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Friday, May 02, 2008

Science Fiction Podcasts

I've been listening to Escape Pod at escapepod.org now for maybe a month and a half? two months? I donno. Steve Ely puts on a fine production, and the other Escape Artists sites: pseudopod.org (horror), and podcastle.org (fantasy) are good as well. They offer basically short stories, that you can listen to, movie reviews, etc... The player is flash based, and easy to use. They take monthly and one time donations. Recently though I've seen starshipsofa.com advertised heavily on other sites, like MySpace. I checked it out, and it's also another sci-fi podcast. Where Escape Pod, and it's sister podcasts have a new feel and new look to them starshipsofa looks like older print publications I remember seeing at cons. It has Spider Robinson (love his work), but I can't help but feel it would have been great if they'd collaborated with Steve. I realize that there are splinter groups in fandom, and groups split and politics can prevail at time and everyone wants to be the captain of their ship... but I love Escape Pod, and what Steve and the Escape Artists are doing. I'm gonna try and give starshipsofa a chance, because when I run out of stuff to listen to on Escape Pod I am always looking for more.. but I wish they'd get a flash player because I like listening to podcasts on the page versus using Windows Media Player.

Posted by Stephen Gideon at 1:23 PM
Categories: Entertainment