As you guys know I'm a big fan of the fiction podcasting (I work a job where I'm sometimes driving up to five hours a day). At least three of the big fantasy/sci fi magazines have put out their own audio fiction podcasts.
Clarkesworld's Podcasts are everything you would expect in terms of the literary quality of the magazine. I'm not as enthusiastic as I could be about the host, who tends to end the podcasts by explaining the story in case we missed the point, but the fiction is top notch, and especially nice if you're into a little bit of literary experimentation.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies puts out excellent quality stories across a very broad range of fantasy subgenres (including a pleasantly surprising amount of western). While they're billed as adventure, they tend to be pretty thoughtful, contemplative pieces. Not so much sword fighting adventure as a sense of pushing out into the unknown.
Tor.com tends to run quite long, but a lot of them are very good fun. I recommend "Lightbringers and Rainmakers" especially. Like the fiction on Tor.com, they don't shy away from doing tie-in stories set in the worlds of books they publish, which is alternately awesome and frustrating. Still, very much worth a listen.
BCS wasn't bad. Drabblecast still the best, though.
ReplyDeleteIt's absolutely true, but one does eventually run out of Drabblecast.
ReplyDeleteHey, now what about Escape Pod?
ReplyDeleteOh, and I'll add that podiobooks has some very good novel length podcasts.
ReplyDeleteThey were all in the first fiction podcasts post I did. I promise I've linked them.
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