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roadrunnertwiceSo as I relax here, filled with reheated lentil-potato curry, Easter jellybeans, and a few bottles of Pabst, I recommend to you the story I heard today on my bus rides to Target and the Greasepit.
"Craphound," by Cory Doctorow; audio version released by Escape Pod under a Creative Commons license. (Now that I'm spending a lot of time on city busses, I've rediscovered podcasts with a vengeance, and Escape Pod looks like a winner. They buyexclusive non-exclusive (see comments) audio rights to SF short stories (most of which have already been published), and podcast 'em under a CC Attrib Non-comm Noderivs license.)
If you've never read any of Doctorow's work aside from his posts on BoingBoing, this is a decent place to start. It's short, it's smart, it's heartfelt, it's topical (THE SUN IS OUT! GARAGE SALE SEASON!), and it's free and sitting right over there. There's also a text version available if you're spending more time in front of the computer than you are stuck on the bus with an iPod. But if you've got the bandwidth, and you have some cleaning to do, or a bike to strip, or a walk to take, or some weed to smoke, or something, I recommend the audio version, because it's pretty fantastic.
Mom, I'm recommending this story especially for you. You'll understand why as soon as you hear it.
"Craphound," by Cory Doctorow; audio version released by Escape Pod under a Creative Commons license. (Now that I'm spending a lot of time on city busses, I've rediscovered podcasts with a vengeance, and Escape Pod looks like a winner. They buy
If you've never read any of Doctorow's work aside from his posts on BoingBoing, this is a decent place to start. It's short, it's smart, it's heartfelt, it's topical (THE SUN IS OUT! GARAGE SALE SEASON!), and it's free and sitting right over there. There's also a text version available if you're spending more time in front of the computer than you are stuck on the bus with an iPod. But if you've got the bandwidth, and you have some cleaning to do, or a bike to strip, or a walk to take, or some weed to smoke, or something, I recommend the audio version, because it's pretty fantastic.
Mom, I'm recommending this story especially for you. You'll understand why as soon as you hear it.
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Date: 2006-04-10 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-10 02:57 pm (UTC)(I like that he's enough of a tech-head to cruft up the few genre tropes he uses with real user-experience logic. I mean, if you have a robotic exoskeleton, of course it's going to be macro scriptable.)
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Date: 2006-04-10 03:15 pm (UTC)Is he related to E.L.? It's not a common name, after all...
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Date: 2006-04-10 03:31 pm (UTC)You know, if you're curious about his stuff, you can download most of his novels for free. (If you're going to read the whole thing, saying "fuck it" and hitting the library is probably a better call, but it's nice to have a trial excerpt that doesn't cut you off.)
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Date: 2006-04-11 12:26 am (UTC)Small Correction
Date: 2006-04-11 04:23 pm (UTC)Thanks for listening!
Scott Janssens
Submissions Editor
www.escapepod.org
Re: Small Correction
Date: 2006-04-11 09:06 pm (UTC)Man, referral-following brings the funniest stuff to this humble journal.