Archives for the 'Podcasts' Category
EP155: Tideline
Published on 24 Apr 2008 at 12:19 pm.
24 Comments.
Filed under Hugo Awards, Podcasts, Rated PG.
2008 Hugo Nominee!
By Elizabeth Bear.
Read by Stephen Eley.
Closing Music: “The Fall” by Red Hunter.
They would have called her salvage, if there were anyone left to salvage her. But she was the last of the war machines, a three-legged oblate teardrop as big as a main battle tank, two big grabs and one fine manipulator folded like a spider’s palps beneath the turreted head that finished her pointed end, her polyceramic armor spiderwebbed like shatterproof glass. Unhelmed by her remote masters, she limped along the beach, dragging one fused limb. She was nearly derelict.
The beach was where she met Belvedere.
Rated PG. Contains implied violence and themes of death.
Referenced Sites:
2008 Hugo Awards
“And the Deep Blue Sea” by Elizabeth Bear (on Starship Sofa)
WisCon May 23-26, Madison, WI
EP154: Union Dues - Freedom With a Small f
Published on 18 Apr 2008 at 4:30 am.
27 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated R.
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-->By Jeffrey R. DeRego.
Read by Nuri (of CandyCorn Studios and Artist Alley).
Closing Music: “Juzt Mizunderztood” by Norm Sherman.
My head throbs. I think about the mess in the fridge, the heaps of crap in the flat while I force the clumps of wet clothes into the dryers.
As far as I know I am the only Union member who works outside the system, the only one tasked specifically with fighting crime, secretly, of course. Darksider put the program together with one of the Luminaries as a way to explore expanding our role in the maintenance of Normal society. He chose me specifically because I am the only super-agile who is also an orphan. Therefore, I won’t be tempted to throw my costume in a dumpster and make a break for mom and dad.
Communication with the Union ended seven months ago. Darksider was supposed to make sure that a stipend was deposited into a bank account under my phony name every month. But that stopped too. I don’t know why. I tried everything to make contact short of walking up to the Boston Pyramid and knocking. Not that it would have done any good since none of the regular Union knows I even exist.
Rated R. Contains sordid occupations, drug use, and violence. Welcome to the city.
Referenced Sites:
The Union Dues Series
Tales of the Zombie War
SciFiDig interview with Jeffrey DeRego
The DrabbleCast
EP153: Schwartz Between the Galaxies
Published on 10 Apr 2008 at 3:59 am.
43 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated R.
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-->By Robert Silverberg.
Read by Stephen Eley.
This much is reality: Schwartz sits comfortably cocooned — passive, suspended — in a first-class passenger rack aboard a Japan Air Lines rocket, nine kilometers above the Coral Sea. And this much is fantasy: the same Schwartz has passage on a shining starship gliding silkily through the interstellar depths, en route at nine times the velocity of light from Betelgeuse IX to Rigel XXI, or maybe from Andromeda to the Lesser Magellanic.
Rated R. Contains some sex, some drug use. It’s a Silverberg story.
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Referenced Sites:
GeekLabel
EP152: The Big Guy
Published on 4 Apr 2008 at 6:30 am.
21 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated R.
By Mike Resnick.
Read by Stephen Eley.
First appeared in Jim Baen’s Universe, June 2007.
“Okay,” said Fishbait. He tossed a ball to the Big Guy. “Let’s try a little one-on-one. Ralph, let’s see what you can do against Jacko here.”
The Big Guy took a look at me, his face totally expressionless. I moved forward to lean on him a little, just enough to make contact and see which way he was going to move when he began his drive to the basket, but before I got close enough to touch him he’d already raced by me and stuffed the ball through the hoop.
“Again,” said Fishbait.
Rated R. Contains strong language and testosterone.
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Infected by Scott Sigler
Referenced Events:
Penguicon: April 18-20, 2008
Sex 2.0: April 12, 2008
EP BONUS: PodCastle 001: Come Lady Death
Published on 2 Apr 2008 at 12:08 am.
11 Comments.
Filed under Bonus, Podcasts.
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-->PodCastle, our fantasy fiction podcast, has finally launched with its first episode. Rachel and company are presenting “Come Lady Death,” one of the earliest and strongest stories by legendary fantasy writer Peter S. Beagle.
You should go straight over to PodCastle.org and follow the subscription links — but just to let you know what you’re missing if you don’t, we’re posting the full episode on the Escape Pod feed. We’ll only do this once or twice, so if you want your fantasy fix, subscribe today!
EP Review: Classics - Dr. Strangelove
Published on 30 Mar 2008 at 9:19 pm.
6 Comments.
Filed under Rated PG, Reviews.
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A Film By Stanley Kubrick.
Reviewed by Jonathon Sullivan
EP151: Behind the Rules
Published on 28 Mar 2008 at 4:03 am.
24 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated R.
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-->By Stephanie Burgis.
Read by MA in PA (of Better Late Than Never).
First appeared in Forgotten Worlds, July 2006.
Closing music: “I Feel Fantastic” by Jonathan Coulton.
The first Jacqui wrote me out a list of instructions thirty pages long. It contained all her history with Robert, in detail. It gave me a list of all the things to say and do when he’s hurt, or angry, or depressed. I think she was the perfect wife. When I think about how hard it is to measure up to her, my stomach feels twitchy.
I’d been doing this job for three months. It was supposed to get easier with time, not harder.
Rated R. Contains strong language and relationship drama.
Today’s Sponsor:
Infected by Scott Sigler
EP150: This, My Body
Published on 21 Mar 2008 at 4:00 am.
43 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated X.
By Jeremiah Tolbert.
Read by Stephen Eley.
I am the lover. I am the chef. I am the preterite priest.
I am the secret, unknowable ingredient. You may taste me a thousand times, but never hold my essence on your tongue or capture it in your memory.
I am the flavor of ecstasy. Taste me and know God.
–Prayer of the Assaisonnement Saints
Rated X. Contains graphic sexual and culinary scenes.
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Infected by Scott Sigler
EP Metacast #3
Published on 11 Mar 2008 at 12:28 am.
42 Comments.
Filed under Bonus, Podcasts, Site News.
The third “state of the podcast” address. Full text of an earlier draft can be found on our forums.
Closing music is “Ya Famous?” by George Hrab. Used with standing permission. Be sure to check out the Geologic Podcast as well.
EP148: Homecoming at the Borderlands Café
Published on 6 Mar 2008 at 11:09 pm.
80 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
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-->By Carole McDonnell.
Read by Stephen Eley.
First appeared in Jigsaw Nation, ed. Edward J. McFadden III and E. Sedia.
We don’t see a lot of mixed couples around here, and we’re not like some of the other states in the Confederate United Republic. It’s not like they’re gonna get killed or lynched or nothing. But it’s tough just the same. And although it’s weird enough that they’re an interracial couple, it seems to me that they’re arguing about something bigger than merely coming into this café.
I don’t know any Blacks. You got to go to Laramie, or Cheyenne to see them. But I watch Cosby when it’s on. The Confederacy ain’t as bad as the folks in Columbia might think. Sure everyone’s segregated, but it’s all equal and the Platte County school district is pretty good about African-American History Month.
Rated PG. Contains heavy racial and political themes.
Referenced Sites:
Decoder Ring Theatre
