The SFFaudio Podcast #057 – Jesse and Scott talk about the recently arrived audiobooks
Talked about on today’s show:
Penguin Audio , Stephen King , Brian Murphy of The Silver Key blog , The Dark Half , The Tommyknockers , Christine , It , reading all of Stephen King’s books , Brilliance Audio , Directive 51 by John Barnes , The Stand , Hater by David Moody , “the worst sin that any book can commit”, Angelology by Danielle Trussoni , reading out loud vs. reading in your head, Lost Fleet: Victorious by Jack Campbell , Audible Frontiers , Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks , The Player Of Games , RadioArchive.cc , audio drama, State Of The Art , the GoodReads.com HARD SF group , Hard SF, space opera, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman |READ OUR REVIEW |, the phenomenon of characters named “Jack “, Jack Bauer from 24 , Armor by John Steakley , “Jack Crow”, recycling the names of characters, Vampire$ by John Steakley, the hidden history of Jack, why people like 24 , Jane Slayre by Charlotte Brontë and Sherri Browning Erwin , Buffy The Vampire Slayer , the trend of remixing public domain classics with modern monsters, Dancing On The Head Of A Pin by Thomas E. Sniegoski , “magic sword book, with angels”, The Invention Of Lying , WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer |READ OUR REVIEW |, The Dying Earth: Cugel’s Saga by Jack Vance, The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas , Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The Android In The Iron Mask , Andre Norton , Web Of The Witch World , Year Of The Unicorn , Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein , what is YA (young adult) fiction?, is YA is for adults too?, Little Brother by Cory Doctorow |READ OUR REVIEW |, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer , Harry Potter, Paul Bishop of the Bish’s Beat blog loves YA books!, would Dirty Harry read YA?, the ability to affect the world, The Science Of Harry Potter , riding on the coattails of another book, the Open Court Presents podcast , Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale , Firefly ‘s philosophy episode Objects In Space , Hitchcock And Philosophy , Alfred Hitchcock ‘s Rope , Anne Is A Man , the Catholic Stuff You Should Know podcast, Dan Carlin’s HardCore History “Show 33 – (BLITZ) Old School Toughness”, Murdoch Mysteries , Corner Gas , Dog River, Saskatchewan, Connie Willis wrote a whole book about bells, Bellwether by Connie Willis, Scott’s Pick Of The Week: Blackout by Connie Willis, The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, To Say Nothing Of The Dog by Connie Willis, time travel, Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome , reading about books (in books), Castle , fictional fictional characters (a great wikipedia entry), Bones , The Grasshopper Lies Heavy by Hawthorne Abendsen, is Hawthorne Abendsen supposed to be an alternate universe Robert A. Heinlein?, Colorado, “deeply nested fiction”, Ellery Queen, Dr. John Watson , Swords And Deviltry by Fritz Leiber , Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser , Sword Of Sorcery , Blackstone Audio , The Musashi Flex by Steve Perry , Peter David , the Audio Drama Review blog , James Snowe’s review of The Zombie Astronaut’s Frequency Of Fear , W. Ralph Walters, awards, Startide Rising by David Brin |READ OUR REVIEW |, Kiln People by David Brin , Surrogates is “a big-old-fashioned-clunky-80s-action-movie”, Halfway To The Grave by Jeaniene Frost , The Twilight Zone Companion, 2nd Edition by Marc Scott Zicree , King Kong |READ OUR REVIEW |, Orson Scott Card , Dercum Audio , A Dirge For Clowntown by James Powell, Dreamsongs Vol. 1 by George R.R. Martin |READ OUR REVIEW |, The Road To Science Fiction , Science Fiction 101 (aka Worlds Of Wonder ) edited by Robert Silverberg , Home Is The Hunter by Henry Kuttner , Honest Roger Belamy, New York, The Monsters by Robert Sheckley , Wonder Audio , Fondly Fahrenheit , Scanners Live In Vain by Cordwainer Smith , Little Black Bag by C.M. Kornbluth , Day Million by Frederik Pohl, perhaps the first ever singularity story, Jesse’s Pick Of The Week: Pride Of Baghdad , the second Gulf War , anthropomorphic fiction, Baghdad .
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