Archives for May 2008
EP158: Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359?
Published on 15 May 2008 at 9:15 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under Hugo Awards, Rated R.
Read ‘EP158: Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359?’
-->2008 Hugo Nominee!
By Ken MacLeod.
Read by Stephen Eley.
First appeared in The New Space Opera, ed. Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan.
When you’re as old as I am, you’ll find your memory’s not what it was. It’s not that you lose memories. That hasn’t happened to me or anyone else since the Paleocosmic Era, the Old Space Age, when people lived in caves on the Moon. My trouble is that I’ve gained memories, and I don’t know which of them are real. I was very casual about memory storage back then, I seem to recall. This could happen to you too, if you’re not careful. So be warned. Do as I say, not as I did.
Some of the tales about me contradict each other, or couldn’t possibly have happened, because that’s how I told them in the first place. Others I blame on the writers and tellers. They make things up. I’ve never done that. If I’ve told stories that couldn’t be true, it’s because that’s how I remember them.
Here’s one.
Rated R. Contains profanity, nudity, and in flagrante delicto.
Audible.com Promotion!
Receive your free audiobook at: http://audiblepodcast.com/escapepod
Referenced Sites:
2008 Hugo Awards
Free Novels for Worldcon Members
EP157: A Small Room in Koboldtown
Published on 8 May 2008 at 11:58 pm.
24 Comments.
Filed under Hugo Awards, Podcasts, Rated PG.
Read ‘EP157: A Small Room in Koboldtown’
-->2008 Hugo Nominee!
By Michael Swanwick.
Read by Cheyenne Wright (of Arcane Times and Girl Genius).
First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2007.
That Winter, Will le Fey held down a job working for a haint politician named Salem Toussaint. Chiefly, his function was to run errands while looking conspicuously solid. He fetched tax forms for the alderman’s constituents, delivered stacks of documents to trollish functionaries, fixed L&I violations, presented boxes of candied John-the-Conqueror root to retiring secretaries, absent-mindedly dropped slim envelopes containing twenty-dollar bills on desks. When somebody important died, he brought a white goat to the back door of the Fane of Darkness to be sacrificed to the Nameless One. When somebody else’s son was drafted or went to prison, he hammered a nail in the nkisi nkonde that Toussaint kept in the office to ensure his safe return.
He canvassed voters in haint neighborhoods like Ginny Gall, Beluthahatchie, and Diddy-Wah-Diddy, where the bars were smoky, the music was good, and it was dangerous to smile at the whores. He negotiated the labyrinthine bureaucracies of City Hall. Not everything he did was strictly legal, but none of it was actually criminal. Salem Toussaint didn’t trust him enough for that.
Rated PG. Contains dark, seedy places and dark, seedy characters, only a few of them alive.
Today’s Sponsor:
Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams
EP156: Distant Replay
Published on 1 May 2008 at 11:59 pm.
35 Comments.
Filed under Hugo Awards, Podcasts, Rated PG.
2008 Hugo Nominee!
By Mike Resnick.
Read by Steve Anderson (of SGA Creative and Great Tales Live).
First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2007.
“Let me show you,” I said, pulling out my wallet. I took my Deirdre’s photo out and handed it to her.
“It’s uncanny,” she said, studying the picture. “We even sort of wear our hair the same way. When was this taken?”
“Forty-seven years ago.”
“Is she dead?”
I nodded.
Rated PG. Contains mature themes and wistfulness.
Referenced Sites:
2008 Hugo Awards
“First of May” by Jonathan Coulton (Not work-safe)
