Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

Escape Pod, the science fiction audiobook podcast, has just posted a 46-minute reading of my story Craphound, the first story of mine ever to be professionally published, back in 1998. The excellent reading is performed by The Sound of Young America‘s Jesse Thorn. Jesse is also the son of Lee Thorn, the co-founder of the amazing Jhai Project, which builds and installs ruggedized, bicycle-powered WiFi links in rural villages in the developing world. Escape Pod Episode 37 MP3

Here’s the first installment of my reading of my story Human Readable, originally published in 2005’s Future Washington anthology. It’s the tale of a world that’s been upended by hyper-efficient planning algorithms based on ant-colony optimizations, so that Los Angeles has the best traffic in the world. However, when these networks crash, they really crash — cars, surfboards, and many other common conveyances end up catastrophically failing, with concomitant loss of life. Part One MP3

Here’s the conclusion of Wonderland‘s Alice Taylor reading my story Anda’s Game. Part Three MP3

Here’s part two of Wonderland‘s Alice Taylor reading my story Anda’s Game. Part three goes up some time middle of next week — hope you like it! Part Two MP3

With the new year comes a new podcast. This time around, it’s a reading of Anda’s Game, my Nebula-Award-shortlisted story about in-game sweatshops, originally published on Salon.com and reprinted in Michael Chabon’s Best American Short Stories. However, this time around, it’s not me reading the story — it’s Alice Taylor, the founder of the Wonderland games blog and former competitive Quake player. She’s the perfect reader for this one — this story really does need to be read by a 1337 gamer-woman with a British accent to do it justice. Alice has read the story in three parts, and I’ll be podcasting them over the next week or two. The story itself is under a Creative Commons license that allows you to redistribute the text freely — as is this podcast. Share it around, why don’t ya? Part One MP3

Last month at London’s Stanhope Centre, I gave a little reading from the next book of Themepunks, the novel in progress that Salon syndicated book one of last autumn. Paul Parkinson recorded it and put it on his podcast — here’s the MP3 of the reading and the Q&A that followed.

I’ve just posted the conclusion to “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth.” Hope you found it satisfactory. I’ll be back in the New Year with more podcasts — have a great holiday!

Here’s the next-to-last installment of When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth. Final part in a day or two!

I’ve just recorded a quick ten-minute installment of When Sysadmins… Here’s the MP3 of part 4.

Here’s the next When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth installment. I think I’ll be finishing this one off in one or two more installments and then I’ll switch to some older material to change things up.