Strider's Sci-Fi

The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences has an audio book available as a podcast series that I would like to recommend. It has all the Steampunk goodness of the written format without the need of focusing your eyes on the printed page, and thereby getting distracted. Not terribly surprising, considering the author had a hand in [...]

Not long ago I mentioned the Robert A. Heinlein Radio Archives, and a bit before that it was the Ray Bradbury Radio Archive, both part of the new Radio Archives section of the Sci-Fi London web site. They have expanded their collection yet again, this time with classic radio plays from Issac Asimov and Frederik [...]

Happy Valentines day; it is a bit difficult to find references worth noting about science fiction Valentines, but I did rather like Geek Love’s 10 Couples from the Big and Small Screen the other week. They also put together a nice collection of Geek Valentines Cards that had a couple of real winners in it. [...]

These are from SxSW, a killer little festival from Austin, Texas. If you are at all interested in Indi bands from any part of the world, you need to make this annual party. The first track is from Brite Futures doing the song Too Young To Kill. The second is the band Therapy? with their [...]

On Sunday I mentioned John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There because the latest iteration of the story, in movie format, is being released on disc today. But I thought I should also mention that you can read his stories online, or a number of the ones in the public domain at least. He also did [...]

Bringing it all back home, a few tunes from the culture I grew up with, starting with The Kills with the live version of Black Balloon they did on KEXP. And then Florence and the Machine doing Rabbit Heart (her more recent studio track, No Light, No Light, is at the bottom of the page), [...]

I had recently told you about the Ray Bradbury Radio Archives that Sci-Fi London has posted online. They have now added a Robert A. Heinlein Radio Archive, which includes The Green Hills of Earth, The Roads Must Roll, and Destination Moon, amongst others. You can listen to them online or download them for your permanent [...]

MC Frontalot has a new CD out, with many good tracks. Zero Day is a fun one, somehow merging Zero Day OS Exploits with the Zombie Apocalypse. Enjoy!

A few more fun bands from Japan for you to check out. A lot of these folks have albums released in the US and UK as imports, although they can be pretty hard to find (hint: Amazon and the like are good places to look if your local brick and mortar doesn’t carry them). First [...]

I have commented before about the Sci-Fi London audio archives of old time radio shows they are posting on line. This new addition to the collection is quite nice: the Ray Bradbury Radio Shows. They include such gems as And the Moon be still as bright, The Veldt, and an assortment of stories from The [...]