SFSignal.com‘s John DeNardo has posted up their latest “Mind Meld” in which a cross section of SF’s semi-celebrities give their answers to a pointed question about SF. This time the question is:
What’s Your Favorite Sub-Genre of Science Fiction and/or Fantasy?
Read the entire post HERE, it includes my own answer (which I think is pretty darn good) as well as some other decent (if not as awesome) ones. I am da vinner!
Posted by Jesse Willis
Charles Tan, of the ever fresh Bibliophile Stalker blog (and SFFaudio), has posted an insightful, thoughtful and universally enlightening interview with me!
Not much more to say than… it’s about all about ME people!
Me!
Check it out HERE.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Everybody’s talking about the new movie Watchmen. Meanwhile I’m thinking and writing about a real watchman, a night watchman, who wrote Science Fiction and Mystery. That’s right, I’ve just added a new AUTHOR PAGE for H. Beam Piper.
In the 1950s, H. Beam Piper worked as a night watchman, which allowed him to spend his days writing fiction and collecting weapons. Which is very interesting, because that’s how I’d have spent my days if I’d lived in the 1950s too.
Check out our new H. BEAM PIPER page, and this nifty |PDF| of a vintage article about the man.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Speaking of CONAN, and his creator Robert E. Howard. I’ve just now added an entry on our We’ve been adding to our AUTHOR PAGES for the inventor of Sword & Sorcery. It lists all the commercial releases that we know about, too few (and none by Conan Properties International so far), all of the public domain audiobooks released through LibriVox, a few other podcast releases (woo hoo) and a couple of old audio dramas released on LP. There are a few holes in the listing – but we’re gonna be filling them. In the meantime, go visit our nearly complete ROBERT E. HOWARD author page, which will list everything audio related to the man’s writings.
Posted by Jesse Willis
We’ve been adding to our AUTHOR PAGES of late. Just added, FREDERIK POHL – which lists everything audio, that we know about, that’s related to SFWA Grand Master Frederik Pohl. There’s an interview, a convention panel, a radio drama and of course audiobooks listed. Yum yum!
Posted by Jesse Willis
Starting very shortly, SFFaudio will be bringing you more content.
Instead of having our existing staff cloned, or making the day 25 hours long (our first idea was to blog from Mars), we’re going to be adding new posts from bloggers (and podcasters) from other existing websites. The idea is to turn you on to some of the keen folks that are out there writing about (and recording) the stuff we think sounds really cool.
Sites that post stuff we’d like to see added to the SFFaudio feed include those like:
Forgotten Classics http://hcforgottenclassics.blogspot.com/
Quasar Dragon http://freesciencefantasy.blogspot.com/
Free Listens http://www.freelistens.blogspot.com/
In addition to all those folks, we’re also planning a quasi-revival of our abortive sister site AuralNoir.com (2005-2006). Aural Noir, prior to her passing, posted stories just like those you see on SFFaudio, but instead of being about Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror audio, they were all targeted at the Mystery, Crime, Noir and Thriller audio that was out there. There’s a lot more of it available these days, and we’ve got a lot of stuff we’ve been just aching to tell you about. So, the plan is for us to have new posts, with their own labels, sporting the traditional “News”, “Reviews” and “Online Audio” topics but in the flavour of Mystery, Crime, Noir and Thriller podcasts, podiobooks, audiobooks and audio drama.
A little skeptical? Ya, we are too. But we’re hoping it will be very cool. Please let us know how you like it as it comes.
Posted by Jesse Willis