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Storypod 3.0 launches: And there was much rejoicing

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Audible.com has just begun their releases of StoryPod 3.0. That’s their subscription podcast featuring stories by James Patrick Kelly. On offer are another 13 stories over 13 weeks. Just a few of the stories on offer in this bunch are Jim’s classic Hugo Award-winning novelette, 10 to the 16th to 1, The Best Christmas Ever, a Hugo nominee and Itsy Bitsy Spider which was nominated for both the Hugo and a Nebula!

Get started with the promisingly titled Proof of the Existence of God!

Jim not only narrates each story, he provides insightful commentary for them too. StoryPod 3.0 subscribers will get a new story, delivered automatically, every Friday. Subscribers who are a bit late to the party need not worry, all the previous stories in the 3.0 series will be delivered too.

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AUDIO ROUNDUP: Masters Of Science Fiction

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Masters Of Science Fiction aired its first episode last night on ABC stations in the USA. We’ve got all the audio dope on this video program…

HERE‘s an audio recording from NPR and TV critic David Bianculli talking about the show. What makes this series so intriguing is that it is using actual Science Fiction stories (GASP!) for its episodes…

The first tale was based on John Kessel’s A Clean Escape (which was previously adapted into a Seeing Ear Theatre Original Playhouse audio drama (no longer available online). Hardcopies of this audio drama can be found in an out of print collection, available on ABEBooks.com (and one is currently on on ebay.com):

Seeing Ear Theater, Volume 1
By Terry Bisson, Brian Smith, James Patrick Kelly, Allen Steele, John Kessel and Gregory Benford
FULL CAST PRODUCTIONS with introductions by Harlan Ellison
2 Cassettes – Approx 3 hrs. [UNABRIDGED DRAMATIZATIONS]
ISBN: 0787118133
Date Published 1998
Published by Dove Audio

Stories Included:
THREE ODD COMEDIES by Terry Bisson
“They’re Made Out of Meat”
“The Toxic Donut”
“Next”
Into The Sun by Brian Smith
Think Like a Dinosaur by James Patrick Kelly
The Death of Captain Future by Allen Steele
A Clean Escape by John Kessel
The Bigger One by Gregory Benford

Also, BuddyTV.com has an |MP3| interview with Sam Waterson about his role in the Masters Of SF first episode A Clean Escape (and irreverently about his role on Law and Order).

More, WUNC in North Carolina has a terrific radio interview |MP3| with Kessel about the adaptation of his short story A Clean Escape to TV.

posted by Jesse Willis

StoryPod 2.0 by James Patrick Kelly streets tomorrow

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Audible.com is strutin’ and preening! Ya, their cool. They’ve got a Hugo and Nebula award winner podcasting for them. The StoryPod 2.0 podcast featuring stories by James Patrick Kelly started last Friday. On offer are 13 stories over 13 weeks. Even if you’ve downloaded the FREE version of some of these stories, you may still want to subscribe. Jim has added an exclusive commentary on his Nebula Award winning novella Burn. StoryPod 2.0 will also hear Jim’s 1996 Hugo-winning novelette, Think Like a Dinosaur, plus three other Hugo and Nebula-nominated stories: Undone, Saint Theresa of the Aliens, and Men Are Trouble. Tommorow’s release is of JPK’s Breakaway, Backdown. $20.00 buys the lot.

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Links to James Patrick Kelly’s Burn crash the JPK website

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James Patrick Kelly with Neubla Award for his novella Burn - photo by Ron Hogan
Photo and grammar by Ron Hogan

James Patrick Kelly has written in to say that you folks are downloading his Nebula Award winning novella Burn like it was a planet on fire!

Jim writes: “I had to move the files because a flood of listeners exceeded my bandwidth and crashed my site. So I moved them to the Internet Archive, which means that the links on your site are broken.”

Thanks for the new links Jim! I’ve now changed the post that includes the four MP3s that make up Burn.

For more James Patrick Kelly goodness try out his FREE READS podcast or subscribe to his StoryPod podcast on Audible, which is soon to include his best known novelette: Think Like A Dinosaur won the 1996 Hugo Award, the Asimov’s Reader’s Poll Award, and the SF Chronicle Award. It was also nominated for the Locus Poll Award, the HOMer Award and the Nebula Award.

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James Patrick Kelly wins Nebula Award for his podcast novella Burn!

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James Patrick Kelly receives a Nebula Award for his novella BURN

Congrats to SF author, and all around cool guy James Patrick Kelly! His novella Burn has just WON the NEBULA AWARD for BEST NOVELLA! That’s him receiving it above. Jim had released Burn as both a paperbook (through Tachyon publications) and as a FREE podcast last year. To make the podcast even more accessible Jim re-jiggered the 17 separate podcasts of the entire novella into just 4 handy-sized MP3s – and it is still completely unabridged! Get them now…

Burn
By James Patrick Kelly; Read by James Patrick Kelly
4 MP3 Files – 5 Hours 49 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: James Patrick Kelly’s Free Reads
Podcast: 2006
Download the novella: Part 1|MP3| Part 2|MP3| Part 3|MP3| Part 4|MP3|*

And don’t forget, you can catch plenty more Jim Kelly short stories on Jim’s Storypod podcast (available exclusively through Audible.com).

*New links to the files on Internet Archive (the originals crashed Jim’s site)

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James Patrick Kelly starts podcasting his novel Look Into The Sun

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Not even a week ago we told you that James Patrick Kelly had recently started a for pay podcast with Audible.com, but that hasn’t stopped him from giving away his fiction in the form of audio. Quite the contrary! Jim has just started podcasting his 1989 novel Look Into The Sun through his venerable Free Reads podcast…

Science Fiction Podcast Novel - Look Into The Sun by James Patrick Kelly

Here is the first |MP3| of the novel (27 Minutes), but don’t stop there, subscribe to the Free Reads podcast and get the whole novel:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/freereads

Thanks so much Jim!

posted by Jesse Willis