“Just Do It” by Heather Lindsley is the story this week on Escape Pod, the wonderful, free science fiction podcast, and it’s a doozy, really one of the best stories they’ve featured so far. It’s a darkly comic corporate dystopia where “chemical marketing” (shooting people with darts that make them crave french fries) rules the day. The reader, “Word Whore,” does a terrific job of bringing the story to life, and Sal Fadhley does a nice intro on the role of special audio effects in sf. All in all, the best listen I’ve had all week — all month, even.
See also:
Escape Pod — great sf story podcast
Cory’s Printcrime audio on Escape Pod
Paul Di Filippo’s “Shadowboxer” – Twilight Zonesque story podcast
Di Filippo’s story “Little Worker” as a podcast
Podcast of Cory’s story, “Craphound”
Science fiction podcast: a modern Paul Bunyan story (funny!)