The Audie Awards, presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association, described itself as the “premier awards program in the United States recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.” Each year, they recognize audiobooks in several categories, and they’ve just released their list of finalists. Here are the finalists in just a few of the Audie
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Alex Dietrich (Ret.) served as one of the nation’s first female strike-fighter aviators as a F/A-18 pilot from 2001-2020.  Yesterday, the President held a press conference on the issue of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) due to a flurry of recent activity.  The nation was captivated by a suspected Chinese reconnaissance balloon floated across the continental
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Spoilers for House of the Dragon below. House of the Dragon has been renewed for a second season on HBO, which comes as no surprise following the show’s record-breaking premiere on Aug. 21. Given its predecessor, Game of Thrones, dominated TV for eight seasons, this could be the beginning of another years-long reign for the
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Scribd vs. Audible: What’s the best audiobook service? These two are, undoubtedly, the best ones out there. They have the largest catalogs of audiobooks in the English-speaking market, and each has irresistible perks. With Audible, you get a huge library of audiobooks, from the obscure and the best-selling to classics and contemporary titles. You name
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Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily have announced a new collaborative album titled Love in Exile. It’s set for release on March 24 via Verve. To mark the announcement, they’ve shared the lead single ‘To Remain/To Return’, which you can check out below, along with the album artwork (by Curry Hackett), tracklist, and the
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Did the team manange to find Burgess and Ruzek? On Chicago PD Season 10 Episode 14, the pair were trapped aboard the busy “L” subway train after a brutal shooting. As they used the little evidence they could find to learn the truth about what happened, Burgess had painful memories of being shot. Elsewhere, Voight
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Actor Ray Buffer is officially going up against prosecutors for his comic book theft debacle … which includes surveillance video of him allegedly swiping merch. A rep for the San Diego City Attorney tells TMZ … Ray’s been charged with one count of misdemeanor petty theft over the October 2022 incident. We’re told the actor
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Clarkesworld Magazine is one of the largest and most well-known sci-fi/fantasy magazines, publishing respected SFF authors like Catherynne Valente, Jeff VanderMeer, and Caitlin R. Kiernan. They have recently had to close submissions after being flooded with story submissions created with chatbots like ChatGPT. The irony is not lost on them. But while Clarkesworld has received
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Upon his arrival at a Māori village in the lush North Island forests of Aotearoa New Zealand sometime in the late 1830s, Cornish missionary William Colenso noticed something curious. It was a momentous occasion—Colenso was reportedly the first European to visit the community—but he was distracted by a pot. According to his account, Māori women
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