Archives for July 2007
EP116: Ej-Es
Published on 26 Jul 2007 at 4:00 pm.
30 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
By Nancy Kress.
Read by Sheri Mann Stewart.
First appeared in Stars: Stories Based On Janis Ian Songs, ed. Janis Ian & Mike Resnick.
Mia didn’t reply. Her attention was riveted to Esefeb. The girl flung herself up the stairs and sat up in bed, facing the wall. What Mia had see before could hardly be called a smile compared to the light, the sheer joy, that illuminated Esefeb’s face now. Esefeb shuddered in ecstasy, crooning to the empty wall.
“Ej-es. Ej-es. Aaahhhh, Ej-es!”
Mia turned away. She was a medician, but Esefeb’s emotion seemed too private to witness. It was the ecstasy of orgasm, or religious transfiguration, or madness.
“Mia,” her wrister said, “I need an image of that girl’s brain.”
Rated PG. Contains passing sexual references and graphic medical description.
Blog of the Week:
Three Laws Unsafe
EP115: Conversations With and About My Electric Toothbrush
Published on 19 Jul 2007 at 3:40 am.
29 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated G.
Read ‘EP115: Conversations With and About My Electric Toothbrush’
-->By Derek Zumsteg.
Read by Jared Axelrod (of The Department of Public Words).
“I read an interesting forum post last night,” my electric toothbrush told me over its low burr.
“Thiff ouff thew be thood,” I said through my mouth of foam.
“It was!” he replied. “Using readily available components, Monkeymonkey turned his Intellibrush into a milk frother.”
I spit into the sink and set my toothbrush in its white ceramic charger. “What would I do with a milk frother?”
“Make cappucinos,” my toothbrush said, with a hint of resignation, as I rinsed and spit again.
“I don’t drink cappucinos,” I said.
“You could start!”
Rated G. Contains a very mild reference to vibrating appliances.
Referenced Sites:
U.S.S. Mariner
Senses Five Press
EP114: Cloud Dragon Skies
Published on 12 Jul 2007 at 12:30 pm.
12 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
Read ‘EP114: Cloud Dragon Skies’
-->By N.K. Jemisin.
Read by Máia Whitaker (of Knitwitch’s Scifi/Fantasy Zone).
First appeared in Strange Horizons, August 2005.
Closing music: “The Fall,” by Red Hunter.
I was a child when the sky changed. I can still remember days when it was endlessly blue, the clouds passive and gentle. The change occurred without warning: one morning we awoke and the sky was a pale, blushing rose. We began to see intention in the slow, ceaseless movements of the clouds. Instead of floating, they swam spirals in the sky. They gathered in knots, trailing wisps like feet and tails. We felt them watching us.
We adapted. We had never taken more than we needed from the land, and we always kept our animals far from water. Now we moistened wild cotton and stretched this across our smoke holes as filters. Sometimes the clouds would gather over fires that were out in the open. A tendril would stretch down, weaving like a snake’s head, opening delicate mist jaws to nip the plume of smoke. Even the bravest warriors would quickly put such fires out.
Rated PG. Contains passing nudity and apocalyptic themes.
Referenced Sites:
Superior Audio Works
Serve It Cold
EP113: Ishmael in Love
Published on 5 Jul 2007 at 6:17 am.
25 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated R.
By Robert Silverberg.
Read by Stephen Eley.
First appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1970.
I am a lonely mammalian organism who has committed acts of heroism on behalf of your species and wishes only the reward of a more intimate relationship ["love"] with Miss Lisabeth Calkins. I beseech compassionate members of H. sapiens to speak favorably of me to her. I am loyal, trustworthy, reliable, devoted, and extremely intelligent. I would endeavor to give her stimulating companionship and emotional fulfillment ["happiness"] in all respects within my power.
Permit me to explain the pertinent circumstances.
Rated R. Contains explicit anatomical description and non-human sexual activity.
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