Voices
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I already talked about this on Escape Pod, but it’s worth pushing everywhere. Mur Lafferty, of Geek Fu Action Grip and many other fine audio thingamapods, has gathered short stories that have been podcast by their authors and collected them into the first podcast fiction anthology. Voices: New Media Fiction is available free from Podiobooks.com and includes work by Cory Doctorow, James Patrick Kelly, Patrick MacLean, Tee Morris, and many others. Like all podiobooks, you can set up a personalized feed and get the stories at whatever pace you choose. Every day, twice a month, whatever works for you.
As a fiction author, I shouldn’t have to tell you how cool I think this is. Of course I’m also jealous because I’m not in it — but that’s my own damn fault for creating a podcast that only narrates other people’s stories. That’s cool, though. There’s always next year. Plenty of time for me to podcast that story about the antisocial young man who keeps getting set up for blind dates by his army of killer robots…
“that story about the antisocial young man who keeps getting set up for blind dates by his army of killer robots…”
You still haven’t paid me for the rights to my life story.
Comment by Scott Janssens — March 3, 2006 @ 11:49 am
Hey–I set up a feed so us livejournal geeks can read this under the lj username podcastpedant. (Or, specifically, at syndicated.livejournal.com/podcastpedant/
Comment by Janni — March 4, 2006 @ 8:02 pm