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[neadods]

My Firefox News recap for Stolen Earth is up at: http://firefox.org/news/articles/1687/1/Dr-Who-recap---Stolen-Earth-Shoulda-paid-for-LoJack/Page1.html (Code uncut for the newsletter editors.)

Wow, these things are scary exhausting to do.




On the podcast side of things, SF&F has a single vote more than anything else. I'm taking a look at iTunes, but I'm discounting any podcast that has not been updated in the last month. That cuts out Galacticast and StarShipSofa (which is a pity, because those titles really attracted me.) I'm also discounting ones with daily updates, because that's too much to keep up with on top of everything else. (That cut out Slice of SciFi, although I may come back to that one. It looks very comprehensive.)

That leaves a choice from Escape Pod (a new SF short story a week), X Minus One (ditto), & PodCastle (A new fantasy story a week). They all sound good, but I'm not, at this time, interested in extra fiction. (This decision subject to change without notice.)

So the winner is Dragon Page. Updated every four days or so, this podcast appears to focus on interviews and writing considerations. The iTunes archive only goes back to the beginning of June. It also has a web page. I'm going to download the interview with Peter David, one about ebooks, and the one with the intriguing title "Fiction, Fantasy, Politics, Life."

A new poll will go up on Friday night for next week's podcast picks, with winners to be chosen on Sunday afternoon.

Comments

[omahastar.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say, Slice of Sci-Fi is worth the downloads. I started listening within the last month or so, and it's about 90% news about upcoming science fiction and fantasy projects, 10% about everything else, including reviews of older material and comments. At least, the episodes I've listened to have had these.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

It looks fascinating, I'm just scared off by the volume. Unless the episodes are under half an hour, I don't know if I'd be able to keep up.

[omahastar.livejournal.com]

Ah ... It looks like there are two shows a week, but that isn't really the case. There is one real show per week, followed the next day by a "voicemail show". That second show is just listener feedback, either emails or voice mails, and does not contain "real" content, just feedback and then comments on the feedback. So really, no reason to download that unless you've sent in feedback and are listening for your name.

I'd never do that, I'm sure. ;)

[radiantbaby.livejournal.com]

A close friend of mine is the one who does Escape Pod and while I don't usually have time to listen to it myself, it's really quite popular. :)