Despite this being my blog — I feel odd about using it for self-promotion, feeling I should be talking about other things. Which is sort of weird (after all, commenting and opining is, itself, narcassistic). But, anyway, I just thought I’d take a moment to draw attention to a story I had published on the webzine Escape Pod — partly because it was published as part of an audio webzine, which means there’s a guy reading the story (in addition to posting the story text). And, I’ll admit — that was kind of cool. Hearing another artist interpret your words can be problematic, but I enjoyed Josh Roseman’s reading — particularly the quirky way he did the narration (the story is a science fiction tale told from a robot’s POV). It was almost like hearing a dramatization of my story.
Called “Marking Time on the Far Side of Forever”, it was first published about a decade ago in the magazine Prairie Fire, a “special” mammoth issue with a variety of categories, and award winning science fiction author, Robert J. Sawyer, selected those
