Podcasts
Active Podcasts:
I Should Be Writing
Since August, ’05: this show cheers on wanna-be writers from the point of view of an also wanna-be writer. Offers advice, views from the trenches, and interviews with published authors. Winner of the Parsec Award, Podcast Peer Award, and the Hub Magazine Award.
View the site.
You can download the past episodes in chunks of 10 at a time: 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60, 61-70, 71-80, 81-90, 91-100, 101-110, 111-120, 121-130, 131-140. Then there are the video podcasts 1-10, and all the special episodes, 1-10, 11-20, 21-27, 28-43. All archived files will be rather large, be forewarned.
Escape Pod
Escape Pod is the premier science fiction podcast magazine. Every week we bring you short stories from some of today’s best science fiction stories, in convenient audio format for your computer or MP3 player. As of May, 2010, I am the editor in chief.
Princess Scientist’s Book Club
Princess Scientist (aka The Pink Tornado, aka my 7 yr old daughter) talks with her parents about books, science, or whatever’s on her mind. Family friendly, natch.
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[New!] Mur Lafferty’s Restless Brain
I’m calling this the evolution from Geek Fu Action Grip, it’s an audio blog where I can pretty much include whatever I want: interviews, essays, fiction, whatever.
Subscribe on iTunes
Retired Podcasts
Either these shows are no longer around, or they consist of fiction that’s no longer updated. I’m linking to podiobooks.com where applicable; it’s a totally free host for podcast fiction.
Tor.com Story Podcast
Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, this podcast was produced and hosted by Mur and offered original science fiction weekly from Tor.com.
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Playing For Keeps
Playing For Keeps is a Parsec-Award winning novel of superheroes and those with less-than-heroic abilities. The original site crashed and burned, but you can still download for free at podiobooks.com. Available now via iPod (text), audio (full 600+ MB download), podcast (via podiobooks.com), Amazon, Kindle, and free PDF.
Winner of the 2009 Parsec Award for best novel!
This epic tale spanning 5 seasons tells of Kate and Daniel, two dead friends trying to make it through the afterlife.
Heaven, Season One, is the one that started it all. Kate and Daniel die, and their adventure begins.
- Get the full book here (around 80MB).
- Subscribe here.
- Nominated for a 2007 Parsec Award!
Hell is Season Two, when Kate and Daniel, well, you can guess where they go.
- Get the full book here (~144MB).
- Subscribe here.
- Nominated for a 2007 Parsec Award!
Earth is Season Three, when Kate and Daniel try to fix what’s broken.
- Get the full book here (~154MB).
- Subscribe here.
Wasteland is Season Four, when our heroes deal with exile.
War is the end of the story, warring for control of earth and heaven.
The Takeover
The Takeover: “The Office” meets “Shaun of the Dead” in a 10-part audio drama.
Nominated for a 2009 Parsec Award!
Download the whole thing here. (~100MB)
Voices: New Media Fiction
Voices: New Media Fiction is the first compilation of stories released only in podcast form, they include fiction from James Patrick Kelly and Cory Doctorow!
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Geek Fu
Lessons From a Geek Fu Master: The collection of most of my podcasted essays from Geek Fu Action Grip and Michael and Evo’s Wingin’ It.
Geek Fu Action Grip: Mur’s first podcast, it ran for nearly three years before closing up shop. Archives are still there, though!
