Today we’re putting up something a little different on the site — and little is the operative word. Ron Vitale managed to record his novella, The Jovian Gate Chronicles, into an audiobook lasting only 142 minutes — or four episodes. So it’s the shortest podiobook to date:
What happens when humans, ruled by the Catholic Church and the Confederacy, cross paths with intelligent aliens that claim to be prophets from God? Find out in this short science fiction short story series that consists of four episodes (total length of the collection is 142 minutes) that tell individual stories of the Jovian Gate. Partake on a journey to learn who opened the gate, question whether aliens truly are communicating with God and learn what humanity’s ultimate destiny will be.
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November 21st, 2007 at 11:51 pm
I was a little hesitant on this book because the description talked so much about “the church” so I thought religion would be a stumbling block for this book. In the end though I don’t think religion played an overreaching role in this story. Obviously a lot of what happened in the story had religious connotations, the stigmata, virgin mary, talking with god, etc.
I didn’t feel it was preachy though. I really just thought it was a sci-fi story. The characters were developed, there were aliens and spaceships and colonies on other planets which made the story seem very much like hard sci-fi.
The story jumped around a bit. Started at a time period then jumped to the future then to the past and from planet to planet in the process. Assuming you could keep it all straight it ends up being a good listen.
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:07 pm
An interesting premise, explored from four viewpoints. Well written. The performance, however, hit on several of my pet peeves so I didn’t enjoy it as much as I might have. Most of the problems could be fixed just by reading more slowly. Slow. Down. Then if the reader learns to pronounce all the words in the story, it would be soooo much better!
December 16th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
I have to agree with Gail, the story itself was good but the reader needs to learn to slow down a bit and speak a bit more clearly. Ron, I’d like to listen to more of your work so if you post another story I’ll listen, I just hope you learn some good lessons from this Podiobook, slow down and edit a bit better (heard a lot of mistakes that you missed in your editing).
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Tim, thank you for the constructive criticism. I do appreciate your taking the time to send me feedback and I agree with you: As this was my first shot at recording a podcast of my work, I had some challenges in learning how to do this. I know a lot more about editing now and the importance of different takes in getting the wording right.
Thanks for taking the time to listen.
Happy holidays!
ron