A pleasant surprise: Escape Pod has resyndicated my reading of “Exhalation” that originally aired on Starship Sofa.
Escape Pod, for the uninitiated, is the biggest market for short audio SF, and the second-largest market for short SF regardless of media. As Escape Pod was among the first podcasts I ever heard, it was vaguely surreal to see my name pop up in their RSS feed.
Starshipsofa.com has posted all seven 2009 Nebula nominees(!) in podcast form, for your listening pleasure:
http://www.starshipsofa.com/20090402/the-complete-nebula-best-short-storynominees-2008/
My contribution was Ruth Nestvold’s “Mars: A Traveller’s Guide”:
http://www.starshipsofa.com/20090402/aural-delights-no-73-nebula-nominee-ruth-nestvold/
I haven’t listened to the rest yet, but I’ve read some of the stories, and am familiar with the exceptional talents of the other narrators; expect good things here.
–Ray
My first full-length narration is up over at starshipsofa.com. It’s part of the Sofa’s 2009 British Science Fiction Association award nominee series: “Exhalation”, by none other than (multiple Hugo and Nebula winner) Ted Chiang.
Many thanks to Mr. Chiang for allowing his work to be podcast, and to Tony Smith at starshipsofa.com for selecting me as narrator of this phenomenal story.
Keep an ear on starshipsofa.com in the months to come for some narration from your truly. Tony already has work from Michael Bishop (a strange story) and Jetse de Vries (considerably stranger) in the can for future presentation, and I’m starting work on a story by Ted Chiang(!) as soon as this chest cold eases off.
A quick note to fans of audio sci-fi: I’ve made my debut over at starshipsofa.com, narrating Sebastien Cevey’s flash piece “Fork Bomb” for Aural Delights # 50. Tony Smith (captain of said podcast) was pleased with my maiden effort, enough so that he’s giving me a longer piece for a future episode. I’ll not go into much detail about this project at this time– partly because it’s not done yet, but mostly because it’s a very challenging piece that I may not be able to translate into quality audio. The author is frankly amazed that Tony and I are even attempting an audio rendition of this story, as it is (in his words) “crazy, really crazy”. I should wrap initial recording in the next day or two, and have a rough production in Mr. Smith’s hands by the middle of the week, so stay tuned.
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