Archives for November 2006
EP082: Travels With My Cats
Published on 30 Nov 2006 at 5:41 pm.
67 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
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By Mike Resnick.
Read by Stephen Eley.
That night I was faced with a major decision. I didn’t want to read a book called Travels With My Cats by a woman called Miss, but I’d spent my last nickel on it — well, the last until my allowance came due again next week — and I’d read all my other books so often you could almost see the eyetracks all over them.
So I picked it up without much enthusiasm, and read the first page, and then the next — and suddenly I was transported to Kenya Colony and Siam and the Amazon. Miss Priscilla Wallace had a way of describing things that made me wish I was there, and when I finished a section I felt like I’d been there.
Rated PG. This product may be too disillusioning for young children.
Referenced sites:
PodDisc.com
DragonHearth Productions (by Tracy and Laura Hickman)
EP Review: The Fountain
Published on 27 Nov 2006 at 2:08 pm.
8 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated G, Reviews.
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Reviewed by Jonathon Sullivan.
EP081: Margin of Error
Published on 23 Nov 2006 at 5:22 am.
27 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
By Nancy Kress.
Read by Christiana Ellis (of Nina Kimberly the Merciless and Pickle Tales)
She said, “What the project needs is for you to come back and work on the same small area you did originally. Looking for something–anything–you might have missed in the protein-coded instructions to successive generations of nanoassemblers.”
“No,” I said.
Rated PG. Contains minor profanity, explicit bodily functions, and people being very, very mean..
Referenced sites:
PodDisc.com
Podholes!
PodDisc.com is live!
Published on 17 Nov 2006 at 8:03 am.
11 Comments.
Filed under Site News.
As promised in the past couple of episodes, our online storefront for selling podcast archive CDs is (finally!) up and running at PodDisc.com. This is your chance to get all of your holiday shopping done in one place — provided everyone you know wants over 45 hours of science fiction short stories on CD.
What do the discs look like? I’m glad you asked. They look like this:
Beautiful, isn’t it? And for a very slight fee, you can have your own personal message put on the CD. You can buy each disc for $10 or a bundle of all three collections for $25. Shipping is a cheap flat rate in the U.S. (and tolerable everywhere else), and satisfaction is guaranteed.
Right now only Escape Pod CDs are available, but once the business model proves viable I plan to open this up to producing archive discs for other podcasters. If that’s a service you’d be interested in, drop me a line and I’ll give you more details.
And remember: If you’ve donated $20 or more to Escape Pod this year, or if you’re a subscriber, don’t buy yet! I’ll be sending details to you in e-mail on how you can get this stuff for free.
…Right after I get some sleep.
EP080: Union Dues - Cleanup in Aisle Five
Published on 16 Nov 2006 at 4:50 am.
32 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated R.
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-->By Jeffrey R. DeRego.
Read by Rich Sigfrit (of Requiem of the Outcast and Amazing Pulp Adventures).
“Which one are you?”
The kid fans out a small stack of super hero trading cards, but it’s not a Union deck. Figures. “Lemme see what you got there.” I flip through and remember my old baseball card collection. I knew there was something special about me, when at nine-years-old, I accurately calculated the probable batting stats of each player, on every team, in the 1996 season after opening only one pack. The Union recruited me five years later after my dad beat a couple of Atlantic City casinos for ten million bucks. I was caught on security camera tape telling him when and how to bet at the roulette wheel.
“These don’t look like you.”
The card displays a blue-costumed man leaping between buildings. I hand it back to him. “Those guys aren’t real, but I am.” Wow. Did I just say that? Maybe I’ll tell the kid that Santa and the Easter Bunny aren’t real either. He’s staring at me now, I can almost see his little brain struggling to make sense of my answer. I should tell him to buy Union Cards but, you know, he’s five.
Rated R. Contains profanity, some violence involving children, and retail corporate exploitation.
Union Dues Stories:
EP027: Iron Bars and the Glass Jaw
EP049: Off White Lies
EP062: The Baby and the Bathwater
EP079: Mountain, Man
Published on 9 Nov 2006 at 4:03 pm.
22 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
By Heather Shaw.
Read by Stephen Eley.
“Look, miss, I’m going to have to cut your hair to do this. Is that all right?”
She smiled at him from her upside-down, bent-over position, so he took that as a yes. He found an old pair of garden shears and took a hunk of her hair, gathered it into a rough ponytail, and hacked it off.
A pair of mountain bluebirds flew out from where the nest of hair had been.
Rated PG. Contains non-explicit sex, accidental assault, and geological scatology.
EP Review: The Prestige
Published on 6 Nov 2006 at 1:13 pm.
60 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated G, Reviews.
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Reviewed by Mark Anderson.
EP078: The Shoulders of Giants
Published on 2 Nov 2006 at 6:30 am.
54 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
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-->By Robert J. Sawyer.
Read by Stephen Eley.
The Pioneer Spirit was a colonization ship; it wasn’t intended as a diplomatic vessel. When it had left Earth, it had seemed important to get at least some humans off the mother world. Two small-scale nuclear wars‚ÄîNuke I and Nuke II, as the media had dubbed them‚Äîhad already been fought, one in southern Asia, the other in South America. It appeared to be only a matter of time before Nuke III, and that one might be the big one.
SETI had detected nothing from Tau Ceti, at least not by 2051. But Earth itself had only been broadcasting for a century and a half at that point; Tau Ceti might have had a thriving civilization then that hadn’t yet started using radio. But now it was twelve hundred years later. Who knew how advanced the Tau Cetians might be?
Rated PG. Contains minor profanity, and very tame references to populating new worlds. Hey, someone’s got to.
