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 […]

From the Podosphere: May 2008

Escape Pod begins the month of May by continuing its now-traditional run of Hugo-nominated short fiction. Mike Resnick’s “Distant Replay” (read by Steve Anderson) is an odd time-travel story, except that what appears to be time travel is more like history repeating itself. It’s well told, but the “magic realism” makes no attempt at explanation—no […]

From the Podosphere: April 2008

The highlight of April’s podcast short fiction must be the long-awaited launch of PodCastle, the latest offering from Escape Artists, bringing their output up to three podcasts and completing the main genres of speculative fiction: SF, horror, and now fantasy. I was privileged to narrate PodCastle’s inaugural story myself, Peter S. Beagle’s “Come Lady Death” […]

Midnight Street #10

Midnight Street is a 56-page saddle-stapled A4 magazine with a color cover. It doesn’t have the classiest production quality, but what’s between the covers is what matters. Its subtitle, “Journeys Into Darkness,” doesn’t particularly apply to the contents of issue #10, but that’s not the fault of the contents, which, although they don’t necessarily fill […]

From the Podosphere: Escape Artists 2008 First Quarter Round-up

Before getting to this month’s reviews, I’d like to thank John Dodds for his care in piloting From the Podosphere since its inception. It’s a privilege to be taking over his excellent column.
In the coming months, I hope to highlight some diverse sources of short podcast fiction, but it can’t be denied that the […]

Dagger Key And Other Stories by Lucius Shepard

At 473 pages, Lucius Shepard’s Dagger Key And Other Stories is a collection of nine substantial tales, all except the title story first published in well-known genre venues such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, and SCI FICTION, with an introduction by China Miéville, plus some concluding “Story Notes” by the author. […]