red Planet, Charles L. Fontenay, The 2nd SFFaudio Challenge, Parallel Worlds, The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, The Jungle Book, American Gods, The Fix Online, Audiobook Fix, author read audiobooks, Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen King, Robert J. Sawyer, James Patrick Kelly, Good Omens, Terry Pratchett, Neverwhere, Gary Bakewell, if you had to pick…, Stardust, Douglas Adams, Roger Zelazny, The Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul, radio drama, BBC Radio 4, BBC iplayer, Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer, The Supernaturalist, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy [the Ivory Coast edition], The Spanish Prisoner, Strange Horizons, Shaun Farrell, From iTunes to the Bookshelves: The First Wave of Podcast Novelists, Podiobooks.com, Nathan Lowell, Quarter Share, Evo Terra, Pavlovian experience, Ed McBain, Donald E. Westlake, NPR, Driveway Moments,
Posted by Jesse Willis
Adventures in Scifi Publishing interviews James Patrick Kelly & Matthew Wayne Selznick |MP3| and Mary Anne Mohanraj |MP3|.
Or subscribe to AiSFP podcast via the feed:
http://www.adventuresinscifipublishing.com/feed/
Posted by Charles Tan
Inspired by the idea that most visitors don’t dip into our 5 years worth of archives, here’s a new feature:
…in which we’ll post about five different audio favourites. I’d be willing to bet any of these 5 will make your ears happy. In fact, I’m so confident you’ll like them I’ve already started thinking about another five more. And, I’ll be soliciting contributors to put together similar lists of their own. Here’s my first batch…
1.
Night On Mispec Moor
By Larry Niven; Read by Warren James
Intro |MP3| Part 1 |MP3|, Part 2 |MP3| – [UNABRIDGED]
Provider: Hour25Online.com
Created: October 31, 2001
Larry Niven isn’t just the master of Hard SF, he’s also the master of Hard Fantasy and Horror! This story is a story which includes all three. It’s about an “outworld mercenary” who finds himself a lone survivor of his routed army. After fleeing into a moor, his pursuers suddenly stop, they dare not follow him into “Mispec” at night. This is a creepy, clever and very memorable short story. The sound quality isn’t ideal, but you’ll certainly enjoy the content.
2.
Infidel
By Roger Gregg; Performed by a Full Cast
4 MP3s – [RADIO DRAMA]
Podcaster: The Sonic Society
Podcast: April 2007
Sonic Society #62 (Infidel part 1 of 4) |MP3|
Sonic Society #63 (Infidel part 2 of 4) |MP3|
Sonic Society #64 (Infidel part 3 of 4) |MP3|
Sonic Society #65 (Infidel part 4 of 4) |MP3|
Though it’s probably easier classified as “historical” I’d call it a Horror from History. Crazy Dog Audio Theatre’s Infidel fictionalizes the very real events of the 5th Crusade (1217-1221 ad) in this transformative audio dramatization. Sir Hugh of Beauvais and his brother Sir Philip are knights. They’ve enlisted themselves in the fifth campaign to free the holy lands. This is modern audio drama at its finest. It’s also available in a CD set which you can get HERE.
3.
The Pyramid of Amirah
By James Patrick Kelly; Read By James Patrick Kelly
1 |MP3| – 18 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Jim Kelly’s Free Reads
Published: June 28th 2008
Surrounded by boxes of goody-goody bars, her only food, Amirah lives alone in what was once her parent’s house. Its her home now, and she’s honoured to become a pyramid girl. During the day she vacuums up the limestone dust that drifts down onto every flat surface, at night she leaves the lights on all the time, even when she sleeps. As the years pass the light bulbs start to burn out one-by-one and Amirah wonders if the meaning of her living entombment will ever come. This is a live recorded version, I’m highly moved by this enigmatic “Fantasy.” This is one is extremely powerful. I think about it often.
4.
The Merchant And The Alchemists Gate
By Ted Chiang; Read by James Campanella
1 |MP3| – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: StarShipSofa
Podcast: 2008
Time travel, Ted Chiang, and a terrific narrator. These three combine into an absolutely unmissable listen. A wonderful SF novelette it conjures a 1,001 Nights-like atmosphere with a By His Bootstraps story-logic.
5.
Tk’tk’tk
By David D. Levine; Read by Paul Tevis
1 |MP3| – [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: Escape Pod
Podcast: May 18th 2006
I’ve heard Episode 54 of Escape Pod maybe a half dozen times and I’m still very impressed with it. I’m convinced Levine’s tale will become an enduring SF classic. It takes a very Jack Vance like situation, some truly alien aliens, and throws a human everyman into their society – it demonstrates a couple of real world psychological phenomenons – and all the while it is highly entertaining. Can you really ask for more than that?
What Five Free Favourites would you recommend?
Posted by Jesse Willis
Could Be Worse is an audio exclusive, available for FREE via audible.com. A never-before-published story it is written and narrated by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning SF author James Patrick Kelly. If you like it be sure to check out StoryPod 3.0 his latest batch of 13 stories! You’ll hear the classic Hugo Award-winning novelette, 10 to the 16th to 1; The Best Christmas Ever, a Hugo nominee; Itsy Bitsy Spider, nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula; and more. You can get it in the DRM’d audible AAC format, listen online or download the MP3…
Could Be Worse
By James Patrick Kelly; Read by James Patrick Kelly
1 |MP3| – Approx. 10 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Waiting in a doctor’s office sure can suck the life out of you. Unless…
Posted by Jesse Willis
A free audiobook download of the Creative Commons 3.0 licensed novel Look Into The Sun by James Patrick Kelly, first published in dead tree form back in 1989, is now complete. This is Kelly’s second long form book recorded for his Free Reads podcast. The first was the Nebula Ward winning Burn (also available). Jim sez:
“After a brief vacation, I look forward to posting more of my work on Free Reads. I am an audiobook aficionado, and it is my ambition to have one of the most extensive libraries of Creative Commons podcasts of any professional science fiction writer.”
We’re looking forward to it Jim!
Look Into The Sun
By James Patrick Kelly; Read by James Patrick Kelly
34 MP3s – Approx. 11 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Podcast: James Patrick Kelly’s FREE READS
Podcast: March – November 2007
A disillusioned architect reluctantly accepts an offer from the alien Chani to travel to their world and undertake his most important commission–the construction of a monument to their “immortal” priestess.
Get all 34 parts of this novel by subscribing to the podcast via this feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/freereads
Posted by Jesse Willis