Milestone! We’re very happy to announce the release of Voices: New Media Fiction. Voices is edited by Mur Lafferty, and is only available from Podiobooks.com. It is also our 30th book
Voices: New Media Fiction brings together the pioneer short fiction podcasters. Experimenting from putting short-short fiction to novellas over their podcasts, these writers were the first to test the new medium for storytelling. Some wrote specifically for podcasts, some read previously published fiction, and some read entirely new stories. Some listeners asked if they could get just the stories in audio form, and that request brought about this podiobook. Cory Doctorow tells us a story about a post-apocalyptic government run by sysadmins and James Patrick Kelly narrates a story of a strange reconciliation. We’ve collected 18 stories for you, the first short fiction to go out over podcast, and look forward to bringing you more.
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March 1st, 2006 at 9:29 pm
Mur,you rock honey chile-you have the voice that sent 1,000 men to their bunks. Great contribution-looking forward to getting some in my ears!
March 7th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
Good
March 9th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Listening to Wolf in the Park right now. Patrick is an excellent narrator. Though I could do without some of the SFX. I’d rather imagine the growl of the wolf than hear it. But otherwise an excellent performance.
March 16th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
I am really struggling with chapter 10 - itsy bitsy spider. I have downloaded it twice to a size of 22,236KB and it is chopped off mid sentence at 23 minutes and 43 seconds.
I have had to locate it on the authors website to hear the ending.
Could someone please check this out?
Really enjoyes listening so far…
March 16th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Chris…
I’ve contacted our the guys at Libsyn, and they are checking into it. You’re not the only one, but unfortunately, it does not seem to be a problem that I have any control over. Hopefully the guys at Libsyn will be able to tell me what, exactly, is going on.
March 19th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
Loving the stories - some familiar, some new.
Quick question - is there a problem with Ch17 - Curse of the Forward Thinking Gentleman?
It stops rather suddenly 19 minutes into the story - just as we are about to head to the copper room…
The file size is 17,981 KB according to windows.
March 20th, 2006 at 4:16 am
THere was, but I uploaded the new file this weekend, and all should be fine now.
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:02 am
I’m not too far into it yet, but am loving what I’m hearing. Any chance of putting up a list of chapters and links to the authors’ webpages/blogs/podcast feeds?
March 24th, 2006 at 4:13 am
Oh — DOH! I found it. I hadn’t tried the Author’s Website link because I thought it would just take me to Mur’s blog.
March 24th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
Hey Karen, glad you found the info. Chapter info is here: http://podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=56
May 3rd, 2006 at 4:18 am
Mur,
Thanks for this great series. I’ve only got one problem - I almost missed the turning on the motorway whilst listening to “Timmy, Jimmy and the Beast”!
Although I don’t particularly like Paul S Jenkins’ voice in the Rev Up Review, he can really tell a good yarn. In fact (and here I’m guessing is one of the main reasons for the stories) I’m now seriously thinking about writing myself.
Please pass on my thanks to the authors.
Oh, “Anders Game” is something I’m sure many can relate to (sort of).
Cheers,
Grahame
June 20th, 2006 at 12:38 am
Just started this book, and have to comment on Barry. Just a great little “superhero” story. As a comics fan, I really enjoyed this tale. But I hope there is a sequel down the line. Or maybe it’s already available?
July 2nd, 2006 at 6:37 pm
I really enjoyed the stories in this compilation. Some of them were quite amazing and I’m glad they were included. I wish that in the description for each chapter on the Podiobooks website that the original URL’s of the author were included for easy reference to find more works by the same person.
July 13th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
I’ve been listening wto this series with great interest; I’m really enjoying the variety of stories in it.
One thing I noticed, however — there seems to be a problem with #19 (listed as “The Merry Husband”). When it downloaded into my itunes, it was a 30 second blurb thing totally unrelated to the book. I came to the site to try and re-download/listen through the chapter links, and it was another media file entirely. This should probably be looked into… though I haven’t noticed any other problems with the book thus far.
August 28th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
Good stuff overall. Some of the stories aren’t to my taste, but there are some real gems in this collection.
My only complaint is that it’s not always clear when a story is only part one of two, it just ends with no indication that there’s anything more to it. Sure, the track names are there, but I usually just set my podcasts running and do other things as they play, and when I’m not actually at my computer I use an iPod Shuffle, so track names don’t help. Just a quick “to be continued”, or even simply calling it “part one of two” at the beginning would do it.
Other than that, this is great stuff.
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:43 pm
I liked the stories but the audio quality was soo poor that I could not listen to them.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
I liked most of the stories, even the songstress. Ok. I can’t spell, but I can sort of apreaciate what th singer goes through since I am one myself. I also liked the thing about the sys admins. That really hit close to home as that can really happen!
April 8th, 2008 at 12:10 am
As much as I love the longer novels on podiobooks, a collection of short stories like this is something of a treat. Its certainly let me discover authors that I’d never heard before and I’ve enjoyed hearing and reading more of their work.
Have to disagree with the comment about poor audio quality, it sounds fine to me