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In another cute move similar to Sfbrp #138, see if you can understand what’s happening in this 30 minute Robert Reed story called Pack over at Clarkesworld online magazine. *spoiler alert* Narrator Kate Baker gives her theory at the end. By the way, in the beginning, I thought the story was all Web 2.0 about blogging, but Kate was talking about her acceptance speech for her Hugo.
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Podcast feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/clarkesworldmagazine/podcast?format=html
Posted by Tamahome
Luke Burrage is doing something very cute with his latest podcast, it’s a review of The Sword Of The Lictor (Book 3 in the “Book of the New Sun” series). Did he mention he’d had sex with his girlfriend last night? … Yes, he did. … Then I thought, “Hey?! What happened to the standard Luke intro?” And, “What’s with all the mentioning of his having had sex with his girlfriend last night?”
Is Luke being random?
Or is this something a little deeper?
I began laughing about half-way through when I think I twigged to what he was pointing at. Luke’s having some metafun.
Indeed:
I don’t want to spoil it too much, but I thought it was delightful. He drops some random things in there, playing with our expectations – all without spoiling it too much. He’s telling his own story, the review is flawed in some ways, but you actually start seeing a bit of his genius in a way. I thought I knew where the review was going but by the end of the podcast I must admit that he is way cleverer than I am. It’s a classic (review). Don’t blame me if you don’t stick with it.
That all said, do not make this your first SFBRP podcast – start elsewhere.
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Podcast feed: http://www.sfbrp.com/?feed=podcast
Posted by Jesse Willis
Eric S. Rabkin of the University of Michigan is a frequent guest on the SFFaudio Podcast. He’s also a professor of English at the University of Michigan! As such he is frequently called upon for his scholarly knowledge (just like on the podcast!). The latest such is an article entitled How The Evil Networks Of Science Fiction Became Your Best Friend.
Check it out HERE.
Posted by Jesse Willis