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Reading Short and DeepReading, Short And Deep #500 - The Letter In The Vase by Don Mark Lemon
Reading, Short And Deep #500
Eric S. Rabkin and Jesse Willis discuss The Letter In The Vase by Don Mark Lemon
Here’s a link to the story |PDF| and here’s an exacting transcription, suitable for printing |PDF|.
The Letter In The Vase was first published in The Ada Evening News, Indian Territory [Oklahoma], March 19, 1907.
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2025-09-0332 min
SFFaudioReading, Short And Deep #494 - Happiness by Guy de Maupassant
Reading, Short And Deep #494
Eric S. Rabkin and Jesse Willis discuss Happiness by Guy de Maupassant
Here’s a link to the story |PDF|.
Happiness was first published in French as Le Bonheur in Le Gaulois du 16 mars 1884.
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2025-07-2334 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #833 - READALONG: Waterspider by Philip K. Dick
Jesse, Will Emmons, and Terence Blake, talk about Waterspider by Philip K. Dick
Talked about on today’s show:
Worlds Of IF, January 1964, estate, renewed, Poul Anderson, there’s a Poul Anderson serial, not related, the public domain contents, archive.org, delete the half of the serial that’s in this, from 1963, poor Astrid, Karen, Jesse fucking them over out of their money, light and playful and not interesting, a lot of the humour is fan insider humour, doesn’t interest, some deeper stuff, funny, beyond the who’s who of fan people, Howard Browne always having to...
2025-04-075h 43Reading Short and DeepReading, Short And Deep #337 - Awakening by Willis Conover
Reading, Short And Deep #337
Eric S. Rabkin and Jesse Willis discuss Awakening by Willis Conover
Here’s a link to a PDF of the poem.
Awakening was first published in Weird Tales, May 1940.
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2022-07-2030 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #574 - AUDIOBOOK: Flight To Forever by Poul Anderson
The SFFaudio Podcast #574 – Flight To Forever by Poul Anderson, read by John W. Michaels (aka Mike Vendetti).
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (2 hours 13 minutes) comes to us courtesy of Mike Vendetti! Flight To Forever was first published in Super Science Stories, November 1950.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2020-04-202h 14SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #571 - AUDIOBOOK: The Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The SFFaudio Podcast #571 – The Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs, read by Delmar H. Dolbier.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (5 hours 3 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox. The Efficiency Expert was first published as a serial in Argosy All-Story Weekly, October 8 – 29, 1921.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2020-03-305h 03SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #568 – AUDIOBOOK: The Men In The Walls by William Tenn
The SFFaudio Podcast #568 – The Men In The Walls by William Tenn, read by Phil Chenevert.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (3 hours 36 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox. The Men In The Walls was first published in Galaxy, October 1963.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2020-03-093h 37SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #561 - AUDIOBOOK: The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer
The SFFaudio Podcast #561 – The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer, read by Mark Nelson.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (6 hours) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox. The Green Odyssey was first published in 1957.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2020-01-206h 01SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #556 - AUDIOBOOK: Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The SFFaudio Podcast #556 – Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, read by Karen Savage.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (8 hours, 23 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox. Anne Of Green Gables was first published in 1908.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2019-12-168h 23SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #554 - AUDIOBOOK: Shadows In The Moonlight by Robert E. Howard
The SFFaudio Podcast #554 – Featuring a complete and unabridged reading of Shadows In The Moonlight by Robert E. Howard
First published in Weird Tales, April 1934
It comes to us courtesy of Protecting Project Pulp and is read by Nick Camm.
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2019-12-021h 20SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #551 - AUDIOBOOK: City Of Endless Night by Milo Hastings
The SFFaudio Podcast #546 – City Of Endless Night by Milo Hastings, read by Kate Follis.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (9 hours, 35 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox. City Of Endless Night was first serialized as Children Of Kultur in True Story Magazine, May – November 1919.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2019-11-119h 35SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #546 - AUDIOBOOK: The Angel Of Terror by Edgar Wallace
The SFFaudio Podcast #546 – The Angel Of Terror by Edgar Wallace, read by Lee Elliott.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (6 hours, 27 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox. The Angel Of Terror was first published in 1922.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2019-10-076h 28SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #538 - AUDIOBOOK: The Curse Of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley
The SFFaudio Podcast #538 – The Curse Of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley, read by Barry Eads.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (6 hours 22 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox. The Curse Of Capistrano was first serialized in 1919.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2019-08-126h 22SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #536 - AUDIOBOOK: The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
The SFFaudio Podcast #536 – The Scarlet Plague by Jack London, read by James Christopher.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (1 hours 54 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox. The Scarlet Plague was first published in 1912.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2019-07-291h 54SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #524 - AUDIOBOOK: The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick
The SFFaudio Podcast #524 – The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick, read by Gregg Margarite.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (2 Hours 47 Minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.org. The Variable Man was first published in Space Science Fiction, September 1953.
We will discuss it next week.
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2019-05-062h 48SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #523 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Tomb by H.P. Lovecraft
The SFFaudio Podcast #523 – The Tomb by H.P. Lovecraft; read by D.E. Wittkower. This is an unabridged reading of the short story (32 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, and Evan Lampe.
Talked about on today’s show:
The Vagrant, March 1922, June 1917, Weird Tales, 1926, his first adult story, so polished, Jesse’s favourite Lovecraft story, personality, Jervas Hyde or Jervas Dudley, how you interpret the events of the story, I want to be somewhere else, Polaris, WWI, a civil war among the Teutonic races, complex loyalt...
2019-04-291h 47SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #515 - AUDIOBOOK: The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie
The SFFaudio Podcast #515 – The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie, read by Maureen O’Brien:.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (8 hours 4 minutes) comes to us courtesy of MariaLectrix.
The Mysterious Affair At Styles was first published as a serial in The Times, February 1920.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2019-03-048h 04SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #512 - AUDIOBOOK: Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown
The SFFaudio Podcast #512 – Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown, read by Karen Joan Kohoutek.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (7 hours 28 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.
Wieland was first published in 1798.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2019-02-117h 28SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #502 - AUDIOBOOK: The Wood Beyond The World by William Morris
The SFFaudio Podcast #502 – The Wood Beyond The World by William Morris, read by Cori Samuel.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (5 hours 15 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.
The Wood Beyond The World was first published in 1894.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2018-12-035h 15SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #494 - AUDIOBOOK: News From Nowhere by William Morris
The SFFaudio Podcast #494 – News From Nowhere by William Morris, read by Elizabeth Klett.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (7 hours 15 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.
News From Nowhere was first published as a serial in The Commonweal (The Official Journal Of The Socialist League), January 11th to October 4 1890.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2018-10-087h 15SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #478 - AUDIOBOOK: The Wolf-Leader by Alexandre Dumas
The SFFaudio Podcast #478 – The Wolf-Leader by Alexandre Dumas, read by John Van Stan.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (8 Hours 12 Minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox. A PDF of it is available on our PDF Page.
We will discuss The Wolf-Leader by Alexandre Dumas.
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2018-06-188h 12SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #472 - AUDIOBOOK: The Shadow Out Of Time by H.P. Lovecraft
The SFFaudio Podcast #472 – The Shadow Out Of Time by H.P. Lovecraft, read by Julie Hoverson.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (3 Hours 52 Minutes) is followed by a related poem entitled Dreams Of Yith by H.P. Lovecraft and Duane W. Rimel (6 Minutes). It read by Mr Jim Moon.
A PDF, made from the first publication in Astounding Stories, June 1936, is available on our PDF Page
We will discuss both The Shadow Out Of Time and Dreams Of Yith next week.
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2018-05-073h 59SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #468 - AUDIOBOOK: The War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells
The SFFaudio Podcast #468 – The War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells, read by Cori Samuel.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (6 Hours 49 Minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox. A PDF, made from the serialization, is available on our PDF Page.
We will discuss The War Of The Worlds next week.
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2018-04-096h 49SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #458 - AUDIOBOOK: The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
The SFFaudio Podcast #458 – The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, read by Zachary Brewster-Geisz.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (5 Hours 51 Minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox. A PDF of it is available on our PDF Page.
We will discuss The Man Who Was Thursday next week.
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2018-01-295h 51SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #444 - AUDIOBOOK: Citadel Of Fear by Francis Stevens
The SFFaudio Podcast #444 – Citadel Of Fear by Francis Stevens, read by Mark Nelson.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (9 Hours 34 Minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox. A PDF of it is available on our PDF Page.
We will discuss Citadel Of Fear next week.
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2017-10-239h 44SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #440 - AUDIOBOOK: The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle
The SFFaudio Podcast #440 – The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle, read by Julie Davis.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (12 Hour 34 Minutes) was previously serialized on Julie’s Forgotten Classics podcast (Episodes 98 to 110).
We will discuss The Uninvited next week.
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2017-09-2512h 34SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #433 - TOPIC: ISAAC ASIMOV'S SUPER QUIZ
The SFFaudio Podcast #433 – Luke Burrage, Maissa, Julianne, and Jesse play Isaac Asimov’s SUPER QUIZ – because the game is 35 years old we used just four categorizes: “Geography”, “History”, “Science”, and “Words” (we left out “Movies” and “Sports”).
This is boardless tabletop game was invented by Ken Fisher in 1982, and was followed by two sequels (Isaac Asimov’s SUPER QUIZ II and Isaac Asimov’s SUPER QUIZ III), it still sees regular publication as a featured column in a United States based newspaper chain.
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2017-08-071h 01SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #423 - AUDIOBOOK: Dracula by Bram Stoker
The SFFaudio Podcast #423 – Dracula by Bram Stoker, read by Rick Kistner.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (14 Hour 23 Minutes) comes to us courtesy of Lit2Go, a great website offering individual chapter MP3s and streaming audio (all available HERE). Dracula was first published in 1897.
We will discuss Dracula next week.
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2017-05-292h 22SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #418 - AUDIO DRAMA: This Hour Has 17 Programs by Paul K. Willis and Michael Boncoeur
The SFFaudio Podcast #418 – This Hour Has 17 Programs by Paul K. Willis and Michael Boncoeur was first broadcast on CBC FM Radio, June 30th, 1984 (airing on the weekend variety show, The Entertainers, hosted by Jim Wright).
now for something completely different, Peter Gzowski, A.M. Morning, Wayne Gretzky, a musical about nuclear war: We Are Your Dead, Toronto’s new domed city ward, The Trojan Women, Morningside, Margaret Atwood, the Group Of Seven, Greenpeace, the Queen Charlotte Islands, whale songs, the letters of Noel Coward and Adolph Hitler, a book of Canadian fairy tales, Calgary, W.O. M...
2017-04-241h 13SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #414 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Unnamable by H.P. Lovecraft
The SFFaudio Podcast #414 – The Unnamable by H.P. Lovecraft; read by Mr Jim Moon. This is an unabridged reading of the short story (24 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse Willis, Paul Weimer, and Mr Jim Moon.
Talked about on today’s show:
Weird Tales, a joke, W. H. Pugmire, the Lovecraft learning curve, a very short story indeed, the meta-story, beyond our ken, a literary argument, someone from the Great Race Of Yith came back in time, defending his own fiction, playtesting, every paragraph has vocabulary expanding word...
2017-03-271h 52SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #407 – AUDIO DRAMA: The Ego Network by Paul K. Willis
The SFFaudio Podcast #407 – The Ego Network by Paul K. Willis was first broadcast on CBC Radio in the Spring of 1987 (airing on the weekend variety show, The Entertainers, hosted by Stan Carew).
“The chances are good that you’ve never heard of The Ego Television Network. caters to the world’s elite. There’s a reason for that, your’e not important enough.The Ego Television Network caters to the world’s political elite, the movers and shakers, the leaders of nations. This program offers a rare glimpse into that most private of networks, you are about to s...
2017-02-0626 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #403 - AUDIOBOOK: The Call Of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
The SFFaudio Podcast #403 – The Call Of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft, read by Martin Reyto.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (1 Hour 31 Minutes) comes to us courtesy of Legamus. The Call Of Cthulhu was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928.
We will discuss it next week.
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2017-01-091h 31SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #390 - AUDIOBOOK: Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
The SFFaudio Podcast #390 – Second Variety by Philip K. Dick, read by Gregg Margarite.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (1 Hours 42 Minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.org. Second Variety was first published in Space Science Fiction, May 1953.
We will discuss it next week.
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2016-10-101h 43SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #384 - AUDIOBOOK: The Parasite by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The SFFaudio Podcast #384 – The Parasite by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Delmar H. Dolbier.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (1 hours 54 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.org. The Parasite was first published as a four part serial in Harper’s Weekly, November 10 – December 1, 1894.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2016-08-291h 53SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #381 - AUDIOBOOK: Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
The SFFaudio Podcast #381 – Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, read by Gordon Mackenzie.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (16 hours 50 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.
Scaramouche was first published in 1921.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2016-08-084h 50SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #359 - AUDIOBOOK: The Sign Of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The SFFaudio Podcast #359 – The Sign Of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by David Clarke.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (4 hours 24 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.org. The Sign Of The Four was first published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, February 1890.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2016-03-074h 25SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #354 - AUDIOBOOK: The Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft
The SFFaudio Podcast #354 – The Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft, read by Martin Reyto.
This is an UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK of the novella (5 hour 20 minutes) comes to us courtesy of Legamus.eu.
The Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath was first published in 1943.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2016-02-015h 20SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #348 - AUDIOBOOK: The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson
The SFFaudio Podcast #348 – The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson, read by Mark Nelson.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (4 hours 53 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.
The Ghost Pirates was first published in 1909.
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2015-12-214h 53SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #335 - AUDIOBOOK: A Voyage To Arcturus by David Lindsay
The SFFaudio Podcast #335 – A Voyage To Arcturus by David Lindsay, read by Mark Nelson.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (11 hours 5 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.
A Voyage To Arcturus was first published in 1920.
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2015-09-2111h 09SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #332 - AUDIOBOOK: The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The SFFaudio Podcast #332 – The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, read by Bob Neufeld.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (9 hours 23 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.
The Picture Of Dorian Gray was first published in the July 1890 issue of Lipincott’s magazine, and then in 1891, in an expanded and revised edition. This audiobook is made from the latter publication.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
Posted by Jesse Willis
2015-08-319h 23SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #327 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Moon-Bog by H.P. Lovecraft
The SFFaudio Podcast #327 – The Moon-Bog by H.P. Lovecraft; read by Martin Reyto courtesy of Legamus. This is an unabridged reading of the short story (24 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse Willis, Seth Wilson, Jim Moon, and Juan Luis Pérez.
Talked about in this episode:
Title has a hyphen; published in Weird Tales in June 1926, but written for a St. Patrick’s Day event; most critics dismiss the story; most characters are nameless; no Cthulhu mythos; Greek ties to Lovecraft’s The Tree; H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podca...
2015-07-271h 30SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #317 - AUDIOBOOK: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The SFFaudio Podcast #317 – The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, read by Adrian Praetzellis.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (4 hours 2 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.
The Thirty-Nine Steps was first published in 1915.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
Posted by Jesse Willis
2015-05-184h 02SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #305 - AUDIOBOOK: The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
The SFFaudio Podcast #305 – The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, read by Mark Nelson.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (18 hours 40 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.
The Night Land was first published in 1912.
For our discussion of The Night Land check out episode #288
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2015-02-236h 40SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #298 - AUDIOBOOK: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The SFFaudio Podcast #298 – Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, read by Elizabeth Klett.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (6 hours 55 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.org. Jane Austen was first published in 1817.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
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2015-01-056h 55SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #282 - READALONG: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
The SFFaudio Podcast #282 – Jesse, Tamahome, Bryan Alexander, and Julie Davis discuss Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.
Talked about on today’s show:
a recent novel, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, a long novel, a genderless society, an absence of vocabulary, a politics-biology-language fusion, a light space opera, a murder mystery, a multi-body perspective, foreshadowing a sequel, confusing historical allusions, empire, imagination, personal story, dialogic, magnetic fiction in space, a puppet-like main character, mysterious actions, an unsatisfactory explanation, slave women, a fight for emancipation, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, auxiliaries, the stor...
2014-09-1548 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #267 - NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
The SFFaudio Podcast #267 – Jesse, Jenny, Tamahome, and Seth talk about NEW RELEASES and RECENT ARRIVALS.
Follow this link for a list of our latest arrivals. Note that not all books listed are discussed in the podcast.
Talked about on today’s show: Unwrapped Sky by Rjurik Davidson, “minotaurpunk”; the Thirty Years War; 1634 by David Weber and Eric Flint; The New Food by Stephen Leacock; LEGOs!; “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”; we love narrator Jonathan Davis; Runcible spoon and vorpel sword; intentionality of names in Philip K. Dick’s work; place names in Su...
2014-06-021h 28SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #260 - AUDIOBOOK: The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The SFFaudio Podcast #260 – The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Bob Neufeld.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (6 hours 40 minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.org. The Hound Of The Baskervilles was first serialized in The Strand Magazine, August 1901 to April 1902.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
Posted by Jesse Willis
2014-04-146h 40SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #257 - AUDIOBOOK: The Star Rover by Jack London
The SFFaudio Podcast #257 – The Star Rover (aka The Jacket) by Jack London, read by Barry Eads.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (10 hours 1 minute) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.org. The Star Rover was first published in 1915.
The next SFFaudio Podcast will feature our discussion of it!
Posted by Jesse Willis
2014-03-2410h 01SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #249 - AUDIOBOOK: Scanners Live In Vain by Cordwainer Smith
The SFFaudio Podcast #249 – Scanners Live In Vain by Cordwainer Smith, read by J.J. Campanella.
First published in Fantasy Book, #6 in 1950. Scanners Live In Vain has been anthologized in such collections as The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume I, Science Fiction 101 (aka Robert Silverberg’s Worlds Of Wonder), and The Great SF Stories 12 (1950).
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK runs (1 Hour 35 Minutes). We will discuss it in SFFaudio Podcast #250.
Posted by Jesse Willis
2014-01-271h 36SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #242 - AUDIOBOOK: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The SFFaudio Podcast #242 – Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, read by William Dufris.
First published serially from January to December 1915 in The ForeRunner, this UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (7 Hours 2 Minutes) comes to us courtesy of Tantor Media and their collection of “Unabridged Classics”.
Thanks Tantor!
Three American young men discover a country inhabited solely by women.
Come back for our next episode (SFFaudio Podcast #243) to hear our discussion of Herland.
Posted by Jesse Willis
2013-12-097h 02SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #225 - AUDIOBOOK: The Iron Heel by Jack London
The SFFaudio Podcast #225 – The Iron Heel by Jack London, read by Matt Soar.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (8 Hours 9 Minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.org. The Iron Heel was first published in 1907.
Posted by Jesse Willis
2013-08-128h 09SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #223 - AUDIOBOOK: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The SFFaudio Podcast #223 – The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, read by David Barnes.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (2 Hours 33 Minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.org. The Metamorphosis was first published in 1915, in German, under the title Die Verwandlung. This translation is by Ian Johnston.
Posted by Jesse Willis
2013-07-292h 33SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #215 - TALK TO: Xe Sands
The SFFaudio Podcast #215 – Jesse talks to narrator Xe Sands about Spoken Freely: Going Public In Shorts.
Talked about on today’s show:
Xe is a family name, xenon, a rare poisonous gas, a noble gas, the Going Public project, poems, stories, D.H. Lawrence, Banned Books Weeks, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Peter Davies, Little Fictions, Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, first person narration, changing sides, Herland, The Pit And The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, suspense, Paul Michael Garcia, 36 stories, 1 essay, Simon Vance, 1 speech, Dion Graham, Abraha...
2013-06-0333 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #211 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Beside Still Waters by Robert Sheckley
The SFFaudio Podcast #211 – Beside Still Waters by Robert Sheckley, narrated by Julie Davis. This is a complete and unabridged reading of the short story (9 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Julie Davis, and Rose Davis.
Talked about on today’s show:
Futurama, The Odyssey, Argos (Odysseus’ dog), a cup of sadness, depressing and beautiful, packed in sensitivity, The Status Civilization by Homer, Ray Bradbury, Amazing Stories, cold war worries, racism, Genesis, Psalms, Philip K. Dick, Eric S. Rabkin, there is no truth about what’s really happening in ficti...
2013-05-061h 06SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #204 - AUDIOBOOK: The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley
The SFFaudio Podcast #204 – The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley, read by Gregg Margarite.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (4 Hours 53 Minutes) comes to us courtesy of LibriVox.org. The Status Civilization was first published under the title Omega and was serialized in the August and September 1960 issues of Amazing Science Fiction Stories Magazine.
Go back to episode (SFFaudio Podcast #056) to hear our discussion of it.
Will Barrent awakes without memories just before being deposited on Omega, a planet for criminals where the average life expectancy is three years. He’s listed as a murderer and...
2013-03-184h 53SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #195 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Polaris by H.P. Lovecraft
The SFFaudio Podcast #195 – Polaris by H.P. Lovecraft, read by Jim Moon. This is a complete and unabridged reading of the short story (11 Minutes) followed by a discussion of it by Jesse, Tamahome, Jim Moon.
Talked about on today’s show:
The Philosopher (an amateur magazine), is this a Christmas story?, The Festival, Lord Dunsany, The Necronomicon, Lovecraft’s Christianity, religion vs. Tradition, Lovecraft’s relationship to his characters, WWI, eldritch gibbering, fainting fits, Lovecraft loved his snoozing, reincarnation vs. mind transfer, time travel, alternate realities?, neanderthal in North America?, what is the setting?, The Horr...
2013-01-1442 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #186 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Lady, Or The Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton
The SFFaudio Podcast #186 – An unabridged reading of The Lady, Or The Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton (17 minutes), read by David Federman – followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Tamahome, and Julie Hoverson (of 19 Nocturne Boulevard).
Talked about on today’s show:
Monty Hall, Let’s Make A Deal, a can of sardines, a donkey and a block of hay, the Dungeons & Dragons meaning of “Monty Hall”, use in schools, weighting the scales, what is the character of women?, equally loving and equally jealous, love vs. jealousy, how barbaric are women?, wher...
2012-11-121h 08SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #179 - AUDIOBOOK: The Murders In The Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
The SFFaudio Podcast #179 – The Murders In The Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Bronson Pinchot. This is an UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (1 Hours 31 Minutes) and comes to us courtesy of AudioGo and their collection Poe’s Detectives: The Dupin Stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
Thanks AudioGo!
Posted by Jesse Willis
2012-09-241h 31SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #174 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Temple by H.P. Lovecraft
The SFFaudio Podcast #174 – The Temple by H.P. Lovecraft, read by Mirko Stauch. This is a complete and unabridged reading of the short story (37 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Mirko, and Julie Hoverson.
Talked about on today’s show:
who’s the womanish Rhinelander?, Rhinelanders are manly(!), superstitious swine, Julie has a transsexual voice in the morning, Julie’s reading of The Temple, renaissance fairs, big crazy hats, Julie’s audio dramatization, the explanation, what’s with the curse, the practical and science-minded captain, insanity, The Call Of Cthu...
2012-08-201h 14SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #173 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: A Thousand Deaths by Jack London
The SFFaudio Podcast #173 – A Thousand Deaths by Jack London, read by Julie Hoverson (of 19 Nocturne Boulevard). This is a complete and unabridged reading of the short story (29 Minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Tamahome, Jenny, Julie Hoverson, and Matthew Sanborn Smith
Talked about on today’s show:
Jack London’s first professional sale, “the hirsute fruit”, the LibriVox version, is the protagonist supposed to be female?, “I don’t know what’s real”, a disintegrated Saint Bernard, a Freudian story, The Island Of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells, vivisect...
2012-08-131h 17SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #172 - READALONG: The Odyssey by Homer (Books XVII - XX)
The SFFaudio Podcast #172 – Scott and Jesse talk, in the fifth of a six part series, about the books XVII, XVIII, XIX and XX of The Odyssey.
Talked about on today’s show:
Scott is struck, building tension, the nurse, “to be wroth against”, Eumaeus, names are handy, Hiro Protagonist, Neal Stephenson, parody, William Gibson, Eurycleia, Odysseus rolls a saving throw against a stool, first bum fight in literature, twinning, Odysseus is Athena’s avatar on Earth, The Iliad vs. The Odyssey, being of two minds, gods as metaphors, externalization, a primitive version of Matthew 25:40, “my good for...
2012-08-0647 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #165 - READALONG: The Odyssey by Homer (Book XIII - XVI)
The SFFaudio Podcast #165 – Scott and Jesse talk, in the fourth of a six part series, about the books XIII, XIV, XV and XVI of The Odyssey.
Talked about on today’s show:
roman numerals, Ian McKellen’s narration, Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World by Jack Weatherford, the host/guest relationship, Phaeacians vs. Phoenicians, Ithaca, the start is near the end, the loyal swineherd, sleeping Odysseus, Poseidon: “I’d like to avenge myself at once” (on the people of Scheria), a ship shaped rock, the generous Phaeacians tax the people to pay for thei...
2012-06-1843 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #157 - AUDIOBOOK: The Syndic by C.M. Kornbluth
The SFFaudio Podcast #157 – The Syndic by C.M. Kornbluth, read by Mark Nelson.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (6 Hours 20 Minutes) comes to us courtesy of SciPodBooks.com and WonderEbooks. The Syndic was first published in Science Fiction Adventures, December 1953 and March 1954.
Come back for our next episode (SFFaudio Podcast #158) to hear our discussion of it.
Here’s the etext |RTF| (Rich Text format).
Posted by Jesse Willis
2012-04-236h 20SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #148 - READALONG: The Odyssey by Homer (Books I - IV)
The SFFaudio Podcast #148 – Scott and Jesse, in the first of a six part series, discuss the first four books of The Odyssey by Homer (books I, II, III and IV).
Talked about on today’s show:
Odysseus doesn’t appear in the first four books of The Odyssey, planting the seeds for the end of the story, The Iliad, and the missing epics, why not read The Iliad first?, novel vs. tragedy, Robert Fagles, E.V. Rieu, Ian Mckellan’s narration, The Apology Of Socrates by Plato, Telemachus’ dilemma, The Teaching Company, The Telemache (the first...
2012-02-2043 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #142 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG - Accessory Before The Fact by Algernon Blackwood
The SFFaudio Podcast #142 – Accessory Before The Fact by Algernon Blackwood, read by Gregg Margarite. This is a complete and unabridged reading of the short story (16 Minutes) followed by a discussion of it (by Jesse, Tamahome, and Gregg Margarite).
Talked about on today’s show:
Accessory Before The Fact was published in 1911, Jesse doesn’t understand this story, Wilkie Collins, ethereal planes are the hook (rather than the detail), Gilligan and The Skipper vs. Laurel and Hardu vs. Harold and Kumar, “this is not a time-slip story”, “this is a precognative story”, paranoia, “spirtitualized”, Germanophobia, WWI, bigotry on di...
2012-01-0938 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #140 - AUDIOBOOK: The Island Of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
The SFFaudio Podcast #140 – The Island Of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells, read by Jonathan Kent.
This UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK (4 Hours 8 Minutes) comes to us courtesy of Tantor Media and their collection of “Unabridged Classics”. Thanks Tantor!
Come back for our next episode (SFFaudio Podcast #141) to hear our discussion.
Here’s the ETEXT.
Incidentally, I believe this is the first time an entire novel has been podcast as one big file.
Posted by Jesse Willis
2011-12-264h 08SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #129 - READALONG: The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The SFFaudio Podcast #129 – Jesse, Tamahome, Julie and Jenny discuss the Audible Frontiers audiobook of The Mote In God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Talked about on today’s show:
Aliens, first contact, alien aliens, Theodore Sturgeon, Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon, evil genius inventor, a society in a bottle, how do we figure out which information is true, L.J. Ganser, “Fyunch(click)”, space empire, the Horse-Head Nebula, the depth of the alien alienness, who has free will in The Mote In God’s Eye?, “there was little of free will in an engineer...
2011-10-101h 12SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #119
The SFFaudio Podcast #119 – Scott, Jesse and Tamahome talk to author Paul Malmont about his novel The Astounding, The Amazing, And The Unknown.
Talked about on today’s show:
The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, Jack London In Paradise, Hawaii, The Iron Heel by Jack London, the rise of the oligarchy, The Washington Post review of The Astounding, The Amazing, And The Unknown, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, L. Ron Hubbard, the Philadelphia Experiment, the movie The Philadelphia Experiment, “a psuedo-historical event” vs. “a cultural phenomena”, legend, John W. Campbell, Astounding Science Fiction, Unknown (magazine), Kamikaze pilots vs. t...
2011-08-0134 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #112 - AUDIOBOOK: The Marching Morons by C.M. Kornbluth
The SFFaudio Podcast #112 – a complete and unabridged reading of The Marching Morons by C.M. Kornbluth. It is wonderfully narrated for us by William Coon of Eloquent Voice.
The Marching Morons is a Science Fiction novella written by Cyril M. Kornbluth, originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction’s April 1951 issue. It has been famously anthologized in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two (B).
The story is set hundreds of years in the future: the date is 7-B-936. Its protagonist is John Barlow, a man from the past put into suspended animation by a...
2011-06-131h 20SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #099
The SFFaudio Podcast #099 – Jesse talked with Evo Terra, Steve Eley, Bill Desmedt, Steen Hansen, and Matthew Wayne Selznick in a kaffeeklatsch recorded on Friday August 24, 2006 at LA . .
Talked about on today’s show:
recording for posterity, Evo is not his real name, Milford, Pennsylvania, Damon Knight, James Blish, Larry Niven, Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, Johnstown, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Johnstown Flood, podcasting, giant squid?, iRiver MP3 players, Dragon Page: Cover To Cover, “it’s a good pain”, Podiobooks.com, Audible.com, Libsyn, Slice Of Sci-Fi, Farpoint Media, Mech Muse, Escape Pod‘s Stev...
2011-03-1428 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #081 - AUDIOBOOK: The Code Of The Poodles by James Powell
The SFFaudio Podcast #081 – Featuring a complete and unabridged reading of The Code Of The Poodles by James Powell!
This is a humorous FANTASY/CRIME story from one of the best in the business, James Powell. Check out our talk with Powell (in SFFaudio Podcast #020) and his first published story, The Friends Of Hector Jouvet (in SFFaudio Podcast #030).
The Code Of The Poodles comes to us courtesy of James Powell himself. Thanks James! Powell’s recently published collection of short stories, A Pocketful of Noses: Stories of One Galnelon or Another, is avai...
2010-11-0822 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #067 - TALK TO: Dan Carlin
The SFFaudio Podcast #067 – Scott and Jesse talk to Dan Carlin, of the Hardcore History and Common Sense podcasts!
Talked about on today’s show:
Hardcore History, Common Sense, the Rashomon effect, Gilligan’s Island, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, defensive reporting, nuance vs. talking points, BBC, NPR, PBS, Wikileaks, Common Sense Show #179 – GenX Journalism, the Martian political position, comics, What If…, Niall Ferguson, “counterfactual history“, “how different would voting be if there were no money impacting the political system at all?”, the toothless United Nations, the Canadian political system vs. the U.S. political system...
2010-07-1958 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #066 - TALK TO: Harlan Ellison
The SFFaudio Podcast #066 – Scott talks to Harlan Ellison, in the vintage 2006 interview, about audiobooks and audio drama.
Talked about on today’s show:
SFWA, Harlan Ellison’s Grand Master of Science Fiction award, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, Repent Harlequin Said The Tick-Tock Man, A Boy And His Dog, Shatterday, Alternate World Recordings, Shelly Levinson, Roy Torgeson, The Prowler In The City A The Edge of the World, Yours Truly Jack The Ripper by Robert Bloch, Dangerous Visions, The Bloody Times Of Jack The Ripper, radio drama, Orson...
2010-07-1240 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #063 - TALK TO: Rick Jackson and William Coon
The SFFaudio Podcast #063 – Scott and Jesse talk to Rick Jackson and William Coon about audiobook narration and recording.
Talked about on today’s show:
Eloquent Voice Audiobooks, Wonder Audio, LibriVox.org, WordPress, Elements of SEO (a wordpress theme), The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown |READ OUR REVIEW|, The Wench Is Dead by Fredric Brown (available on audible.com), The Defenders and Other Stories by Philip K. Dick, Starman’s Quest and Other Stories by Robert Silverberg, OverDrive.com, Borders, Barnes & Noble, WHSmith, public libraries, Toronto, Anton Chekhov, “life is a passing parade”, Henry Jame...
2010-06-2147 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #059
The SFFaudio Podcast #059 – Jesse and Scott talk with Science Fiction author David J. Williams about his recently completed Autumn Rain trilogy.
Talked about on today’s show:
Mirrored Heavens (book 1 in the Autumn Rain trilogy), The Burning Skies (book 2 in the Autumn Rain trilogy), The Machinery Of Light (book 3 in the Autumn Rain trilogy), writing in the present tense, memory, espionage, using past tense is “privileging the narrative”, cold war, cyberspace, cyberpunk, space as the ultimate high ground, militarizing space, satellites, “rods from god“, the straylight run scene from William...
2010-05-2443 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #038: AUDIOBOOK: The Burning Bridge by Poul Anderson
The SFFaudio Podcast #038 – Diverting from our usual agenda of talking about audiobooks, we’re presenting one. This comes courtesy of Rick Jackson, of Wonder Audio. It’s an unabridged reading of Poul Anderson’s short story The Burning Bridge!
And be sure to check out our authors pages section on POUL ANDERSON , it details other versions of this story and many other Poul tales.
The Burning Bridge
By Poul Anderson; Read by Amanda Fitzwater
1 |MP3| – Approx. 1 Hour 7 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: The SFFaudio Podcast
Podcast: October 5, 2009
Usua...
2009-10-051h 06SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #034 - READALONG: The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan
The SFFaudio Podcast #034 – Jesse and Scott have invited a roster of internet celebrities on for this podcast to talk about Richard K. Morgan‘s novel The Steel Remains. Listen in as…
Brian Murphy (of The Silver Key blog and The Cimmerian),
Gregg Margarite (LibriVox.org narrator and book coordinator),
and Luke Burrage (professional juggler and host of the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast) discuss…
The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan [AN UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK from TANTOR MEDIA]!
Talked about on today’s show:
The...
2009-08-311h 24SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #030 - The Friends Of Hector Jouvet by James Powell
The SFFaudio Podcast #030 – is rather different than previous programs. This one has no talk, it’s all story. I asked for and received permission to record a short story by previous SFFaudio Podcast guest James Powell. The Friends Of Hector Jouvet was Powell’s first ever sale. It was originally published in the April 1966 issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Our audio version is skillfully narrated by J.J. Campanella. This is a great story. Enjoy!
The Friends Of Hector Jouvet
By James Powell; Read by J.J. Campanella
1 |MP3| – Approx. 34 Minutes [UNABRIDGED...
2009-07-1333 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #029
The SFFaudio Podcast #029 – Jesse and Scott are joined by Julie D. of the Forgotten Classic podcast. Listen in as Julie gushes over the new audiobook of Ken Scholes’ novel Lamentation! We also talk Space Opera, libraries, and how to read a paperbook: “Breaking the spine of a book is like breaking the spine of the family dog.” Ya, it’s a Buck Roger-ish show.
Talked about on today’s show:
Hyperion by Dan Simmons, David Weber, “The Honor Harrington” series, On Basilisk Station, military SF, Audible Frontiers, John Ringo, March...
2009-03-161h 05SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #028
The SFFaudio Podcast #028 – Jesse and Scott are joined by Luke Burrage of The Science Fiction Book Review Podcast. First up we talk about Luke’s show and reviewing Science Fiction. Later we ask the question for our time: Are the British taking over Science Fiction?
Talked about on today’s show:
Luke Burrage: International Juggler and Entertainer, Juggling Podcasts, Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas, Gateway by Frederik Pohl, Perdido Street Station by China Miéville, NaNoWriMo, the “Void Trilogy” by Peter F. Hamilton, Richard K. Morgan, Black Man (aka Thirteen) |READ OUR RE...
2009-03-091h 18SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #027
The SFFaudio Podcast #027 – Jesse and Scott are joined by Rick Jackson (The Time Traveler). Today we talk about new audiobooks, the ongoing CONAN situation, and libraries. Should libraries be renting Zunes to patrons?
Talked about on today’s show:
Ted Chiang, Eclipse 2, Blackstone Audio, The Green Hills Of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein, Apollo 8, Brotherhood Of The Wolf by David Farland, Bellewether by Connie Willis, Corsair by Clive Cussler, James Bond is fantasy?, Quantum Of Solace, Sahara, coming from Wonder Audi...
2009-03-0254 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #025
The SFFaudio Podcast #025 – Jesse and Scott are joined by Brian Murphy of The Silver Key and The Cimmerian blogs. We mostly talk about Fantasy, with a little war talk to make things manlier.
Talked about on today’s show:
Recent Arrivals, Penguin Audio, re-release of Stephen King audiobooks, Desperation, The Regulators, Thinner, Rose Madder, Joe Mantegna, Blair Brown, Kathy Bates, Kate Nelligan, the origins of the “Richard Bachman” pseudonym, Donald E. Westlake, Chapterhouse Dune, Frank Herbert, full cast narration, Macmillan Audio, Starship series, Mike Resnick, Jonathan Davis, Book Of The Road, du...
2009-02-1645 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #024
The SFFaudio Podcast #024 – Jesse and Scott discuss hardware (which is the best iPod), comics (graphic novels to some), movies (bad and worse) and even a few audiobooks (not so bad at all).
Talked about on today’s show:
Recent arrivals, Od Magic by Patricia A. McKillip, Blackstone Audio, Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint, urban fantasy, Pebble In The Sky by Isaac Asimov, BBC Audiobooks America, Gentleman Of The Road by Michael Chabon, In The Electric Mist With The Confederate Dead by James Lee Burk...
2009-02-0957 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #022
The SFFaudio Podcast #022 – Jesse and Scott are guestless so they decide to talk about themselves and audio in the third person.
Talked about on today’s show:
LibriVox’s releases 1, 2, Wonder Audio, Mark Douglas Nelson, Audible.com’s “first book in a series” offer, Mike Resnick’s Starship Mutiny, Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon, Robert J. Sawyer’s Hominids, the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast, Robert J. Sawyer, Wake, Golden Fleece, multiple voice recordings, Dune, Ted Chiang (“best short story writer ever”), Exhalatio...
2009-01-2600 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #019
The SFFaudio Podcast #019 – Julie Davis (of the Forgotten Classics, StarShipSofa and Happy Catholic blog) joins us for a potassium filled show.
Talked about on today’s show:
Forgotten Classics, The Hidden Adversary, Agatha Christie, Temptation, David Brin, Recorded Books, Sundiver, Different Seasons, Stephen King, Frank Muller, Daemon, Daniel Suarez, Microsoft Zune’s 30gb brick = DRM, Librivox’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Craftlit, Craftlit podcast, Another Beowulf & Grendel, Iceland, Greenland, The Fall, Encounters At The End Of The W...
2009-01-0500 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #018
The SFFaudio Podcast #018 – a podcast about audiobooks, audio drama, History and most of all mutiny! This is mutiny mister!
Talked about on today’s show:
One way to get around DRM (swapping iPods), Blackstone Audio arrivals, The Selected Stories Of Philip K. Dick Volume 1, The Selected Stories Of Philip K. Dick Volume 2, X-Minus One: Colony, The Days Of Perky Pat, Alpha, Catherine Asaro, Inferno, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, New Releases, Starship: Rebel, Mike Resnick, Allen Steele, Coyote, Wayne June, The...
2008-12-2939 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #017
The SFFaudio Podcast #017 – Brian Murphy of The Silver Key blog joins the podcast and talks to us about his terrific blog, writing habits, and how vikings and rappers are alike.
Talked about on today’s show:
Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf, Michael D.C. Drout‘s Beowulf, Neil Gaiman‘s Beowulf, religion in fiction, god in fiction, Stephen King, Carrie, The Stand, Desperation, The Regulators, Kate Nelligan, Delores Claiborne, Cujo, The Tommyknockers, On Writing, Dum...
2008-12-221h 00SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #016
The SFFaudio Podcast #016 – is really strange and very good – we talk about Dean Koontz, talking dogs, praise Robert J. Sawyer, his audiobooks and much more! Book covers, cover art, they matter!
Talked about on today’s show:
Audible.com, the new Audible Frontiers new releases, review of The Speed Of Dark, Mary Robinette Kowal, Blackstone Audio, The Selected Stories Of Philip K. Dick, Star Trek, Pandora’s Star, Judas Unchained, Peter F. Hamilton, Star Wars, Mike Resnick, The Last Colony, John Scalzi, Zoe’s Tale...
2008-12-1550 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #015
The SFFaudio Podcast #015 – On today’s podcast we take you on a merry chase ending with… “governments can do things right.”
Talked about on today’s show:
SFFvideo.com!, The January Dancer, Michael Flynn, Blackstone Audio, Eifelheim, big dumb object (also a website), Earthfall, Orson Scott Card and his interview, the Homecoming Series, the book of Mormon, The Book Of Lies, Brad Meltzer, Ender In Exile, Tor.com podcast, in what order should you read a sprawlling series? answer = publication order, First Meetings, Orson Sc...
2008-12-081h 01SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #014
The SFFaudio Podcast #014 – Plenty of exciting jibber jabber for you today. It’s a good show, as long as you define good very narrowly.
Talked about on today’s show:
Wall-E, our infamous Wall-E is a criminal post, Bolt, Bill C-61, Brian Murphy‘s review of The Halloween Tree, Poe’s Children, StarShipSofa’s Richard K. Morgan interview, Hour 25, converting m3u into MP3, Coeur de Lion‘s podcast, the difference between “mainstream fiction”, “literary fiction” and “slipstream fiction”, Peter Straub, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Michael Cricht...
2008-12-0147 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #013
The SFFaudio Podcast #013 – We’ve got an absolutely unique interview with the incredibly cool Mister Ron from the Mister Ron’s Basement podcast! Mister Ron has a podcast devoted to humorous fiction from the 19th and early 20th century.
In the interview we talked about Mister Ron’s podcast, H.G. Wells, Sherlock Holmes spoofs, August Derleth, Solar Pons, O. Henry, Stephen Leacock, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court, Edgar Allan Poe, Benjamin Franklin, Bud Grace, Piranha Club, Stanley Huntley, A Journey To The Sun, Pfaff’s Be...
2008-11-241h 02SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #012 - NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
The SFFaudio Podcast #012 – Our sickest show yet. How sick? Well, I’d like Stanley Kubrick to direct the next Conan movie. We also talk about the SFFaudio Challenge #3, which is not as bad as Red Sonja (1985).
Talked about on today’s show:
Fallout 3 has a built-in radio drama (The Adventures Of Daring Dashwood), The Little Book, Selden Edwards, time travel, The Book Of Lies, Brad Meltzer, Nelson DeMille, The Border, The Third SFFaudio Challenge, Muureen O’Brien, Maria Lectrix Podcast, The Risk Pro...
2008-11-1735 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #011 - NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
The SFFaudio Podcast #011 – in which our desperate heroes attempt to display the manliness and fortitude, listing all the recent arrivals, and some recent listens.
Talked about on today’s show:
audiobooks, epic fantasy, science fiction, The Runelords, David Farland, Blackstone Audio, Brilliance Audio, Dragonheart, Todd McCaffery, Pern, Penguin Audio, Jim Butcher, Codex Alera, Furies of Calderon, Kate Reading, Random House Audio, The Widows Of Eastwick, John Updike, Peter Straub, Poe’s Children – an anthology, Stephen King, Star Wars – Millennium Falcon, James Luceno, Macmillan Audio, Robert Jordan, Brandon Sa...
2008-11-1044 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #010 - Bill Hollweg from BrokenSea Audio Productions
The SFFaudio Podcast #010 – In what may be our smurfiest show ever we’ve dropped the usual format for an exclusive interview with Bill Hollweg from BrokenSea Audio Productions. It’s a Texas sized show in which we get Bill to spill the beans on upcoming BSAP projects like the retro-Battlestar Galactica, an all new Mad Max adventure and the audio drama version of Escape From New York!
We also hear about:
Me gushing over the ongoing 7 part BSAP miniseries of Conan: Queen Of The Black Coast, th...
2008-11-0340 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #009
The SFFaudio Podcast #009 – is a podcast that’s cool for kids and disturbing for adults! We don’t set the bar high enough.
If you were a super hero who would you be?
Me? I’d be like Batman, but with less hypocrisy.
Topics discussed include:
Escape Pod, John Joseph Adams, Seeds Of Change, The Living Dead, Brilliance Audio, epic Fantasy, Wizards First Rule, Terry Goodkind, Legend Of The Seeker, HBO, Tru Blood, Charlaine Harris, Foundation, Mercedes Lackey, Sam Tsouvias, Recorded Books, Elantris, Brandon Sanderson, L. Ron Hubbard, Danger...
2008-10-2743 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #007
The SFFaudio Podcast #007 is so lucky! We’re super hoop-jumping, in this deadly to DRM show – we’re unspooling fences and digging ditches – working around the work-arounds – so, the long and the short:
Scott: Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes.
Jesse: No it isn’t.
Topics discussed include:
Golden Age Comic Book Stories, Argosy magazine covers, Pellucidar, At The Earth’s Core, Edgar Rice Burroughs, LibriVox, A Princess Of Mars, multiple narrators, Ender’s Game, Step...
2008-10-1353 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #006
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 Th...
2008-10-0600 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #004
Break out your slide-rules and drop your bongs people! #004 of The SFFaudio Podcast is all about extreme knitting this week. Extreme knitting being being mostly about the audiobooks, and less about the knitting.
Topics discussed include:
Orson Scott Card, The Call Of Earth, The Memory Of Earth, Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch, religion, The Gospel According To Philip K. Dick, Whitley Strieber, 2012: The War For Souls, the Mayan calendar, Art Bell, The Sci Fi-Channel, UFOs, Space: The Imagination Station, Chariots Of...
2008-09-2237 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #002
The first one they made was so good they recorded a sequel! Indeed, The SFFaudio Podcast #002 is even more blockbustery (with 20% more bluster).
In show double-oh-two Scott D. Danielson and Jesse Willis talk about audiobooks, audio drama, and the correct pronunciation of the word “orgy.” We also talked about Recent Arrivals, New Releases, LibriVox, what we’ve been listening to, and where. It’s a big, big, show!
Topics under discussion include:
The Last Theorem, Carnival, Elizabeth Bear, L. Ron Hubbard, Galaxy Press, Zeppelins, airships, Michael Chabon, our new...
2008-09-081h 17SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #001 - NEW RELEASES / RECENT ARRIVALS
Hey look! We’ve got our own podcast. This is the very first one, which includes SFFaudio founders Scott D. Danielson and Jesse Willis talking about audiobooks, audio drama, and cease and desist orders. We won’t desist podcasting if you won’t cease downloading them – whatever that means.
This week we talked about the most recent of Recent Arrivals, the newest of the New Releases, and the breaking news about the attempt to break Broken Sea Audio Productions‘ productions.
Topics under discussion include:
Ubik, Philip K. Dick, Joss Whedon,
2008-09-0138 min