StarShipSofa Podcasts of BSFA Finalists
A message from Tony Smith of StarShipSofa about some cool free podcasts connected to the BFSA Awards. StarShipSofa will be podcasting audio versions of my “Shark God Versus Octopus God” and “Secret Life” in the near future…
Guess what the StarShipSofa podcast and the BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) have been up to this week? For a week now StarShipSofa has been uploading an audio story a day (Mon to Fri) that has been nominated for the BSFA Best Short Story Award 2007.
These are the authors who were nominated and these are the links to the audio mp3′s:
‘Lighting Out’ – Ken MacLeod (disLocations)
‘Terminal’ – Chaz Brenchley (disLocations)
‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate’ – Ted Chiang (F&SF, September)
‘The Gift of Joy’ – Ian Whates (TQR)
‘The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter’ – Alastair Reynolds (Interzone #209)
Each author has kindly given permission to get their stories narrated and the audio stories are up on the StarShipSofa site for free. Members of the BSFA will vote for the winner at Eastercon 2008 on the Saturday March 29th.
So… we have no excuses to say “I never had time to read them!
March 14, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I’ve been looking for more podcasts of short fiction. The mindless work at work is so much more enjoyable when it doesn’t have to be so mindless.
March 14, 2008 at 3:09 pm
[...] We are a little late on this, but if you happen to have a vote in the BSFA Awards you can now listen to all of the short fiction as podcasts, thanks to StarShipSofa. And if you don’t ave a vote, you can still listen to some great stories. Jeff VanderMeer has details. [...]