Escape Pod and an audio podcast survey

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Virtual Walk Update

So I've walked from Toronto to Thorold my Virtual Con Walk so far; I've found that tracking my route on Google Maps has been a great motivator and a lot of fun.

My friend Luisa was the one who suggested I visit Thorold (it's her hometown) since it's on my route and I could check out the Welland Canal. The Welland Canal is part of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and enables ships to avoid Niagara Falls by going along the Niagara Escarpment instead.



Thorold locks, Welland Canal - Photo by Danny McL.


I've been listening to a lot of spoken audio podcasts during my walks. So far my favourite is Escape Pod, a science fiction podcast magazine that Jeff told me about.

I've been trying a number of different audio podcasts, but I've found that many have too much "noise" - chit chat without real content. Some people may enjoy that sort of thing, but I just get impatient.




Anyway, I've found that I've enjoyed nearly every one of the stories on Escape Pod. Some make me cry, some are thought-provoking...pretty much each one is engrossing enough to make me walk for longer than I otherwise might.

You don't need to have an MP3 player to listen to these stories; you can just go to the story page and listen to the streaming audio right on the site.

Some of my favourites:

Save Me Plz by David Barr Kirtley.
End Game by Nancy Kress.
Friction by Will McIntosh.
The Sweet, Sad Love Song Of Fred and Wilma by Nick Dichario and Mike Resnick.

Escape Pod is also a paying market for writers (see submission guidelines) and survives on advertising as well as donations; I made a Paypal donation today. I've also just subscribed to Pseudopod (horror fiction podcast) and Podcastle (fantasy fiction podcast).

What about the rest of you? What audio podcasts do you regularly listen to these days?





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