Tag: Anthony Trollope

BBCR4 + RA.cc: The Cookie Lady by Philip K. Dick

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BBC Radio 4RadioArchives.ccBack in 2003 BBC Radio 4 produced a five part series of fantastic tales called, simply, Five Fantastic Tales.

Among them was a vignette, a horror tale, The Cookie Lady by Philip K. Dick. It’s the only audio production of this obscure story ever done.

Unfortunately, the reading is abridged.

Fortunately, it is well read by Liza Ross and is available, via torrent, from RadioArchive.cc!

The Cookie Lady by Philip K. Dick

Here is the illustration, by Tom Beecham, from the original publication in Fantasy Fiction, June 1953:

The Cookie Lady by Philip K. Dick

Posted by Jesse Willis

StarShipSofa: iCity by Paul Di Filippo

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StarShipSofa’s Aural Delights No. 115 has plenty of goodness to attract all your ferrous materials. Amongst the compellers are a fact article on SF history by the awesome Amy H. Sturgis (she lectures about Anthony Trollope), the Sofanaut Awards results for 2009, and a short story by Paul Di Fillipo.

With regard to that story John DeNardo of SFsignal.com points out his review of the print version of The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 2, (which contains ICity) |HERE|, sez John:

“Like all good science fiction should, Paul Di Filippo’s iCity pushes the limits of imagination. To get a feel of the story, picture the next-next generation of SimCity, where ‘competitive urban planning’ takes place. The city is made up of a malleable ‘senstrate’ that obeys the commands planners send it through their phones. The story focus is on one of the top ten planners, Frederick Law Moses, and his up-and-coming rival, Holly Grale (Great name!), who are both vying to take control of a neighborhood recently elected for redesign by its residents.”

Sounds good to me!

StarShipSofa Aural DelightsiCity
By Paul Di Fillipo; Read by Jeff Lane
1 |MP3| – Approx. 77 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: StarShipSofa’s Aural Delights
Podcast: January 6, 2010

Posted by Jesse Willis