Archives for August 2007
EP at Dragon*Con 2007
Published on 31 Aug 2007 at 3:50 am.
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Just a quick note for those of you attending Dragon*Con 2007 — here are the places you’ll be able to find Steve during the weekend:
- Steve will be producing the Daily Dragon Podcast every day of the con. Listen in for convention news, interviews, and music!
- The panel Fancasting, 2:30 PM Friday in the Jackson/Carter room in the Hilton.
- The 2nd Annual Parsec Awards, 7 PM Saturday in the Hyatt Regency V ballroom. Escape Pod and Pseudopod are both nominated for excellence in short fiction.
- The Escape Pod Listener Meet-Up, 1 PM Sunday at the Gordon Biersch Brewpub at 848 Peachtree Street. Everyone is welcome!
- The panel Podcasting Into the Future, 10 AM Monday in the Jackson/Carter room in the Hilton.
And of course you might just see me around the convention any other time. If you’re there, I hope to see you — and I hope you have a great time!
EP121: The Snow Woman’s Daughter
Published on 30 Aug 2007 at 4:20 am.
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-->By Eugie Foster.
Read by cunning minx (of Polyamory Weekly).
First appeared in Cricket magazine, February 2007.
When I was a little girl, I thought my mother’s name was Yuki, which means snow. That was part of her name, but I didn’t learn the rest of it until the night my father died.
My mother left us on a slate-gray evening when I was five, with her namesake falling from the sky and piled high around the windows and doors. Awakened by raised voices, I watched through a tear in the curtain that shielded my sleeping mat as my mother wrapped her limbs in a shining, white kimono. As far back as I could remember, she had always worn the dark wool shifts that all mountain people wear, spun from the hair of the half-mad goats that give us milk and cheese. In her kimono she looked like a princess, or a queen. Her skin was paler than mine, and I am thought quite fair. Roku, the boy who lived on the northern crest, used to tease me when we were little, calling me “ghost girl” and “milk face.”
Rated G. Contains non-graphic death and childbearing.
Referenced Sites:
Daily Dragon Podcast
Dragon*Con 2007
EP120: The Sundial Brigade
Published on 23 Aug 2007 at 12:01 am.
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-->By James Trimarco.
Read by Graydancer (of The Ropecast).
First appeared in Glorifying Terrorism, ed. Farah Mendlesohn.
Closing song: “Think For Yourself” by George Hrab
Not long after that, Antonio had an appointment with his curator, Yoshi, at the Department of Human Heritage. Antonio explained his situation in the Tyrranean language.
“So you’re unsatisfied with your role as a beggar,” Yoshi said. “That’s hardly surprising. The unemployed of the early twenty-first century were also unhappy. Your emotions are true to period, that’s all.”
“But it’s all wrong,” Antonio insisted. “I did well in school. I studied to be an engineer. If this was the real Italy, someone like me wouldn’t end up like this.”
Yoshi’s mouth curved into the sterile non-smile of a bureaucrat with no time for sympathy.
Rated R. Contains strong themes of violence and terrorism, strong language, and some sexual content.
Referenced Sites:
UK Terrorism Act 2006
Graydancer.com
Stranger Things
EP119: Aliens Want Our Women
Published on 16 Aug 2007 at 12:00 pm.
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-->Ramona Louise Wheeler
Read by Leann Mabry (of Tag in the Seam).
He was a widower, weary of too many years of loneliness. He had decided to travel to someplace distant and exotic, in hopes of finding as a companion someone completely different from his lost love. He had chosen Earth for its very remoteness.
“I want to marry the most wonderful woman on Earth,” he said.
Every female on the planet had just acquired a brand new agenda in life.
Rated G. Contains gender role stereotyping, but no strong sex, language or violence. Sorry.
Blog of the Week:
The Evil Eyebrow
(receives The John W. Campbell Letters, Vol. 1)
Referenced Sites:
Polyamory Weekly
The DrabbleCast
EP118: The Veteran
Published on 9 Aug 2007 at 9:05 pm.
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Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG.
By Neal Asher.
Read by Stephen Eley.
Seated on a bollard, the man contemplatively removed his pipe, as if to tamp it down or relight it. Instead, he placed it stem down in the top pocket of his shirt, then reached up and pressed his fingers against his cheekbone and forehead. His face came away from his hairline, round behind his ears, down to a point just above his Adam’s apple. The inside of his mouth and much of his sinus were also part of the prosthesis, so only bare eyeballs in the upper jut of his skull remained ‚Äì the rest being the black spikes and plates of bio-interfaces.
Cheel gaped. From another pocket, the man took some sort of tool and began to probe inside the back of his detached face. He put the prosthesis in his lap, then took up his pipe and placed it in his throat sphincter. Smoke bled from between the interface plates of his cheeks. His bare eyeballs swivelled towards Cheel then back down to the adjustments he was making. She suddenly realised who this must be. Here was the veteran who worked on the ferry. Here was one of the few survivors from a brutal war between factions of dense-tech humans. Not understanding what was impelling her, she walked out on the jetty and approached him.
Rated PG. Contains slight profanity and high-tech violence.
Blog of the Week:
The Angriest Rice Cooker in the World
Referenced Sites:
Ecru: The Butcher of Balis
Zojirushi NS-ZCC10 (Steve’s Rice Cooker)
Casio GW-300 (Steve’s Watch)
EP BONUS: Ecru - The Butcher of Balis
Published on 9 Aug 2007 at 5:27 pm.
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Here’s a special prerelease of a new podcasting first: a full comic book distributed exclusively via podcast!
Ecru debuts today from Particle 9 Productions, distributed by Outcast Multimedia. The first issue features art by Chasen Grieshop and an original story by Earl Newton (of Stranger Things). We’re pleased to deliver this special preview edition of the comic on the Escape Pod feed.
(And yes, today’s regular Escape Pod episode will be posting shortly.)
EP Review: Sunshine
Published on 3 Aug 2007 at 12:48 am.
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Filed under Podcasts, Rated PG, Reviews.
Reviewed by Jonathon Sullivan.
EP117: Reggie vs. Kaiju Storm Chimera Wolf
Published on 2 Aug 2007 at 5:30 pm.
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-->By Matthew Wayne Selznick.
Read by Scott Sigler (of Earthcore, Ancestor, Infected, The Rookie).
Yarborough led them through the impromptu village of broad white tents, rows of outhouses, sensor towers, and heavy weapons installations that had obliterated the turf of the athletic field. They stopped at the fence on the edge of the hilltop.
“You can get a pretty good look at the swath, here.”
On a day without monsters, it would have been a nice view. You could see most of the town center, and all the way to Pacific Coast Highway the misty ocean beyond. A wide, flat, smoking scar of ruin cut from the water to a shopping center half a mile inland.
Rated R. Contains profanity and giant monster violence.
Referenced Sites:
Knitwitch’s Sci-Fi & Fantasy Zone on Talkshoe
