From the Podosphere: January 2009

Escape Pod appears to be still in recovery from its recent hiatus, as we have only half the month’s usual quota of stories, beginning with another installment of Jeffery R. DeRego’s Union Dues superhero saga, in which we hear something about the origin of the Union itself. The parallel structure of “Union Dues – All [...]

From the Podosphere: November 2008

First an apology: feeling pleased with myself for catching the Halloween edition of PodCastle, despite its late appearance in my iTunes database, I neglected to check if the same thing had happened with Escape Pod. It had, so my review of “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham” is a month late. This is science-fictional [...]

From the Podosphere: September 2008

In a new departure from the Escape Artists tradition, PodCastle, the newest sibling, marks September with its first PodCastle Giant—a venture into longer audio fiction. “Moon Viewing at Shijo Bridge” by Richard Parks is as long as a feature film, and requires some commitment to settle down and listen. Not that this story seemed to [...]

From the Podosphere: June 2008

Recently this column has dealt mostly with podcasts from Escape Artists, Inc (and is likely to continue to do so), but it’s useful to see what’s happening elsewhere in the field of podcast short fiction.

Rick Stringer’s Variant Frequencies releases a story once a month, and this month’s is “Grounders” by Jonathan McGoran, read by Thomas [...]