Archives for August 2006
EP069: Her
Published on 31 Aug 2006 at 6:17 pm.
31 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated R.
By Tobias S. Buckell.
Read by Stephen Eley.
“It’s fascinating,” Jo said, now that she had what she wanted out of me, “that the inhabitants here are the only race we know of that has their mythology dead on.”
“Huh?” I looked down at the table. I needed more beer.
“They believe they live on the corpse of a giant.”
“Maybe it’s because they do,” I said, sneaking another look back down the inner thigh that dominated the western hemisphere.
Rated R. Contains explicit anatomical imagery. On a very large scale.
Referenced sites:
Podrunner Podcast
Daily Dragon Podcast
Dragon*Con: Atlanta, GA, September 1–4
EP Interview: Worldcon Survey
Published on 30 Aug 2006 at 5:06 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Interviews, Podcasts, Rated PG.
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-->Interviewed by Stephen Eley.
A random sampling of people in the Worldcon dealer’s room on Saturday, August 26. The question: “What first inspired you to become passionate about science fiction?”
EP068: Depth of Field
Published on 24 Aug 2006 at 3:20 am.
10 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated R.
By Stephen Dedman.
Read by Jonathon Sullivan.
One of the governor’s advisers had recommended appointing a committee of science fiction writers to investigate the saucer sightings as a way of diverting the public, and the governor had agreed. However, as none of the selection committee were SF readers, Project Birdwatch was dominated by screenwriters, writer-directors, writer-director-producers, and the occasional typecast actor. Few of them were brilliant, but they knew one side of a television camera from the other, and at least none of them had been blacklisted. The novelists and short story writers who had joined Birdwatch had soon given up in disgust. Ed had signed up for the same reasons as most of the others; the possibility of publicity, and the badly-needed fifty dollars a month. Besides, seven pretty blonde women had been abducted, and someone was responsible!
Rated R. Contains profanity, brief scenes of graphic violence, and questionable filmmaking.
Referenced sites:
Worldcon 2006: Anaheim, CA, August 23–27
Dragon*Con: Atlanta, GA, September 1–4
EP Review: Full Metal Yakuza, Robocop and Other Frankensteins.
Published on 21 Aug 2006 at 9:23 pm.
68 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated R, Reviews.
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Reviewed by Jonathon Sullivan.
EP Review: Snakes on a Plane
Published on 18 Aug 2006 at 4:08 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Reviews.
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A film by David R. Ellis.
Reviewed by Chris Miller and K.J. Johnson (of the House of the Harping Monkey).
EP067: Life in Stone
Published on 17 Aug 2006 at 4:47 am.
11 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated R.
By Tim Pratt.
Read by Stephen Eley.
After ascending 72 flights of iron stairs, creeping past tentacled sentinels lurking in pools filled with black water, and silently dispatching wizened old warriors armed with glaives and morningstars that proved a close match for his pistols and poisoned glass knives, Mr. Zealand at last stumbled into the uppermost room of Archibald Grace’s invisible tower. All Zealand’s earlier murders were mere journeyman work compared to this final assassination, the murder of a man who’d lived for untold centuries, who’d come to America and enslaved Buffalo spirits, who’d built this tower of ice and iron on the far side of the Rockies as a sanctuary and stronghold for his own precious life.
Rated R. Contains strong violent imagery, some sexual content, and themes of immor(t)ality.
Referenced sites:
Invasion: The Complete Series on DVD
Obsidian River
Spaceship Radio
Decoder Ring Theatre - Main Site
Decoder Ring Theatre - Podcast Site
Sonic Society - Main Site
Sonic Society - Podcast Site
Amazing Pulp Adventures
Pseudopod - The Sound of Horror
Worldcon 2006: Anaheim, CA, August 23–27
Dragon*Con: Atlanta, GA, September 1–4
EP Flash: The Uncanny Valley
Published on 14 Aug 2006 at 2:46 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under Flash, Podcasts, Rated G.
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-->By Jared Axelrod. (365 Tomorrows, The Voice of Free Planet X)
Read by Stephen Eley.
“I’m sorry,” Purby said, reshuffling the papers on his desk. “What was the problem with her?”
“Her breathing. She breathes. She doesn’t stop.”
“Yes, and?”
“It’s unnerving.”
Rated G. (Anything that isn’t G-rated in this story is entirely the product of your imagination.)
EP066: The King’s Tail
Published on 10 Aug 2006 at 6:42 am.
14 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
By Constance Cooper.
Read by The Knitwitch (of Knitwitch’s SciFi/Fantasy Zone).
On one occasion–he flinched to remember it–the invaders had brought him Cthara eggs. Warm, fertilized eggs, likely ripped just that day from the hatching burrow of some poor herder family. It had been the greatest challenge the Creator had ever sent him. His fangs had unfolded without his conscious will, and only a lifetime of piety and self-control had kept him from sinking them into the small bodies of the terrified guards.
His venom had dripped onto the filthy floor, and after the guards left he had lain shuddering in the dampness, feeling the leathery eggs by his flank gradually cool and die. Over and over he repeated the litany of the Prophet: “People shall not sink fang into other speaking people. People shall not eat the flesh of other speaking people. People shall not make war…”
Rated PG. Contains slavery, heavy moral themes, and some violence.
Referenced sites:
Invasion: The Complete Series on DVD
Gradients of Sight
Dragon*Con: Atlanta, GA, September 1–4
EP Review: A Scanner Darkly
Published on 7 Aug 2006 at 1:57 am.
26 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG, Reviews.
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A film by Richard Linklater.
Reviewed by Paul R. Potts and Jonathon Sullivan.
EP065: A Green Thumb
Published on 3 Aug 2006 at 6:05 am.
13 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
By Tobias S. Buckell.
Read by Matthew Wayne Selznick (of Brave Men Run).
When Jerry walked out across his lawn to catch the morning bus to Effendale High, he stopped to admire the new car Mr. Atkinson had growing in his lawn. Jerry could see the doors stretching up towards the roof, small branches of metal trying to reach their stringy edges up and around the rough frame. It looked like a regular car had melted, but in reverse. Every day Jerry stepped out, he could see more of the car’s gray paneling filling in around the rough frame. Mr. Atkinson tended towards planting larger luxury cars, like any other retired old man. The half-finished Caddilac sat in between the rose bushes and posies that Mrs. Atkinson cared for. Both car and bushes glinted with a fresh coating of morning dew.
Rated PG. Contains profanity and adolescence. (Wait, that’s redundant.)
Referenced sites:
Escape Pod on Wikipedia
Worldcon: Anaheim, CA, August 23–27
Dragon*Con: Atlanta, GA, September 1–4
Podcast & Portable Media Expo: Ontario, CA, September 29–30
