StarShipSofa science fiction podcast

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, January 31, 2008 2:43 PM | permalink

Tony C Smith says:

StarShipSofa is a weekly podcast that has started to put out Hugo Winning audio stories for free. Last week we put up David Brin's 1985 Hugo winning story "The Crystal Spheres." This week we put up Bruce Sterling's 1989 story "We See Things Differently." Other narrated stories include 2007 Hugo nominee Peter Watts and Michael Moorcock.
A host of SF writers have offered to let the StarShipSofa narrate their works. Writers who have already donated their work include Ian Watson, Pat Cadigan, Harry Harrison, Joe Haldeman, Joan D Vinge, Norman Spinrad, Ian MacDonald, J D Nordley, Gweneth Jones, Alastair Reynolds, Jerry Pournelle, Landon Jones, John Varley, Pat Murphy, John Kessel, Laurel Winter, Jeff Vandermeer, Kevin J Anderson, Bradley Denton and Matthew Hughes.

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#1 posted by Jeff , January 31, 2008 3:02 PM

Very nice list of names. I'm looking forward to checking this out. I hope that more authors will donate at least a good short story.

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#2 posted by Derek Quenneville

, January 31, 2008 4:48 PM

If you like StarShipSofa, you'll love Escape Pod.

Escape Pod does a free weekly science fiction podcast, but they pay authors for use of the stories.

http://escapepod.org

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#3 posted by Daniel Warner , January 31, 2008 5:49 PM

My favorite SF lit podcast. These guys have brought me up to speed on authors I've been curious about for years.

Their three episode series on PKD was insightful and entertaining. Unfortunately it's hard (maybe impossible) to find the show archives. You can find links the PKD episodes here:

http://www.sffaudio.com/?p=799

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#4 posted by Trvth , January 31, 2008 7:40 PM

I've been reading SF since I found Starman Jones and it's like in my school library as a teen. Thanks for the link, I know, "books on tape" and it's ilk have been available for years, but since I love reading so much I haven't tried an audio book -other than my wife reading while I drive while on vacation. I'll give Brin's, "The Crystal Sphere" a go. Thanks again for what sounds like a great SF resource.

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#5 posted by minamisan , January 31, 2008 7:52 PM

oh damn... i followed all the links here, which led to other links, and now i have a collection of more SF podcasts than i'll ever be able to listen to. i really hope science invents a cure for sleep soon.

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#6 posted by Lilah , January 31, 2008 10:03 PM

It's a shame there isn't a comprehensive archive. I managed to grab a bunch after following Daniel Warner's link, but I wish I could listen to them all.

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#7 posted by zosa

, February 1, 2008 1:29 PM

I will second EscapePod...it has been hard to read while waiting for the bus here in the NE US this winter so listening to a good story has been a good replacement.