EP BONUS: J.C. Hutchins OBSIDIAN Poster
Published by SFEley on 20 May 2008 at 12:01 am.
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If you’re as much a fan as I am of J.C. Hutchins’s SF thriller trilogy 7th Son, you’ll be jazzed to hear about 7th Son: OBSIDIAN, the new short fiction audio anthology set in the 7th Son universe. The anthology has stories from some of the top names in podcasting, including Mur Lafferty, Scott Sigler, Matt Wallace, Christiana Ellis and Evo Terra.
J.C. has an innovative promotional strategy to spread the word: he’s distributing a series of collectible posters across some of the top podcasts in the ‘verse. These are high-quality printable 8″x10″ images suitable for your cubicle, campus bulletin board, or fallout shelter. I was honored to be approached to host one of those posters. You can download ours here, or get it on our feed:
If you want to collect the entire set of posters, you’ll have to visit each of these fine podcasts and Web sites. They’re all worth taking at least a couple of minutes to check out:
- J.C. Hutchins’ site, home of 7th Son: OBSIDIAN and the 7th Son podcast novel trilogy
- Science fiction news blog io9.com
- Sci-fi interview/review podcast Dragon Page Cover to Cover
- Video game news/review site and podcast Sarcastic Gamer
- Indie rock showcase podcast Accident Hash
- Science fiction podcast magazine Escape Pod
- Sci-fi short story podcast Variant Frequencies
- New York Times bestselling novelist Michael A. Stackpole
- Bestselling novelist Scott Sigler
- Website of award-winning novelist Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
- Award-winning novelist Mur Lafferty
- Award-nominated novelist Christiana Ellis
- Award-nominated novelist Tee Morris
- Author, podcaster and musician Matthew Wayne Selznick
Good hunting!
EP158: Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359?
Published by SFEley on 15 May 2008 at 9:15 pm.
19 Comments.
Filed under Hugo Awards, Rated R.
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.
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Referenced Sites:
2008 Hugo Awards
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EP157: A Small Room in Koboldtown
Published by SFEley on 8 May 2008 at 11:58 pm.
29 Comments.
Filed under Hugo Awards, Podcasts, Rated PG.
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.
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EP156: Distant Replay
Published by SFEley on 1 May 2008 at 11:59 pm.
37 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)
EP155: Tideline
Published by SFEley on 24 Apr 2008 at 12:19 pm.
40 Comments.
Filed under Hugo Awards, Podcasts, Rated PG.
2008 Hugo Nominee!
By Elizabeth Bear.
Read by Stephen Eley.
Closing Music: “The Fall” by Red Hunter.
They would have called her salvage, if there were anyone left to salvage her. But she was the last of the war machines, a three-legged oblate teardrop as big as a main battle tank, two big grabs and one fine manipulator folded like a spider’s palps beneath the turreted head that finished her pointed end, her polyceramic armor spiderwebbed like shatterproof glass. Unhelmed by her remote masters, she limped along the beach, dragging one fused limb. She was nearly derelict.
The beach was where she met Belvedere.
Rated PG. Contains implied violence and themes of death.
Referenced Sites:
2008 Hugo Awards
“And the Deep Blue Sea” by Elizabeth Bear (on Starship Sofa)
WisCon May 23-26, Madison, WI
EP154: Union Dues - Freedom With a Small f
Published by SFEley on 18 Apr 2008 at 4:30 am.
37 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated R.
By Jeffrey R. DeRego.
Read by Nuri (of CandyCorn Studios and Artist Alley).
Closing Music: “Juzt Mizunderztood” by Norm Sherman.
My head throbs. I think about the mess in the fridge, the heaps of crap in the flat while I force the clumps of wet clothes into the dryers.
As far as I know I am the only Union member who works outside the system, the only one tasked specifically with fighting crime, secretly, of course. Darksider put the program together with one of the Luminaries as a way to explore expanding our role in the maintenance of Normal society. He chose me specifically because I am the only super-agile who is also an orphan. Therefore, I won’t be tempted to throw my costume in a dumpster and make a break for mom and dad.
Communication with the Union ended seven months ago. Darksider was supposed to make sure that a stipend was deposited into a bank account under my phony name every month. But that stopped too. I don’t know why. I tried everything to make contact short of walking up to the Boston Pyramid and knocking. Not that it would have done any good since none of the regular Union knows I even exist.
Rated R. Contains sordid occupations, drug use, and violence. Welcome to the city.
Referenced Sites:
The Union Dues Series
Tales of the Zombie War
SciFiDig interview with Jeffrey DeRego
The DrabbleCast
EP153: Schwartz Between the Galaxies
Published by SFEley on 10 Apr 2008 at 3:59 am.
46 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated R.
By Robert Silverberg.
Read by Stephen Eley.
This much is reality: Schwartz sits comfortably cocooned — passive, suspended — in a first-class passenger rack aboard a Japan Air Lines rocket, nine kilometers above the Coral Sea. And this much is fantasy: the same Schwartz has passage on a shining starship gliding silkily through the interstellar depths, en route at nine times the velocity of light from Betelgeuse IX to Rigel XXI, or maybe from Andromeda to the Lesser Magellanic.
Rated R. Contains some sex, some drug use. It’s a Silverberg story.
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Referenced Sites:
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EP152: The Big Guy
Published by SFEley on 4 Apr 2008 at 6:30 am.
22 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated R.
By Mike Resnick.
Read by Stephen Eley.
First appeared in Jim Baen’s Universe, June 2007.
“Okay,” said Fishbait. He tossed a ball to the Big Guy. “Let’s try a little one-on-one. Ralph, let’s see what you can do against Jacko here.”
The Big Guy took a look at me, his face totally expressionless. I moved forward to lean on him a little, just enough to make contact and see which way he was going to move when he began his drive to the basket, but before I got close enough to touch him he’d already raced by me and stuffed the ball through the hoop.
“Again,” said Fishbait.
Rated R. Contains strong language and testosterone.
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Referenced Events:
Penguicon: April 18-20, 2008
Sex 2.0: April 12, 2008
EP BONUS: PodCastle 001: Come Lady Death
Published by SFEley on 2 Apr 2008 at 12:08 am.
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PodCastle, our fantasy fiction podcast, has finally launched with its first episode. Rachel and company are presenting “Come Lady Death,” one of the earliest and strongest stories by legendary fantasy writer Peter S. Beagle.
You should go straight over to PodCastle.org and follow the subscription links — but just to let you know what you’re missing if you don’t, we’re posting the full episode on the Escape Pod feed. We’ll only do this once or twice, so if you want your fantasy fix, subscribe today!
EP Review: Classics - Dr. Strangelove
Published by Sullydog on 30 Mar 2008 at 9:19 pm.
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Filed under Rated PG, Reviews.
A Film By Stanley Kubrick.
Reviewed by Jonathon Sullivan
