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30 minutes, 18 seconds
Unabridged Science Fiction Story
1897
One hundred and one years before the films Armegeddon and Deep Impact entered U.S. theaters, the father of modern science fiction scared the crap out of Victorian London with this, the first of such death-from-above science fiction tales. Read by Alex Wilson. Not for sale in the EU.
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27 minutes, 01 seconds
Unabridged Horror / Science Fiction
1835
What happens when you hypnotize a person in the moments before he dies? The story that began as a hoax (it was first published without the "fiction" label) is one of the first modern science fiction tales.
Continue reading "The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar"
Posted by alex at 7:26 PM
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48 minutes, 4 seconds
Unabridged SF-related podcast
2006
Telltale founder Alex Wilson, preparing to attend the famous Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, gives an introduction and "before" picture. Featuring Michael A. Burstein and Jason Erik Lundberg.
Follow along with the adventures in Alex's Clarion Journal. The theme song "Untitled Pretention Pontificated by a Passive Voice" is available separately here. Photo by Jamie Bishop.
Expect the second and final Clarion podcast in the first half of 2007.
Continue reading "Clarion My Wayward Son 1 of 2"
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13 minutes, 19 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
2000
When the fuel went, Mara's town turned to windpower. They struggled on as the lights left, as the cities fell fallow, and plastic became a memory. Their only link to the outside world is the Zephyr, and now it too has not shown up. Originally published in Jackhammer. Narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal of the Willamette Radio Workshop.
Continue reading "Waiting for the Zephyr"
Posted by alex at 10:19 AM
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29 minutes, 11 seconds
Unabridged SF/Fantasy Pulp Adventure Story
1903
H G Wells was such a science fiction pioneer that he took all the great, archetypal titles (Think about it: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Magic Shop, etc.. You'd think he would have at least been generous enough to call it, say, "A Magic Shop," allowing that Asimov or Heinlein might decades later want to write about another one.) So it goes with "The Valley of the Spiders."
Three adventurers face danger, death, and giant spiders, all for the
Continue reading "The Valley of the Spiders"
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1 hour, 18 minutes
Unabridged Science Fiction and Horror Stories
2000-2002
Four science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories.
The Fish Merchant: (science fiction) Li Hao-Chang struggles to stay one step ahead of starvation or stabbing, selling fish on the brutal docks of Macau. He's too busy to read the headlines in the newspapers that wrap his wares--rumors of non-random signals from deep space. When a gangster named Pepper is gunned down in front of Li's stand, the fish seller finds a computer disk stolen from the Chinese government. Maybe, just maybe, the biggest news in history is enough to make Li's dearest dream a reality: escape to safety in America. First published in Science Fiction Age, 2000. Read by Jonathon "Sullydog" Sullivan.
"The story is interesting for its non-western setting, and its realization that many people in the world would have no care for news about aliens..." -- Locus
A Green Thumb: (fantasy/science fiction) It's a very different USA, where necessity has provoked a very profound change in technology. And yet many things are still the same. Being a teenager is always tough, and there are many choices ahead. One of which is "how and where do you grow your very first car?" First published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, 2002. Read by Alex Wilson.
"Amusing and heart-warming at the same time, and read with feeling and emotion by Wilson." --Locus
All Her Children Fought: (science fiction) When you fire something into space the cost of that launch is per pound. When you go to war with someone in space, you need to keep the cost down. So you use the smallest available pilot you can. A child. Originally published in Speculon, 2001. Read by Mary Robinette Kowal of the Willamette Radio Workshop.
Trinkets: (horror) New England, early 1800s: At the harbor near his jewelry shop, George Petros receives a package from the Haitian merchant ship Toussaint--a sinister link that follows him from a brief stay on the Caribbean island of dark magic. Originally published in The Book of All Flesh, 2001. A Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention. Read by the author.
Continue reading "The Fish Merchant and Other Stories"
Posted by alex at 12:02 AM
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46 minutes, 51 minutes
Unabridged Science Fiction Story
2002
To live forever, you can copy your mind and transfer it to an immortal robotic body. But what happens to your Shed Skin?
This Hugo Award Nominated short story has appeared in the January 2004 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, as well as the Bakka 30th Anniversary Anthology. Sawyer's 2005 novel Mindscan is a longer treatment of the themes explored here. Narrated by Stephen Hoye.
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27 minutes, 20 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
2001
"Sexy blond aliens invade New York City?" A short story from Link's short story collection Stranger Things Happen, a Salon Book of the Year and one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001.
Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water"
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2 hours, 1 minute
Unabridged Science Fiction Novella
2000
Retrieval Artists find people who have Disappeared. But people Disappear for a reason--they don't want to be found. When Anetka Sobol shows up at Miles Flint's office on the Moon, he immediately knows that this case is going to be complicated.
A hard-boiled science fiction mystery. A Hugo Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee, and AnLab Award Nominee first published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Read by Stefan Rudnicki.
Continue reading "The Retrieval Artist"
Posted by alex at 11:52 AM
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54 minutes, 33 seconds
Unabridged SF Story Collection
1999-2002
"Brilliant. 'Primordial Chili' is as delightful a debut story as I can recall."
--Mike Resnick
"All four are delightfully bizarre, and are read nicely by Gerencer. His comic timing is spot-on, and his authorial voice is so distinct that when I later read a story by him in hardcopy, I could almost hear his voice in my head."
--John Joseph Adams, Locus
Four short science fiction and fantasy stories, read by the author.
Primordial Chili
Have you ever had one of those days when everything just seems to go ? right? Even when it's wrong? "Primordial Chili" is a laugh-out-loud thrill-ride of culinary perfection, taken to cosmic proportions. The planets align, the gods speak, and supper turns out pretty good, too. First published in Science Fiction Age Magazine.
A Taste of Damsel
Anyone can slay a dragon. Well, provided they are dragonslayers, which Colson isn't. But even clerks from copy shops can have heroic qualities and even the very, very old can learn new tricks. First published in Realms of Fantasy Magazine.
Demo Mode
In the future, schools will be outdated and we'll all have knowledge grafted straight into our heads. Just make sure they configure the innoculotron correctly, or you might wind up contracting Esperanto by mistake! First published in Science Fiction Age Magazine.
Trailer Trash Savior
So the millennia have passed, and the time of the reckoning is once more nigh ... not to mention that you've got a busted velvet-Elvis and the oil heat isn't working. Find out what happens when the owner of a mullet and a used AMC Gremlin becomes "the chosen one," and has to battle demons, various and sundry. First published in Brutarian Magazine.
Continue reading "Primordial Chili and Other Impossible Treats"
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1 hour, 1 minutee
Full Cast Science Fiction/Horror Radio Drama
1978
The National Radio Theater of Chicago presents a full cast adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic SF/Horror novel. Produced in 1977 at DB Studios in Chicago and first aired in 1978. Dramatized for radio, produced, and directed by Grammy Award Winner Yuri Rasovsky (director of the bestselling mystery/comedy Murder at Woodside Village).
Continue reading "Frankenstein"
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3 hours, 2 minutes
Unabridged Science Fiction Novel
1895
An amateur scientist discovers that just as he may travel around in the three physical dimensions, he may also travel through the fourth--time. These are his adventures and discoveries through time. Read by James Spencer.
"There's a slightly old-fashioned quality to his speech that compliments Wells' old-fashioned brand of science fiction ... rises above the source material, making these audio editions a great way to experience these two classics." - John Joseph Adams, Locus
As James Patrick Kelly writes in this month's (September 2004 issue) Asimov's Science Fiction, "What makes this the first science fiction time travel story is that the Time Traveler actually builds his machine." Previous fictitious time travelers (like Ebeneezer Scrooge or the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) didn't have a choice in the matter.
Continue reading "The Time Machine"
Posted by alex at 9:48 PM
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55 minutes, 41 seconds
Episodic Science Fiction/Fantasy Radio Drama
2004
EPISODE FOUR: FALLING FACADES. Elias Vath is hunted in his own lands but is saved by a faux-fop, the prince chases the pirate and the spies leave aSpruce to his punishment, as Amaryllis prepares for her own quest.
"Once vast estates battled..." starts the narrator amid a haunting theme as he describes a faery world before time knew fear. But evil intruded and great lovers and magicians are turned on one another . Within moments, the entire realm is engulfed in fire and flood...
Full cast science fiction radio drama. Music by Richard A Musk. Created by Michael and Copper Calhoun.
Continue reading "Amaryllis Radio Ep 4: Falling Facades"
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41 minutes, 1 second
Episodic Science Fiction/Fantasy Radio Drama
2004
EPISODE THREE: PLOTS AND PARTINGS. Spies in Vath Keeping question their orders while the prince and the pirate hunt ancient lore and Elias must return to Administrate Vath Keeping, which has no place for Amaryllis...
"Once vast estates battled..." starts the narrator amid a haunting theme as he describes a faery world before time knew fear. But evil intruded and great lovers and magicians are turned on one another . Within moments, the entire realm is engulfed in fire and flood...
Full cast science fiction radio drama. Music by Richard A Musk. Created by Michael and Copper Calhoun.
Continue reading "Amaryllis Radio Ep 3: Plots and Partings"
Posted by alex at 8:58 PM
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5 hours, 53 minutes
Unabridged Science Fiction Novel
1898
"There's a slightly old-fashioned quality to his speech that compliments Wells' old-fashioned brand of science fiction ... rises above the source material, making these audio editions a great way to experience these two classics." - John Joseph Adams, Locus
The classic alien invasion novel by "The Father of Science Fiction" H.G. Wells. Read by James Spencer and produced by Active Voicing.
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own..."
Continue reading "The War of the Worlds"
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59 minutes, 6 seconds
Episodic Science Fiction/Fantasy Radio Drama
2004
EPISODE TWO: MANIS ARGUE. While Elias Vath heals in Amaryllis' arms, the assassins at Vath Keeping argue and a pirate dickers with a former Prince over ancient crystal shafts.
"Once vast estates battled..." starts the narrator amid a haunting theme as he describes a faery world before time knew fear. But evil intruded and great lovers and magicians are turned on one another . Within moments, the entire realm is engulfed in fire and flood...
Full cast science fiction radio drama. Music by Richard A Musk. Created by Michael and Copper Calhoun.
Continue reading "Amaryllis Radio Ep 2: Manis Argue"
Posted by alex at 8:51 PM
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33 minutes, 59 seconds
Unabridged Speculative Poetry
1990
An 18-poem audio chapbook by the Grand Master of Science Fiction Poetry. Read by the author and set to music by Jack Poley. Features the 1985 Rhysling Award Winner "For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets" and Rhysling Award Nominees "The FTL Addict Fixes" (1984), and "The Evolution of the Death Murals" (1986). The poems in this collection first appeared in Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Aboriginal SF, Berkely Poets Cooperative, Lost Roads, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, StarLine, Velocities, and Weird Tales. Full list...
Continue reading "Other Voices, Other Worlds"
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59 minutes
Episodic Science Fiction/Fantasy Radio Drama
2004
EPISODE ONE: LOVERS PART. Young Elias Vath, the next administrator at Vath Keeping escapes an assassination attempt and is taken to the Lifer forest of Aurora where Elias falls in love with the Healer, Amaryllis.
"Once vast estates battled..." starts the narrator amid a haunting theme as he describes a faery world before time knew fear. But evil intruded and great lovers and magicians are turned on one another . Within moments, the entire realm is engulfed in fire and flood...
Full cast science fiction radio drama. Music by Richard A Musk. Created by Michael and Copper Calhoun.
Continue reading "Amaryllis Radio Ep 1: Lovers Part"
Posted by alex at 8:23 PM
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28 minutes, 22 seconds
Unabridged Science Fiction Story
1976
"A haunting post-apocalyptic tale..."
--John Joseph Adams,
Locus
"...has been languishing unreprinted until this exceptional audio edition was released. Production value is high, the sound is exceptionally clear and the reading is lightly, and appropriately accented with music. Alexander Wilson's reading is haunting and restrained, matching the mournful tone of this short story."
--Jesse Willis,
SFFAudio
In a post-catastrophe city, an old man seeks to recreate his past as a concert pianist. First published in the anthology "Beyond Tomorrow," edited by Lee Harding. As reviewed in Locus and SFFAudio. Read by Alex Wilson.
Continue reading "A Song Before Sunset"
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