I love StarShip Sofa

[prog]

I am loving StarShip Sofa, a new (recently re-launched, actually) SF audio magazine-format podcast. Its first issue features "Likely Lad", a wonderfully fun info-pirate adventure tale by Kage Baker, with an amazingly good reader. I am grinning like a maniac while walking around listening to it.

I hope the show can keep it going every week. As much as I like Escape Pod, to which I've been a continual subscriber for three years, I have been yearning for more variety with the SF media on my iPod. EP is a fine show, but it has a single editor, who definitely lets his single voice shine through in his story selections, editorials, and show formats. I welcome and encourage more voices.

(I have liked Escape Pod less since the editor's started closing each program by reading selected forum posts, all of which sound exactly like posts on a forum I don't care to read. Why, yes, my iPod does feature a skip-track button. It still detracts from the show's overall quality, and also means that the files stay on my iPod until I manually delete them in iTunes, since files don't vanish from my new-podcast playlist unless I listen to them all the way through. Boo.)

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

I will have to check it out. As you know (bob) I picked up EP from you, and have been growing ever more dissatisfied with it, between the intros about stuff I don't care about, the stories that are often a annoying and the outros that misrepresent the forum posts, I just don't listen to it often.

[prog.livejournal.com]

I did not know you got it from me! That's cool.

I still listen to most EPs (and I most certainly am now when they're doing their annual read-through of the Hugo-nominated shorts), but I'm also quick to skip over them when they're clearly not my thing. like the Union Dues series. Props to Steve for clearly labeling them, though.

How do you feel the forum's getting misrepresented?

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

makes responses sound more positive, for the most part.

ooh, he's doing the hugo noms again. Now that I'm just about done watching firely on the pod, it's time to get back to listening.

I do happen to like the Union Dues stories.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Dat's cool. It takes a lot to get me to like things in the superhero-deconstruction milieu, and Dues doesn't quite clear it for me. But I'm clearly in the minority. :)

[kyroraz.livejournal.com]

You could fast forward to one second before the end of the track and let it mark it for deletion ...