I was 13 years old when I first fell head over heels in love with Kate Elliot’s Jaran. I still remember sitting on the floor of my local library one minute, and being transported to another world the next. Over…
Phew! September is a busy month — fighting off Zombies, preventing the zombie Apocalypse, you know, the usual. But not to worry. To prep you for the uprising we give you MARRIED WITH ZOMBIES by Jesse Petersen.…
, , Home About Orbit FAQ Publishing Schedules Contact Us Sign Up Mr Shivers Robert Jackson Bennett Mr Shivers is a startling debut , a deft amalgam of thriller , cerebral horror and American gothic The Guardian Read chapter one Blameless Gail Carriger Alexia is back , and this time she's the scandal of the London season . Read chapter one THE BLACK PRISM hits the NYT list Grab Your Zombie Today Celine Kiernan and the Moorehawke posts Bella Pagan September 2nd , 2010 The Crowded Shadows UK US book two in Celine Kiernan’s Moorehawke trilogy is officially out in the UK today following the US date and there’s a free extract here Then in October we’ll release The Rebel Prince UK US in both the UK and US , so the author has a packed few months coming up . But despite this , Celine has
Exciting news!
The Black Prism hit the New York Times Extended List at #23! It will be published on Sunday September 4th and you can find it here (on Sunday).
Ah…the endless hours waiting. But no longer, for Blameless is here! Now you can find out everything that has happened to Alexia since we last saw her in Changeless — and for a sneak peek just in case you aren’t…
Mr Shivers, the critically acclaimed horror debut from Robert Jackson Bennett, is released in paperback today. Chronicling one man’s journey through the Depression blighted Texan Dustbowl in search of the mysterious, scarred vagrant who murdered his daughter,…
A short audiobook of autobiographical essays…
Suck It, Wonder Woman: The Misadventures Of A Hollywood Geek
By Olivia Munn and Mac Montandon; Read by Olivia Munn
4 CDs – Approx. 5 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Puiblisher: Macmillian Audio
Published: July 2010
ISBN: 9781427209825
Sample |MP3|
Today’s hottest geek and host of G4’s ATTACK OF THE SHOW dishes her unique brand of humor of on everything [...]
Here’s the latest batch of long unheard Seeing Ear Theatre recordings. I’m also adding them to our main Seeing Ear Theatre post.
Maureen F. McHugh reads from China Mountain Zhang
1 |MP3| – Approx. 19 Minutes [EXCERPT]
Publisher: Seeing Ear Theatre
Published: 1998
Provider: Archive.org
Connie Willis reads from Bellwether
1 |MP3| – Approx. 20 Minutes [EXCERPT]
Publisher: Seeing Ear Theatre
Published: 1998
Provider: Archive.org
Kit [...]
I was flipping through a new TOEFL book the other day, Building Skills for the TOEFL iBT, 2nd Edition Beginning Combined Book, when I spotted this gem of a topic between essays on Mass Wasting and Minoan Pottery:
Fun huh? For bonus points try to spot the typo (doubtless it will be fixed in the next [...]
Celine Kiernan is not only a talented author but also a gifted animator and illustrator — and she has done the most incredible illustration of her main protagonist Wynter Moorehawke for us. We have six super-limited edition prints, on cream…
Me? I like my Science Fiction hard and I like my SCIENCE easy. If you do too, take it easy, have a listen to some of these handy lectures about the hardest of the sciences (circa 1890), we’re talking old school pre-Einsteinian astronomy and physics!
And, to make it even easier be sure to check out [...]
: Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Monday , August 30, 2010 Technical Difficulty Sorry for the gap in posts . I am back at the seminary , but I'm experiencing some difficulties with the internet connection . Posts will resume in the near future . Share Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 10:59 PM Labels : updates Technical Difficulty Sorry for the gap in posts . I am back at the seminary , but I'm experiencing some difficulties with the internet connection . Posts will resume in the near . future Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by . Disqus blog comments powered by Disqus Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Blog Archive 2010 80 August 23 Technical Difficulty A Brief Reflection on Michael D .
Here’s a stack of mostly horror titles that have been inching their way into my dreams! It’s a solid mix of public domain novels (and collections) along with brand spanking new series and standalones. Check out Brian Keene’s modern horror tale, Castaways (its at the bottom). Keene writes comics, it may be the best place [...]Review by Jill Williamson Recently divorced Clay is an editor for a publishing house. He has been walking through life in a daze, devastated by his ex-wife’s betrayal. When a strange man named Lucian approaches him and asks him to write his story, Clay doesn’t know what to think. But the more he gets to [...]
Here’s stack of new Blackstone Audio audiobooks! We’ve talked about them on the podcast, now have a gander at the art!
Which of these have you heard? Which are you planning to hear? And, in which order?
First up, an audiobook I’m going to try to get us reading for an SFFaudio Readalong…
Mindswap
By Robert Sheckley; Read by [...]
Another helpful fellow, with plenty of love for the late lamented Seeing Ear Theatre, has begun uploading missing and missed audio to Archive.org. Here are the first pair, two excerpts from 1999, author readings that that briefly appeared on the Seeing Ear Theatre’s website.
Pat Cadigan Reads From Tea From An Empty Cup
1 |MP3| – Approx. [...]
Wow! It’s hard to beat the combination of great writer and great narrator in a first person perspective tale. That’s exactly what More Than The Sum Of His Parts by Joe Haldeman is: Amazingly written SF delivered by an amazingly talented narrator.
Lightspeed Magazine has it, in its latest issue, and as a podcast. Playboy magazine [...]
Heist Society
By Ally Carter; Read by Angela Dawe
5 CDs, 1 MP3-CD or Audible Download – Approx. 6 Hours 7 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: February 9, 2010
ISBN: 1441826734 (cd), 9781441826756 (mp3-cd)
Themes: / Crime / Caper / Heist / Grifting / Art / Europe / Romance /
SAMPLE |MP3|
Since she can remember, Katarina’s relatives have been grooming her [...]
Here is the first episode |MP3| of The Incomparable Podcast. It appears to be all about SFF books! Huzzah! Here’s the description:
Climb in your Zeppelin, grab a self-burning book, and prepare for the first Incomparable Podcast, in which we discuss “The City and The City,” “The Windup Girl,” “For The Win,” and more. Plus we [...]
The August 6th episode of The New York Times Book Review podcast has a segment on Young Adult literature:
This week: Francine Prose on the novels of Hans Keilson; Pamela Paul on adults who read Y.A. novels; Mary Roach on her new book, “Packing for Mars”; Julie Bosman with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler [...]
Now here is a cool project, and it’s one recently mentioned on one of our podcasts! It’s an effort to source and record and proof the “public domain science fiction stories which were turned into half-hour plays for the classic mid-1950’s American radio series, X Minus One.” This collection includes eight such stories. Which one [...]
Gregg Margarite has narrated The Thing In The Attic for LibriVox. This is one of James Blish’s “Pantropy” tales and makes up one quarter of his fixup novel The Seedling Stars. Here’s a snippet from the Wikipedia entry on pantropy:
“Pantropy is a hypothetical process of space colonization in which rather than terraforming other planets or [...]: : Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Sunday , August 15, 2010 Quick Links : Mark Shea Posts on the Catholic Writer's Conference See it here Share Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 8:53 PM Labels : quick links Quick Links : Mark Shea Posts on the Catholic Writer's Conference See it here Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by . Disqus blog comments powered by Disqus Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Blog Archive 2010 80 August 23 Technical Difficulty A Brief Reflection on Michael D . O'Brien's Landsca . August Christian Science Fiction Fantasy Blog To . Father Thomas Euteneuer on Harry Potter Steven Greydanus : Where Are the Good Men Mark Shea on Somebody Else on Anne Rice My Granddad Can: : Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Saturday , August 14, 2010 Quick Link : Anne Shulock on Fiction with Young Narrators As a culture , we have an odd relationship with high-achieving youths . The media scrambles to cover four-year-old abstract artists , 12-year-old fashion bloggers , 13-year-olds who climb Mt . Everest—but we regard the little prodigies with a mix of admiration , disbelief , mistrust and even hostility . In an age of shortening attention spans and the glorification of stupidity , I find it comforting and exciting to spend time with young characters for whom books , maps , notebooks , letters , research , drawings , imagined inventions and classic films are central and essential . Precocious narrators , and the: Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Thursday , August 12, 2010 Utah Writing Event I learned of this from Brandon Sanderson's blog In Sandy , Utah , on the 21st of August a Saturday there will be an all-day writing workshop . nbsp Money goes to supply books for needy children . nbsp The even will feature a number of local authors . nbsp I'm going to see if I can make it . nbsp Brandon Sanderson will be there in the evening . nbsp Here's the website with info . Share Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 9:03 PM Labels : events Utah Writing Event I learned of this from Brandon Sanderson's blog In Sandy , Utah , on the 21st of August a Saturday there will be an all-day writing workshop . nbsp Money goes to supply books for needy children : Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Tuesday , August 10, 2010 Best Chad Vader Episode Ever Okay , the vampire guy had me laughing until I cried . Share Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 9:26 PM Labels : humor Best Chad Vader Episode Ever Okay , the vampire guy had me laughing until I . cried Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by . Disqus blog comments powered by Disqus Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Blog Archive 2010 80 August 23 Technical Difficulty A Brief Reflection on Michael D . O'Brien's Landsca . August Christian Science Fiction Fantasy Blog To . Father Thomas Euteneuer on Harry Potter Steven Greydanus : Where Are the Good Men Mark Shea on Somebody Else on Anne Rice My: Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Monday , August 9, 2010 News from the Fish Bowl Whew . it had been so long since I posted , it was really hard jumping in and out of my fishbowl to hit the keys last time I'm really sore , so I might not have as many articles : tonight i09 ON SCIENCE FICTION AND KANT A musing essay that's worth a look . nbsp Read it here SF SIGNAL S SF TIDBITS Including interviews and some oddball news items . nbsp Read them here THE IRONICALLY NAMED SFGate HAS SF BOOK REVIEWS Here CHINA MIEVILLE GIVES TALK AT SAN DIEGO LIBRARY Here's an : excerpt One genre convention that particularly ticks Miéville off and which he’s deliberately tried to avoid or subvert in his own work is the notion of the Chosen One , 8221
I tell people I don’t listen to the radio much anymore, but that’s not quite true. Every single morning I wake up to the sound of CBC Radio One on my clock radio. And on Saturday and Sunday mornings this means I wake up to the sounds of North By Northwest, a BC based radio [...]
“You only live twice:
Once when you’re born
And once when you look death in the face.”
-James Bond
If you’ve only seen the movie version of You Only Live Twice you’re in for a very pleasant surprise. Ian Fleming’s original novel is strikingly different from the movie of the same name. The [...]: Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Friday , August 6, 2010 The National Catholic Register on Anne Rice The Strange Inner World of Anne Rice by Joan Frawley Desmond No surprise , then , that the new chapter in Rice’s life like the author herself is a bit more complicated than the recent headlines suggest . As one news story noted : Rice is not necessarily leaving belief in God or even belief in Jesus . Rice makes it clear that her departure from religion is not theological as much as it is moral . 8221 Apparently , Rice’s new position is that she still believes in Christ , but repudiates the Church’s controversial stance within the framework of the culture wars . In her view , the person of Christ transcends the negativity of the: Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Friday , August 6, 2010 John C Wright on Good Science Fiction Movies John C . Wright , Catholic convert and one of the most brilliant sf authors I've ever read , often seems to have oddball taste in sf movies , as I've mentioned before . nbsp He now explains : why I judge science fiction movies by a sequence of carefully chosen criteria : 1 first , is there a hot babe in a skintight and or revealing future-suit at any point in the film 2 Is there a gorilla 3 Is there a robot 4 Does any character have Way Cool mind powers And , most importantly , 5 Does a planet get blown up I then award stars according to how many of these five criteria are met , giving me a ranking from zero to five . Add an
I was talking with a friend of mine about Nevil Shute. Shute has been blipping onto my radar since about ten years ago when my Science Fiction uncle gave me a copy of Slide Rule: The Autobiography Of An Engineer. Over the years I’ve gotten into Shute’s fiction, notably On The Beach and A Town [...]: Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Thursday , August 5, 2010 Return of the News Ticker A book review is in the works , but may not appear for a few days , as some events are coming up here that will keep me from writing . nbsp In the meantime , we have a new feature . nbsp Previously , we had a news ticker in the sidebar delivering stories on Catholicism and science fiction . nbsp That news ticker eventually stopped working and I deleted . it But the news ticker is back This one is similar to the last , but its options are more limited , so it is , at least at present , a science fiction news ticker only . nbsp I may consider adding a Catholic one later , but the site is getting overly . cluttered I'm still rearranging the blog
Executive Producer David Farquhar of the audio drama troupe called Voices In The Wind Audio Theatre, writes in to tell me about audio drama production group. From the website:
Voices In The Wind– Audio Theatre, formally Design Sound Productions. Our mission is to produce quality audio drama programs which reflect a wide range of genres including [...]: Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Tuesday , August 3, 2010 Ray Bradbury Talks About Religion Ray Bradbury was my favorite sf author as a kid , and I began writing because I wanted to imitate his style . nbsp With CNN he discusses his views on : religion He describes himself as a delicatessen religionist . He's inspired by Eastern and Western . religions The center of his faith , though , is love . Everything the reason he decided to write his first short story at 12 his 56-year marriage to his muse and late wife , Maggie his friendships with everyone from Walt Disney to Alfred Hitchcock is based on . love Allusions to Christianity are common in his stories , but Bradbury doesn't define himself as a Christian . He considers Jesus
Source: Librivox | (14 zipped mp3s)
Length: 7 hr, 26 min
Reader: Mark Nelson
The book: While prospecting for gold in the Wild West, John Carter, formerly of the Confederate Army, is attacked by a band of hostile Apaches. He escapes into a cave, but finds himself mysteriously transported to Mars. On Mars, or [...]
Of the latest Tantor Media releases, here are my picks for the three most exciting titles. Check out their complete August catalog here |PDF|.
The Most Powerful Idea In The World: A Story Of Steam, Industry, And Invention
By William Rosen; Read by Michael Prichard
11 CDs or 2 MP3-CDs – Approx. 13 Hours 30 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Tantor [...]
Mister Ron, of Mister Ron’s Basement Podcast, has posted up the first installment of The Steam Man Of The Plains aka The Steam Man Of The Prairies aka The Huge Hunter. Whatever you call it, I think this is the first American Science Fiction novel with a robot! Written by Edward S. Ellis, it was [...]: , , Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Sunday , August 1, 2010 Congratulations , Sci Fi Catholic , Winner of the Most Cluttered Blog Award We now officially have too many widgets . nbsp After literally hours of effort , I've finally coaxed Facebook into putting a like button into each post . but it will only like the specific post if you're looking at that post specifically , and not at the whole blog , in which case it will like the whole blog . It's confusing , but it's the best I can do . Share Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 7:50 PM Labels : updates Congratulations , Sci Fi Catholic , Winner of the Most Cluttered Blog Award We now officially have too many widgets . nbsp After literally hours of effort , I've finally coaxed
Stamped Caution
By Raymond Z. Gallun; Read by Gregg Margarite
2 Zipped MP3 Files or Podcast – Approx. 1 Hour 16 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: August 01, 2010
When an alien spacecraft crashes in Missouri a team of army investigators is dispatched. Among the debris they find a Martian infant and decide to raise him in their lab. Is [...]
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Wrong Box with his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. This is the same kid whose drawing had inspired Treasure Island seven years earlier. Interestingly, it was published while Stephenson (age 39), and Osbourne (age 21), were traveling in Polynesia. Here is an 1888 photograph of Lloyd Osbourne and Robert Louis Stevenson in [...]: Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Saturday , July 31, 2010 Dave Armstrong on Anne Rice Catholic apologist and popularizer Dave Armstrong has a lengthy discussion on his blog Biblical Evidence for Catholicism of author Anne Rice's abandonment of : Catholicism Note that it is not enough for her to cease being a Catholic . She is ditching any other form of communal , denominational Christianity , too . The examples of people expressing actual overt hatred or purported hatred that she cites are not Catholic ones they are mostly Baptists There are several liberal denominations where her liberal views would fit right in . more . Share Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 9:36 AM Labels : Anne Rice authors news Dave Armstrong on Anne Rice
1936, a Sunday in June. The tides of woe are sweeping in. Today is Robert E. Howard’s funeral.
Gloomy Sunday (1936) by Paul Whiteman with Johnny Hauser |MP3|
That must mean…
there’s a new Jake Sampson serial starting up.
Episode 1 of Jake Sampson: Monster Hunter: The Gods Of War |MP3| is out now!
Jake Sampson: Monster Hunter is [...]