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SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #786 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Radium Pool by Ed Earl Repp
The SFFaudio Podcast #786 – The Radium Pool by Ed Earl Repp, read by Thomas Copeland (for LibriVox). This is a complete and unabridged reading of the story (2 hours 43 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Maissa Bessada, Will Emmons, and Terence Blake
Talked about on today’s show:
in Earth language, sorry everybody, Sophie Wenzell Ellis, another radium filled story, avoid radium, taking a long time to get started, WHAT!, so many explicitly catery characters, outer narrator, professor who explains things, meet a guy who who is looking for another professor, anot...
2024-05-137h 29SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #776 – READALONG: God Save The Mark by Donald E. Westlake
The SFFaudio Podcast #776 – Jesse, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, Will Emmons, and Cora Buhlert talk about God Save The Mark by Donald E. Westlake
Talked about on today’s show:
1967, pretty sure I haven’t read this before, just assumed, “nephew novels”, explicitly a nephew, second great uncle nephew, saying things in contradiction of the rules, the quiz for you: where does the title come from?, from Shakespeare, a marks as pointed out, a conman wants to con, the nurse in Romeo and Juliet, what she is saying, please forgive me, I hesitate to say, the death of Tybalt...
2024-03-044h 13
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiThe Fate of Destiny Part 2The AI takeover has begun. Fate and Destiny replaced with a random generator. Every occurrence, every circumstance as random as a coin toss. That will be good - sometimes. It will also be really bad. Episode 6 of Season 5
2023-09-2932 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiThe Fate of Destiny Part 1The offices of the Giant Book of Destiny and the Great Tapestry of Fate have been ordered to merge. That can't be good. Episode 5 of Season 5
2023-09-2926 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEarth DayEarth has been scheduled for destruction. Well - goodbye. Episode 4 of Season 5
2023-09-1728 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEddies Swirls & Pedals of Time Part 3Efforts taken to fix the time infraction lead to a time paradox. One that will blow existence out of existence. Episode 3 of Season 5
2023-09-0521 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEddies Swirls & Pedals of Time Part 2Captain Peddleserp somehow finds a way to travel to the end of time – which is in three days! Ace must find a way to find Captain Peddleserp before all of time ends. Will he have time??? Episode 2 of Season 5
2023-08-3019 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEddies Swirls & Pedals of Time Part 1Something or someone has been infracting time. A time paradox is created. One that will lead to the end of time! As they so often do! Episode 1 Season 5
2023-08-3020 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiParadoxes? Problems? Peril? PROBABLY!Unexpected guest stars! Calamity, beyond imagination! New season of Ace - coming this September
2023-08-2701 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #725 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Prince Alberic And The Snake Lady by Vernon Lee
The SFFaudio Podcast #725 – Prince Alberic And The Snake Lady by Vernon Lee – read by Evan Lampe. This is a complete and unabridged reading of the novella (1 hour 35 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants include Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, and Evan Lampe.
Talked about on today’s show:
without fixing mistakes, two sessions, a damn hard book to read, mispronouncing many words, so many times, tap-es-tree not tape-ess-tree, its fantasy Jesse, you have to understand I didn’t speak to anyone until I was 22 years old, Evan is very dry, you pronounce words like som...
2023-03-133h 42SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #714 - READALONG: Orphans Of The Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Jesse, Maissa Bessada, and Evan Lampe talk about Orphans Of The Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Talked about on today’s show:
two novellas, Universe and Common Sense, in Astounding, May and October 1941, astounding, the back half of this book barely needs to exist, the ending, a tearjerker, a wifejerker, Jesse’s guess, Heinlein’s like: “sure”, good things, things that are missing, the environmental angle, the ship would be reducing furnishings, they would have a lot less stuff in their ship, keep feeding the converter, back in my day we had more material goods, there used...
2022-12-262h 42SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #703 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Call Him Nemesis by Donald E. Westlake
The SFFaudio Podcast #703 – Call Him Nemesis by Donald E. Westlake; read by Chris Pyle
This unabridged reading of the story (54 minutes) is followed by a discussion of it.
Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, and Evan Lampe.
Talked about on today’s show:
Worlds Of If, September 1961, programmatical problem, H.L. Gold, art, a juvenile delinquent rumble scene, early 50s, a strange story, a juvenile like Heinlein, so much Westlake in it, advanced stuff, the man with the handkerchief mask, the perfect stranger, Miss English, the girl...
2022-10-103h 22SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #700 - READALONG: The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein
The SFFaudio Podcast #700 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, and Trish E. Matson talk about The Door Into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein.
Talked about on today’s show:
serialized in F&SF, October and December 1956, hardcover 1957, set in 1970s, set in 2000/2001, the cat and the door, isn’t the door supposed to dilate?, Heinlein In Dimension by Alexei Panshin, The Pleasant Profession Of Robert A. Heinlein by Farah Mendlesohn, lucky for Paul, Paul didn’t like it, just the cat parts?, time paradox, time loop, Trish hated it, a cardinal rule, #SIFTP, analysis...
2022-09-192h 55SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #696 - READALONG: The Busy Body by Donald E. Westlake
The SFFaudio Podcast #695 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, Will Emmons, and Trent Reynolds talk about The Busy Body by Donald E. Westlake
Talked about on today’s show:
1966, paperback or hardcover?, it’s better if it is a paperback, not by Westlake, Burglars Can’t Be Choosers by Lawrence Block, while burgling, on the run, five pages before the end, what the mystery was and how all things came to be, a subgenre between Westlake and Block, little excerpts, a real book, Block introduced Jesse to Westlake, from reading a series, self-flagellation, a movie...
2022-08-222h 59SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #691 - READALONG: Tunnel In The Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
The SFFaudio Podcast #691 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Trish E. Matson talk about Tunnel In The Sky by Robert A. Heinlein.
Talked about on today’s show:
1955, Steele Savage, Rod standing in a doorway, a leg tattoo, a Farnham’s Freehold tattoo, refreshing, the gender dynamics, problems, is there anything anybody could complain about, the ending, an unsatisfying ending, Rod also was unsatisfied, the pre-ending, Captain Rod, what things can we cancel about this novel, the Amazons was pretty fun, lady soldiers, AND instead of but, gender sterotypes, get married and have babies, no!, the vo...
2022-07-182h 59SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #689 - READALONG: The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
The SFFaudio Podcast #689 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, and Trish E. Matson discuss The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
Talked about on today’s show:
we’re all taking the black pill today, The Day Of The Triffids, Chrysalids, Margaret Atwood, she’s on the stamps now, first president of Canada, just birthed a new monarch, stealing from Barbados, very John Wyndham, cozy catastrophe, Brian Aldiss, the John Carpenter movie, John Carpenter’s The Village Of The Damned, In The Mouth Of Madness, more sinister, surprised and pleased, the 1960 movie and the BBC audio drama, all...
2022-07-042h 38SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #685 - READALONG: The Star Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
The SFFaudio Podcast #685 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Trish E. Matson, and Will Emmons talk about The Star Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
Talked about on today’s show:
1954, serialized in The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction, Star Lummox, what a lummox, a very 1950s word, clumsy stupid person, Google NGram, 1825 East Anglian slang, lumbering ox, lummoxes, knocks things over, breaks things, Maissa liked it, so simple, a girl with some brains and some power?, uncharacteristic, no female presence at all, Betty is a plot driver, one of six sexes, she as a matt...
2022-06-062h 53SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #680 - READALONG: The Man Who Sold The Moon by Robert A. Heinlein
The SFFaudio Podcast #680 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, and Will Emmons talk about The Man Who Sold The Moon by Robert A. Heinlein
Talked about on today’s show:
published in a book, Heinlein almost always renewed his copyrights, no great interior art, boardrooms and offices, spacecrafts and diamonds, Pike’s Peak, Harriman pointing and winking, underground bunker wife, dissemble to his wife (again), the covers, Jesse is not a philatelist, numismatics, Paul’s not keeping up with philately, Brewster’s Millions (1985), Charade (1963), forever stamps, “here’s the extras from my collection, son”, Canada Post, Star Trek...
2022-05-023h 28
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 26 Protesting Talk BackJoin the cast for some laughs and fun as we discuss creating and producing Season 4 - Protesting The Future - including a quick interruption for a whole other stand alone episode for the Toronto Fringe mid-way through.
2022-04-151h 21
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 25 Hold On TightThe judge of eternity passes sentence on Gaudium for her crimes against Destiny. Finding her way back to herself, the Editor takes on the ultimate questions of life. Episode 6 of Season 4, Protesting The Future
2022-03-1125 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 24 Eternity EraserWith the editor poisoned and completely out of commission, the Copy Aide takes over her duties. Gaudium the last surviving being of a planet consumed by goo demonstrates a knack for getting people to do what she wants. She does a lot more than just change her own fate. Episode 5 of Season 4, Protesting The Future
2022-03-0425 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 23 Fungal FuelFungal fuel, a revolutionary new self-replenishing power supply is heralded as a planetary savior. But of course nothing is as good as it seems. Episode 4 of Season 4, Protesting The Future
2022-02-2525 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 22 A Crack In The FutureWith the editor unable to remember who she is or what she does, her duties fall to the Copy Aide. Problems running rampant in the Destiny offices, Ace is called in to help. He arrives with an unexpected visitor. Episode 3 of Season 4, Protesting The Future
2022-02-1822 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 21 The Great GooingAce and his ship Phoenix pick up the last surviving being from Beta Gama, a planet randomly and inexplicably gooed out of existence. Meanwhile at Destiny, the editor can’t quite keep track of – much of anything. Episode 2 of Season 4 Protesting The Future
2022-02-1125 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode Twenty Burn The BookProtesters have shown up outside the Destiny offices. The Editor is making unprecedented, unauthorized changes to the book. For once no one knows what tomorrow will bring! Episode 1 of Season 4 Protesting The Future
2022-02-0423 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiWhat's To Protest? Everything!The Editor in Chief at the Giant book of Destiny is losing her marbles, making unauthorized edits to Destiny. If Ace Galaksi can’t help her find them soon, the future will be edited out of existence – for good. (That would be bad)
2022-01-2801 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #664 - READALONG: The Rolling Stones by Robert A. Heinlein
The SFFaudio Podcast #664 – Jesse, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, and Will Emmons talk about The Rolling Stones by Robert A. Heinlein
talked about on today’s show:
1952, Tramp Space Ship, Boys’ Life, October November December, Farmer In The Sky, Space Family Stone, London, travel is conducive to reading, New English Library, the band?, so turgid, corny, when Grama Hazel almost died, why is my throat constricting, some good sentiment in there, this book is really corny, the scourge of the spaceways, at the bottom of the toxic lake, the Houdini trick, the twins needed their moment...
2022-01-102h 25
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 19 An Unwritten Christmas 2021After receiving unwanted news, Earth's most famous Nick extricates himself from the pages of Destiny - and nicks Christmas out of the book in the process. What's going to happen to all that milk? All those cookies? What about the children? Re-imagined for 2021 with our new Ace Galaksi, Copy Aide and the return of Fact Checker Fran
2021-12-1529 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #655 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Gulliver Of Mars by Edwin Lester Arnold
The SFFaudio Podcast #655 – Gulliver Of Mars by Edwin Lester Arnold; read by James Christoper. This is an unabridged reading of the novel (6 hours 6 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, and Maissa Bessada
Talked about on today’s show:
Lieut. Gulliver Jones: His Vacation, Richard Lupoff, this is amazing!, I’m going to change the name, the spelling on Gullivar vs. Gulliver, this modern decadent age, Gulliver’s Travels, more subtle, Lieut. Jones Of Mars, the author is not American, Edwin Lester Arnold, subtitled His Vacation, he’s vac...
2021-11-088h 38
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 18: An Ace Oddyssey 2021During a routine upload Phoenix inadvertently picks up a virus, transforming a regular space odyssey into a terrifying Ace Oddyssey – updated for this virus plagued world - just in time for HAL-oween!
2021-10-2923 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #652 - READALONG: Farmer In The Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
The SFFaudio Podcast #622 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, and Trish E. Matson talk about Farmer In The Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Talked about on today’s show:
1950!, serialized in Boys’ Life, August – November 1950, its about farming, Ganymede, there’s no bad guys, there’s no conflict, no villians, boy against nature, father son conflict, annoyed at the annoying people, takers and bureaucrats, less bureaucracy hate than usual, a little lecture, the senator got him in, ultimately they will fail in life, the evolution in action argument, who is financing all of this, self-f...
2021-10-182h 25
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 17: Space Dick At Large - Fringe SpecialIn Space Dick At Large, specially re-conceived for the Toronto Fringe, the back-up copy of the Giant Book of Destiny has been stolen! Ace Galaksi has 24 hours to locate it before Destiny itself is REWRITTEN. The action plays out in a 1930s style recording session. Get the full Fringe experience in all its black and white glory here: https://youtu.be/bl2BKvDDD1s
2021-10-0954 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #648 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The SFFaudio Podcast #648 – The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs; read by Delmar H. Dolbier. This is an unabridged reading of the novel (9 hours 16 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, Evan Lampe, Maissa Bessada, and Alex.
Talked about on today’s show:
a serial in All-Story, 1914 and 1915, reasons for confusion, the first half of this book is The Mad King, the second half is Barney Of Beatrice, follow ups, The Eternal Lover, some Tarzan action, Barney’s sister, the reincarnation of a cave man, who is thi...
2021-09-2011h 34SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #641 - READALONG: Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Peter Frase
The SFFaudio Podcast #640 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, Will Emmons, Bryan Alexander, Marshall Boyd, and Steven Johnson talk about Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Peter Frase
Talked about on today’s show:
Mr. Asset and Mr. Android from the Androids and Assets podcast, how you say his name, Red Plenty, Trekonomics, a huge Trekkie, Star Trek, a socialist, the same premise, Manuu Saddia, very socialist, socialism for capitalists (aka not socialism), the cover, the lock is about DRM and copyright and rentism, a political compass, equity and heirarchy, east west of abun...
2021-08-022h 44SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #638 - READALONG: Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
The SFFaudio Podcast #638 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Scott Danielson, Maissa Bessada, Will Emmons and Trish E. Matson talk about Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
Talked about on today’s show:
1978, kicking around for years and years, The Entropy Effect, the first Star Trek novel, Of Mist, And Grass, And Sand, a report with science fiction fandom, Will’s choice, The Moon And The Sun, Louis XIV, Jesuit scientist, sea-monsters, consciousness about the world, politics, first contact, a little person, a magnum opus, 1998, a capstone, the Hugo for best novel, Nebula and Locus awards, Heinlein dedicated Friday...
2021-07-121h 32SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #636 - READALONG: Trekonomics: The Economics Of Star Trek by Manu Saadia
The SFFaudio Podcast #636 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, and Will Emmons talk about Trekonomics: The Economics Of Star Trek by Manu Saadia
Talked about on today’s show:
2016, a French economist, economic theory, Capitalism In The 24th Century, the other famous French economist (Thomas Piketty), Nobel adjacent, the dismal science, kinda light in every, Debt The First 5000 Thousand Years by David Graber, the bluecheks and their moms and dads, a class of people, the ones who benefit from all the productivity gains, the present, the narrator, Oliver Wyman, Discord, running a D&D ca...
2021-06-282h 22SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #634 – READALONG: A Fall Of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
The SFFaudio Podcast #634 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, and Will Emmons talk about A Fall Of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
Talked about on today’s show:
1961, the worst Arthur C. Clarke thing Jesse has ever read, co-writing, Frederich Pohl, comin back to the well for a load of cash, sequel Rama books, Maissa liked it, it grew on Evan, Childhood’s End, 2001: A Space Odyssey, he’s no Olaf Stapledon, sui generis, he wanted to be Olaf Stapledon, he doesn’t have the same ethos, Doris Lessing, on a more cosmic scale, Aug...
2021-06-141h 422021-05-242h 332021-04-261h 432021-04-192h 05SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #622 - READALONG: Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein
The SFFaudio Podcast #622 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, Will Emmons, and Olav Rokne talk about Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein
Talked about on today’s show:
Blue Book, 1951, Planets In Combat, the prose in this novel is “turgid”, here comes the trolling, swollen and distended and congested, To Sail Beyond The Sunset, short punchy sentences, larded up with excessive detail and flowery prose, Lovecraft, turgid vs. intricate, complex vs. complicated, like a clock or a little watch, tiny little things designed and built to have a precise effect, to appreciate the exact fe...
2021-03-222h 58SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #620 - READALONG: Colossus by D.F. Jones
The SFFaudio Podcast #620 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, and Will Emmons talk about Colossus by D.F. Jones
Talked about on today’s show:
1966, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Dennis Feltham, two sequels, an amazing 1970 movie, blew your socks off, very faithful, no pipe, no British accent, an improvement, so jarring, the movie voice, Maissa’s small confession, accidentally read the second book, don’t read the second book, you don’t want to go, rape studies, it ends with a question, never?, the movie is awesome, noir, oh you foolish humans, destroy yourselves, destruction is sweet...
2021-03-082h 04SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #618 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Risk Profession by Donald E. Westlake
The SFFaudio Podcast #618 – The Risk Profession by Donald E. Westlake; read by Gregg Margarite (for LibriVox.org). This is an unabridged reading of the short story (1 hour 4 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, and Maissa Bessada, and Will Emmons
Talked about on today’s show:
authors like Westlake, seeing the ending coming, Amazing, March 1961, which ending?, a cynical person, when you’re a lawyer…, lawyer brain, ruining your enjoyment?, you feel smart, reading mysteries, ahead of the curve, forgetting the ending every time, a double twist en...
2021-02-222h 57SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #617 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Untamed by Max Brand
The SFFaudio Podcast #617 – The Untamed by Max Brand; read by Richard Kilmer. This is an unabridged reading of the novel (7 hour 21 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, Evan Lampe, Maissa Bessada, Will Emmons, Trish E. Matson, and Jonathan Juett
Talked about on today’s show:
a serial in All-Story, 1919, WWI, Canadian Army 1915-16, 1917 $150,000, the US Army in 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, the state of the magazine industry, four sequels, when Juett was a little kid, a perfect vacation novel, a poncho and a dog, maybe a were...
2021-02-159h 42
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 16: Season Three Cast Talk BackBack in 2020 the timeline broke and everything went awry. The same thing happened inside of Destiny. Who broke time and how did they fix it again? Get up close and personal with Ace’s creators and cast as they discuss the bandages and superglue used in Fixing the Timeline. Warning there is talk of pizza. Do not listen on an empty stomach.
2021-02-1245 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #609 - READALONG: Anarchaos by Donald E. Westlake
The SFFaudio Podcast #609 – Jesse, Scott Danielson, Evan Lampe, Maissa Bessada, and Will Emmons talk about Anarchaos by Donald E. Westlake
Talked about on today’s show:
Curt Clark, Jesse’s favourite writer?, talkin bout Westlake, Lawrence Block, 1967 ACE paperback, less than a finger thick, Paul’s reaction, the audiobook is much abridged, that’s what they did back then, Reader’s Digest Condensed Books, the Columbia House, the Science Fiction Book Club, Scott’s origins (YouTube), night and day, all the anarchist stuff is not in the audiobook, the CBR, how vast a difference, about 70% of t...
2020-12-212h 18
Sunday ShowcaseSonic Society #667- Black AceAs we come closer to Christmas, David and Jack bring the Ace Galaksi special from Maissa Bessada entitled "An Unwritten Christmas" along with Matt Leong's tale "Black Boxes"! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-12-1357 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 15: An Unwritten ChristmasThe lists had been checked, naughty and nice. Then St. Nick got unwanted advice. A disaster at Destiny wiped Christmas off the page. Not a toy was left on the holiday stage! Will this year’s Christmas be empty and stark? The only clue we have - is a big question mark!
2020-12-1126 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #607 - TALK TO: Mark Stern of Echoverse
The SFFaudio Podcast #607 – Maissa Bessada and Julie Hoverson talk to Mark Stern of Echoverse
Shows mentioned:
Within the Wires
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Limetown
Homecoming
Forest 404
Edict Zero FIS
The Rookie 19 Nocturne Boulevard
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2020-12-0723 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #606 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Behind The Curtain by Francis Stevens
The SFFaudio Podcast #606 – Behind The Curtain by Francis Stevens; read by Mary Jo Escano.
This unabridged reading of the story (29 minutes) is followed by a discussion of it.
Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, and Maissa Bessada
Talked about on today’s show:
Famous Fantastic Mysteries, All-Story Weekly, the original, Mary Jo Escano, Connor Kaye, an inversion of The Cask Of Amontillado, unhinged, paranoid, the slight, Reading, Short And Deep, The Purloined Letter, hiding something in plain sight, C. Auguste Dupin, Voltaire’s Zadig, the origin of Sherlock Holmes...
2020-11-302h 02SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #605 - READALONG: A Bullet For Cinderella by John D. MacDonald
The SFFaudio Podcast #605 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Will Emmons, and Cat Russell talk about A Bullet For Cinderella by John D. MacDonald
Talked about on today’s show:
1955, On The Make, The Girl The Gold Watch And Everything, broken up, Jesse’s back, hardboiled, adventure fantasy, the writing style, the throughline, parallax, Cape Fear, parallels or similarities, a sinister similar story, Deniro, the melodrama, Fitzmartin, a cunning plan, very apocalypse world, the back and forth, before he killed him, you’ve got a character and he wants one thing, he likes killing people, when Tal...
2020-11-231h 46SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #602 - READALONG: An Exchange Of Souls by Barry Pain
The SFFaudio Podcast #602 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, and Trish E. Matson
Talked about on today’s show:
a huge post script, some Latin, darkness, the poetry of Catullus, the afterlife, is this all about gender, Ex Oblivione by H.P. Lovecraft, a Platonic explanation, uses drugs, a Dreamlands story, set in the Dreamlands, The Cats Of Ulthar, The Quest Of Iranon, The Doom That Came To Sarnath, that horrible Heinlein novel, I Will Fear No Evil, yelling at Heinlein the whole time, kissing, a synonym for kissing, old married couples, a syno...
2020-11-022h 15
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 14: An Ace OddysseyDuring a routine upload Phoenix inadvertently picks up a virus, transforming a regular space odyssey into a terrifying Ace Oddyssey - just in time for HAL-oween!
2020-10-3023 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #600 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Dawn Of Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum
The SFFaudio Podcast #600 – Dawn Of Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum; read by Maureen O’Brien. This is an unabridged reading of the story (3 hours) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, and Maissa Bessada
Talked about on today’s show:
The Weinbaum Memorial Volume, Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1939, The Black Flame, Fantastic Story, Spring 1952, The Margret Of Urbs story, kind of done, a story about a guy going into an empire and fuckin it up, headfaking, he’s a Conan figure, what was this about, what is freedom...
2020-10-194h 32
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 13: Senseless Sucking MachineIt is determined that the only way to stop the senseless sucking machine from syphoning the life out of system after system, is to blow it up. Phoenix’s self-destruct program Dee starts the countdown to her long awaited, final destiny.
2020-10-1628 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 12: A Solar Sail Through The Orion NebulaWhile Ace and Phoenix work against time to stop the space shark from its ceaseless, murderous, mindless sucking, Fran and the Copy Aide track down the invisible hand that wrote the unauthorized, random weapon of mass destruction into existence.
2020-10-0929 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 11: Space SharkSwimming into existence from no one knows where, an immense space shark starts siphoning the energy out of Acrux, the first star it sees. If Ace can’t figure out how to stop the shark from sucking so badly, nineteen billion souls on the three inhabited planets in Acrux’s system will die.
2020-10-0221 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #597 - READALONG: Sargasso Of Lost Starships by Poul Anderson
The SFFaudio Podcast #597 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Will Emmons, and Mary Jo Escano talk about Sargasso Of Lost Starships by Poul Anderson.
Talked about on today’s show:
Planet Stories, January 1952, October, March, February, hell ya, there’s no men on the planet, World Without Men by Charles Eric Maine, nice and trashy, a bit dated, that’s now it actually happens, Virgin Planet by Poul Anderson, Charles Eric Mayne, pruple heair and green eyes, yellow irises, purple lipstick, dyed breasts, pasties, a dead corpse on a dissecting table, lavender lipstick, sclera, garment, the best...
2020-09-281h 41
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 10: Bloodsuckers In AccountingWith timelines all broken and distorted, Ace, and Phoenix’s previous captain, Captain Peddleserp, need to figure out how to get WHERE they want go WHEN they need to get there – before all of existence crashes to a halt.
2020-09-2428 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 9: Traffic Jam on the Destiny BywaysWith events across Destiny happening out of sequence, everything is crashing all over the place in the Destiny traffic department. Faced with so many unanswered questions about the nature of determinism, pre-determinism and a total lack of determination, Fact Checker Fran faces an existential crisis.
2020-09-1732 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 8: An Overabundance of OctopusesAll biblions, multi-tentacled beings with eyes all over their heads must report in to the Destiny library on their eighteenth birthday for their unending tour of duty. Why are multiple copies of the same biblion piling up in Destiny reception? How did Ace receive the message to come help solve the mystery before the editors at the Giant Book of Destiny sent it?
2020-09-1137 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #590 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Creatures Of The Light by Sophie Wenzel Ellis
The SFFaudio Podcast #590 – Creatures Of The Light by Sophie Wenzel Ellis; read by Kathy Wright. This is an unabridged reading of the story (1 hour 10 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, Will Emmons
Talked about on today’s show:
Astounding Stories, February 1930, the second issue, the subtitle, slimemold and flivver, super-science, there’s a reason we don’t SUPER-SCIENCE stories, this whole issue is on LibriVox.org, Into Space by Capt. S.P. Meek, here’s some volume for you, a retelling of The Fir...
2020-08-103h 33SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #588 - READALONG: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
The SFFaudio Podcast #588 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Scott Danielson, and Maissa Bessada talk about Invasion Of The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
Talked about on today’s show:
The Body Snatchers, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, 1976/8, 1956, very faithful, the changes to the text, a slightly bigger frame, in and about and to the ending, I drive a 1973 Cadillac, 5 adaptations, the 1978 adaptation, 1955, serial finished on Christmas Eve, beautiful illustrations, 2007, The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham, 1951, The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein, The Father Thing by Philip K. Dick, The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. D...
2020-07-271h 46SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #579 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Spy In The Elevator by Donald E. Westlake
The SFFaudio Podcast #579 – The Spy In The Elevator by Donald E. Westlake; read by Winston Tharp (for LibriVox.org). This is an unabridged reading of the short story (38 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, and Maissa Bessada
Talked about on today’s show:
Galaxy, October 1961, a very good issue, Cordwainer Smith, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, Frank Herbert, Robert Bloch, Jack Sharkey, Willy Ley, a lot of engineering and planning, I love Westlake’s writing so much, reach out and kiss you, the first paragraph, that put th...
2020-05-251h 57
Oz 9episode forty: Be prepared to lose body hairIt's the end of Season 2, and our crew are still dumb, still in space, and still hovering at the edge of death. Thanks to all the zig zagging around the galaxy, they're nearly back where they started, and the forniculator still hasn't been fixed.So, if you've been with us for the past 39 episodes, well, you probably could have skipped this bit. Let's hope Season 3 is better.In Season 2, you heard from:
Iri Alexander as Julie
Bonnie Brantley as Donna and Jessie
Aaron Clark as le Bichon Frise and Ben
June Clark Eubanks as...
2020-05-2430 minSFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #578 - READALONG: She by H. Rider Haggard
The SFFaudio Podcast #578 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Will Emmons, and Trish E. Matson talk about She by H. Rider Haggard
Talked about on today’s show:
how hard it is to listen to podcasts, 12 hours, jam packed with ideas, all the movies, both audio dramas, comic books, a cartoon adaptation, sloshing together, starting with the ending, Job not Job, Job died, the everydayman, he has a very specific descendant: Sam Gamgee, less pleasant language, racist assumptions, she’s evil, they don’t see it, get the elephants out of the room, not a racist b...
2020-05-182h 21SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #569 - READALONG: The Men In The Walls by William Tenn
The SFFaudio Podcast #569 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, and Will Emmons talk about The Men In The Walls by William Tenn
Talked about on today’s show:
The Men In The Walls by William Tenn, Of Men And Monsters, in the shower, bins full of books, homework, no ending coming, the ending was a beginning, a solid ending, absurd in a bleak way, a stinger in the tail, mocking and doing a genre, collection of William Tenn short stories, the William Tenn model of story, absurdist, satirizing, frustrated expectations, Eastward, Ho , The Liberation Of Eart...
2020-03-161h 20SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #567 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Alchemist by H.P. Lovecraft
The SFFaudio Podcast #567 – The Alchemist by H.P. Lovecraft; read by Martin Reyto (for Legamus.eu). This is an unabridged reading of the short story (30 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, Marissa VU, Maissa Bessada, Terrence Blake and Julie Hoverson.
Talked about on today’s podcast:
The United Amateur, November 1916, 1908, 17 or 18 years old, consistently left out, The Beat In The Cave, a straight up Lovecraft story, the very last part of the very last episode of The H.P. Lovecraft literary Podcast‘s last Lovecraft episod...
2020-03-021h 52SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #562 - READALONG: The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer
The SFFaudio Podcast #562 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Terence Blake, and Will Emmons talk about The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer
Talked about on today’s show:
1957, his first novel, LibriVox.org, Mark Douglas Nelson, Will has reviewed it on Goodreads, the universe is incredibly small (only for people who read books), there are 700 of us on the planet, the intense bookish community, shells, fewer mediums of entertainment, doing other things, more people are doing more sorts of things, as an avid lifelong reader, age vs. distracted, thank you for this podcast, on a sca...
2020-01-271h 54SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #557 - READALONG: Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The SFFaudio Podcast #557 – Jesse, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, and Julie Davis talk about Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Talked about on today’s show:
1908, sequels, 500 short stories, The House Party At Smoky Island, Weird Tales, Canada, the show is always being made, a running joke, the only thing we know how to produce, Little House On The Prairie, so much drama!, every time she learns to do something…, relatively violence free, emotional scarred, deep consequences, carrot, all this baggage, just that carpet bag, her imagination, her red hair, horrible manners, how’d you li...
2019-12-232h 08SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #549 - READALONG: Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
The SFFaudio Podcast #549 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Julie Davis, and Terence Blake talk about Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
Talked about on today’s show:
a question on Twitter, Julie, how it even got on the schedule, A Good Story Is Hard To Find (110), June 2015, Mark Woodword, how we’ve never heard of this book, Julie’s mom, very weird, a near masterpiece of Science Fiction, Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell To Earth, David Bowie, not about music, Queen’s Gambit, The Hustler, The Color Of Money, one PDF on the PDF Page, it’s easie...
2019-10-281h 34SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #548 - READALONG: The Ministry Of Truth by Dorian Lynskey
The SFFaudio Podcast #548 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Marissa VU, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, and Terence Blake talk about The Ministry Of Truth by Dorian Lynskey
Talked about on today’s show:
June 2019, direct from the publisher Penguin Random House, the last chapter, the afterword, there are four lights, the first part, learned the most, an intellectual history, the life after Orwell’s death, a grab-bag of memes, the cold war, the conservative revival, too loosey-goosey, H.G. Wells, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, flat, comprehensive, how it touched other people, David Bowie, Star Trek, Babylon 5, it didn’t...
2019-10-211h 41SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #547 - READALONG: The Angel Of Terror by Edgar Wallace
The SFFaudio Podcast #547 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Julie Davis, and Terence Blake talk about The Angel Of Terror by Edgar Wallace
Talked about on today’s show:
1922, mean and bad people who all look very pretty, act so sweet, physically beautiful, even the ugly people are distinctive, surprised, Julie has read it three or four times, Terence read it in two sittings, the LibriVox was too slow, he wrote a tonne of books, super-popular, very exciting, you read it as fast as he wrote it, he dictated his writings, he roared through them, Kevi...
2019-10-141h 26SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #545 - READALONG: Police Your Planet by Lester del Rey
The SFFaudio Podcast #545 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Julie Davis, and Terence Blake talk about Police Your Planet by Lester del Rey
Talked about on today’s show:
cobber, guv’nor, tinhorn, ex-firster, a contemptible person, the Australian etymology, comrade, a revolution book, profound and deep and amazing, not the greatest science fiction novel ever written, no illusions, leg-clining, leg cling is the best part, ridiculous, weirdness, Helen O’Loy, Nerves, shaping the paperback industry, in the mood for something like, dig deep to keep going, 1.2x speed, police yourself, eastern USA accent?, perfectly adapted...
2019-09-301h 15SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #542 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Exhalation: Stories: What's Expected Of Us by Ted Chiang
The SFFaudio Podcast #542 – What’s Expected Of Us from Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang; This is an unabridged reading of What’s Expected Of Us (6 minutes) followed by a discussion of the Penguin Random House Audio audiobook of Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang.
participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, Wayne June, and Terence Blake
Talked about on today’s show:
his second collection, 17 years to come out, The Merchant And The Alchemist’s Gate, squint hard, a lot of them have a focus on children, he had some k...
2019-09-091h 58SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #539 - READALONG: The Curse Of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley
The SFFaudio Podcast #539 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, and Julie Davis talk about The Curse Of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley
Talked about on today’s show:
All-Story Weekly, August 9 – September 6, 1919, a little too familiar with it, Bruce Wayne’s parent’s murder in Crime Alley, Batman’s origin story, Joe Chill, Zorro, like the gospels, apocryphal, the 1940s Batman, The Mark Of Zorro (1920), Gotham, Christian Bale, The Mark Of Zorro (1940), Tyrone Power, what a man!, oh I know this one, a revelation, I hate you now, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., such a good movie, twisting his own arm...
2019-08-191h 38SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #537 - READALONG: The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
The SFFaudio Podcast #537 – Jesse, Maissa Bessada, and Evan Lampe talk about The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
Talked about on today’s show:
London Magazine, 1912, Sunday Magazine, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, 1912 book publication, why hasn’t this been a movie?, totally epic, very filmic, no comic book?, it would be a great comic, the big splash, the reveal, he hasn’t seen a human being in three years, the comic book format reveal, one of Jack London’s best, the first time, not the newest theme, The Last Man by Mary Shelley, The Strength Of The Strong...
2019-08-051h 33SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #535 - READALONG: The Pirates Of Ersatz by Murray Leinster
The SFFaudio Podcast #535 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Julie Davis, and Terence Blake talk about The Pirates Of Ersatz by Murray Leinster
Talked about on today’s show:
The Pirates Of Zan, translation, there’s no planet named Ersatz, inferior substitute, pirate planet, a terrible pirate, a great pirate, a successful pirate, replacement pirates, Darth pirates, actors, so fun, The people of Walden are pirating themselves, Zan pirates, regular boring farming, he wanted adventure, cover with a slide rule in his teeth, he wanted to be an engineer, climbing into the boat, a stun pistol...
2019-07-221h 47SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #533 - READALONG: Alien by Alan Dean Foster
The SFFaudio Podcast #533 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Marissa VU, Maissa Bessada, Bryan Alexander and Evan Lampe talk about Alien by Alan Dean Foster
Talked about on today’s show:
the novel, the movie, Black Destroyer by A.E. van Vogt, Planet Of The Vampires, It: The Terror From Beyond Space, A.E. van Vogt’s Voyage Of the Space Beagle, a remake?, not the same story, a ripoff, Aliens (1986), a scene by scene recreation, every scene in Alien is also in Aliens, a climbing-in, a precious living thing, the countdown, “you now have four minutes”, written th...
2019-07-081h 28SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #532 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Bus-Conductor by E.F. Benson
The SFFaudio Podcast #532 – The Bus-Conductor by E.F. Benson; read by Mr Jim Moon. This is an unabridged reading of the story (26 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, Mr Jim Moon, Julie Davis, Maissa Bessada, and Evan Lampe.
Talked about on today’s show:
room for one more, six people on this bus, Jim has a great talent for telling stories, Arabian fashion, Jim is an ideal narrator, his theories, his similes, really short, the story proper, three pages in, framing devices, common in ghost stor...
2019-07-012h 10SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #530 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
The SFFaudio Podcast #530 – The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs; read by Mr Jim Moon. This is an unabridged reading of the story (29 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, Mr Jim Moon, Julie Davis, and Maissa Bessada
Talked about on today’s show:
Harper’s Monthly, September 1902, the illustration Maurice Gryffonhagen, 1900, rejected by The Strand, too morbid, maybe morbid, am elaborate explanation to make it a naturalistic story, out of character for W.W. Jacobs, comic tales about sailors and boating, messing about on the wate...
2019-06-172h 24SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #518 - AUDIO DRAMA: The Destiny Of Special Agent Ace Galaksi
The SFFaudio Podcast #518 – First podcast in 2013, in six separate installments, The Destiny Of Special Agent Ace Galaksi is an audio drama series that weaves its way through the annals of time and the wormholes of space. This new podcast edition strings them all together into one vast adventure.
Over the six episodes CSIS Special Agent Ace Galaksi’s investigations will conclude that Earth has been playing host to shape changing alien visitors since the planet was so young it was still getting the hang of spinning – and that some of those visitors left artifacts behind.
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2019-03-252h 45SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #487 - READALONG: Citizen Of The Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein
The SFFaudio Podcast #487 – Jesse, Maissa Bessada, and Julie Davis talk about Citizen Of The Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein
Talked about on today’s show:
Astounding September to December 1957, a juvenile, Julie’s favourite Heinlein, Starship Troopers, really subtle, themes!, the prison on the moon, “I’m tired of being told your philosophy”, reconsidering, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, the computer, it’s on THE MOON!, so good, lectures, Maissa’s first time, Glory Road, crazy stuff, how gently, grossly obsessed, handled deftly, serialized, magazines back then, magazines suck today, magazines have been on the wane, the...
2018-08-201h 39SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #485 - AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Undying Thing by Barry Pain
The SFFaudio Podcast #485 –The Undying Thing by Barry Pain; read by Dan Grozinski (dg73). This is an unabridged reading of the novelette (59 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, and Maissa Bessada
Talked about on today’s show:
is Paul kinda glum?, staying up too late with a flask of whiskey and a revolver in his pocket worrying about the sins of his ancestors, so appropriate, WEREWOLVES!, being an evil genius, a method to Jesse’s madness, fortuitous, drifting off, how Barry Pain writes, an AMAZING story...
2018-08-062h 16SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #475 - READALONG: Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward
The SFFaudio Podcast #475 – Jesse, Paul Weimer and Maissa Bessada talk about Dragon’s Egg by Robert L. Forward
Talked about on today’s show:
1980, hard science fiction, Mission Of Gravity by Hal Clement, first contact, the surface of a neutron star, moving the idea Forward, 2016, Tantor Media, this is a terrific book, a Jesse book, big ideas, the human characters, the ideas of this book, how do you do biology on a neutron star, a civilization running much faster, the writing brought it down, the TV Tropes page, minor details like plot and character, very h...
2018-05-281h 09SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #463 - READALONG: Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
The SFFaudio Podcast #463 – Jesse, Paul Weimer, Marissa van Uden, Bryan Alexander, Luke Burrage, and Maissa Bessada discuss Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
Talked about on today’s show:
2002, a pretty good book, cyberpunk continuing, classic film noir detective stuff, sleeving, an old book, the Netflix TV adaptation, 10 years of the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast, too heavy, too violent, sex scenes, long and graphic, too much tumescence?, a major part of the book, having partial control of your body, Ortega connection, his dick understands, your biology and your mind, Luke is his penis and...
2018-03-052h 02
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 7 - Ace Galaksi: Space Dick At Large - LiveThe backup copy of the Giant Book of Destiny has been stolen. Space Dick Ace Galaksi and his shape changing ship, Phoenix have 24 hours to locate it before Destiny itself is re-written. Space Dick At Large was recorded in front of a live audience during the Newmarket Festival of One Act Plays in Newmarket Ontario, October 2017. To see the staged version visit: https://youtu.be/1Q8O9zmeh5c Music: Inside 12th cup cafe: Kool Kats by Kevin MacLeod (incomptech.com) U-Harmony theme: For My Love from Pond 5 ...
2017-12-131h 05SFFaudioThe SFFaudio Podcast #428 - READALONG: Burglars Can't Be Choosers by Lawrence Block
The SFFaudio Podcast #428 – Jesse and Maissa Bessada talk about Burglars Can’t Be Choosers by Lawrence Block.
Talked about on today’s show:
1977, a Matt Scudder book: A Walk Among Among The Tombstones, cut-up women, he most brutal book Maissa’s ever read, sex, comedy and mystery, a treasure hunt, little gems, is that ever cool!, the 2 cassette audiobook (heavily abridged), just under six hours, it percolated along, coffee drinking, word humour and word play, why I love to read Lawrence Block books, 11 books in the series, 4 short stories, percolating dialogue, an Agatha Christie style my...
2017-07-031h 18
The Sonic SocietyEpisode 347- All Aces WildJack and David discover new realms in Audio Drama as they present the final chapters (5 and 6) of the amazing Maissa Bessada's series Ace Galaksi.
2013-09-2558 minThe Sonic SocietyEpisode 346- Fourth Ace PlayedJack and David face the threat of the Procrastinator and promise to get the Society back righted as they change course for episode 4 of Maissa Bessada's fantastical series from Canada Ace Galaksi. We also conclude our Round Table 2013 with Gregg Taylor from Decoder Ring Theatre!
2013-09-1847 minThe Sonic SocietyEpisode 345- Third Ace PlayedIn the TORTIS , Jack and David are running to save the existence from the Procrastinator- the evil white cloud that has devoured whole podcasts! Thank goodness for Ace Galaksi, episode three by Maissa Bessada to save the day! Also we continue with part 3 of the Round Table 2013 with Gregg Taylor of Decoder Ring Theatre!
2013-09-1140 minThe Sonic SocietyEpisode 344- A Second AceJack and David in the newly formed TORTIS find themselves pursued by an evil presence. What can they do? Why explore the fantastic Ace Galaksi Audio Drama by Maissa Bessada, of course and continue the conversation with part 2 of the Round Table 2013 with Gregg Taylor of Decoder Ring Theatre!
2013-09-031h 00The Sonic SocietyEpisode 343- Leading with an AcWith the Season 9 opener, Jack and David come out of last season's finale utterly changed. But is it for the better? All we know is there will be more amazing Audio Drama with Ace Galaksi by fellow canuck Maissa Bessada and of course part 1 of Round Table 2013 with Gregg Taylor of Decoder Ring Theatre!
2013-08-271h 02
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 6 - Cairo The (Sometimes) Floating DogAll beings, throughout the known and unknown universe are put into great peril because of a small clerical error at the Giant Book of Destiny. Part 6 of 6. Music inside Maddy's house, Sittin' Pretty, courtesy of The Elwins Action music, Nerves, by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
2013-04-0630 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 5 - Hidden TreasureSpy union headquarters issues a requisition for Ace Galaksi's death to prevent him from sharing his outlandish discoveries about shape changing aliens, the inherent equality of everyone, and tap shoes, with the rest of the world. Part 5 of 6. Music inside tomb, Arcadia and action background music, Clenched by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
2013-03-3024 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 4 - Answering One of LIfe's Great QuestionsWhile Ace Galaksi helps archeologist Alexander Van Dijk search for a lost burial chamber in the great pyramid of Giza, the answer to who really built the pyramids is revealed. Part 4 of 6 Palace music Mighty & Meek by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
2013-03-2327 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 3 - Tempest in a Tennis BallA fashion mishap on the part of a visitor to Earth initiates the growth of a new branch on the planet's tree of life. Ace Galaksi accompanies Yasmeen to Egypt to search for the lost dinosaurs. Part 3 of 6 Groovy tune inside Karen's headphones: Stuck in the Middle - Courtesy of The Elwins.
2013-03-1525 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 2 - Startling DiscoveriesThe boys in the CSIS lab make some startling discoveries that cause Ace Galaksi to question the nature of existence - and the value of recycling. Part 2 of 6.
2013-03-0632 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiEpisode 1 - Hoaxes & Crackpot AllegationsThe editors at the Giant Book of Destiny decide to highlight the life of CSIS special agent Ace Galaksi, because his destiny happens to converge with that of his entire planet - Earth. Part 1 of 6.
2013-03-0233 min
The Destiny of Special Agent Ace GalaksiTeaserA short intro to the Giant Book of Destiny, Ace Galaksi and a loaded gun. http://www.acegalaksi.com/
2013-02-1501 min