It’s been a while since we talked about a Podiobooks.com podiobook, so here’s one that popped into my email just today. Mick describes his podcast like this:
…you might be interested in my podcast fiction story Some Other Scotland, which includes many SciFi elements whilst being set in the present day.
Some Other Scotland is a weekly podcast story of ancient advanced civilisations, clan wars & conspiracy in an alternative modern Scotland.
Every week listeners can vote for changes to the latest news which will affect the ongoing plot, making for a compelling and ever-changing story.
Gravestones across Scotland are being defaced. An ancient advanced civilisation is discovered under the remains of Skara Brae. Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to Scotland, two hundred years after his death. Edinburgh police unearth a mysterious surveillance operation on the Queen’s residence and the Scottish Parliament. All these events take place in a Scotland which is both familiar and yet slightly twisted.
Detective Jim Sykes’ investigation into hidden cameras and a long-dead pretender to the throne uncovers a sinister plot that dates back centuries before the term ‘terrorism’ was coined. Archaeologist Erica Wallis digs up more than she bargained for when she encounters an underground civilisation that has existed since before the pyramids of Egypt were built. When one of their misplaced, but deadly artifacts falls into the hands of young street-poet ‘Razer’, he is launched into the middle of a clan war that has been waged across the World for millenia.
Events triggered thousands of years ago are about to reach a climax that not only threatens Scotland, but could finally hand the modern World the tools of its own destruction.
The story has been running for 13 weeks to date and this week has been added to Podiobooks.com.
The feed at the main website includes spin-offs, news items and feedback episodes. That’s here:
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/SomeOtherScotland
The Podiobooks.com feed, which includes just the story itself, is here:
http://www.podiobooks.com/title/some-other-scotland/feed/
Posted by Jesse Willis
Thanks go to LibriVox for Triplanetary. This is the first book length public domain audiobook by E.E. “Doc” Smith. Here’s the editorial from the first issue of its serialization in Amazing Stories:
