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I am yanking this thread from the edge of oblivion because I want to talk about short story podcasts. I have been listening to short story podcasts on my commute for the last couple years. I listen to the following: Escape Pod - science fiction http://escapepod.org/ Pseudopod - horror http://pseudopod.org/ Starship Sofa - genre fiction, leans sci fi http://www.starshipsofa.com/ Lightspeed Magazine - genre fiction, leans sci fi http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/ the Drabblecast - genre fiction, leans horror http://www.drabblecast.org/ Escape Pod and Pseudopod are my favorites, both because I tend to agree with the quality of the stories, especially in more recent years, and because Alasdair Stewart, who usually hosts Pseudopod and sometimes Escape Pod, too, is completely awesome. He has commentary on every story after the reading that is always insightful and usually comes at it from directions that are either pretty unusual or at least rely on his way-better-than-average knowledge of genre fiction. I'm less fond of these, but they aren't total garbage either: Clarkesworld - sci-fi, leans abstract http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ Podcastle - fantasy, sister podcast of Pseudopod and Escape Pod http://podcastle.org/ Some of these are parts of networks carrying other genres, as well. I've been catching up with the HUGE back catalogs of Pseudopod and Escape Pod. (Escape pod is around 450 episodes, Pseudopod around 370.) Were I to pick a favorite for each, for Escape Pod I'd say "Head of State" (which is a fully produced reading with music and sound effects and the best narrator ever) and for Pseudopod, "The American Dead" (because god drat!). For the Drabblecast I'd recommend "The Ugly Chickens," about dodos surviving into the 20th century. Are there any other podcasts or fiction websites I should check out either along these lines? Non-genre stuff even? BananaNutkins posted:For the SF&F crowd, there are several good sources of short fiction in audio that are free. I just have a harder time getting into fantasy because it's far too in love with its own tropes, and there's more garbage to sift through to find the interesting stuff than with other areas of the genre spectra. I hadn't listened enough to notice any pattern in story selection. With the Escape Artists podcasts, you can usually tell you're in for a good narration if in the intro they talk about all the voice work the narrator has done (or if it's Alasdair narrating). You can usually tell you're in for a bad one if in the intro they talk about how badly the narrator wants to get into voice work. FactsAreUseless posted:Many genre writers (especially the classics - Bradbury, Clarke, and Asimov) are at their best in short form. I can only tolerate Stephen King in short-form.
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DrGonzo90 posted:New Yorker stories can sometimes be a little too precious, I'll give it a try, but if you mean what I think you mean by that, this is what put me off of Clarkesworld. (See: "Robot" by Helena Bell http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/bell_09_12/ for the one that put me over the edge.)
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http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601711.txt You might enjoy this.
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