Every Nebula-award-nominated story as a free podcast

Cory Doctorow 4:19 am Thu Apr 2, 2009

Tony sez,

StarShipSofa has, in one day, done what no other SF podcast has done before. In another unprecedented move, StarShipSofa has put out all seven Nebula Short Story 2008 nominees, all available as free audio podcasts for your listening pleasure.

The Nebulas are a very special event in the SF world and I wanted the StarShipSofa to mark this occasion by doing something unique for this year's awards.

I wanted to put out all the stories nominated in one day so people can, straight away, have them downloaded back to back… sitting on their iPod and, for the next few hours, submerge themselves in SF stories of the very best calibre. All for free.

Things are changing rapidly in this medium and this is just one example of StarShipSofa pushing the boundaries of normal podcasting in both terms of quality and accessibility.

It's what the StarShipSofa was built for.

StarShipSofa podcasts all Nebula Short Story nominees for 2008

(Thanks, Tony!)

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