Comments on: EP111: Mayfly http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/ The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine. Each week Escape Pod delivers science fiction short stories from today's best authors. Listen today, and hear the new sound of science fiction! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:04:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=9126 By: George http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-9087 George Wed, 21 May 2008 15:51:09 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-9087 <p>Fascinating concept and thorougly enjoyable too</p> Fascinating concept and thorougly enjoyable too

]]> By: dockbox http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6927 dockbox Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:16:30 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6927 <p>http://permitstar.info/cheap-hotels-in-rome-near-termini.php</p> http://permitstar.info/cheap-hotels-in-rome-near-termini.php

]]> By: Jon-o http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6916 Jon-o Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:22:42 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6916 <p>Interesting - I didn't find this at all 'macabre' or unpleasant at all! It's an intriguing idea, and I really enjoyed listening. I only wish it had been fleshed out more. The story was full of ideas, but lacked any significant plot. I could see a very interesting story being built around this basic idea though! I wish there was more!</p> Interesting – I didn’t find this at all ‘macabre’ or unpleasant at all! It’s an intriguing idea, and I really enjoyed listening. I only wish it had been fleshed out more. The story was full of ideas, but lacked any significant plot. I could see a very interesting story being built around this basic idea though! I wish there was more!

]]> By: Daniel B. http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6907 Daniel B. Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:01:31 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6907 <p>One of the best. Beautful combination of concept and voice.</p> <p>And the author's earlier work, "Just do it", was one of the best stories I read last year. Plus I liked her new F&SF one in the current issue.</p> <p>Hmmm...I think Heather Lindsley has just been added to my "buy it she's in it" list.</p> One of the best. Beautful combination of concept and voice.

And the author’s earlier work, “Just do it”, was one of the best stories I read last year. Plus I liked her new F&SF one in the current issue.

Hmmm…I think Heather Lindsley has just been added to my “buy it she’s in it” list.

]]> By: Sunrider http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6902 Sunrider Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:59:28 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6902 <p>I LOVED THIS STORY! It definitely makes my top 5 story favorite list.</p> <p>And yeah - gotta love the word whore's voice....</p> I LOVED THIS STORY! It definitely makes my top 5 story favorite list.

And yeah – gotta love the word whore’s voice….

]]> By: Mogadeth (aka Kevin from PDX) http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6915 Mogadeth (aka Kevin from PDX) Sun, 08 Jul 2007 06:35:06 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6915 <p>Kinda odd ball, but over all liked it.. btw eleventy-one is lotr reference (Bilbo's eleventy-first b-day festival). Good one Steve.</p> Kinda odd ball, but over all liked it.. btw eleventy-one is lotr reference (Bilbo’s eleventy-first b-day festival). Good one Steve.

]]> By: Gary H http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6909 Gary H Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:15:49 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6909 <p>I laughed out loud at eleventy one. Only a spec fict podcast would say that, good one Steve. That's why you're the host. And you pick good stories.</p> <p>It was a little on the macabre side, but it kept me engaged. And kept me rooting for her to get, well, uh, find a man.</p> I laughed out loud at eleventy one. Only a spec fict podcast would say that, good one Steve. That’s why you’re the host. And you pick good stories.

It was a little on the macabre side, but it kept me engaged. And kept me rooting for her to get, well, uh, find a man.

]]> By: TimothyPilgrim http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6908 TimothyPilgrim Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:44:49 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6908 <p>I was bored by this one. It's one of the extremely few podcasts that I skipped partway through so I could hear something more captivating.</p> I was bored by this one. It’s one of the extremely few podcasts that I skipped partway through so I could hear something more captivating.

]]> By: Adam DeVeega http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6913 Adam DeVeega Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:37:43 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6913 <p>First, I adore the word Whore's voice, especially when she's sober. She is what turned me onto your podcast by the way. Second, I was captivated by the concept of living a lifetime in just a week on a human scale. Fortunately, they had that generational memory to allow them to survive in the human word. I also like the concept of twins at the very end being the means at which they multiply. The only question I have, although not important enough to be explained, is how the trust fund could have been established if they only lived a week? Lottery?</p> First, I adore the word Whore’s voice, especially when she’s sober. She is what turned me onto your podcast by the way.
Second, I was captivated by the concept of living a lifetime in just a week on a human scale. Fortunately, they had that generational memory to allow them to survive in the human word. I also like the concept of twins at the very end being the means at which they multiply.
The only question I have, although not important enough to be explained, is how the trust fund could have been established if they only lived a week? Lottery?

]]> By: Steve Portigal http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6905 Steve Portigal Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:55:52 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6905 <p>What about the eleventy-one episode number? I couldn't quite figger that one out.</p> What about the eleventy-one episode number? I couldn’t quite figger that one out.

]]> By: Wez http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6906 Wez Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:57:05 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6906 <p>I really like this one. If you ignore all the little details like the 'how' and 'why', you're left with a story that makes you want to live your life the way that matters to you.</p> I really like this one. If you ignore all the little details like the ‘how’ and ‘why’, you’re left with a story that makes you want to live your life the way that matters to you.

]]> By: mfv http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6912 mfv Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:35:23 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6912 <p>I really liked this one!! Kept thinking about it all day</p> I really liked this one!!
Kept thinking about it all day

]]> By: Earl Newton http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6911 Earl Newton Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:21:25 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6911 <p>I put this on the short list of my personal "Escape Pod" best, because while it was a great thought experiment, I never felt like I was being presented a theory. It consistently put us in the shoes of a person for whom each moment is precious (hence, "roadblocks" or individual hassles have little meaning; there's no time to sweat the small stuff). Several times through the story, the narrator's dry, witty insight about human nature made me laugh.</p> <p>And when she dug around in the closet, "going back 200 generations to find, among other things, a beaded halter top," that completely thrust me into her experience and the feeling of being so tightly bound to such a short-lived genetic line.</p> I put this on the short list of my personal “Escape Pod” best, because while it was a great thought experiment, I never felt like I was being presented a theory. It consistently put us in the shoes of a person for whom each moment is precious (hence, “roadblocks” or individual hassles have little meaning; there’s no time to sweat the small stuff). Several times through the story, the narrator’s dry, witty insight about human nature made me laugh.

And when she dug around in the closet, “going back 200 generations to find, among other things, a beaded halter top,” that completely thrust me into her experience and the feeling of being so tightly bound to such a short-lived genetic line.

]]> By: Martin Rundkvist http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6910 Martin Rundkvist Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:44:44 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6910 <p>Interesting concept, well executed -- do buy more Heather Lindsley! Though I have a feeling that ancestral memory transmission would be a far more adaptive trait than an extremely short generational cycle. Perhaps something for those Austrian gene-hackin' babes to work on.</p> <p>Hmm... They don't seem to have read <i>The Ethical Slut</i>.</p> Interesting concept, well executed — do buy more Heather Lindsley! Though I have a feeling that ancestral memory transmission would be a far more adaptive trait than an extremely short generational cycle. Perhaps something for those Austrian gene-hackin’ babes to work on.

Hmm… They don’t seem to have read The Ethical Slut.

]]> By: vellon http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6917 vellon Sun, 24 Jun 2007 05:45:19 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6917 <p>It rocked. Biological thought experiment & good narrative. Despite that, am I the only one who thought psuedopod and escape pod got their stories backwards this week?</p> It rocked. Biological thought experiment & good narrative. Despite that, am I the only one who thought psuedopod and escape pod got their stories backwards this week?

]]> By: Brandt Pileggi http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6904 Brandt Pileggi Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:40:17 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6904 <p>Disagree. Dug it. Even if it was nothing more than a thought experiment, I really enjoyed it.</p> Disagree. Dug it. Even if it was nothing more than a thought experiment, I really enjoyed it.

]]> By: shiatis http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6903 shiatis Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:30:32 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6903 <p>You got your Pseudo Pod in my Escape Pod!</p> <p>Two great tastes that did not taste all that great together...</p> You got your Pseudo Pod in my Escape Pod!

Two great tastes that did not taste all that great together…

]]> By: dave http://escapepod.org/2007/06/21/ep111-mayfly/comment-page-1/#comment-6914 dave Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:16:54 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=222#comment-6914 <p>Maybe I was too tired, but it was kinda hard to follow... Am I alone to say it was boring ?</p> Maybe I was too tired, but it was kinda hard to follow… Am I alone to say it was boring ?

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