When pulp fiction is discussed, most people focus on the American magazines. But what about the overseas work, of which I know very little? Well, PULP: A COLLECTOR’S BOOK OF AUSTRALIAN PULP FICTION COVERS focuses on the Aussies’ output. Toni Johnson-Woods’ well-researched book is sort of a primer to that time Down Under, when their [...]
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No, my friends, this isnt science fiction , its science fact! A twisting nematic field effect is just tech-speak for how an LCD Display works. And those thousands of cells positioned between two plates of glass is more commonly called a …
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Do you like old books about pirates? What about books about old frozen pirates?
If the answer to those questions is “Yes.” Then we’ve got a great audiobook for you. Here are a couple of reviews, circa 1888, of The Frozen Pirate by W. Clark Russell:
“The most enthralling romance which Mr Clark Russell has written [...]
Tantor Media, one of the best sources for professional narrations of public domain audiobooks and modern copyrighted audiobooks alike, is offering a FREE MP3 download of The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood to registrants. Sez Tantor:
The free download is for personal use only and is not for commercial distribution. Limit one download per customer. Limited [...]
We talked about it on the most recent SFFaudio Podcast, I’ve listened to it, and I declare it: awesome. Here comes one of the coolest new releases from LibriVox.org this year:
Second Variety by Philip K. Dick!
And with the release there’s now a new file format that makes it easier for some users too. The M4B [...]
Tweet-log of Gabriella Gossip, Houston’s top social columnist-on-the-move. She snarks directly at the source, so you don’t have to! Last Saturday, we sent Gabriella to check out some of the hottest writers in the hottest new genre around . .…
Ever think you know exactly how a character in a novel should sound? Think you could put on a good performance of playing that character yourself?
Well Jeff Somers has set up a competition in which you have the chance to do just that. For…
Available FREE for a limited (but unspecified) time…
The Ghost Town Gun-Ghost
By L. Ron Hubbard; Performed by Rob Paulsen
1 |MP3| – Approx. 52 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Galaxy Audio
Published: October 22, 2009
“A man on the run from the law escapes to an nearly empty settlement populated only by a man named Pokey McKay. Pokey fills in the gaps [...]
Saturn’s Children
By Charles Stross; Read by Bianca Amato
11 CDs – Approx. 13 Hours 45 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9781440750113, 9781440750106
Themes: / Science Fiction / Androids / Robots / Sex / Slavery / Identity / Venus / Mars / Mercury / Eris /
The Hugo Award-winning author of numerous best-sellers, Charles Stross crafts tales that push [...]
Following Kelley Armstrong’s very successful trip to the UK, during which she had fans from as far as Germany queuing up to meet her, we thought we’d remind you just how busy she’s been on the writing front.
Last…
: , , Home About Orbit FAQ Publishing Schedules Contact Us Sign Up The Ambassador's Mission Trudi Canavan Containing everything you want from a fantasy tale DEATHRAY Read an extract Divine Misfortune A . Lee Martinez A story of gods and mortals—in worship , in love , and at parties . Read chapter one Crossing the Pond Finally New titles from Kelley Armstrong Cover Launch : THE LEGEND OF ELI MONPRESS Lauren Panepinto April 26th , 2010 What Three covers at once Yes , we’re doing another 3-in-3-months release starting this October , and the series is awesome The Spirit Thief The Spirit Rebellion and The Spirit Eater are the first three books in the Legend of Eli Monpress series by Rachel Aaron , and be prepared , this story is seriously habit-forming . And we’re super excited to be giving you
Review by Luke Williamson, age 8 First Abby had chicken pox. Then Abby lost them and the rest of her family got them, except for her mom and her dad. And then it was her brother’s birthday, so she wanted to make a cake that looked like Korea. But the cake crumbled, so she [...]
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It’s part of one of the many covers from The Killer Mine by Hammond Innes. Intriguing isn’t it? Here are three more:
I’ve got a small stack of Hammond Innes paperbacks that I haven’t read. I inherited them from my grandmother and had been looking for an excuse to read one. Now [...]
Every update to Paul Bishop’s Bish’s Beat blog seems like another chance for me to win a book! This is the second prize I’ve won from Bish. Should he choose to retire from law enforcement he could have a second career as a cool hunter. Check it out…
From just inside the dust jacket:
When Katarina Bishop [...]
The back-story of an artificial intelligence begins…
Blake’s 7: The Early Years: Zen: Escape Velocity (Volume 2.1)
By James Swallow; Directed by Andrew Mark Sewell; Performed by a full cast
1 CD – Approx. 1 Hour [AUDIO DRAMA]
Publisher: B7 Productions
Published: April 26, 2010
ISBN: 978190657709
Based on Terry Nation’s seminal 70s science fiction TV series, The Early Years is a [...]
Little Atoms is a podcast radio show from Resonance FM. It’s a “live discussion show, produced and presented by Neil Denny and Padraig Reidy. Little Atoms is a show about ideas. Each show features a guest from the worlds of science, journalism, politics, academia, human rights or the arts in conversation.” one of their older [...]
Review by Jill Williamson Here is a heart to heart with Revolve speaker Jenna Lucado about what it means to be beautiful. There is a lot of pressure out there to look a certain way, and we girls can get obsessed with that unattainable perfect look. Jenna talks about redefining the word beautiful so [...]
, , Home About Orbit FAQ Publishing Schedules Contact Us Sign Up The Ambassador's Mission Trudi Canavan Containing everything you want from a fantasy tale DEATHRAY Read an extract Divine Misfortune A . Lee Martinez A story of gods and mortals—in worship , in love , and at parties . Read chapter one Can a video game be art Dancing On The Cutting Edge Winners Spectrum Annual 17 Lauren Panepinto April 21st , 2010 I know all of you are scifi fantasy geeks or else why are you here , really but not all of you are art geeks as well , so you may not have heard of Spectrum the annual competition for contemporary scifi fantasy horror art but to those of us you might classify as geek artists” , inclusion in the Spectrum annual is a big deal . So I am thrilled to announce that 3 of our books made the 
, To Serve Man The Twilight Zone From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Jump to : navigation search This article is about the Twilight Zone episode . For the short story by Damon Knight see To Serve Man To Serve Man The Twilight Zone episode Susan Cummings and Richard Kiel in To Serve Man . Episode no Season 3 Episode 89 Written by Rod Serling Based on the story To Serve Man by Damon Knight First published in the November 1950 issue of Galaxy Directed by Richard L . Bare Featured music Stock taken almost exclusively from Jerry Goldsmith s TZ episode scores for Back There and The Invaders . Production no 4807 Original airdate March 2, 1962 Guest stars Lloyd Bochner Chambers Richard Kiel Kanamit Susan Cummings Pat Joseph Ruskin Kanamit Voice uncredited Episode chronology Previous Next → The
As I mentioned last Thursday an upcoming SFFaudio podcast, scheduled for an April 26 release, will be on the topic of Robert Sheckley’s novel The Status Civilization.
If you’re like me, you like doing the homework you’ve assigned yourself, so you’re probably furiously riffling through the pages of any and all SF reference books that [...]
If you follow SFFaudio at all closely you’ll know we’re going to be recording a podcast talking about Robert Sheckley’s The Status Civilization. And while we’re all making plans to read a book and record a podcast about it Gregg Margarite, one of LibriVox’s finest narrators, has actually recorded the book and made it available [...]: . skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Thursday , April 15, 2010 Say That Again . I think we can hear the voices of those who are being freed from the dogmatism of literalism to spiritualism in some of the songs of Sting and Enya . James H . Charlesworth , The Good and Evil Serpent p . 9 This book is an extensive overview of snake imagery in the art and literature of the ancient Mediterranean world . nbsp I appreciate the project , and I really want to like the book , but it keeps saying stuff that makes me . facepalm I will give it credit , though , in that it is trying to navigate between the view that snakes are universal symbols of evil and that snakes are mostly symbols of good .
We’ve got a plans!
Specifically, we’re doing a readalong. That is, we get a few podcasters and bloggers together reading the same book (or listening to the same audiobook) and then talk about it on the SFFaudio Podcast.
Our first official readalong will be:
The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley (read the |WIKIPEDIA| entry)
First published as Omega! [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Wednesday , April 14, 2010 April Christian Science Fiction Fantasy Blog Tour Here I am in the midst of my studies and I've once again nearly lost out on a blog tour . nbsp This one goes out to Lost Mission by Athol Dickson . nbsp See the author's website and blog Admittedly , when I saw the title , I assumed the book was maybe about a mission to Mars that got zapped into a wormhole or crash-landed on an asteroid or something , but it's actually about a construction project that uncovers the ruins of a Spanish Mission in California and thereby brings together four people who have difficult moral choices to make . The synopsis sounds somewhat Bridge
Random House Audio is offering five FREE audiobooks to promote their “Carshare Program.” One of the titles, Percy Jackson and The Sword Of Hades had been FREEly released previously, the rest should all be newly FREE. Start your HuffDuffing!
“Mercy Watson To The Rescue” from The Mercy Watson Collection Volume I
By Kate DiCamillo; Read by Ron [...]
I feel kind of silly posting this. It’s already on our EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS page. And, I’ve never read it. But the thing about great cover art is it makes you want to read the book. Just look at all the steampunky-looking goodness on this new cover.
Now read the description. With characters named “Deja [...]
While the audio portion of this post has been on our NEIL GAIMAN page for some time now…
Instructions
By Neil Gaiman; Read by Neil Gaiman
1 |MP3| – [POEM]
Publisher: Last.fm / Dreamhaven Books
Published: February 2008 / 2004
“This is a poem about what to do if you find yourself in a Fairy Tale. It is guaranteed to work. [...]
I recently received an email from ZBS:
James Gurney’s handsomely illustrated book, Dinotopia, The World Beneath, has been adapted into an audio drama using a full cast of actors, original music by Tim Clark, and sounds recorded in Bali, Sumatra and the Amazon by Tom Lopez. The two and a half hour audio adventure was produced [...]
I’ll take just about any excuse to talk about the wondrous BrokenSea Audio Productions audio dramatization of Robert E. Howard’s Queen Of The Black Coast |READ OUR REVIEW|
The complete 7 part series is available via torrent and on Archive.org |HERE|) or right here:
This, my latest excuse, was prompted by a series of [...]
Damn and blast both David Barr Kirtley and John Joseph Adams!
These two rogues are the hosts of The Geek’s Guide To The Galaxy podcast. I have had good reason to curse them publicly. Their podcast is both a terrific listen week after week, and is often horning in on SFFaudio’s territory (by talking about [...]
Here’s a batch of new Blackstone Audio audiobooks that have my frontal lobes salivating … huh … while I’m waiting for them to arrive maybe I should consult a doctor on this salivating brain thing.
First up, a new movie-tie-in audiobook for the upcoming Ridley Scott movie of the same name…
Robin Hood
By David B. Coe; Read [...]
The SFFaudio Podcast #053 – Jesse and Scott are joined by Anne Frid de Vries of the Anne Is A Man blog for a talk about his wonderful podcast review blog.
Talked about on today’s show:
Anne Is A Man blog, reviewing podcasts, Five Free Favourites #4, Five Free Favourites (on Anne Is A Man), a Dutch [...]
Spider Robinson has recorded his 1979 novella, Satan’s Children, for release in two parts on his podcast. He describes it as being “about a holy lunatic’s dream of actually making a better world, through chemistry.” Episodes 79 and 80 feature the complete reading.
Myself, I don’t like music, something included in almost every Robinson [...]
The Monster Of Florence: A True Story
By Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi; Read by Dennis Boutsikaris
8 CDs – Approx. 9.5 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Published: 2008
ISBN: 9781600242090
Themes: / Crime / History / Mystery / Murder / Serial Killer / Conspiracy / Italy / Florence / Sardinia / The Renaissance /
In 2000, Douglas Preston and his family [...]
Narrator Karen Savage comes from the plainspoken school of audiobook narration. Her reading is crisp and clean, and, barring accidents will be listened to for at least several centuries. The Sky Is Falling is a weird and fascinating tale that blends a hard Science Fiction attitude with a grotesque Fantasy world. The brushing and melding [...]
From the co-author of Pride And Prejudice And Zombies…
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
By Seth Grahame-Smith; Read by Scott Holst
9 CDs – Approx. 11 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Published: Hachette Audio
Published: March 2010
ISBN: 160788173X
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother’s bedside. She’s been stricken [...]
Savvy Smith and her family recently moved to England to live. Savvy misses her best friend from Seattle. She’s trying to make new friends in London, but it seems no one has room for a new friend in their life, especially a weird American. An opportunity arises for Savvy to work at the school newspaper. [...]
Review by Jill Williamson Controversial radio talk show host, Jim Fate, is killed when he receives a package containing poisonous gas. Federal Prosecutor, Allison Pierce, FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges, and crime reporter Cassidy Shaw team up to piece together what might have happened and why. I really enjoyed this book. It’s one of those [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Friday , April 9, 2010 Update Actually The sidebar currently reading and currently watching lists with mini-reviews have been updated for the first time in almost a year Check em out Posted by D . G . D . Davidson at 6:30 PM 5 comments : PaperSmyth said . The other choices are awesome , but who the heck decided Deej should read Death of a Salesman Being bounced around to different schools as a young adult , I had the pleasure of getting assigned to read that thing at least twice . Is Lucky punishing you for something , sir On the bright side , at least it isn't . expensive April 10, 2010 8:54:00 AM MDT Sister Mary Martha said . I noticed you were
Nina recently gave three substantial workshops for aspiring writers in the South Shore area of Nova Scotia, based on her Aurora Award-nominated writing guidebook, “The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now“. Held at the Bridgewater Library, Nina engaged and challenged students in an actively participated workshop to hone their skills as successful writers. Students participated in writing exercises, and had their stories, [...]